mattie g Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Dual pol suggests a little graupel in the band. None here. All cotton balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 ppl are tossing the dryslot around casually, tryin' so hard to see who will bite and meltdown lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 You can see the little mounds where the individual puffballs are landing. might actually help with first layer stickage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 5" in Winchester already Impressive. Just by eyeballing, we probably have 2" in Burke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Check out the interesting differences in orientations of the bands moving over the area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Dual pol suggests a little graupel in the band. HCA algorithm sucks major. No way it's grapul. The HCA is confusing near zero ZDR from large snowflakes with grapul. Edit: None here. All cotton balls.Bingo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Up to feed the little one, light snow with grass stickage. Pavement just wet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 The western end of the band will be first to hit the brakes and slow over an area. Its starting to do that now. However, the eastern parts are still continuing to whip itself north as these bands usually do. I'm not sure how to explain that meteorologically. But that is always how it appears on radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ger Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 How's NW DC doing?? Is the snow sticking better than it is here in NE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowpocalypse Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 32 here. Storm is verifying colder. Wouldn't be surprised to see someone on Delmarva with decent totals in the endI'm doubting that, just woke up here in Elkton and its a 50-50 mix here. Rain and snow, hope it changes soon. What's my chances of seeing anything substantial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 I'm doubting that, just woke up here in Elkton and its a 50-50 mix here. Rain and snow, hope it changes soon. What's my chances of seeing anything substantial? I was more or less referring to the latter parts of the storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ger Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 meh Does that describe your accumulation thus far too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Probably aroundquarter-inch of snow so far with snow starting to stick to pavement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ge0 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 about 2" in Germantown on grass.. pavement wet/slushy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsukev Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Ian, where'd you get that radar image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 5" in Winchester already Don't know where that is, but there's more. I don't want to wake others by going out to measure yet, but I can use the deck rail as guide and give you an estimate of about 7. And still coming. Of course I'll have pics later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NattyBo Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Got about a quarter inch of slush with nothing but sleet falling. Man , work is going to blow today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Ian, where'd you get that radar image? the two stacked? wunderground then photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kas80 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Spoke too soon about So Maryland being okay. Just woke up and the snow has stopped in calvert county on the bay. Temps up to 36 and rain is washing away our dusting. Oh well. Enjoy your snow rest of the region, had a feeling we'd have temp issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Does that describe your accumulation thus far too? yes....awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmfm Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Don't let this be the only storm I've ever experienced where ground temps 'actually' matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Spoke too soon about So Maryland being okay. Just woke up and the snow has stopped in calvert county on the bay. Temps up to 36 and rain is washing away our dusting. Oh well. Enjoy your snow rest of the region, had a feeling we'd have temp issues. That doesn't mean you won't change back - tho understandably you are not as thermally safe as folks NW are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsukev Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 the two stacked? wunderground then photoshop. Oops, I mean Sbos_wx. Thanks, tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 i don't know what to make of things right now. radar is filling in to the south, but it also looks a little spotty for my liking. i guess this is a good time for me to get some zzzz's and see what i wake up to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 what a disaster...now I have to try and get some sleep because there is no justification for not going into work.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 i don't know what to make of things right now. radar is filling in to the south, but it also looks a little spotty for my liking. i guess this is a good time for me to get some zzzz's and see what i wake up to. But as Ian said improving. Plus, convective elements will generally have that spotty look at first. The issue with megabands is that you'll usually get that area of subsidence just outside them - so hopefully people get in on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Here's the scene in Winchester. The deck rail is somewhere around 5 3/8" wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ger Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 I don't want to overreact, but I keep expecting to go the window and find a landscape transformed to white. Instead I see only puddles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 the dryslot is pivoting east - more snow is blossoming to the SW and rotating in. all I see is an atmosphere laden with heavy snow, about to demolish N VA and DCA/MD one thing I absolutely adore is heavy wet snow, this is when we find out who can handle the shoveling, and who gets handled by the shoveling The real show begins soon (next few hours) as the upper PV anomaly phase locks with the low level diabatic/theta anomaly, everything stalls and heights crash, and wicked convective frontogenesis begins as the PV tower forms. A lot of it is linking of the jet/front ageo circulation as high theta-e advects into the front and static stability drops rapidly...possibly becoming statically unstable. BL temps will be a close call though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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