real Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Yeah, they say that DCA report is from 2AM, but I thought someone last night said they had right around that amount at midnight? Confusing. Unless it was official at midnight but they reported it out at 2, something like that. Also, I think someone said DCA picked up 2 inches in one hour from around 3 to 4 a.m.... So you got to assume they surpassed 6, perhaps easily, if they already had 3.8 at 2 a.m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacintoshPro Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Wait, does WNW Reagan National count for DCA, or does it have to be the official DCA site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Went to bed at about 11:20 with ripping snow - went out on a high note. Then woke up at 4:20 to see more ripping snow and news that OPM closed. Pretty sweet. Measured a little over 8" in spots about 25 minutes ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Looks like a little band is setting up with a WSW-ENE trajectory, with the Beltway in its sights. Flurrying now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Between 8-9" here. WOW! What a fun storm. I will never forget the luck of the Irish storm. Congrats everyone around DC! Off to shovel my winnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Not to mention it's 22 with 10" of fresh snow on the ground on March 17th...streets will be fine by noon I bet...perfect storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benchmark Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 6-7" here is Edgewater. 2-3" more then I expected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astarck Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 8.5" in Shirlington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Bad forecast by me. Good job by the NWS. Looks like almost all the snow stuck. So much for relying on MOS. It was good Mar 3rd and bad last night. How much would you say you got there? I only saw one official report for Calvert from Lusby, with 8. We got 10" in Germantown, making for a total of 52" for the winter. Amazing! This is the #2 event for the winter here, beating out Jan 21, which had 7" and was mostly light snow throughout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Wait, does WNW Reagan National count for DCA, or does it have to be the official DCA site. Has to be the airport site. That one is just an observer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanInMd Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Went to bed at 1am w 6" woke to 9.5" in G'burg/N. Potomac. Beautiful out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Snow tv ongoing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scraff Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 9 on the deck. Last night was some of the heaviest snow I had seen all winter. If this was the grande finale...what an epic winter it's been. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnis Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Snow tv ongoing Yay...I just tuned into a nice show here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Holy crap was not feeling good so i went to sleep around 2:00 and woke up to 5.9". Unreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Just measured and got a 6" avg. honestly wasn't expecting that muchPics? Wow what a great winter. Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TL97 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 6.5" in Eldersburg, still lightly snowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 It looks like the lift was probably above 700mb where the DGZ was located. Classic banding there producing good dendrites. Enjoy it! Ratios will never be an issue in those bands. True enough and good point about the deform band you mentioned earlier. I was personally much more wary of temps then I was of getting precip. I figured 0.2-0.3" of "wasted" precip and then the remainder with 8-10:1 ratios. So, a 3-5" or maybe 4-6" event for those of us not inside the DC urban oven. But...sometimes all the chances work out in your favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 BWI reporting 0.46". I'm just south and have 8.25". Amazing ratios. Don't trust that liquid precip total. Snow doesn't get into the precip buckets well. I'd expect a real total of ~0.75" or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregD Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Damn. Just got up. This one was a nice over performer. Maybe 10 inches?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ole Bucket Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Probably about 6" here in Cville. Intensity picking back up a bit. Stuck to the trees and grass pretty quick but it took until dark to stick to the roads. A nice walk into the office. Just beautiful out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Another nice storm here in spite of a slow start, 5.25" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Another nice storm here in spite of a slow start, 5.25" Good thing for spring break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdhokie Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Don't trust that liquid precip total. Snow doesn't get into the precip buckets well. I'd expect a real total of ~0.75" or so. good to know! How do they calculate the official precip total? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelhousman Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 We had about 8 inches here. Just took some photos while walking the dogs: http://joelhousman.com/blog/2014/3/17/late-march-snowstorm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 eyeballing it, I have at least 8" and maybe 9 or 10.....I'm shocked considering I went to bed a little after midnight and had around 2.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 ers-wxman should be around to rightfully gloat any minute now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 This storm finally brought what a lot of us what we were hoping for on 3/5/2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 ers-wxman should be around to rightfully gloat any minute now. Yeah, great forecasting by NWS. That 10%, 90% product actually worked out pretty great LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Unofficial 8" at our EOC in Gaithersburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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