December 22-23, 2022: Warm Rain to Arctic Chill

[kristia]

31 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Your location!

I used to live in Baltimore County. Moved here about 2 years ago. 

[nw baltimore wx]

1 minute ago, kristia said:

I used to live in Baltimore County. Moved here about 2 years ago. 

You moved in with the Grinch? 

[CatoctinRN]

Went light back to big fat flakes in Emmitsburg 

[Baltimorewx]

Looks like the GFS is finally coming to its senses and backing down a bit on the amount of precip/change to snow along/behind the front for the metros/low elevation areas.

[kristia]

2 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

You moved in with the Grinch? 

When he heard I was from Baltimore he left town 

[Interstate]

Nothing but plain ole rain from the start... It was up to 35.2 before the rain started here in 21057

[nw baltimore wx]

1 minute ago, Baltimorewx said:

Looks like the GFS is finally coming to its senses and backing down a bit on the amount of precip/change to snow along/behind the front for the metros/low elevation areas.

Does it really matter what falls?  I mean, regardless of whether it's rain or snow, if the roads are wet when temperatures crash, things will get cruddy quickly. 

Well, that's at least what I'm hoping that my school system is thinking.

[RIC_WX]

Forecast for Deep Creek shows temperature of 37* at 4AM tomorrow, descending to -6* by 12 or 1PM, and remaining largely steady until sometime Saturday morning.

[Maestrobjwa]

6 minutes ago, RIC_WX said:

Forecast for Deep Creek shows temperature of 37* at 4AM tomorrow, descending to -6* by 12 or 1PM, and remaining largely steady until sometime Saturday morning.

With the reports out in the midwest of how quickly the temperatures fell...I believe it!

[Baltimorewx]

15 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Does it really matter what falls?  I mean, regardless of whether it's rain or snow, if the roads are wet when temperatures crash, things will get cruddy quickly. 

Well, that's at least what I'm hoping that my school system is thinking.

Right but I still think that is more of an issue for the N&W folks with increasing elevation...Flash Freeze stuff is a bit rare around the metros/low elevations as we normally dry out before temps tank enough. I know this one is impressive with the arctic front though. Do I think there will be icy patches where still wet? Yeah, do I think its some massive freeze? No, but this will probably be a bigger deal, potentially much bigger for increasing elevation folks. But also even just the smallest coating of snow acting as an icy base I think would exponentially make the potential worse

[MDphotog]

Model vs Radar is showing a pretty significant difference out west here.  Will be interested to see if a more northerly movement starts up in the next couple of hours.  I would be happy with it to be done

[clskinsfan]

Just shoveled the driveway and sidewalks. Trying to prevent them from turning into concrete overnight. Ended up with a little over 2 inches here with the first batch. Hoping to steal another half inch from the possible flizzard. 

Currently Freezing drizzle 32.

[DE2PA]

Why…..

[Solution Man]

Just now, DE2PA said:

Why…..

Where are you from, u should put your location on your handle

[Wonderdog]

47 minutes ago, Baltimorewx said:

Looks like the GFS is finally coming to its senses and backing down a bit on the amount of precip/change to snow along/behind the front for the metros/low elevation areas.

It's the 24 hour rule.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I can't even 

I saw one of these earlier but couldn't get a picture but when I Googled it apparently we aren't the only region that does this 

[nj2va]

54 minutes ago, RIC_WX said:

Forecast for Deep Creek shows temperature of 37* at 4AM tomorrow, descending to -6* by 12 or 1PM, and remaining largely steady until sometime Saturday morning.

Deep, deep winter scene there this weekend.  AFD mentions possibility of blizzard conditions.  Arriving there on Monday!  

[87storms]

Cold stuff incoming tomorrow.  Below 0 temps all throughout the Plains and into the Midwest behind the front.

[Ephesians2]

Seven degrees colder than forecast! 

(38 degrees with cold rain versus 45 degrees with cold rain )

[hstorm]

Creeping up to 37.2 in Great Falls.  Anyone know if they are sanding the roads outside Philly?

[IronTy]

22 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Deep, deep winter scene there this weekend.  AFD mentions possibility of blizzard conditions.  Arriving there on Monday!  

