Mid Atlantic members snow totals thread winter 2012/2013

[MN Transplant]

12/26/12 - 0.7"

12/29/12 - 0.4"

1/24/13 - 1.2"

1/25/13 - 0.6"

2/1/13 - 0.3"

2/2/13 - 0.3"

3/6/13 - 4.0"

3/18/13 - 0.5"

3/25/13 - 4.5"

12.5" seasonal total (3.1" last year) vs ~20-21" average

72% (9.0") of seasonal snowfall fell in March

[EastCoast NPZ]

Dec 24, 2012 - 2.0 inches
Dec 26, 2012 - 3.5 inches before turning to sleet /FZR

Dec 29, 2012 - 1 inch mainly on elevated surfaces (slop)

Jan 24, 2013 -  1.75 inches powder (overnight clipper) @ 17F
Jan 25, 2013 -  1.0 inches (light snow clipper) temps low 20s

Jan 26, 2013 -  T  (all-day snow event - every flake melted on contact with temp in upper 20s - love that sun-angle)

Feb 1, 2013  -   T (hard to underperform when you're forecasted for under 1-inch of clipper snow.  thank goodness we didn't miss the gale-force winds afterwards)

Feb 3, 2013 -   1.0 inches (AM clipper, completely melted by noon, despite light snow and below freezing temps)

Feb 8, 2013 -   .25" wet slop (thanks for the car-topper, Nemo!)

Feb 13, 2013 - .5 inches (rain-to-snow evening slop on elevated surfaces and grass only)

Mar 5, 2013 -   1.0 inches at midnight (snowing hard)

Mar 6, 2013 -   9.0 inches

Mar 18, 2013 - 2.5" (overnight snow)

Mar 24-25, 2013 - 6"

 

Seasonal Total: 29.5 inches

 

Surpassed climo!!

[nflwxman]

12/27- 0.7

1/17- 0.5

1/24- 2.5

1/25- T

2/8- 2.0

3/6- 12.4

3/18- 0.8

3/25-6"

24.9" total

[North Balti Zen]

12/24/12 -- .2
12/26/12 -- 1.8
12/29/12-- .3

1/24/13 - .5

1/28/13 - T

2/1/13 - .3

2/2/13 - .5

2/3/13 - T

2/13/13 - .8

2/28 - 3/4 - Several Ts

3/6 - 1

3/25 - 3.4

Seasonal total as of 2/01/13 -- 8.8 inches spread over around 12 "events".

 

Still pretty awful. This morning was fun but doesn't affect my view that this winter has blown.

[nw baltimore wx]

1.0 on 12/24
2.0 on 12/26
0.5 on 12/29
0.5 on 1/24
0.75 on 1/25
0.5 on 2/1
0.5 on 2/2
1.25 on 2/13

2.0 on 3/6

5.25 on 3/25

Total: 14.25"

[snownut]

46.8" ...

 

I have estimated the seasonal here with the little bit of elevation to be around 40"

[Sparky]

12/24 - 4

12/26 - 2

12/29 - 2.25

1/24 - .25

1/25 - 1.25

2/1 - 1

2/2 - .75

2/13 - 1.25

2/15 - 1.75

2/19 - .25

3/6 - 4.5

3/25 - 5

 

Total 24.25

24.25 is about 70% of climo 35"...this winter feels like a lightweight despite 3 events of 4+ inches.

[WinterWxLuvr]

3.0         12-24-12

5.5         12-26-12

1.75       12-29-12

1.5         1-24-13

1            1-25-13

0.5         2-1-13

0.5         2-3-13

0.00001 2-8-13

1.25       2-13-13

11.5       3-6-13

1.75       3-18-13

5.25       3-25-13

33.50001 total.

 

35 days of snow cover.

[WxUSAF]

In the signature...made it over 50% of climo.  

[mattie g]

A not-completely scientific (but pretty accurate) 11" on the season.

 

If you want to see some serious nickle-and-diming, then see my sig!

[MN Transplant]

Richmond over Philly.  Ouch.

[mattie g]

Richmond over Philly.  Ouch.

 

I'd like to see a seasonal snow map of the Delaware Valley.  I think there's a pretty big snow hole in the immediate Phily area.  South Jersey (especially farther south and maybe east) did OK, all things considered, and central PA did well.

[Avdave]

Still hard to fathom we just missed 20" here for the season. Almost to the seasonal average of 24"

19.4", quite a few nickel and dime events but they do add up.

Still missed the one big one of 6" or more this season but this is way better than last years miserable 5.1" for the season

[nw baltimore wx]

Assuming that's it for the year, my 14.25" finished at about 65% of "normal."  Without yesterday, it would have been about 40%.

[Huffwx]

FWIW, the LYH isn't the airport. WSET- ABC affiliate measures at the station. They were low on the Jan 17th event compared to most of LYH as a horrible snow hole was there from the mega band forming 20 miles south of anticipated. North half of town 1-2 inches-- south 3-5. (LYH is a smaller City)

[weathervswife]

Signature!  Beat my average by one inch. 

[WEATHER53]

10.5" for me.

[Midlo Snow Maker]

 

1/17/13------2.0"--- good rates, several rounds of thunder snow, elv. over 400'+ 4-5"

1/23/13------Trace

1/24/13------0.1"

1/25/13------1.5"----- frigid temps around 21 with powder snow.

