WesternFringe Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Wonderdog said: I am not a teacher and have never worked in a school system but I have always wondered if it would be feasible to keep the schools open if a certain percentage of the students could make it to school on a particular snow day safely. Why close the entire school system for a storm like we had today where the roads have mostly been cleared in the more densely populated areas and they end up closing because a small percentage of the students is deemed to be making too much of a risk to get in. Enough roads in my county (after getting 12") have not been plowed sufficiently so as to deem the roads safe for travel with buses. If Wonderdog were in charge, we would be in school on Thursday instead of out. If only we had his leadership, some of the school system could be open tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichmondTarHeel Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Looks like that band might be healthy enough to make it all the way down here to Fairfax. Gonna keep an eye on it, probably only to watch it evaporate once it reaches the Potomac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 I didn't think it would snow again... radar actually looks pretty good. Maybe another half inch? I cleared part of the board and will measure tomorrow morning to see how it turned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Fairfax will get hit. I watched what this circulation did to Ohio late last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 2 minutes ago, NovaTarHeel said: Looks like that band might be healthy enough to make it all the way down here to Fairfax. Gonna keep an eye on it, probably only to watch it evaporate once it reaches the Potomac. Probably. I only need 0.5" to reach 11" on the year. C'mon, band! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Somebody go wake up Ji. Leesburg is about to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Man I might have another quarter inch and still coming down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 I need .15” to get 10” flat so I’m praying that band hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdhokie Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Ended up with 7" here in Ellicott City. The rates during the height of the storm made it worthwhile. We had heavy/mod from around 10-2. Probably 2"/hr at some points. It also stuck to everything and made for some great pictures and jebwalking. I could see if you had light/mod all day how this storm would suck. My call a couple days ago was 2-4 DC, 3-6 immediate burbs and 6+ N&W. Pretty good for a weenie :). We need to remember lessons learned. The bizarre euro with insane snow depths should have been tossed. The NAMs were jumpy but if you tossed the bizarre runs (Williamsburg jackpot) I think it was close on snow depth, especially within 48hrs. Also PHL north will not be denied*. Maybe that is why many people are bitter in here. We had some forecasts for 8+ in the cities but it ended up northeast of here. I guess part 2 was a Miller B? Those almost never work around here so we should be lucky with what we got. Part 1 probably would have worked for everyone had it been jan/feb. * except for 2009-2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 2 hours ago, clskinsfan said: The never ending snowstorm. 36 hours and counting. That mountain country is something else. On Tuesday I went chasing snow to Jefferson County again. Those areas had had snow all day. The mountains can have steady light snow even when we dont. That is a whole 'nother country and climate! While I was up there, all it did was snow and snow and snow. It did not matter what the radar showed, It snowed anyway. I was damn near out of my mind with joy. That was the first time this winter that i got to see snow cover the grass completely. I was blasting 1970s music on my headphones and I danced, I just couldn't help it. Today, Dale City got treated to the same craziness as WE got hit with so much snow that MY lawn got covered up with snow. I wish I lived in Garrett County. Every time someone sneezes up there it snows. Every weather system snows them in the winter, every last one. I LOVE Jefferson County and I want to visit Berkeley County too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Heads up in Central MD! Band is going solid green there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Tom T showed the hrrr earlier this evening and it showed this final band coming through nicely. Pretty accurate on the time as well and had it lasting 1-2 hours. Picking up now. Definitely steady and adding up again. Maybe 1 more inch possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 24 minutes ago, WesternFringe said: Enough roads in my county (after getting 12") have not been plowed sufficiently so as to deem the roads safe for travel with buses. If Wonderdog were in charge, we would be in school on Thursday instead of out. If only we had his leadership, some of the school system could be open tomorrow. So to @Wonderdog's point, most of FfxCo got a spread of 4"-7" -- considerably less than your locale -- and most streets were exposed to pavement and just wet by sunset. That's usually not the case, since the N/W portions of FfxCo typically get way more snow than the SE portions...not this time, it was a much closer spread. Will there be ice in the morning across FfxCo? Probably. Does it warrant taking the kiddies out of school for an entire effing day again, when temps are going to rise to nearly 50 tomorrow? No...that's what two-hour delays are for. Should school districts out your way cancel tomorrow? With a foot of snow, I'd hope so. BTW, I'm sure FCPS will find a way to cancel on Friday as well, resulting in even more padding for an arguably unnecessary "spring break" next week. Sorry for the banter fodder, folks -- I won't comment on this again. Like I said earlier, my kids have finally/thankfully escaped the FCPS gulag