kurtstack Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 BWI AIRPORT 2.0 700 AM 1/24 AIRPORT ...ST. MARYS COUNTY... RIDGE 5.5 836 AM 1/24 BROADCAST MEDIA 2 W CALLAWAY 5.0 658 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER ...LOUDOUN COUNTY... DULLES INTERNATIONAL 1.8 700 AM 1/24 AIRPORT Still waiting on the DCA monkey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Wow...stunned @ the 2" report from BWI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 A dusting is that light snow that accumulates in the gutters and falls between blades of grass. The 0.5" range is what I call a coating. Personal semantics of course. Nice numbers out of IAD and BWI. I may have to revise since it continued to snow after my measurement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Still waiting on the DCA monkey? always...though DCA may still be getting snow...those other totals may not be complete either....I got 1.0" right on the river 4-5 mi south of DCA....anything less than 0.6" will be an embarrassment...probably a 0.7 or 0.8 is my guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Wow...stunned @ the 2" report from BWI. Indeed. You all in Columbia etc. near there probably have a better perspective on how weird that looks. Definitely lesser amounts just north of the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Total ended up being 1.2" in Clarksburg this morning. Temp bottomed out at 12.6F at 7:45am as the last little impulse went through. Nice, cold snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonjon Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 6.6" and still snowing. 8 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 I guess I'll go with 1" since no one else is conservative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 A dusting is that light snow that accumulates in the gutters and falls between blades of grass. The 0.5" range is what I call a coating. Personal semantics of course. Nice numbers out of IAD and BWI. I may have to revise since it continued to snow after my measurement. Good idea. I added 0.2" between 6am and 8am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Indeed. You all in Columbia etc. near there probably have a better perspective on how weird that looks. Definitely lesser amounts just north of the city. BWI notoriously over measures....it will probably be corrected if it is BS.....BWI gets corrected a ton over the years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I guess I'll go with 1" since no one else is conservative 0.9 or 1 is a pretty good guess if you dont want to measure everywhere.....Silver Spring, Takoma, Colesville, Arboretum, Me all 0.9 or 1.0..that seems to be extremely prevalent...a few 0.8's but unlikely you did any worse than that....0.9 - 1.1 seems to be the general idea for immediate DC metro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiscaster Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Still waiting on the DCA monkey? I think the official measurer for DCA is "87storms!" And he likely takes his measurements from beneath the GW PKWY/395 overpass. Now it all makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuddz Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Measuring snow to the tenth of an inch is overkill. The error bars on any random measurement are going to be more than that. Just round the the nearest quarter and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlothianWX Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Light snow here right now. Coating on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I guess I'll go with 1" since no one else is conservative I was hoping to get a little more than 1" with it still snowing since 5:30 but it hasn't budged. It's a safe call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoVaWx Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Snow has stopped and I measured an inch on the deck. Good event in my book with an inch accumulating on all surfaces... hadn't seen the road white in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Measuring snow to the tenth of an inch is overkill. The error bars on any random measurement are going to be more than that. Just round the the nearest quarter and be done with it. I measure to the 1/16th. Up yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I'm confident in a 1.5" measurement here, but I might go out and see if I can find a spot with an additional .25". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 If I wanted to get all teknal n stuff I would report between 7/8ths and 15/16ths but I'm full weenie today so 1" with lollies to 1.05" it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 0.9 or 1 is a pretty good guess if you dont want to measure everywhere.....Silver Spring, Takoma, Colesville, Arboretum, Me all 0.9 or 1.0..that seems to be extremely prevalent...a few 0.8's but unlikely you did any worse than that....0.9 - 1.1 seems to be the general idea for immediate DC metro I got a few 1. I thought 3/4" was conservative so ill go with 1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Amazing the staying power of an inch of snow when temps are in the teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Wow to St Marys and Lower Southern MD. A report of 5.5" - Best you can ever expect from a little clipper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Measuring snow to the tenth of an inch is overkill. The error bars on any random measurement are going to be more than that. Just round the the nearest quarter and be done with it. yep...exactly what I have always done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m045400 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 4.75 inches here in Hollywood, MD as of an hour ago. Much more than I thought we were going to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 For some perspective, IAD's total from this storm (1.8") is more than the current season-to-date snowfall for Chicago O'Hare (1.7"). We may have it bad, but that is absurd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I got about 0.5" here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 got a hair above an inch imby, so I'll call it an inch but I came to my office in Glen Burnie and they've got just shy of 2" there was about a .2 mile span where it went from the inch to almost double that; must have been some band that I missed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 .4 DCA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grothar of Herndon Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 1.25" here in Herndon. Beautiful snow and thankful finally have some around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 .4 DCA seriously?..what a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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