Leaving at 5am tomorrow morning to get a jump on the weather.  Hoping to get the tent up before the cold air slams through which looks to be around 11am-12pm.  WSW says wind chills of -35F, it's gonna be an epic campout.  One of our game cams transmitted a pic this morning that looked like maybe 4" on the ground already.  We're going to try for three nights.  Really it depends on how well the dog can handle it.  

[IUsedToHateCold]

1 minute ago, IronTy said:

Leaving at 5am tomorrow morning to get a jump on the weather.  Hoping to get the tent up before the cold air slams through which looks to be around 11am-12pm.  WSW says wind chills of -35F, it's gonna be an epic campout.  One of our game cams transmitted a pic this morning that looked like maybe 4" on the ground already.  We're going to try for three nights.  Really it depends on how well the dog can handle it.  

You’re CAMPING in this weather? Wow.

[midatlanticweather]

There is nothing warm about this rain btw 

[nj2va]

4 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Leaving at 5am tomorrow morning to get a jump on the weather.  Hoping to get the tent up before the cold air slams through which looks to be around 11am-12pm.  WSW says wind chills of -35F, it's gonna be an epic campout.  One of our game cams transmitted a pic this morning that looked like maybe 4" on the ground already.  We're going to try for three nights.  Really it depends on how well the dog can handle it.  

Have fun but I gotta say….that’s a bold decision 

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM FRIDAY TO 6 AM EST
SATURDAY...

* WHAT...West winds 30 to 45 mph with gusts up to 70 mph.

* WHERE...Portions of western Maryland, western Virginia and
  eastern West Virginia.

[GATECH]

Yay!  Wind advisory!  

[Terpeast]

6 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Leaving at 5am tomorrow morning to get a jump on the weather.  Hoping to get the tent up before the cold air slams through which looks to be around 11am-12pm.  WSW says wind chills of -35F, it's gonna be an epic campout.  One of our game cams transmitted a pic this morning that looked like maybe 4" on the ground already.  We're going to try for three nights.  Really it depends on how well the dog can handle it.  

Well, stay warm! 

[ravensrule]

7 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Leaving at 5am tomorrow morning to get a jump on the weather.  Hoping to get the tent up before the cold air slams through which looks to be around 11am-12pm.  WSW says wind chills of -35F, it's gonna be an epic campout.  One of our game cams transmitted a pic this morning that looked like maybe 4" on the ground already.  We're going to try for three nights.  Really it depends on how well the dog can handle it.  

You're a very brave man. Please put me in your will before you pitch your tent. 

[GATECH]

7 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Leaving at 5am tomorrow morning to get a jump on the weather.  Hoping to get the tent up before the cold air slams through which looks to be around 11am-12pm.  WSW says wind chills of -35F, it's gonna be an epic campout.  One of our game cams transmitted a pic this morning that looked like maybe 4" on the ground already.  We're going to try for three nights.  Really it depends on how well the dog can handle it.  

Have you informed your next of kin?  Seriously….

[IronTy]

8 minutes ago, IUsedToHateCold said:

You’re CAMPING in this weather? Wow.

To be fair we have about $10k worth of extreme cold weather mountaineering equipment.  Descended mount rainier at -20F ambient with thunder snow and lightning BELOW us on the way down.  This is downright luxury compared to that lol.  Unlike mountaineering...in this case if it gets too gnarly we can just get in the truck and drive home.  The current non-mountaineering benchmark we had was 4 days/3 nights snowshoe backpacking at the Dolly Sods where the temp never got above zero the entire trip.  This ain't our first rodeo.  

[IUsedToHateCold]

5 minutes ago, osfan24 said:

What? Yes it is. 95% of the time, our snowstorm is their snowstorm and vice versa and our temps are within a couple degrees of one another. Sometimes, they partially hit on Miller B's that whiff us because they develop too late but it's essentially the same. Even NYC is pretty similar outside of the Miller B's or the rare west to east storm that moves north of us but south of them and they get some snow. New England is a different story.

PHL is 50 miles north of Baltimore and that can make a difference in snowstorms. I would say it's similar, yeah, but not the same. The argument is largely semantic though, arguably no two places have the same climate. I just can't stand to say that they are the same when they get snowstorms that we don't.