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Jan 17-18th disco thread--1st big threat of the year


Midlo Snow Maker

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Sure, I can buy that.

It may be a 4-6 hour period later this evening into the early overnight, but I think you certainly can get decent snowfall rates during that time..

Yes I think two to four is possible for those va counties south of dc and since haven't seen snow really in two years...thats a lot

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Definitely. The 1st half is rain/slop.

Skew-T soundings support snow for the last half of the storm. Will probably only stick to grassy areas (becasue of surface temps), but snow is snow.

 

P.S. I dont live anywhere near this area. I'm just trying to help out since I see people are pretty down in this sub-forum.

 

Thanks for the efforts, I guess, but helping some in the area find a car-topper ain't gonna improve anyone's mood.

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shocker

 

You played this storm really well. I wish I had gone with higher probabilities for scenario 2 versus one yesterday.  The problem with edging the storm north is unless you get into the true deformation zone and have the upper center work its magic, you end up relaxing the pattern a little and not getting as deep in the cold air to start with. 

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Funny thing about it is that if the small improvement on the 12 Z run is duplicated on the next run, we could be in the .5 area.

Anything that does fall would be a positive based on the fact that this wasn't modeled to come anywhere near this area 48 hours or so ago.

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One small point before we go into tonight. The Richmond crew on here has sat back and watched DC and environs celebrate numerous snows that never did a thing down this way. In fact, as everyone well knows, that's the general rule each season, you guys get multiple events that we just miss out on. So, while I get the dissapointment from some in the DC/Balt area, how about a little bit of perspective here that you're just looking at an exception to the overall norm. This is the stuff we, Richmond and south posters, have to deal with every year. Is what it is.

 

Hey I'm with you.  Enjoy your snow.  I hope you get blasted.

 

But.............in 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 you've had far more real storms than has the DC/Balt area.  You (central VA) had the clipper in early Dec 2010, the Christmas morning storm 2010, some from Boxing Day 2010, and at least one late last year.  All DC has had was Jan 2011.

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Hey I'm with you.  Enjoy your snow.  I hope you get blasted.

 

But.............in 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 you've had far more real storms than has the DC/Balt area.  You (central VA) had the clipper in early Dec 2010, the Christmas morning storm 2010, some from Boxing Day 2010, and at least one late last year.  All DC has had was Jan 2011.

 

True,

 

But what about us Richmonders who moved up to the DC area early last winter, AFTER the 2009-2010 snowmaggedons and nice Jan 2011 event? Missed out on those...and now that I'm up here...missing out on snow to the south where I used to live.  I am definitely NOT the snow magnet! ;)

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If anyone wants to watch the snow progress northward in VA. I use this site. Its kind of cool. There is a legend on left to see current weather road closures and other incidents. I am not seeing any snow in VA at this point though. 

 

http://www.511virginia.org/

 

Actually it is snowing at my goto spot in the GW National Forest. Check out the furthest west cam US-250. Only about 50 miles from here. Might have to drive down.

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What a horrible two weeks of forecasts. Last week was supposed to get warm, with record highs on the weekend and sun. We end up with gray and fog. I had no idea about this snowstorm until a coworker said we were going to get some snow. I got sucked into the disco last night, only to have my weenie heart broken this morning. Bah humbug.

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True,

 

But what about us Richmonders who moved up to the DC area early last winter, AFTER the 2009-2010 snowmaggedons and nice Jan 2011 event? Missed out on those...and now that I'm up here...missing out on snow to the south where I used to live.  I am definitely NOT the snow magnet! ;)

 

lol,  DT used to say almost the same thing during his short stint here.  Since the late 80s, we've been in a boom or bust cycle with bad 6 or 7 bad years in a row and then a 40 plus inch year.  16-30 inch years like we had from 58-69 have pretty much vanished.  You arrived here at a bad junction. 

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