Curlyq Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Done with this fake storm. See you all next winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Raining in CHO? WSWs cancelled and replaced with WWAs? Ok, looks like I'm having crow for dinner tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanInMd Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Did the northern stream have anything to do with this? Did the GL Low act as kicker, shunting the system further south than expected?? There must be a meteorological explanation for why this happened. This outcome is just too divergent from what was forecasted by any of the Big-3 Doesn't really look like the low itself went south. There is a nearly stationary 994 low sitting in the mouth of the bay. Pretty much right where the GFS had it. It's been snowing for 15 hours..... maybe 2+" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Embarrasing from LWX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr2 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 LWX drops all warnings. Those close to 95 have advisories, out west by the mountains and out towards the bay have nothing. Harford County is not under any warnings or advisories. Rain, rain, rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 I think the d@mn thing just stalled and wrapped in warm air off the ocean and that's all she wrote no cold air to begin with and less at the end GFS and sadly the RGEM were the ones that called that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 LWX just lowered my daytime snow accum to "1-2" POSSIBLE" and they're still too high ! and they wonder why there's always talk about reducing NWS budget lol Did you check your area forecast? Middle River This Afternoon Rain. High near 39. Windy, with a north wind 23 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Tonight Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 9pm. Low around 33. Breezy, with a north wind 20 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Edit: Looks like Mt. Holly won the arm wrestling match against Sterling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodie77 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Still have intermittent snow showers but nowhere near the rates from this morning. Around 3-4" in total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feloniousq Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Just went out and played in the RA/SN. Good snow for snowballs and snowmen at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 GFS and sadly the RGEM were the ones that called that. And spotty banding instead of a solid shield-- there are all these random locations in Fairfax and P William counties that met the lower end of the forecast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazeKing Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 light snow and sitting at about 5" in ezf ..on the low end but not really a bust here. Super easy to make a snowman with this..make a snowball and start rollin and it pulls all the snow to the ground + a bunch of leaves lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benchmark Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Wind surly didnt underperform! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ike Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Just popping in to mention it's been straight-up snowing for hours here in eastern Carroll and the measurable accumulation has steadily decreased to nothing. The snow is so wet it's actually melted my snow. So, for those of you getting rain, don't worry -- the snow isn't any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Embarrasing from LWX Mets and Forecasters everywhere FYP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLPressure Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Just went out and played in the RA/SN. Good snow for snowballs and snowmen at least. I have enough snow for the snowballs, but not for the rest of the man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreAce33 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 45 degrees, occasional thunder, and RA/SN here in SBY. So much precipitation that the column is saturated even with the surface at 45... Been raining cats and dogs all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattskiva Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Just popping in to mention it's been straight-up snowing for hours here in eastern Carroll and the measurable accumulation has steadily decreased to nothing. The snow is so wet it's actually melted my snow. So, for those of you getting rain, don't worry -- the snow isn't any better. About the same here. My snow thrower hates me after spending the last hour and a half trying to clear the 5" of barely frozen water off of the driveway. I have never seen 5" of accumulation this wet before. I am soaked to the bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo2 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 The NWS employee needs to be fired...I live at just about there and this person reported another 1" of snow since 1130. It's been raining... 3 NW Frederick 5.3 144 PM 3/06 NWS employee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 And spotty banding instead of a solid shield-- there are all these random locations in Fairfax and P William counties that met the lower end of the forecast. That was my earlier point. It wasn't totally a temp thing. I saw model after model after model spit out .4+ in multiple 6 hour periods. I saw 700 panels pasting us with big uvv's to go along with sim radars hammering me with rates. That is what busted and busted huge. I know exactly what type of storm the models told me I was going to get but that's not how it happened. And ric is still trying to figure out why they had severe thunder snow. DC had thundersnow with half mile vis. Something went seriously wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattskiva Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 The NWS employee needs to be fired... I live at just about there and this person reported another 1" of snow since 1130. It's been raining... If it's rain that is one thing, but the measurement is how much has fallen not how much is on the ground - if they used a board and cleared it frequently it might show different numbers. We had crazy rates here earlier and I bet at least 8" fell and accumulated at least temporarily but it is now compacted to 4-5" of liquid cement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOVAForecaster Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 I want to know what happened that caused this storm to fail this badly. Last night it looked like 10" for DC and now they won't even get 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 We switched over to rain in North Bethesda around 2. Still getting a few flakes here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 The NWS employee needs to be fired... I live at just about there and this person reported another 1" of snow since 1130. It's been raining... meh, they'll still get a guv't check once laid off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattskiva Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 It's a sign of how pathetic our winters have been that this is still the biggest "snow" storm since 2010 for many of us in Fairfax/Loudoun/Prince William. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlo Snow Maker Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Someone needs to get a screen cap of Cantore on bare ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potvn_sx Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 As somebody said before....although the clown maps aren't taken seriously, almost all of them had BWI with little to no snow. Also, I believe it was the RPM that had NOTHING from DC to Balt along 95. I literally haven't seen a flake. This area sucks for snow... who wants to buy a condo in Snowshoe with me? $75,000 will get us a place to stay and actually see snow every winter and ski! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOVAForecaster Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Someone needs to get a screen cap of Cantore on bare ground. DT already just reposted this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisy Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Feel bad for you guys....Although I got snow in Front Royal and I shouldn't complain, I wouldn't have made the road trip if I knew I was only getting 9-10" of snow, I was hoping for 20". The fact that the NAM can switch main QPF region 30 miles east under 24hrs from an event is just a joke. I knew after 00z runs last night I was gonna get screwed compared to some bullseye spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 That was my earlier point. It wasn't totally a temp thing. I saw model after model after model spit out .4+ in multiple 6 hour periods. I saw 700 panels pasting us with big uvv's to go along with sim radars hammering me with rates. That is what busted and busted huge. I know exactly what type of storm the models told me I was going to get but that's not how it happened. And ric is still trying to figure out why they had severe thunder snow. DC had thundersnow with half mile vis. Something went seriously wrong. Agreed. This was FAR more than a temp bust or even just a QPF bust. The whole track and development of the storm was dramatically different from what models only 12 hours out were showing. I hope NWS/LWX/HPC (someone) does a post-mortem to figure out why. Wasn't any particular model either. GFS hinted at something like this at times. Maybe Euro did a bit. But all busted pretty hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Back edge starting to retreat on the radar. Maybe we can end this drizzle fest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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