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1 minute ago, yoda said:

12z WRF-ARW2 has some definite banding as the snow arrives

Tomer Burg on Twitter has been hammering this home for the past couple of days. Global models might be a too dry/under estimating some banding that short term CAMS could pick up on. (Yes, he has a New England focus, but the same applies for I-95 crew)

 

 

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15 minutes ago, LeesburgWx said:

15 Pee-wee models discussed in the last 2 pages…God help us

Wow, one real storm and people wanna skip the JV models.  Are you kidding me? This hobby in the mid Atlantic DEMANDS us to agonize over half inch shifts on pee wee models.  BTW icon is a perfect little commute wrecker/school closing kinda storm.  6 hours of snow right around rush hour with good temps leading in. 

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17 minutes ago, wdcrob said:

When was the last time DC and South had snow falling on snow?

Not sure about DC, but I recorded 1.6" on 1/17/19, 4 days after DCA recorded a double digit snowfall. I could probably find the total, but that seems like the last time. A lot of our recent futility stems back to the period after the 18-19 winter.

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5 minutes ago, Cobalt said:

Not sure about DC, but I recorded 1.6" on 1/17/19, 4 days after DCA recorded a double digit snowfall. I could probably find the total, but that seems like the last time. A lot of our recent futility stems back to the period after the 18-19 winter.

I recorded 1.5" of "snow on snow" with this, as well. Had 10" from the January 12-13 storm.

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Updated LWX AFD:

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.SHORT TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/...
CHILLIER AIR WILL FILTER IN BEHIND A COLD FRONT THURSDAY AS WEAK 
SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVERHEAD. HOWEVER, THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL 
BE FAST ON ITS HEELS. A POTENT JETMAX AND SHORTWAVE IN THE NORTHERN 
STREAM OF THE JET WILL WILL DIG SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE CENTRAL CONUS 
AND MIDWEST THURSDAY. THIS WILL CARVE OUT AN UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH OVER 
THE MIDWEST BY THE END OF THE DAY. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP 
WELL TO OUR SOUTH OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN CONUS BY THE END OF THE DAY 
AS WELL. THE SHORTWAVE AND JETMAX WILL PASS THROUGH OUR AREA 
THURSDAY NIGHT WHILE THE SURFACE LOW STRENGTHENS AND TRACKS 
NORTHEAST THROUGH NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY EVENING AND OFF THE NORTH 
CAROLINA COAST THURSDAY NIGHT. THIS SIGNAL APPEARS TO BE LIKE A 
MILLER B TYPE LOW. 

THE TRACK OF THE SHORTWAVE WILL BE FAR ENOUGH TO THE SOUTH TO PUT 
OUR AREA IN THE FAVORABLE REGION OF THE MID AND UPPER-LEVEL JET FOR 
PRECIPITATION TO DEVELOP. ALSO, THERE MAY BE ADDED LIFT FROM THE 
COASTAL LOW, OR AT LEAST SOME LOW-LEVEL FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING 
AROUND 850MB (WHICH CAN BE SEEN IN SOME OF THE GUIDANCE). THERE 
SHOULD BE ENOUGH COLD AND DRY AIR FOR THE MAIN PRECIPITATION TYPE TO 
BE SNOW, AND SNOW IS LIKELY TO ACCUMULATE FOR MOST OF THE CWA. 

A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE POTOMAC 
HIGHLANDS, CENTRAL SHENANDOAH VALLEY, AND THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS. 
AS OF NOW, IT APPEARS THAT THE BEST LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM 
WILL SET UP OVER THESE AREAS, AND THAT WILL ALSO COMBINE WITH HIGHER 
SLR'S (ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS) TO ENHANCE SNOWFALL 
TOTALS. THERE WAS CONSIDERATION FOR ISSUING A WATCH FARTHER 
NORTHEAST TOWARD CENTRAL VA/SOUTHERN MD AND THE WASHINGTON DC METRO 
AREAS. HOWEVER, LOWER SLR'S COMBINED WITH THE FACT THAT THIS IS A 
FAST MOVING SYSTEM KEPT CONFIDENCE BELOW 50 PERCENT FOR WARNING 
CRITERIA TO BE MET. THIS WILL BE RE-ASSESSED LATER TODAY. HOWEVER, 2 
TO 4 INCHES ARE MOST LIKELY ACROSS THESE AREAS, AND THAT WILL IMPACT 
TRAVEL, ESPECIALLY OVERNIGHT THURSDAY. FARTHER NORTH ACROSS NORTHERN 
MD, EASTERN WV, AND NORTHERN VA, ACCUMULATING SNOW IS LIKELY ACROSS 
THESE AREAS. HOWEVER, WITH THE BETTER SYNOPTIC LIFT MOST LIKELY 
SETTING UP TO THE SOUTH, THAT KEPT CONFIDENCE TOO LOW FOR A WATCH IN 
THOSE AREAS AT THIS TIME. 

THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY FRIDAY MORNING, WITH JUST 
SOME UPSLOPE SNOW SHOWERS POSSIBLE ALONG/WEST OF THE ALLEGHENY 
FRONT. HOWEVER, WITH TEMPERATURES BELOW FREEZING THERE WILL 
BE ISSUES WITH SNOW COVERED SURFACES THAT ARE UNTREATED. CANADIAN 
HIGH PRESSURE WILL APPROACH, AND THE GRADIENT BETWEEN THE HIGH AND 
THE DEPARTING LOW WILL CAUSE BLUSTERY AND COLD CONDITIONS. 

THE HIGH WILL BUILD OVERHEAD FRIDAY NIGHT. WINDS WILL DIMINISH, 
BUT IT WILL BE COLD.

 

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