Wonderdog Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Eyeballing, looks like close to three inches in Gainesville with a few flurries and 30° on car thermometer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Gust to 43kts in Martinsburg. Have had some decent gusts here the past 30 or 40 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 7 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: Most sheltered places around 7” if you subtract some for “grass”. But I can’t find a good paved surface to use. And I scalp my lawn for winter so it doesn’t add too much. One oddity…walked down my hill to my mailbox which is a 1/4 mile away and about 200 feet lower down the ridge. I’ve never seen as significant a difference. Can’t imagine 200 feet made that much difference. Maybe it was wind exposure. Dunno. But you can see for yourself. pics from around my property at the top of the ridge my driveway side/back yard Front 1/4 mile down the road at the bottom of the ridge Wow that is incredible! That wasn't all wind. Your micro climate is fascinating -- how about summer? If Balt is say mid-90s, what about you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherCCB Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 29/27 2” moderate snow grains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheMan Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 I was given bad intel, closer to 3” here in Clifton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Just now, North Balti Zen said: speaking from 300 feet lower than you...it made a difference. You are further east as well, and I wasn't glued to the radar earlier, but it looked like the best forcing/heaviest area of snow passed west of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Only gonna be 1” here and just on grass and elevated surfaces. Roads are fine. Never snowed well for long. Windy tho. Not gonna complain. Stat padder snow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 24 minutes ago, clskinsfan said: That band filling in out west looks pretty solid. Might be able to steal another inch. And the quality of the snow should be better as well. Temps are nice and cold out here. We'll see. I'm thinking the same for here as well. I'm at 27.8. Wind is blowing snow around like powder. I think this next round will probably give us NW fokes a little more fun. Flakes seem to be increasing already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbook Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 2.4" near Oakton, Va. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osfan24 Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: Most sheltered places around 7” if you subtract some for “grass”. But I can’t find a good paved surface to use. And I scalp my lawn for winter so it doesn’t add too much. One oddity…walked down my hill to my mailbox which is a 1/4 mile away and about 200 feet lower down the ridge. I’ve never seen as significant a difference. Can’t imagine 200 feet made that much difference. Maybe it was wind exposure. Dunno. But you can see for yourself. pics from around my property at the top of the ridge my driveway side/back yard Front 1/4 mile down the road at the bottom of the ridge Wow that's wild. And 7 inches is a great event up there. It's not HRDPS stuff, but it certainly verified the other models, especially since you will likely tack on another inch or two with Round 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 breeze is definitely picking up here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 @psuhoffman Solid 5 down here. Must have been wind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Some flakes flying here again after a bit of a sunny interlude. Temp still 32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Got really bright here. March sun angle kicking in. Hurts my eyes to look outside it's so bright! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDSnowyWxTracker Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Mostly done here in Urbana, some light snow. From the radar, might get one more band swinging through soon, maybe another inch. Guessing about 4.5in out there now. Did cover all surfaces for a time, until the sun angle started weighing in. Slushy wet snow but we are now sitting at 29 degrees likely starting to glaze things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Back over to some decent rates with this western band. Picture perfect winter day out there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, CAPE said: Nice pics. That last one looks wind blown. I wouldn't think that elevation difference would make much difference in this situation. Your area got the best forcing and also good timing. I definitely think the wind is some of it. But you can see in the woods there isn’t that much there either. I didn’t see any drifts to indicate they got that much but it just blew around. But I’m sure the wind was part of it but it definitely struck me as a significant difference even factoring that in. There were a few storms last year where the valley literally right under me got significantly less. One in December where I got 3” and they barely had a slushy coating at the bottom. But this was even more drastic. And before last year I never noticed much difference between my house and the valley below. Not a drastic visible one anyways. But this is like the 5th time in 2 years there was a visible difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmagnet Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 I'm happy to see our northern and western friends getting some good numbers out of this. I expected/hoped for a bit more here in Western Fairfax, but it looks like 2" isn't too bad. I