WEATHER53 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I think there were a number of warning signs 1.first batch overperfirmed and around here that means 2nd batch will underperform 2.Precip off coast never got dragged n-nw, mostly ne 3 Whirling dervish out west just sat and spun in same widely dispersed area, took too long to tighten up some and move east still a stellar late March event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWC Split Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 After about 5 hours we finally have snow falling at a rate heavy enough to start accumulating on sidewalks again in Haymarket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristowWx Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 1 minute ago, PWC Split said: After about 5 hours we finally have snow falling at a rate heavy enough to start accumulating on sidewalks again in Haymarket. Yes. Same here. Hope fully we get this to last an hour or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grothar of Herndon Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Ended up with 5.5". Snow really compacting this afternoon. I had 1.8" before this storm so more than doubled my seasonal total. Agree the storm never came together, but it was great seeing snow fall,moderate this morning, for the entire day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristowWx Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Grothar of Herndon said: Ended up with 5.5". Snow really compacting this afternoon. I had 1.8" before this storm so more than doubled my seasonal total. Agree the storm never came together, but it was great seeing snow fall,moderate this morning, for the entire day. Had it been Jan or Feb it would have been different. But for late March it was about as wintry a scene as we could ask for. It could be 70 today in full sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Pixee Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Overall I'm quite pleased with the snow total in my area. We lost a lot of liquid with the rain/sleet for several hours. Probably left about 6-8 inches in the city drains but that's March snow for you. Feels like around 7:1 or 8:1 and dense as a rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Just got in from shoveling and snow blowing. Basically just a snow mist since about 1230-1pm. Didn’t get a final measurement before compaction started, but at least 6” today plus over 1” yesterday. Great storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 DCA recording 4.0" of snow in late March is downright impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 11 minutes ago, wxtrix said: happy birthday! I'm currently at 9" and waiting to see what piles up from the last blob. I had about 45 minutes of heavy snow around 2 pm--all powder--which helped add to my total. I had 4.5" last night and so another 4.5" so far today. it's a pretty solid March event in an awful winter. but now at least I have broken double digits for this winter. Thank you Trix. Glad you were also finally able to cash in on a nice snowfall after such a lean year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I must have made the snow gods angry! After careful re-measuring, I seriously barely broke 3 inches today! It was a sad day! I lived in a snow hole 90% of the day after this morning. Temps warmed above freezing before noon and stayed that way (actually still 33 after a high of 35) .. I almost saw the sun for a while. This barely outdid the snow I had Presidents day weekend! NOW within a mile or so of my home, there are measurements between 4 and 6 inches. I was unlucky! I see some other low spots in Loudoun as well from random feedback from Facebook! I need redemption! TREND SATURDAY MY WAY please and make it way overperform! Regardless, it is snowball fight and sledding time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Looks like the WSW verified for almost the entire LWX region. Borderline in DC (Matt’s 4.5”), but looks like all of MD verified and almost all of VA? Maybe the southernmost row or two of counties in the LWX part of NoVA came up just short? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Ka60 said: Das my snowboard measurement was over 4.5" (second wave)! Did you eyeball it by any chance. I also noticed Germantown report was not consistent with our area. No, but I also only measured once so probably lost a bit to compaction once the dripping began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 31 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said: Same here in Germantown. A couple of days ago I doubted this because of late March and temps, but I got suckered in yesterday. Turns out temps were fine but precip rates were poor. Never saw heavy, and only saw moderate for a few minutes. Forecast was 8-12 and had nearly 100% chance of seeing 6. Got half that LOL. Seeing the huge jackpot 30-45 minutes north, and warning criteria snow to my east is a perfect ending to this abomination of a winter. I've seen less snowfall in other winters, but this will go down as my most hated. I can sort of get this (I assume you're talking about the winter as a whole)...we had a lot of missed opportunities that didn't come together around here, and some of those were during the couple of cold outbreaks that were "wasted". But hey, we scored a great wind event the beginning of this month, LOL! In all seriousness though, and I know it's all personal opinion...I couldn't call this winter "most hated." Nor could I call this particular event such. I would say winter of 2011-12 was God freaking awful, as was last winter (2016-17), and 2001-02. Those three stand as the flagship of having absolutely or almost absolutely nothing. Maybe toss in 2007-08 too. These would be the opposite of 2009-10, 2002-03, 2013-14, if you will. As for most hated events that failed, Snowquester (March 6, 2013) and the "storm that shall not be named" (ahem, Boxing Day!) in December 2010. Today may have been a bit disappointing and underperformed in some ways here in the metro DC region...I admit I was hoping for something a bit higher end (though not expecting the crazy amounts the Euro/NAM were throwing at us with yesterday's 12Z run). But like I said in the other thread, an area-wide 4-8", during the day in the 3rd week of March is pretty darned impressive. As to amounts (to stay