2/2/13-------Trace

2/3/13-------Trace

2/16/13------0.1"----- morning band had golf ball size flakes steady light snow most of the day that left a coating

2/22/13----- Trace-----trace of sleet that went to rain quickly

3/1/13-------Trace----- had a few flurries

3/6/13-------4.5"--- huge surprise awesome rates, thundersnow for several hours, amounts doubled 5-10 miles west of me no

3/17/13-----Trace----- sleet right in the late pm

3/18/13-----Trace -----sleet, a heavy coating north of the river

3/21/13-----Trace -----snow heavy burst, and a heavy coating just after daybreak flurries through noon

3/24/13-----3.5"----- sleet mix most of the midday turned to heavy snow less than 1/4 vis  forecast was for next to nothing

3/25/13-----0.2"---- came from the upper low passing through

3/26/13-----Trace--- brief snow pellet shower

TOTAL 11.9"

RIC

1/17/13------1.6"

1/23/13------Trace

1/25 13------1.4"

2/1/13-------Trace 

2/2/13-------Trace

2/3/13-------Trace

2/16/13-----Trace

2/22/13-----Trace

3/6/13-------1.5"

3/17/13 -----Trace----sleet

3/18/13------Trace----sleet

3/21/13------Trace

3/24/13------3.8"

3/25/13------0.1"

TOTAL 8.6"

[wxdude64]

0.1 on 12/22

3.0 on 12/26

0.6 on 12/29

3.0 on 01/18

0.2 on 01/24

1.0 on 01/25

0.4 on 01/31

0.8 on 02/01

1.8 on 02/03

0.1 on 02/04

0.5 on 02/08

0.2 on 02/22

4.5 on 03/06

0.6 on 03/07

0.3 on 03/14

0.2 on 03/18

6.3 on 03/25

0.2 on 03/26

0.1 on 03/27

23.9 for season, need 3 more to make climo

[Wonderdog]

A rough total of 12.5 and with next week's 4-6 inches, Gainesville should exceed climo, whatever it is.

[Kevin Shaw]

Not sure if this post should be in this thread or elsewhere, but I will post it here - just let me know if it should go elsewhere and I will post it there instead. This is good data just not data from members but should be of interest to many of you in the region.

 

Total March 2013 snowfall amounts for several "high country" mid-atlantic sites through Sat, Mar 30, 2013
                                           (see note below about some data only through 3/29)
Not much snowfall the past day or so anywhere plus Sunday's precipitation will be rain everywhere as it looks now in the mid-Atlantic so these totals will probably be final for the month. If you all are interested, I could figure out statistics for the entire winter for these sites and post them later here (or wherever you might want me to post them)

 

Elevations of these sites range from about 2000 feet (Sines Deep Creek MD) to about 4800 feet (Snowshoe)

72.1" at Terra Alta WV COOP site
69.6" at the new Canaan Valley 2 WV COOP site
68.9" at Davis 3SE WV COOP site (Dave Lesher's)
62.9" at Laurel Summit PA COOP site
59.0" at Snowshoe WV COOP site
57.5" at Bayard WV COOP site
55.0" at McHenry 4.8 SSE MD cocorahs site

46.5" at Oakland 1SE MD COOP site

43.4" at Sines Deep Creek MD COOP site


Some of these stations didn't post for today (Mar 30) as of the time I accessed the data, but I doubt they got much, if anything at all actually. I noticed in the daily record for Snowshoe that all the daily snowfall amounts were reported as whole inches (for example 9.0", 1.0", 4.0"). Kind of curious that all the numbers should come out even like that. None of the other stations listed worked out that way....

These figures are still preliminary and unofficial - subject to correction due to many factors including my own possible arithmetic errors ( I just fixed one about 24 hours after my original post- Sines Deep Creek had 43.4" not 51.4" as I reported last night originally). Any comments, corrections, questions, observations, other data most welcome..

[WVclimo]

That's good stuff, Kevin.  Thanks for the time putting it together.

[CAPE]

9.5" for a total here. Just about half of average...and as crappy as this winter was, still way better than the 2" debacle of last winter.

[VAsnowfan]

Season snow total 9.4" here about 20 miles west of Lynchburg. Last Sunday was the biggest storm of the year with 6.5" followed by March 5-6 with 1.3".

[Jebman]

Ten inches of snow on the season. We got seven inches of that in March. March featured three events: 3.5 inches, 1 inch, and 2.5 inches.

 

From December thru February we saw many car top events and one clipper in particular dumped a whopping 1.5 inches. It was tough cartopping our way to 3 inches by the end of February, but we managed it.

[mattskiva]

That's good stuff, Kevin.  Thanks for the time putting it together.

 

I'm not sure I buy the difference between Terra Alta and Oakland/McHenry.  Aren't they at basically the same elevation, and isn't Terra Alta like 10 miles west of Oakland?  The rest make sense, but that one seems high in comparison.

[Kevin Shaw]

I'm not sure I buy the difference between Terra Alta and Oakland/McHenry.  Aren't they at basically the same elevation, and isn't Terra Alta like 10 miles west of Oakland?  The rest make sense, but that one seems high in comparison.

Great point Matt. My friends and I have visited both places, and we can't believe there can be that much difference between the two locations. It boils down to the observer and the techniques they employ, including frequency of observation, to help explain the differences. I believe Terra Alta is at about 2600 feet and Oakland is at about 2400 feet, which essentially is the same elevation. And they are roughly 10-15 miles apart, running east-west basically.

[Huffwx]

Doesn't snowshoe seem low? The should of had 30+ from Oct 30 alone. 

[wxdude64]

Doesn't snowshoe seem low? The should of had 30+ from Oct 30 alone. 

Those are just for March numbers Huff, I think 'Shoe is around 190 for year, Canaan around 200.

[Huffwx]

Those are just for March numbers Huff, I think 'Shoe is around 190 for year, Canaan around 200.

Thanks- Should have taken the time to READ.