only had sleet for 30 minutes or less before it changed over. The pixie dust snow that we had for most of the storm really cut down on totals. I remember that happening during one March storm several years ago. Flake size matters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 1 minute ago, psuhoffman said: I definitely think the wind is some of it. But you can see in the woods there isn’t that much there either. I didn’t see any drifts to indicate they got that much but it just blew around. But I’m sure the wind was part of it but it definitely struck me as a significant difference even factoring that in. There were a few storms last year where the valley literally right under me got significantly less. One in December where I got 3” and they barely had a slushy coating at the bottom. But this was even more drastic. And before last year I never noticed much difference between my house and the valley below. Not a drastic visible one anyways. But this is like the 5th time in 2 years there was a visible difference. We have interesting "shadows" around our spruce pines. Basically little to no snow, just frozen grass. It's weird. That radar filling in looks nice. May get a flizzard warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Currently at 32, with occasional flurries but it appears the main show is done here. As @Kingstonian mentioned earlier (I'm just downhill from him), we got just shy of an inch. Winds were a bit gusty at times this morning, at least enough to give us horizontal snow. They seem to be picking up more now. Our best rates (somewhat visible in background of this video) came between 9-11 a.m. and this guy was perfectly content to hang in our dogwood tree most of the morning until the snow started to let up. He'd do a violent full-body shake of his feathers about every other minute to "clear the snow," but I could never quite capture him in the act. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ji Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 just took the dog out to the backyard...looks like 4 inches or so... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSG Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 1 minute ago, Ji said: just took the dog out to the backyard...looks like 4 inches or so... awful, send it back 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, HighStakes said: @psuhoffman Solid 5 down here. Must have been wind. Good…was worried about ya down there. Although that’s still a pretty crazy difference (about 7 here) considering we’re only like 700 yards apart. The valley I walked to was on the NW side and you’re on the SE of my ridge. Maybe that affected the wind exposure, you would be sheltered by my ridge where the other side was exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 16 minutes ago, Stormfly said: We got stragglers coming in, look like volcanic ash. When big gusts shake snow off the (pine) line it looks like a viscous fog ready to eat everything in its path and the deck rail almost disappears! Sun is filtering through clouds here lol 8 minutes ago, CAPE said: You are further east as well, and I wasn't glued to the radar earlier, but it looked like the best forcing/heaviest area of snow passed west of you. Yeah banding made a huge difference, places west of me had good bands early this morning, easily putting down a quick 2 or so while I was slow to get to 1. Rates were crap between them, and sun angle worked fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 1 minute ago, psuhoffman said: Good…was worried about ya down there. Although that’s still a pretty crazy difference (about 7 here) considering we’re only like 700 yards apart. The valley I walked to was on the NW side and you’re on the SE of my ridge. Maybe that affected the wind exposure, you would be sheltered by my ridge where the other side was exposed. Only was windy twice here throughout the storm when the heaviest rates occurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSSN+ Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 West band looks decent. Should move over me soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Just now, TSSN+ said: West band looks decent. Should move over me soon. Its nothing like earlier this morning. But it is snowing and accumulating. And it is perfect half dime size flakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 snow is starting to blow around now. pretty good winter send off. time to kick back and watch some college hoops. i'd post some pics, but they're always too large. might share some later once i figure out the best route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Man Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Light snow 31f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 17 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: I definitely think the wind is some of it. But you can see in the woods there isn’t that much there either. I didn’t see any drifts to indicate they got that much but it just blew around. But I’m sure the wind was part of it but it definitely struck me as a significant difference even factoring that in. There were a few storms last year where the valley literally right under me got significantly less. One in December where I got 3” and they barely had a slushy coating at the bottom. But this was even more drastic. And before last year I never noticed much difference between my house and the valley below. Not a drastic visible one anyways. But this is like the 5th time in 2 years there was a visible difference. You got the kids out and I got the grandkids out so figuring you are 40ish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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