on topic)...I got 5" at my location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 1 minute ago, WxUSAF said: Looks like the WSW verified for almost the entire LWX region. Borderline in DC (Matt’s 4.5”), but looks like all of MD verified and almost all of VA? Maybe the southernmost row or two of counties in the LWX part of NoVA came up just short? Maybe a bit of Fairfax County. Measured 4.1" here while I see a couple 5" totals in Reston/Vienna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 27 minutes ago, WxUSAF said: Looks like the WSW verified for almost the entire LWX region. Borderline in DC (Matt’s 4.5”), but looks like all of MD verified and almost all of VA? Maybe the southernmost row or two of counties in the LWX part of NoVA came up just short? I believe my nearby neighbor @Kingstonian measured just under 4" around midday in our far SE corner of FfxCo. Again, by my eyeball-only estimation and during heaviest rates around midday, I think I topped out (realistically) between 4"-5", but we had a lot of compaction since then. I do think with our total snowfall, that we verified at the low end of LWX's WSW call, and in any case -- I was pretty happy about multi-inches in late March. I'm ready for spring and warmer weather. A final report from this storm -- currently, 35/30, with flurries still holding on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordecai Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Fairfax County closed tomorrow It stopped snowing almost 2 hours ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I guess the one thing of note is that I recorded 1" per hour rates that actually accumulated during the highest sun angle time of the day in March. Measured 3.25" at 12:00, 3.75" at 12:35. That's not half bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 7 minutes ago, Mordecai said: Fairfax County closed tomorrow It stopped snowing almost 2 hours ago Yeah. Even though my kids have finally escaped the FCPS system, I find this more than a bit ridiculous. All roads are just plain wet here in SE FfxCo...and even though they received a few more inches in the mid and western parts of FfxCo, I find it hard to believe that most roads aren't just wet there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentTalkie Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 16 minutes ago, WxUSAF said: Looks like the WSW verified for almost the entire LWX region. Borderline in DC (Matt’s 4.5”), but looks like all of MD verified and almost all of VA? Maybe the southernmost row or two of counties in the LWX part of NoVA came up just short? 5-6" in Western Albemarle, verified down here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Still snowing out here. But the last bit of greens on the radar are over me right now. I am not going to make it to ten. I am just gonna call it 9.5 and leave it at that. Had a lot of fun over the past week tracking and enjoying the storm with everyone. Now lets get that Sunday event to tick north a little bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cae Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Ended up with about 5.5" of snow today, on top of about 1" of sleet, for a total of 6.5". I probably lost some to compaction, but I don't think I lost much. We never hit freezing. Rates were impressive earlier today, above 1" per hour until it really dropped off around 1:00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternFringe Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 1 hour ago, WxUSAF said: Looks like the WSW verified for almost the entire LWX region. Borderline in DC (Matt’s 4.5”), but looks like all of MD verified and almost all of VA? Maybe the southernmost row or two of counties in the LWX part of NoVA came up just short? Verified for here if you mean at least, or greater than or equal to...the last NWS maps called for 4-6 for my county and I got 12". So, did they meet expectations? Yes. Did they verify? Not even close. Last Euro run jackpot in western Virginia was what verified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 1 minute ago, WesternFringe said: Verified for here if you mean at least, or greater to or equal than...the last NWS maps called for 4-6 for my county and I got 12". So, did they meet expectations? Yes. Did they verify? Not even close. 5” is warning criteria and that’s what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 6 minutes ago, WesternFringe said: Verified for here if you mean at least, or greater to or equal than...the last NWS maps called for 4-6 for my county and I got 12". So, did they meet expectations? Yes. Did they verify? Not even close. Last Euro run jackpot in western Virginia was what verified. How were the rates last night? Seems like that 12" total checks out. Grandparents in Churchville measured ~10". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderdog Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 25 minutes ago, Mordecai said: Fairfax County closed tomorrow It stopped snowing almost 2 hours ago What a surprise. What took them so long to make that decision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Best storm (only storm) since 2016. I guess my early morning rant was premature. It ended up being a beautiful spring day. I received a half inch of snow and sleet yesterday followed by 6.25" of snow today. The rates this morning were super fun. I'm a happy weenie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinInTheSky Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Final total was a little over 4". Tree went down. Final measure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 2 minutes ago, supernovasky said: Final total was a little over 4". Tree went down. Final measure 4.5" snow depth during the day in late March is pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peribonca Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Satellite image is beautiful... Almost looks like an eye off the Jersey coast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinInTheSky Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Cobalt said: 4.5" snow depth during the day in late March is pretty impressive. Was my biggest snow of the season by far... but just 1.5" shy of my warning criteria I was hoping for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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