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January 12-13th Cold Smoke Obs and Nowcast


Bob Chill
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Up to 6.25"; a couple of the larger random measures were 6.4" or so. Dubious about how much more I'm going to get, since every promising band (at least according to the COD radar) seems to die off once it hits here. There was a promising snake of a band oriented along the Potomac that was headed my way a couple of ticks ago, but it seems to be expiring as well. 

This reminds me of Dec 5 2002 actually. Similar accumulation, I think that was primarily a nighttime event. Just in how it's playing out through my eyes, not any kind of meteorological analysis (which I'm not intellectually equipped to do anyway).  

Hopefully this is the opening act for Epicness: Snowmaggeadon Returns. 

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Very, very cool phenomenon happening that should be of interest to snow enthusiasts. At 1 PM, it was pretty bright with temperatures a little below freezing 31.6 and moderate to heavy snow in the band, it struggled to accumulate on the road. Now at 2:30, with moderate snow and temperatures actually rising to 32, snow is accumulating on the road because of the loss in solar radiation in the past hour.

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   Lurked for 4 or 5 years.Wanted to join the party too!! Location in Bryans Road,Md. in Charles County.This is 1 mile south of PG County and 3 miles east of the Potomac River.Had 5.5 inches around noon and then 2 hours of mostly freezing rain and some sleet mixed in before changing back to snow for the last 30 minutes.30 hours of frozen anything falling from the sky is like manna from Heaven in my book.

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25 minutes ago, GATECH said:

Wow!!! Getting destroyed in this death band!  Huge flakes, plowed wet roads caved in 30 seconds!

Yep. You and I are only a couple miles apart, and I'm impressed with how the rates have picked up in past 15 minutes. Still 32/28 IMBY (has been for hours), however, with current snow, all pavements have whitened back up again. To @Deck Pic's point, I hope the radar keeps filling in and we can maintain this for another several hours. Might still verify that 1"-3" that NWS progged for SE FfxCo.

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