and I no longer have a dog in the fight, but these hair-trigger snow days really grip me by the short & curlies. Oh, and it's currently 34/29...no SN right now, though it looks some might be pivoting down this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinInTheSky Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Getting another band of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 10 minutes ago, Sparky said: Man I might have another quarter inch and still coming down. I measured 0.1" (lol) about 30 mins ago... not expecting much from this but it'll still be nice to add to the total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Mesos have it getting down past DC. Would love 0.25” to get to 10”, but 35 here now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinInTheSky Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 It’s not a snowstorm without at least one moco-hoco band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinInTheSky Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Snowing in Gburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdhokie Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Video of the good stuff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 9 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: So to @Wonderdog's point, most of FfxCo got a spread of 4"-7" -- considerably less than your locale -- and most streets were exposed to pavement and just wet by sunset. That's usually not the case, since the N/W portions of FfxCo typically get way more snow than the SE portions...not this time, it was a much closer spread. Will there be ice in the morning across FfxCo? Probably. Does it warrant taking the kiddies out of school for an entire effing day again, when temps are going to rise to nearly 50 tomorrow? No...that's what two-hour delays are for. Should school districts out your way cancel tomorrow? With a foot of snow, I'd hope so. BTW, I'm sure FCPS will find a way to cancel on Friday as well, resulting in even more padding for an arguably unnecessary "spring break" next week. Sorry for the banter fodder, folks -- I won't comment on this again. Like I said earlier, my kids have finally/thankfully escaped the FCPS gulag and I no longer have a dog in the fight, but these hair-trigger snow days really grip me by the short & curlies. Oh, and it's currently 34/29...no SN right now, though it looks some might be pivoting down this way. Well said. VRE is running its Special schedule tomorrow, so I’m driving in instead. Hopefully all the folks with kids getting an unnecessary day off will stay home to keep the traffic down. On topic: Maybe we get a little dusting from this last band to end an interesting day. At least it’s happening at night, because March insolation did a number on the lighter rates during the day today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Thats just great! I have moderate freezing drizzle! Its 31 degrees. Everything is icing up. If you have untreated snow covered roads, they will rapidly become very slippery. I damn near fell on my ass on my slickened driveway! And after all my hard work clearing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 minute ago, mattie g said: On topic: Maybe we get a little dusting from this last band to end an interesting day. At least it’s happening at night, because March insolation did a number on the lighter rates during the day today. Curious, what was your final measurement in Burke? Lost a lot of snow here in the last two hours of daylight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 8 minutes ago, losetoa6 said: Yep..coming down nice the past 30 minutes On a side note .....12k tries to clip DC Sat night That system targeted us a couple days ago. Then models started shifted it south as the current storm was coming into a clearer outcome. The flow behind this system and cold pressing on friday isn't allowing it to swing through our region. We could see it nudge North a bit but there probably is a limit to how much. Would love to be wrong though. I'm greedy now after today lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 27 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Curious, what was your final measurement in Burke? Lost a lot of snow here in the last two hours of daylight. Tough to say with compaction, but I think 4.75” is a good number (I always round to the nearest 0.25”). It was kind of painful because we started off really strong with 3” as of about 10:30 am, but we had small flakes and lighter snow from then on and we just couldn’t accumulate well. We had one pass from a plow on my car-de-sac in the early afternoon, and within an hour we had just a wet street that never got covered again. There are spots on the driveway that get a little less snow on them due to an overhanging holly - they went bare as the day unfolded due to only having an inch or so on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Heaviest snow of the "day" here in Clarksburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 new inch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Little "three" is here and weakening but going to be around for a while 31.4 with light snow and been fun watching drizzle get some flakes and then over to steady light snow now. Board recoated in cleared spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichmondTarHeel Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 I swear the Potomac river is an anti-snow force field. Or maybe it’s LWX’s radar that eats up all the snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kleimax Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 got another half inch from this. total 6.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Band was strong and green, but unfortunately, it breathed its last anguished gasp and died on my front doorstep. It tried though. I am happy that ppl in MD got another inch from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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