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Feb 2-3 Clipper Discussion and Observations


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the band later should hold together better.....I dont think the RAP ever had this band doing much once it hit DC...

it looked a little better than it ended up. getting legit --sn now and off and on for a while.

need darkness to pile up dustings.

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Nearly all traces of the 1" from this morning are already gone.  Fluffy clipper snow is simply no match for Feb sun.  I hate the sun.

 

Edit:  I hate Feb too.

It really wasn't all that fluffy. Just because its a clipper or we have cold surface temps doesn't mean the snow is fluffy(airy). Need strong lift through the snow growth region to get the dendrites, and the more dendritic the flakes are the more "airy" as it accumulates. Didn't really have that with last night's clipper as the lift was weak. But either way the sun this time of year will erase the snow quickly if the temps are not well below freezing. Sorry for the tangent. Interesting stuff though...somewhere on this forum a while back there was a post discussing theta-e and omega and snow growth, I recall.

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It really wasn't all that fluffy. Just because its a clipper or we have cold surface temps doesn't mean the snow is fluffy(airy). Need strong lift through the snow growth region to get the dendrites, and the more dendritic the flakes are the more "airy" as it accumulates. Didn't really have that with last night's clipper as the lift was weak. But either way the sun this time of year will erase the snow quickly if the temps are not well below freezing. Sorry for the tangent. Interesting stuff though...somewhere on this forum a while back there was a post discussing theta-e and omega and snow growth, I recall.

The snow we had in Burke was quite fluffy yesterday.

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The snow we had in Burke was quite fluffy yesterday.

Lol I am being a stickler I guess..it was more fluffy than compacted, but the flakes were mostly small(plates), some might call it pixie dust or stunted or compact, as opposed to the larger well formed dendrites, which accumulates more quickly and gives the fluff factor (as long the surface temps are cold enough to prevent melting/compaction). 

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conversational snow this morning, moderate at times. thanks to boundary layer issues and some sunshine at times. most of the snow melted. north facing slopes picked up an inch. most of that is history as we are above freezing due to the increasing sun angle. we picked up another day of snow cover for four on the season and another gloppy short lived inch for three inches on the season. In 2001-2002 we managed four inches on the season.

 

tomorrow night is our last chance.

 

after monday night gradual warmup. by the time gwo comes around by mid march we will be climatologically out of the chase for snow. I expect milder for most of feb then a brief cooldown in march. we will see a miller A roar up the coast in early-mid march in a classic track for snow but it will be too late for us - couple inches of wind driven rain in 34 degree temps. this storm will dump 16 inches of fresh snow on Virginia mts and also in Maryland and in Delaware. This storm will be a whopper for the Northeast as well.

 

as I stated - tomorrow night is our last call, our last chance

 

we need another winter with a new pattern - anything but enso neutral

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