Baltimorewx Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 minute ago, osfan24 said: Wow that's wild you have that much snow on the ground. I think I'm around 2 inches. It is but damn whole different world up there lol...I only have stuff on the ground in shady spots...well before the last 20 mins lol..coated things back up but that will melt by the afternoon and nothing will be on the ground except shady spots again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, Amped said: Our last overperformer. Also holds record for most forgotten bust by a model. HRRR kept insisting on just a couple of flurries while we got another widespread 4-6". I remember the NAM showing a medium sized event for most of the area up until 6z the day of, where it showed something like 6-10" with a jackpot near DC. I glanced at it before heading to bed pretty skeptical, but it doubled down on 12z with a jackpot of like 12-18". Wasn't as insane as that, but still a super memorable storm. The unicorn pattern long range models had been pushing might've not set up shortly after that event, but that still was a pretty decent winter for most. Surprised to see that McLean got 5.5" during that February. Even more surprising given that so far this month I've tallied 6.2", which takes the crown of most snow in February since at least Feb 2015 here. Also 4th snowiest month since I started keeping track starting in March of 2015 which is.. kind of just sad lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osfan24 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Baltimorewx said: It is but damn whole different world up there lol...I only have stuff on the ground in shady spots...well before the last 20 mins lol..coated things back up but that will melt by the afternoon and nothing will be on the ground except shady spots again Yeah it's pretty crazy that the temp there can be significantly colder than Westminster, which is a pretty cold, snowy location compared to most areas around here. Of course, it also helps that he tacked on almost 6 more inches today. I'm expecting my snowpack will be gone by the end of tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. All the ice and sleet might help it last until the end of Wednesday, but 50's and 60's this time of year with sun will melt it all real quick. Maybe keep my snowpiles through Friday? Probably should shovel what little slush is in my driveway onto those piles to keep them around as long as possible! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baltimorewx Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Think this has to have been one of the most difficult winters to predict preciptation types and the timing and amounts of each in quite sometime...Ive been following/studying/forecasting weather since about 2008 when I went to college for it. i cant remember a winter when the atmosphere has been so chatoic with the warm noses. We're a rate dependent area for sure...but the rates have really mattered this year in all the marginal events. Such a large gradient from PSU land to my land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFZ Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Just made the trip back from Baltimore to frederick. 70 was a damn mess. Fascinating to see the different gradients of precip. Bmore was all sleet, around 29 it switched to snow and then on the warm backend in Frederick it was back to rain. Probably 6-8 people spun out in the median. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 8 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: It fell between like 4-6am and melted on non snow surfaces by 8am. It was a quick thump band from the “cutter” kind of similar to today but MUCH weaker and not as cold. It got really warm that afternoon. Right. Now it's coming back. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Rain for the past couple hours in Annapolis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. August Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Precip shut off now. Last band that came through put down .6”. 1.7” measured just now, but it rained and sleeted earlier before I could get a good measurement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 hour ago, T. August said: Measured 1.0 in Havre de Grace after the rain and sleet started so probs a bit more. @Kay what did you get? We are usually within a few tenths lol. 1.5 just now, possibly more due to compaction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 25 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: Probably. Not sure what your snow pack is. I was in PA yesterday and around York had way less then me. I have about 12-15” depth now and it’s THICK with about 5” of that being solid ice and likely 3” a qpf content. I also tend to hold “cooler” temps here. If it’s 50 in Westminster I’ll be 45. Maybe. Pretty incredible year up there for you. You usually do better than us out here. But not usually by this large of a margin. I am not complaining being over climo. Just making an observation. I have around 6 or 7 inches of snowpack. I expect it will be gone, except for the piles at the end of my driveway, by Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, Baltimorewx said: Think this has to have been one of the most difficult winters to predict preciptation types and the timing and amounts of each in quite sometime...Ive been following/studying/forecasting weather since about 2008 when I went to college for it. i cant remember a winter when the atmosphere has been so chatoic with the warm noses. We're a rate dependent area for sure...but the rates have really mattered this year in all the marginal events. Such a large gradient from PSU land to my land Guidance being wayy too excited with precip hasn't helped either for sure. In some cases it hasn't been close. Most if not all guidance had 0.8-1" QPF with last Thursday's system from the DC metro up through your way, with a fair bit of it falling when the column should've been supportive of at least partly if not mostly snow (4-9am). Instead all that precip with the initial impulse of snow went north of us, and I'm not sure either of our areas got even half as much QPF as most guidance showed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Just now, clskinsfan said: Pretty incredible year up there for you. You usually do better than us out here. But not usually by this large of a margin. I am not complaining being over climo. Just