snowfan Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 BWI now 29.2" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmfm Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 BWI total seems...hard to believe Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedtobe Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I had a rough measuring day. I had around 23" or so around 1pm. Local coops had the same. I've had at least 7 since then. Sticking with 30 unless it's an outlier with the morning reports. I don't think it will be Bob, I ended up with around 15". Probablyhad 10.5 or so prior to that. Got a good 5 inch plus with the last gasp banding, still snowing a bit but with the moon dimly visible I'm done measuring. The highlight of my day was seeing all the guys here with huge amounts, viewing some pictures and having such an easy time removing the snow with the snowblower. Plus overall, the forecasts were pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickinBaltimore Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 History was just made. Wow. And I bet it might get to 30 with this last batch rolling through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 The trained spotters near me have 22.5" and 21.3" as of 6pm. BWI certainly seems high. ETA: Nearby PWS has 2.34" storm total liquid. <10:1 ratio seems a little unlikely to me over the life of the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHoffman Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201601240146-KLWX-NOUS41-PNSLWX LOL @ that 36.5" measurement in Potomac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 At 715 I came up with 26.5. Its probably 27 that fell since its been mod since but its difficult. Shoukld we go with 26.5 or just round it to 27? Is rounding it justified? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 BWI seems high, 9 mi SE at home, all snow, is 19" , similar nearby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Shoukld we go with 26.5 or just round it to 27? Is rounding it justified? Round that **** up and take a victory lap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRWx Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Very tough storm to measure! Are airport measurements even made by trained spotters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 BWI seems high, 9 mi SE at home, all snow, is 19" , similar nearby. Well, I had maybe 28, and 10 miles north of me was 40". It's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 LOL @ that 36.5" measurement in Potomac. I have no clue on that one but I did notice they got pounded all afternoon (according to radar) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesleyhtswx Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Kudos to CWG and others who care enough about science and history and have been trying for awhile to intelligently challenge the temperature and snowfall record keeping practices at DCA. My yardstick is registering +/- 30" here in Wesley Hts. Factoring a combination of my poor measuring skills, a few miles, and a few hundred feet of elevation, I would bet down on 24th and M they've got ~2 feet. So, I think it is fair to say DC has topped #2 1899 and rivaled, but not surpassed, Knickerbocker with this one. And in all likelihood, DCA has/or should have recorded it's highest single storm total since the transfer in 1950. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Well, I had maybe 28, and 10 miles north of me was 40". It's possible. Yep. All about being in a good band. We got lucky up this way and basically stayed in one all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201601240146-KLWX-NOUS41-PNSLWX Many of the spotter reports in this update (most around 6 pm) are certainly less, uhm, "exuberant" than the reports for similar locations from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Round that **** up and take a victory lap! NPZ how much you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I had a rough measuring day. I had around 23" or so around 1pm. Local coops had the same. I've had at least 7 since then. Sticking with 30 unless it's an outlier with the morning reports. I don't think it will be Sounds pretty reasonable, Bob. You're up the road from where I am and from past snow event reports Rockville has always been a little higher than what I've gotten a bit farther down here in the more southern part of MoCo. I put down 24" for me, so your 30" estimate is surely in the ballpark going by that reasoning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurelMike Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I'm not super close to BWI (12.8 M WSW), but the total seems reasonable based on what I've experienced today. We didn't get quite that much, but radar looked like they had some heavy bands longer than we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Kudos to CWG and others who care enough about science and history and have been trying for awhile to intelligently challenge the temperature and snowfall record keeping practices at DCA. My yardstick is registering +/- 30" here in Wesley Hts. Factoring a combination of my poor measuring skills, a few miles, and a few hundred feet of elevation, I would bet down on 24th and M they've got ~2 feet. So, I think it is fair to say DC has topped #2 1899 and rivaled, but not surpassed, Knickerbocker with this one. And in all likelihood, DCA has/or should have recorded it's highest single storm total since the transfer in 1950. DCA has measurement problems, but even if it didn't, it wouldn't be a good representation of the city as a whole. It's a strange microclimate. An official station needs to be inside of the district. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Bob, I ended up with around 15". Probablyhad 10.5 or so prior to that. Got a good 5 inch plus with the last gasp banding, still snowing a bit but with the moon dimly visible I'm done measuring. The highlight of my day was seeing all the guys here with huge amounts, viewing some pictures and having such an easy time removing the snow with the snowblower. Plus overall, the forecasts were pretty good.My best friend lives in ches beach. He texted me last night and said ice cube and icy rain frosting his snow. I knew you were prob mixing. The dryslot was unfair. I was at the extreme edge of precip at times but thankfully never lulled. That probably scored me an extra 3-5 over some close eastern neighbors. I just checked the spotter info. Norbeck was 28.6 at 630 and that is 5 miles to my east. More has fallen since. I broke my yard record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHoffman Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I have no clue on that one but I did notice they got pounded all afternoon (according to radar) I'm not even 5 miles from them and while I have over 30, I don't think I'm close to 3 feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McQuackleton Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Hope this last band makes it through to hopefully make it close to 31". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Kudos to CWG and others who care enough about science and history and have been trying for awhile to intelligently challenge the temperature and snowfall record keeping practices at DCA. My yardstick is registering +/- 30" here in Wesley Hts. Factoring a combination of my poor measuring skills, a few miles, and a few hundred feet of elevation, I would bet down on 24th and M they've got ~2 feet. So, I think it is fair to say DC has topped #2 1899 and rivaled, but not surpassed, Knickerbocker with this one. And in all likelihood, DCA has/or should have recorded it's highest single storm total since the transfer in 1950. I disagree. I think 2/5-6/10 pretty clearly beat this storm in most of the city proper. 2/5-6/10 had a lot of 24"+ reports from inside the city with the Tenleytown area reporting 27"+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacindc Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I am very much surprised that CWG has never set up a measuring station at 24th and M when a large storm is looming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 As others have noted, we seem to finally be winding down. Looks like my HOA called in the big guns. This thing was awesome to watch... just effortlessly plowed through the snow as if it weren't even there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Looks like 1/4 mile visibility in this band rolling thru Clarksburg here at 9pm. Coming down nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 NPZ how much you get? The best I can measure was 27 or 28". This was the most difficult storm I've ever measured. We had lots of wind and drifting. There is a trained spotter just a bit east of me; I'll wait to see his report. This was quite a storm. I just missed 3' totals by about 7 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I am very much surprised that CWG has never set up a measuring station at 24th and M when a large storm is looming. What would be the point? Nobody would consider it "official" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Shoukld we go with 26.5 or just round it to 27? Is rounding it justified? Just came in. Since then .4 fell that I could justify (it snowed a lot harder for just .04, but Im tired) so, yes 27. that seems to be a good number. A spotter in Dale City had 25.3 at 6:30. Leesburg in Nokesville has about 30. So it's right there in the ballpark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I'm not even 5 miles from them and while I have over 30, I don't think I'm close to 3 feet. 5 miles can be big when you're talking 3" per hour rates in some of those heavy bands. But as I said I wouldn't know. I just happened to notice that location when I was looking at radar and thinking wow they are getting hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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