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The March 5-7 White Lion Obs/Nowcasting Thread


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  On 3/6/2013 at 3:37 PM, NE Balti Zen said:

Anyone from Westminster area lurking? My brother is contemplating driving that way with my nieces and my son to seek snow - preferably sleddable snow. Enough out there to make it worth the drive?

 

Thanks.

I have about 5" or so here in Manchester.  Definitely sledable. 

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  On 3/6/2013 at 3:42 PM, Subtropics said:

Chances DCA doesn't record 2''? ...

I'd say quite high. I'd go with certainty but there is still much of the day left. Very well could start cranking as the low pulls the heavier bands NE

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  On 3/6/2013 at 3:42 PM, Subtropics said:

Chances DCA doesn't record 2''? ...

 

50/50?

 

could do it at the end. radar doesn't look that good for the city right now. we need a few hours of pummeling or lower temps.. neither seem imminent.

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  On 3/6/2013 at 3:42 PM, EastCoast NPZ said:

in town or have you made it out to the higher spots?

 

I'm at the same Holiday inn that the TWC crew is at. Walked by Al Roker earlier. TWC is broadcasting from where I am. There is a "death band" to my east. Hoping it rotates west. 

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  On 3/6/2013 at 3:44 PM, Ian said:

50/50?

 

could do it at the end. radar doesn't look that good for the city right now. we need a few hours of pummeling or lower temps.. neither seem imminent.

Basically at this point, we need overperforming/hanging on longer than forecast at the end.... something like 2/24-25/05 or 2/28/05. We're pretty much done with accumulations for awhile even as it continues to snow. 

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  On 3/6/2013 at 3:45 PM, Highzenberg said:

I'm at the same Holiday inn that the TWC crew is at. Walked by Al Roker earlier. TWC is broadcasting from where I am. There is a "death band" to my east. Hoping it rotates west. 

Don't know what you're driving, but if you head out rt 55 east of town you can intercept that band.  you gain about 300' elevation on the road surface alone.  always a colder spot in that part of the county.  or you can head out 522S (where i told you yesterday) and gain 1300'+ in road elevation.  should encounter heavier precip rates and will encounter a lot more accumulated snow.

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I had to leave Columbia, it was ridiculous and I was not going to miss the last storm of the season. I drove home to Dale City. lol. Some dangerous driving conditions in northern VA with the heavy bands. I'd say a little over 3 inches may have fallen here but it's melting too.

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  On 3/6/2013 at 3:49 PM, EastCoast NPZ said:

Don't know what you're driving, but if you head out rt 55 east of town you can intercept that band.  you gain about 300' elevation on the road surface alone.  always a colder spot in that part of the county.  or you can head out 522S (where i told you yesterday) and gain 1'+ in road elevation.  should encounter heavier precip rates and will encounter a lot more accumulated snow.

 

Is there a destination out there that you know of? Like a Walmart parking lot or something? Because I will go for sure. 

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Still 33 where I live. The snow is falling, but the accumulation is nill. It's almost 11 AM. This is an I-81 storm.

Let's face it - the bust potential for DC/Baltimore proper is very real. I'm glad to be working from home, but fingers are going to be pointing at OPM's decision to close the FED with wet streets and Metro running smoothly, and they in turn are gonna point at the NWS.

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this is what happened to Boston the 2/10/10 storm where places S and SW got tons and they received little or nothing

something with the 5h was bad, but I can't recall the details since it didn't matter for our area

I'm losing faith for BWI as nothing out to my immediate west looks to be changing and we're wasting qpf

something has to happen real, real soon it seems to me

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