mappy Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Just now, HighStakes said: A true whiteout I want it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, mappy said: how about a warning? Beggars can't be choosers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinInTheSky Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Wow. I can confirm this snow squall is legit! Near whiteout in Germantown! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Stuck in the middle although a couple of streamers back towards Romney might try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris78 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Driving on rte 15 around the Gettysburg area around 7 am was some of the most intense rates ive seen since January 2016. White out conditions. Huge silver dollar flakes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 I got a rock. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 6 minutes ago, losetoa6 said: I turned around and went home lol. I've only seen a squall like that around here 1 other time in 25+ years . About 1.5" from 2 squalls Yes. Definitely one of the best. Maybe 2 inches here. Touch to tell because the winds really kicked up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 another inch at least, windy and cant see beyond the neighbor in the back 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Getting some relatively large aggregates with this squall here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Getting flakes even though radar says no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Nice obs! Send a few pics if you can. What a shutout pattern... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Squall is perfectly splitting between work and home. Grumble grumble grumble 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarReenactor Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Snowsquall misses APG to the north. Unreal. Must be content with watching my house in Delaware get it via my security cam. Looks like its coming down up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Really hard to get an accurate reading on what I got with the squall around 7 due to the winds but am going with 1.25" which is more then likely low. Looking at radar and it looks as if I will have another one roll in shortly. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 4 hours ago, showmethesnow said: We are always searching for that perfect pattern but I bet more then half, if not 2/3rds of our snow come in flawed, if not severely flawed patterns. Maybe I should ask @psuhoffman, he always seems to have the numbers. My snow study was 5”+ events, which is what most of us are really chasing when we break down patterns long range because minor events can sneak into almost any pattern. This one wouldn’t have shown up because I used BWI. But I did identify every 5”+ storm in my area and I can tell already just from knowing the patterns we were in certain years that we can luck into a 5-6” storm here in almost any pattern the way DC/Balt can luck into a 1-2” event. But for us it’s a 8”+ event that would yield similar results to the 5”+ ones for Baltimore. I saw a lot of 5-7 type events in overall meh patterns but once you get to 8+ most of them featured a good look. But a big portion of our snow doesn’t even come from 5”+ events. I will have to run the numbers but I would guess at least half our snowfall comes from snows less than 5” and they can pop up in most looks with a lot of luck. 8 hours ago, Interstate said: I mean I don’t know what you are looking for. I do not know of anyone who thought that downtown Washington or Baltimore was going to receive any accumlations. Stop being a dick. 1 hour ago, H2O said: For many people(myself included) that were in the DC S&E areas of I-95 this one wasn't as fun as other near miss snows. Again, the concern some had yesterday morning about lack of clouds and sun was warranted. I'm not sure there were as many model runs that had DC and other places absolutely torch prior to the onset of precip. If it was a few hours faster like the people in SW VA benefited from then I bet all of us would be rejoicing. I started the morning at 28F prior to sunrise. By the time precip started it was 46 IMBY. That was just too much 925s to overcome. It didn't flip for me until after 2pm which for many it had been ripping for hours and mainly had the luxury of temps helping. I understand location and climo. Probably more than most of you. So when models had my area for 1" or so I always know the challenges. What grinds most of the gears for the people who see less snow isn't that we don't know what the odds are. We just don't need that one extra thing to make it that much harder to get snow. Yesterday was soaring temps. That clearly delayed the flip. Once I did I still had temp issues of only getting to 33F. So it was mostly white rain. Despite that, if I wasn't battling 40s at the start I would have seen a few more hours of snow even if it melted. Thats what most of us wanted. Just to have snow falling. So I got .5" yesterday. Not just because of location and elevation. Those are constants. Yesterday's lower total was due to clouds not getting in soon enough, temps soaring, and the column not being able to overcome it. The UHI effect does seem to be getting worse. I don’t know if it’s the extra push from climate change or the expanding urban corridor but lately every 50/50 type setup breaks bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Its one of those years it just wants to snow here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 suns out. 1" new from that squall. more dropping south out of PA 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, showmethesnow said: Really hard to get an accurate reading on what I got with the squall around 7 due to the winds but am going with 1.25" which is more then likely low. Looking at radar and it looks as if I will have another one roll in shortly. That could be too low. I'm going with 2 here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Got absolutely rocked from that squall. Driveway has a nice snowpack again after I cleared it last night 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Just now, HighStakes said: That could be too low. I'm going with 2 here. Hard to get an accurate reading but it’s at least that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 minute ago, psuhoffman said: Hard to get an accurate reading but it’s at least that. Right. Could easily have been 2.5 or even a bit higher. I think we were ground zero for the squall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, mappy said: suns out. 1" new from that squall. more dropping south out of PA Over how many minutes did you receive that inch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarReenactor Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 My house went from this, to this, in literally 7 minutes. Got in on a little yellow returns, and I wasn't there to see it. :-( 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Video during the squall https://imgur.com/gallery/my11iPi 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, George BM said: Over how many minutes did you receive that inch? probably an hour or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 minute ago, psuhoffman said: Video during the squall https://imgur.com/gallery/my11iPi Awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Snowing here in greenbelt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDweatherman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 7 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: Video during the squall https://imgur.com/gallery/my11iPi That’s sick, route 97 near Bachmans Mill this morning was a complete white out, plus there was all that snow blowing off the trees making matters worse. Sidenote, 97 stinks this morning both north and south of Westminster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, DDweatherman said: That’s sick, route 97 near Bachmans Mill this morning was a complete white out, plus there was all that snow blowing off the trees making matters worse. Sidenote, 97 stinks this morning both north and south of Westminster 97 and 75 and Middleburg Rd in Carroll County have been clusters since last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDweatherman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said: 97 and 75 and Middleburg Rd in Carroll County have been clusters since last night. Crazy to think that 31 looked just fine compared to those, does it look fine closer out into New Windsor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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