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1/25-1/27 Clipper-Miller B Obs/Nowcasting


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The "Great Flizzard of 2015" resulted in a whopping 0.75" of (mainly) snow here in Crofton.  And that's being generous.

 

Looks like areas west of the fall line (I-95) did much better, both in VA as well as MD.  I've always felt that in highly frotogenetic, east-west banded situations, that little bump in topography -- even 300-400 feet -- can make all the difference in the world in terms off the added low level convergence. Analogous in a way to the better lake effect snow bands that set up where the over-water fetch is longer (even if slightly) than with the bands on either side.

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Ended up with just a dusting (~.5") from Round 2 in Glen Burnie... Congrats to western guys who cashed in!

having grown up in and now working in Glen Burnie, the difference between GB and Linthicum in marginal events is noticeable

I received close to 2" for the whole thing

I first noticed it when I went to high school and the bus drove up Hammonds Ferry Road and I would get frustrated as hell seeing an inch there and next to nothing when I got home 10 minutes later

of course, another 10 minutes west from Linthicum and you're in Elkridge and the diff between them and me is almost always a source of additional weenie frustration !  :axe:

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having grown up in and now working in Glen Burnie, the difference between GB and Linthicum in marginal events is noticeable

I received close to 2" for the whole thing

I first noticed it when I went to high school and the bus drove up Hammonds Ferry Road and I would get frustrated as hell seeing an inch there and next to nothing when I got home 10 minutes later

of course, another 10 minutes west from Linthicum and you're in Elkridge and the diff between them and me is almost always a source of additional weenie frustration !  :axe:

Driving between Columbia and Greenbelt is pretty telling in these situations as well.  There's a little hill on 295 near the 198 junction and even that little bit of elevation between there and down near the 32 junction can be quite noticeable for snow cover.  

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we benefited from this:

 

 

NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM TUESDAY MORNING/...

COASTAL LOW IS RAPIDLY EAST OF THE DELMARVA THIS EVENING...WITH

PRESSURES FALLING 7 MB IN THE PAST 6 HOURS PER MSAS ANALYSIS. RADAR

BLOSSOMED THIS EVENING AS AN AREA OF CONVERGENCE DEVELOPED IN THE

INCREASING NE FLOW AROUND THE SFC LOW...AND THE REMNANT WAVE/FRONT

FROM THE CLIPPER LOW...AIDED BY THE OROGRAPHICS OF THE BLUE

RIDGE/CATOCTINS. INTENSITY OF THESE SNOW BANDS HAS BEEN VARIED AND

LOCALIZED.

 

Yeah. Had a 2 hour delay into work this morning. The drive in was really cool. Was a general 3-6 inches that I saw. It was not uniform though. Some parts north of Winchester had 5-6 inches at least. South of town they have around 3 or so. If you got under the band you got a decent event out of this for sure.

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I think the lesson for us, though we never had a chance at decent snow with this one, is that unless the computers are all steady or increasing the qpf numbers w/in 24 hrs. of the event, be worried

I think the other lesson is to not hump the Euro, when everything else besides the Nam is saying otherwise.

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this event reminded me of those misty/light rain days we get in april/may except this time it was frozen.  also, had a very orographic feel to it like we were trying to squeeze out every last drop from the atmosphere.  

 

overall, we got miller B scraps.  it was an event, it snowed a bit.  onto the next one.

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A good spot is Boston. Just got a report from a co-worker that at 8am, the JFK Federal Building had just measured 21" and it was still pouring snow.  Nice!

 

how about just W of there in and around Framingham...28-30" as of 15Z and still dumping.  making a run at three feet if that heavier band can push a little farther west.

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I chose my house location very specifically (although weather was not the only factor).  I might have gone to N. HoCo but I work in DC and the commute would have been untenable.

 

 

Kind of my situation as well. I had a choice of N/W Va or Cambridge, MD the last time I moved. I decided I loved snow to much for the eastern shore. Although I love the beach quite a bit. Once I knew I was staying in VA. I looked for a ridge to the west of Winchester as I knew that was the area that got the most snow. Pretty sick addiction if you ask me.

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