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October 29th Obs/Nowcasting


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I wish I had your elevation

It seems like the elevation used to work out better back in the 70 - 80's

In the winter. In smmmer It seems like storms often deflect south or north... But I have know data. I remember during "snowmeggedon" Damascus and Leesburg were in the same river... I am up stream. Maybe this year elevation will be more of a factor.

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Always classic when people spin a post that says its going to dry out some and precip is going to become more spotty behind the punch (which it did, nothing fell for almost an hour and half here) into storm cancel

I think he was literally talking about Ji. We'll still get our heavier bands a bit later when it all rotates through.

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Just took a drive up the mountain. Probably the tightest elevation gradient I have seen. 350'-500' it is snowing, but only about .5-1" on the grass. 500-900' snowing at a good clip and sticking to everything (highway included above ~700') with probably 1.5"-2" around 500-60' up to 3-4" at 800-900'. Above 900' the snow is rockin'....probably 4" at 900' up to about 5-6" at 1100'. Highways are a mess going over south mountain as well. Even in the valleys over south mtn (middletown, etc) there is 2-3". I didn't go higher than about 1100' because it was getting a bit perilous. I forgot the camera....sorry.

Thanks for the report. I'm at 390' in the valley and an about 1" mostly on elevated surfaces and grass. Crazy to think South Mountain is less than 4 miles from me!

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It seems like the elevation used to work out better back in the 70 - 80's

In the winter. In smmmer It seems like storms often deflect south or north... But I have know data. I remember during "snowmeggedon" Damascus and Leesburg were in the same river... I am up stream. Maybe this year elevation will be more of a factor.

You and I are definitely in a better spot for stuff coming from the South or East or dropping from the North like this super band stuff from the West I just don't pay attention to

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Drove out Rt-340 from Frederick to Charlestown earlier, grabbed some photos and video. Amazing storm, and the elevation aspect of it is pretty cool - in the space of a couple of miles, it went from wet snow with nothing on the ground, to heavy snow with bad road conditions and several inches on the ground in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry. Absolutely love it.

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Thanks for the report. I'm at 390' in the valley and an about 1" mostly on elevated surfaces and grass. Crazy to think South Mountain is less than 4 miles from me!

By the time you get to the end of the merge lane getting onto 70 from 40W, it is basically a different world. I couldn't believe the difference that 200-300' made.

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very good band coming into DC...heading back out....Loudoun, Upper Moco, etc could get superbanded

It's really picked up here in Clarksburg in the last 5 minutes under that developing band. Visibility down to 3/8 mile in moderate snow. Flakes are now individual dendrites and pins, no clumps. Lowest temp of the year at 31.7F, winds NNW at 7mph.

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