snowdude Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Snow on ground drops off pretty fast between Dumfries and Dale City. Glorified coating near exit 158 on 95. Hey that's my exit! haha. Yeah only a coating on the ground. Glad you went snow chasing and saw snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangewx Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Good. Didn't quite get into Orange but a few miles out. Got pounded in Montpellier. Saw some ~5" totals I think and some 3"/hr snow for like 30 min. My Twitter feed in sig has it all if you want to see. Will post pics from SLR at some pt. nice pics. i see you were about 2 miles from my house (the video with the picnic benches). snowfall totals dropped off a lot with this system in just a small distance. glad you guys got to see some good rates though. i was stuck with a steady light snow all night in the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazeKing Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 back building. i love it when that happens. Yup some definite backfill going on tonight. This has overperformed my expectations IMBY ....With this winter I cannot really complain about 7 straight hours of snow probably going to be 8 or 9 and 2.5-3" accumulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbarney Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 LYH - what a day/night! Snow has slowed considerably. Close to 8 inches MBY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlothianWX Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 LYH - what a day/night! Snow has slowed considerably. Close to 8 inches MBY. Congrats - incredible pictures! What type of camera settings did you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qaanaaq Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 LYH - what a day/night! Snow has slowed considerably. Close to 8 inches MBY. Very nice photos-thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbarney Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Congrats - incredible pictures! What type of camera settings did you use? Canon Rebel XTi on a tripod. Set to monochrome and self-timer. The camera does all the work after that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattskiva Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Drove home from Snowshoe this afternoon and experienced a good cross-section of the storm. To start with, I have never in 10 years of visiting seen the mountain that devoid of snow. The entire mountain, including the summit, was bare grass - even at the 4,800 ft summit. The only places where snow existed was on the slopes where the man-made snow provide about 6 inches or so of packed base. Anyway, left there at 3:30, and had just started seeing the first flakes at that point. Snow started becoming more steady but still light for the first 60 minutes, and only after getting past Monterey and McDowell did it become heavy and start to stick on the road (around 4:30pm). By the time we reached the top of Shenandoah Mountain the roads were covered with an inch or two and it remained that way into Staunton which had maybe 3 inches when we got there at 5:30 or so. There was a major accident on I-81 so we diverted through Fisherville and by the time we got there it was coming down very heavy, about 4-5 inches. Same deal into Charlottesville where we measured 5 inches at my parents' place as of 7pm. Leaving Charlottesville, we headed up route 29 with literally no cars going either direction for the vast majority of the way to Culpeper. It was snowing very heavy, anywhere from 2-4 inches on the road. I kept expecting it to stop based on the forecasts I'd seen and the reports of rain in Culpeper as late as 7pm, but by the time we got there after 9pm it was 32 and snowing. The road was snow covered all the way until we got about 11 miles south of Warrenton and it was snowing (but not covering the road) until just south of the 17/29 split. Pretty wild - took about 3.5 hours to get from Snowshoe to Charlottesville and 2.5 hours from there to Aldie where I live - the drive up 29 went through some very heavy bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Cloudy. Wet ground with a little white in places. Drove home from Snowshoe this afternoon and experienced a good cross-section of the storm. To start with, I have never in 10 years of visiting seen the mountain that devoid of snow. The entire mountain, including the summit, was bare grass - even at the 4,800 ft summit. The only places where snow existed was on the slopes where the man-made snow provide about 6 inches or so of packed base. A couple years ago was pitiful. There was nothing on the ground at the summit in February 2007 (I think it was 2007). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlothianWX Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 ~4.0" on the ground as of midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swva Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 6.5" in Roanoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTwx Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 ~4.0" on the ground as of midnight. I'm probably 5 miles away from you on the reservoir and got significantly less. The deck/driveway are just wet and there is about an inch on the grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geothermal Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I'm almost 5", band still wants to produce a little more. I think that Wakefield Mets are correct whole lot of compacting going on with the wet snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Wonderful pictures tonight from southern VA. Thanks all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 here's 3 pics from my actual (non phone) camera. had limited daylight and then night time light options.. and i never used my tripod as i'd rather be lazy and shoot at ISO 2000. i took a lot more but will do a post for CWG for this week so will save some. daylight pic was near orange.. second two montpellier va. middle was during the pounding snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Nice pictures everyone. I'd take a picture of my wet backyard in Arlingon but itd be boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlothianWX Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I'm probably 5 miles away from you on the reservoir and got significantly less. The deck/driveway are just wet and there is about an inch on the grass. Are you serious? That is incredible. Everything is completely covered here. 4" is me being conservative as well...I tried not to figure in too much for compaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Nice pictures everyone. I'd take a picture of my wet backyard in Arlingon but itd be boring. i did take one pic of dc this evening as well: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 i did take one pic of dc this evening as well: be careful out there. Looks slippery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miller.b.time Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 We ended up with about 5" here. And here's a pic of the Rotunda: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTwx Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Are you serious? That is incredible. Everything is completely covered here. 4" is me being conservative as well...I tried not to figure in too much for compaction. Yep. Even the backyard is pretty patchy with the snow. I have no clue if being right on the water affected any accumulations or had an influence on the precipitation type. I'll have to drive around tomorrow and compare with houses not on the water because I know the Brandermill area 2 miles away has about 4 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 We ended up with about 5" here. And here's a pic of the Rotunda: That's an absolutely beautiful photo, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Great pics guys and I am glad you guys got a good snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Any obs from Salsbury. They lok like they got superbanded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgwp96 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Great photos guys. Enjoy your snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I always love wet snow pics...very breath taking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlothianWX Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Seems that my final total will be approximately 4.0"...hard to measure with the crazy compaction but I tried my best. Great storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Great pics guys. Nice to see yall getting some good snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb@MAWS Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Well, as expected, nothing here. Morning low at 33/overcast. <gloat!> Meantime, off to Fort Myers Beach, Florida until Friday -- daytime highs 75-81 lows in the 60s. </gloat!> Hopefully things chill down for next weekend when I get back. Enjoy whatever you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CranberryWX Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 There's probably over 6" of snow here in White Sulphur Springs, WV at about 2200 feet. It was still snowing last time I looked out around 10 pm. Beautiful place here at the Greenbrier. I'll post some pics when we get home. Sleigh ride scheduled for 10:30 this morning. The darn snow plows grinding away in the parking lot woke me up early this morning. Lol. No snow at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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