clskinsfan Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Woke up to see if I was going to work today. Looked out the window and no that's not happening. When I went ro bed last night at 12:30 I had well over 4 inches. Haven't measured yet but it looks close to double that now. But of course I do have weenie eyes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 So I take the hallucinations last night about the “snow hole” (which was modeled all week btw) were the wrong take? Looks like I missed some fun in the overnight….measured 2.6” of pure Colorado fluff. What a week of winter here! Over a foot of snow. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayyy Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Just now, WxUSAF said: Clearly. Watched the radar loop. That band meant business and I’m guessing we did get some really nice ratios as expected/hoped. Approached 25:1 at the height of things. Was the fluffiest snow I’ve seen since leaving buffalo. Unreal, honestly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayyy Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 minute ago, nj2va said: So I take the hallucinations last night about the “snow hole” (which was modeled all week btw) were the wrong take? Looks like I missed some fun in the overnight….measured 2.6” of pure Colorado fluff. What a week of winter here! Over a foot of snow. Crazy part is that 2.6” likely fell in 2 hours max. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayyy Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, clskinsfan said: Woke up to see if I was going to work today. Looked out the window and no that's not happening. When I went ro bed last night at 12:30 I had well over 4 inches. Haven't measured yet but it looks close to double that now. But of course I do have weenie eyes. Widespread reports of 6-7” from my area to yours. Wouldn’t be surprised at all if you had 7-8” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 minute ago, jayyy said: Crazy part is that 2.6” likely fell in 2 hours max. The radar loop looked impressive with that band….wish I could have stayed up for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayyy Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Howard county schools closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ramjet Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I received just shy of 5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Not much snow down here, maybe 1.5" if I'm being generous. Enough to coat what's left of the existing snow until it all melts this weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 6 minutes ago, nj2va said: So I take the hallucinations last night about the “snow hole” (which was modeled all week btw) were the wrong take? Looks like I missed some fun in the overnight….measured 2.6” of pure Colorado fluff. What a week of winter here! Over a foot of snow. There’s too much reliance on the HRRR close in for events. It bounces around with adjustments every run and to be frank, it kinda sucked near the metro areas last night. Many of us that got 3-4” were getting 1-2 based on the HRRR. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve25 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Measured in Parkville in several clean spots and got spots of 4, spots of 5, and spots between the two. So I'm going to unofficially say 4.5 and wait for some official reports to start rolling in. More than pleasantly surprised! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingstonian Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Measured 2.25" at 6:45am here in SSW Franconia/Kingstowne. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1.4" here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, snowfan said: There’s too much reliance on the HRRR close in for events. It bounces around with adjustments every run and to be frank, it kinda sucked near the metro areas last night. Many of us that got 3-4” were getting 1-2 based on the HRRR. NAMS nailed it for dc it appears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Took this just a moment ago…. Waiting for my final total so that I can add 0.1” to whatever @clskinsfan reports. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Just now, snowfan said: There’s too much reliance on the HRRR close in for events. It bounces around with adjustments every run and to be frank, it kinda sucked near the metro areas last night. Many of us that got 3-4” were getting 1-2 based on the HRRR. When it differed so much from every other 00z mesoscale guidance last night, I put extremely little confidence in what it showing for close in metro areas (it did seem to do well out west near Winchester advertising the 6”+ totals though). But in addition to the HRRR over reliance (which can swing from hour to hour to your point), there’s also the ‘panics’ that spread over radar hallucinations or whatever. Last night’s “snow hole” had been modeled all week (even by the GFS), yet the “lack of snow” by 10p was already causing people to poo poo and down play the event with things like…this feels like a grass topper but nothing more….because the radar and heavy banding to the NW. It’s nothing new and happens in every event, but you’d think we’d learn by now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayyy Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 7 minutes ago, snowfan said: There’s too much reliance on the HRRR close in for events. It bounces around with adjustments every run and to be frank, it kinda sucked near the metro areas last night. Many of us that got 3-4” were getting 1-2 based on the HRRR. Yep. HRRR outside of 1-2 hours is pretty useless IMHO. You can gather much more info from looking at surface obs, SPC Meso analysis, WV loop, radar, etc when it comes to determining whether or not your BY will boom or bust. Nowcasting is always the best tool in marginal / timing setups 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said: Took this just a moment ago…. Waiting for my final total so that I can add 0.1” to whatever @clskinsfan reports. Going to be a while. I am in no hurry to get out of this warm bed. And I don't really care how much I ended up with. Everything is covered and that's all I wanted. :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ka60 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Clarksburg, MD as of 5:45AM Jan 7 new snow measured 5" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 7 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said: Took this just a moment ago…. Waiting for my final total so that I can add 0.1” to whatever @clskinsfan reports. Measuring the snow angle. That’s a new one lol. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hstorm Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Woke up and measured 4” in Great Falls. 25.9 degrees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interstate Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I stand corrected. Made it to warning criteria thinking I would get less than an inch. Storm total 5 inches with a temp of 25.0 degrees. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I was able to watch the snow for about 2.5 hours last night. Think it really started snowing around 8:30 at my place. Went to bed with what eyeballed around 3”. Must’ve come down pretty good after 11. Obs at KOKV were snow and heavy snow until about 1 am. I just couldn’t stay up. Had been up since about 5 am the previous morning and had had a minor surgery done and I was wiped. Sounds like most people got a decent event which is good. One of the models and I can’t remember which did an amazing job with that dry air. Almost to the mile out here either the western part of the county getting measurable snow almost two hours earlier than the eastern part. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, nj2va said: When it differed so much from every other 00z mesoscale guidance last night, I put extremely little confidence in what it showing for close in metro areas (it did seem to do well out west near Winchester advertising the 6”+ totals though). But in addition to the HRRR over reliance (which can swing from hour to hour to your point), there’s also the ‘panics’ that spread over radar hallucinations or whatever. Last night’s “snow hole” had been modeled all week (even by the GFS), yet the “lack of snow” by 10p was already causing people to poo poo and down play the event with things like…this feels like a grass topper but nothing more….because the radar and heavy banding to the NW. It’s nothing new and happens in every event, but you’d think we’d learn by now. 1) just don’t use the hrrr past like 1-2 hours 2) people need to see what the radar is supposed to look like. Every time we do this it’s like people see returns out in WV and western VA and expect it to be snowing in 15 mins…even if it’s not supposed to be for 8 more hours!!! They forget how attenuation works. Then they freak out over every gap or shift in the precip shield even if it’s doing exactly what it was supposed too! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said: Measuring the snow angle. That’s a new one lol. It was 86° Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Good amount of blowing snow right now. Legit deep winter feel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interstate Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 7 minutes ago, Interstate said: I stand corrected. Made it to warning criteria thinking I would get less than an inch. Storm total 5 inches with a temp of 25.0 degrees. I was only 3 inches away from getting the grass covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 3.5" Just SW of Purcellville. Beautiful outside! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukeblue219 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I don't know how much it's compacted, but woke up to 2.25" of fresh snow on the deck this morning. Not bad. Sidewalks and streets are mixed but not covered - looks like a lot of snow was wasted on the front end there. (near downtown Silver Spring) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, dukeblue219 said: I don't know how much it's compacted, but woke up to 2.25" of fresh snow on the deck this morning. Not bad. Sidewalks and streets are mixed but not covered - looks like a lot of snow was wasted on the front end there. (near downtown Silver Spring) My street was clean when I woke up but has been blown over with snow now from the trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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