making an observation. I have around 6 or 7 inches of snowpack. I expect it will be gone, except for the piles at the end of my driveway, by Friday. You missed the Feb. 7th event? We got around 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardmeiser Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 All Snow Newark, DE 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Just now, HighStakes said: You missed the Feb. 7th event? We got around 6. I got 4 on the 7th. I think it was the 10th/11th event that made the biggest difference. I got an inch of slop while you guys got hit pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino16 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Some sleet running through Richmond, just enough to make some noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, clskinsfan said: I got 4 on the 7th. I think it was the 10th/11th event that made the biggest difference. I got an inch of slop while you guys got hit pretty well. 3.5 here on 2/10-11 and 7.5 on the 18th/19th. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Just made the drive back to Leesburg...poor Leesburg 70 was a mess...15 not so bad. Sykesville looks like about 2" or so Leesburg 0.3. That was definitely some really heavy snow...glad I stayed extra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 I've got as much ice on the trees now as I did for the event a couple weeks ago. Pretty surprised at the amount of ice on trees. Temp holding around 31. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 This was about 9am 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 16 minutes ago, clskinsfan said: Pretty incredible year up there for you. You usually do better than us out here. But not usually by this large of a margin. I am not complaining being over climo. Just making an observation. I have around 6 or 7 inches of snowpack. I expect it will be gone, except for the piles at the end of my driveway, by Friday. Yea this is by far the year I’ve done the best with regard to everyone around me...even north of me. Like you said yea I’m typically the max for our area except for far western zones but this year the difference was even more extreme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 FYI, avoid Rt. 27 in Mt. Air near I-70. Overturned tractor trailer with hazmat. Possible 6 to 8 hour road closure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Snowed hard for 75 minutes and got 0.6” then sleet and now freezing rain or rain and 32.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolsheds Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 21 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said: FYI, avoid Rt. 27 in Mt. Air near I-70. Overturned tractor trailer with hazmat. Possible 6 to 8 hour road closure. Isn't 70 closed as well westbound to New Market? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 @HighStakes my 5.5” was definitely low. Now that I’m out clearing and looking around the 5.5 area i typically measure in was a low spot. Wind was unusual with this one so snow drifted it weird ways compared to what I’m used to. The 5.5 areas are compacted down to 4.5 now but I found a general 6-8” of new depth on top of the ice on the other side of my property (downwind) of the ridge which was the opposite side of normal. Even one foot drifts very common on the front side of my house. If I simply take an average of measurements around my property between the board on my driveway, the deck, and the front walk I get 6.5” and that’s without counting the 1 foot drifts. Plus it was likely more since there has been a lot of compaction since 2 hours ago! 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Cobalt said: Yeah, this. Our only shot at a clean event was wave 2 of the Feb 10-12 timeframe, and that one completely clipped us. Final maps for the year will be pretty telling. Payback for Jan 11-13 2019 maybe? And that one fringed BWI...lol So we are in a particularly bad drought of warning-criteria snow. 5 years...but we have had scenery snow at least, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Maestrobjwa said: And that one fringed BWI...lol So we are in a particularly bad drought of warning-criteria snow. 5 years...but we have had scenery snow at least, lol Really? I see 6.4" from that event in BWI. But yeah, it didn't all fall in a 12hr period like the warning criteria says, so I guess it isn't a true warning event for there. 4.6" for March 21 2018 which is barely off the mark there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Cobalt said: Really? I see 6.4" from that event in BWI. But yeah, it didn't all fall in a 12hr period like the warning criteria says, so I guess it isn't a true warning event for there. 4.6" for March 21 2018 which is barely off the mark there. Really? They must've revised that, because I could've sworn the official measurement from that storm was a trolling 4.8", Iol That's kinda how it's gone...everything but 5"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowtoRain Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Torrential tropical downpours and 33 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 22 minutes ago, toolsheds said: Isn't 70 closed as well westbound to New Market? From what I'm seeing it is not, but my display can lag up to 30 min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncletim Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 20 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: @HighStakes my 5.5” was definitely low. Now that I’m out clearing and looking around the 5.5 area i typically measure in was a low spot. Wind was unusual with this one so snow drifted it weird ways compared to what I’m used to. The 5.5 areas are compacted down to 4.5 now but I found a general 6-8” of new depth on top of the ice on the other side of my property (downwind) of the ridge which was the opposite side of normal. Even one foot drifts very common on the front side of my house. If I simply take an average of measurements around my property between the board on my driveway, the deck, and the front walk I get 6.5” and that’s without counting the 1 foot drifts. Plus it was likely more since there has been a lot of compaction since 2 hours ago! We need to buy up some property on "Psuhoff Ridge" and start an AmWx snow colony. That Is the Place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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