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The March 5-7 White Lion Obs/Nowcasting Thread


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4" in Springfield and nothing in Alexandria.  Isn't Springfield just west of Alexandria? Is this just a west-east thing or an urban/suburban thing? 

 

It's all those things. I've seen it happen before... even the West End of Alexandria will get a few inches and we get slush.

 

I'm watching baseball now... so no worries.

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

 

You are 1 mile from skyline dr. Head up there if it isnt closed. If its closed head up there tomorrow morning. I am sure its heavy up on top of the mountains. I just passed 12" for the event.

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4" in Springfield and nothing in Alexandria.  Isn't Springfield just west of Alexandria? Is this just a west-east thing or an urban/suburban thing? 

5min drive north 95 to get to Alex .from Springfield

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1/2 mile vis with latest pulse. Hood of truck has 1.5. My temp has been 32.7 for a while. Seems low though. I replaced the battery in my wireless thermo. I can't imagine that would affect the accuracy. 

 

The next 4-6 hours are probably the best window for my area and places to the n-w of me. You can see the bands finally stacking in line w/ sw-ne tilt. 

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4" in Springfield and nothing in Alexandria.  Isn't Springfield just west of Alexandria? Is this just a west-east thing or an urban/suburban thing? 

 

Southwest of Alexandria depending on where you are.  I have no idea why this is the case.  I feel bad for folks that are 10 miles east of me (if that) and are reporting rain.

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Dover radar filling in, pushing into DC area... looking great for N/W suburbs of DC.  Hope Balt I-95 corridor flips before the stuff on Dover radar arrives.

 

Yes, everything is aligning now for dc proper n-w. I'm in heaviest rates since I woke up. Still about 1/2 mile though. 

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I am looking forward to the flip from moderate rain to heavy rain. It's over for those within the city corridor.

Well I have to admit that I'm a little surprised that the Balt city corridor is still rain.  When we do a post mortem, I will look closely to see what exactly went wrong there compared to the i-95 corridor from DC southward into central VA.  Hopefully I will learn something.

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How much you got there about 3" ?

 

Honestly my wife sent me that...when I left at about 5am, I had about 2-3 on the car so it's gotta be more...but it appears it's compacting so much because it's sopping wet.

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Well I have to admit that I'm a little surprised that the Balt city corridor is still rain.  When we do a post mortem, I will look closely to see what exactly went wrong there compared to the i-95 corridor from DC southward into central VA.  Hopefully I will learn something.

 

i think the low was too close for comfort, and there wasn't a lot of cold air wrapping into this thing.  seems like this is mostly elevation driven.  pretty much the story of the season except this just has a lot more moisture.  similar result though.

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Honestly my wife sent me that...when I left at about 5am, I had about 2-3 on the car so it's gotta be more...but it appears it's compacting so much because it's sopping wet.

Doubtful it's too much more than that, if you go by other obs from around us. Those of us in Fairfax County who had a few inches as of 4-5:00 haven't gotten much more than an inch or so since then. We had a real lull for a few hours before the bands started rotating in.

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