gymengineer Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 This is a simple thread. Please just post pictures of March snows in our subforum that had no trouble sticking to the road during daylight hours. My three contributions below are all cellphone pics, so they're pretty crappy in quality. But the point is that I had zero difficulty finding pics in my phone of March daytime snows sticking to roads. March 3, 2014 March 5, 2015 March 21, 2018 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 F*ck March, let's do April! 4/9/16 at 11:30AM 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LP08 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 March 5 2018 and March 21 2015.... excuse the finger in the second pic lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoman Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 45 minutes ago, gymengineer said: March 21, 2018 1.00" QPF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 44 minutes ago, PrinceFrederickWx said: F*ck March, let's do April! 4/9/16 at 11:30AM Meh, i can see melting on the pavement. Lame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 March 21, 2018, around 1:30 pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Here ya go. March 21, 2018 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 8 hours ago, nj2va said: Meh, i can see melting on the pavement. Lame. “It’s the best bloody deal YOU’RE going to get, you little prick! Right, that’s it, piss off.” (I’m just kidding- bonus points if anyone knows what that line’s from lol) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 43 minutes ago, PrinceFrederickWx said: “It’s the best bloody deal YOU’RE going to get, you little prick! Right, that’s it, piss off.” (I’m just kidding- bonus points if anyone knows what that line’s from lol) Gregg the Grim Reaper in 'Conker's bad fur day'? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 12 minutes ago, showmethesnow said: Gregg the Grim Reaper in 'Conker's bad fur day'? Very good! Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Just now, PrinceFrederickWx said: Very good! Haha I learned from the best <cough,cough> princefrederick and his fixed snowfall contest, so I cheated. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, showmethesnow said: I learned from the best <cough,cough> princefrederick and his fixed snowfall contest, so I cheated. That reminds me- I should ask WxWatcher if he hates cats. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmagnet Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 March 17, 2014 Fairfax, VA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmagnet Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 March 5, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 3 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said: Here ya go. March 21, 2018 Omg you really do live in a snow anus. You gotta get out of there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 03/21/18 03/13/17 03/03/14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 31 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: Omg you really do live in a snow anus. You gotta get out of there! At that same 20 miles north there was 12+" on the ground, and still snowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 4 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said: Here ya go. March 21, 2018 Jeez man. And not one single cactus either. A very downtrodden desert. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GramaxRefugee Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 The fact that the heading of this thread was such irresistible click- bait for me says a lot about our recent winters. Fozz was smart to add the 1:30pm note. My pic of Mar 21 last year has snow because BGE closed the road for a wire down. Woulda been about 5:30pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Here's a collage of photos I took of various March snow events since I've lived here. The first one (Mar. 2009) was when I lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in DC, all the others taken after I moved to the Silver Spring/Chevy Chase/Bethesda, MD area. So it's not like I lived way north and west in some highly favored region outside the metro area or anything like that. Also note the Mar. 1, 2015 event was ice and sleet, which occurred in broad daylight no less! So much for the "we can't get ice in March" idea. Note that two of these snows were as late as March 25, 2013 and 2014, when I recorded 4" and 3", respectively (also is my birthday, which made both events extra special for me!). And the "St. Patrick's Day Snow" in 2014, I measured 8", quite impressive for that late in the season here. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Lol, people posting pictures at night. Yes, snow can and will stick to roads in March, but to act like there’s no difference due to sun angle is just plain silly. Anything remotely dark is sitting there absorbing radiation during the daylight hours at amuch higher rate than in Dec/Jan. Because of that you have to have good rates and/or cold temps to get/keep roads snow covered. You get light snow and 30 degrees in Jan and you will get/keep snow cover on hard surfaces, easy, even during daylight hours. March, not likely. So anybody saying that sun angle doesn’t matter isn’t being truthful. We all know it matters. It’s not prohibitive, but it matters. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 3 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said: Lol, people posting pictures at night. Yes, snow can and will stick to roads in March, but to act like there’s no difference due to sun angle is just plain silly. Anything remotely dark is sitting there absorbing radiation during the daylight hours at amuch higher rate than in Dec/Jan. Because of that you have to have good rates and/or cold temps to get/keep roads snow covered. You get light snow and 30 degrees in Jan and you will get/keep snow cover on hard surfaces, easy, even during daylight hours. March, not likely. So anybody saying that sun angle doesn’t matter isn’t being truthful. We all know it matters. It’s not prohibitive, but it matters. Did anyone say any of that in this thread? Of course sun angle matters. Of course it takes more positive factors for snow to stick on roads in March. The point is that it’s not unusual or particularly difficult for snow to stick to roads during the daytime in March. It doesn’t even have to snow all that hard if it’s cold like on 3/2/14. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 3 hours ago, gymengineer said: Did anyone say any of that in this thread? Of course sun angle matters. Of course it takes more positive factors for snow to stick on roads in March. The point is that it’s not unusual or particularly difficult for snow to stick to roads during the daytime in March. It doesn’t even have to snow all that hard if it’s cold like on 3/2/14. I know, right?! Nobody is claiming the sun angle and increasing mean temperatures are non-factors as you get into March (even later in Feb.). Or that you don't need good rates more so in March than in January. But too many comments every year seem to poo-poo the ability to get really good events in March, as if it's exceedingly rare around here or requires overly extreme conditions. I think part of that is because at least some people think snow in March sucks because typically it's gone in a relatively short time period. Fair enough, if that's what one's preference is. Personally, I don't care so much about that, though admittedly it is nice if we can keep snow around for awhile. Heck, just last week it was in the 50s the very day after we all got several inches of snow (and some ice)...by the end of the day, you would have hardly believed we had a snowstorm a mere 24 hours before. Most of the time, we don't hang on to snow cover all that long around here any time during the winter, really, unless we have unusually prolonged cold or we get some HECS event that lays down a ton of snow cover that takes awhile to melt away. Also, precisely ONE of the NINE photos I posted was taken at night, and only because that event (Mar. 2017 snow/sleet) mostly occurred at night...though we kept a solid 3" block of sleet through the entirety of the next day and it was cold. And NorthArlington posted just one nighttime photo. All others I saw in this thread were taken at some point during the day, many of them mid-day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 11 hours ago, MillvilleWx said: Jeez man. And not one single cactus either. A very downtrodden desert. Yuck cactus. I got them in my yard down here in Buda. One night when it was coolish, was on a happy jebwalk, jebwalked right into one. OUCH!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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