Siberian-Snowcover-Myth Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Roads are bad in eastern Henrico. Caved immediately…. The county didn’t have any plows on call tonight either. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 30 minutes ago, Stormpc said: The best part should hit us (Southside/NENC) between 11-3am. Atlantic and Gulf moisture is just beginning to get entrained into the system south near Wilmington. That will enhance the coverage for a while before it starts sliding further east off the coast. The western precip push appears done and is retreating back southeast but it should slow around somewhere from the lower Peninsula through Hampton Roads for a few more hours. We're going to need some good rates to get to the higher end of those forecasts. I hope that happens but it just feels like the window is closing earlier than it was supposed to looking at that NW edge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 6 minutes ago, chris624wx said: I hope that happens but it just feels like the window is closing earlier than it was supposed to looking at that NW edge Yeah that's looking scary. Next hour or 2 is time to cash in. I got lucky and was in that initial band for about 2 hours. Before I went out, I thought there was probably only about an inch or 1.5. I was wrong. But I just looked at the updated NWS forecast and now they have my area at 2-4. I may be in a narrow jackpot area for now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Just now, Stormpc said: Yeah that's looking scary. Next hour or 2 is time to cash in. I got lucky and was in that initial band for about 2 hours. Before I went out, I thought there was probably only about an inch or 1.5. I was wrong. But I just looked at the updated NWS forecast and now they have my area at 2-4. I may be in a narrow jackpot area for now. Yeah, I just came in from walking around. It looked like maybe 1.5'' here near Downtown Norfolk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowBeach Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 About the same in GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 Still falling here in Williamsburg. I feel like it's the same intensity it's been all along. Maybe I'll finish with another tenth of an inch or two before the back edge reaches me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 This was 10:20 pm 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 10:45 pm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 Ending here now, finished with 0.8". But certainly more than I anticipated when I woke up this morning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Nice enhanced band dropping South through the peninsula now. Might be the last hurrah up there but it's going to finish with a bang. Hoping the coastal moisture gets entrained to slow that crashing precip field a bit. Probably won't happen but we might see a few enhanced bands before it kicks off shore in a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 3 minutes ago, RIC Airport said: Ending here now, finished with 0.8". But certainly more than I anticipated when I woke up this morning. Not bad at all. We take whatever we can get and enjoy it. That's the fun part. The beaches along the Outer Banks are going to have a fun few hours between now and 3:00 a.m. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 5 minutes ago, Stormpc said: Nice enhanced band dropping South through the peninsula now. Might be the last hurrah up there but it's going to finish with a bang. Hoping the coastal moisture gets entrained to slow that crashing precip field a bit. Probably won't happen but we might see a few enhanced bands before it kicks off shore in a few hours. Going to enjoy it as it moves through. Hard to be upset with it ending earlier than modeled when this was OTS 36 hours ago 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 7 minutes ago, Stormpc said: Not bad at all. We take whatever we can get and enjoy it. That's the fun part. The beaches along the Outer Banks are going to have a fun few hours between now and 3:00 a.m. 4 minutes ago, chris624wx said: Going to enjoy it as it moves through. Hard to be upset with it ending earlier than modeled when this was OTS 36 hours ago You guys enjoy the rest of this event. We remain below freezing for highs tomorrow so we get another day to enjoy what fell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 53 minutes ago, Stormpc said: This was 10:20 pm That’s remarkable for (essentially) the Outer Banks. You can see how fluffy the snow is in the pic. Enjoy it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Visibility with this band really went down! Wring it all out, atmosphere! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 15 minutes ago, chris624wx said: Visibility with this band really went down! Wring it all out, atmosphere! Probably the heaviest it's been all night! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Probably the heaviest it's been all night!It's really putting it down! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 Officially 2.3" at ORF and 0.2" at RIC through midnight from this event. Should add a bit more at ORF when the next report is sent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I have no idea what I ended up with. Went to bed with around 5 or 6 inches now most of it's gone. It blew away. There's so much drifting and bare ground it's hard to figure but I would suspect we got somewhere around six or seven inches. Just to my south in Grandy had a measurement of 7.5. It's snowed until around 5:00am. Great event here. Just kind of wish the winds wouldn't have kicked it all around but that's what you get when you have this light fluffy powder. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 By all accounts it looks like a general five to eight inches fell across Currituck county. Around 5 to 5.5 up in Moyock by the Va border. Then its 6-8 inches depending upon where and who took the measurement. It's really impossible unless you had a snowboard and we're going out all the time. I have bare ground in many areas and 18 inches in others. By all accounts the storm may have slightly over performed or hit the higher end of the predicted range down here. Euro led the way with its consistency. GFS late to the game. Nam's caught up. All of the mesos were generally good inside 24 hours. RGEM was pitiful My location is right on Currituck sound so there's no buffer for the wind. I'm sure places just a mile or two inland had some lighter winds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 2 hours ago, Stormpc said: I have no idea what I ended up with. Went to bed with around 5 or 6 inches now most of it's gone. It blew away. There's so much drifting and bare ground it's hard to figure but I would suspect we got somewhere around six or seven inches. Just to my south in Grandy had a measurement of 7.5. It's snowed until around 5:00am. Great event here. Just kind of wish the winds wouldn't have kicked it all around but that's what you get when you have this light fluffy powder. 1 hour ago, Stormpc said: By all accounts it looks like a general five to eight inches fell across Currituck county. Around 5 to 5.5 up in Moyock by the Va border. Then its 6-8 inches depending upon where and who took the measurement. It's really impossible unless you had a snowboard and we're going out all the time. I have bare ground in many areas and 18 inches in others. By all accounts the storm may have slightly over performed or hit the higher end of the predicted range down here. Euro led the way with its consistency. GFS late to the game. Nam's caught up. All of the mesos were generally good inside 24 hours. RGEM was pitiful My location is right on Currituck sound so there's no buffer for the wind. I'm sure places just a mile or two inland had some lighter winds. It looks like ORF finished with 3.8", and around 4" is as high as I've seen so far north of the border. There are quite a few 6-7" reports, just what I've seen across NE NC. The AKQ bot is still sending totals, and they will probably send a PNS statement later this morning when enough totals come in. https://x.com/iembot_akq Indeed, it was not a bad event. This was the fourth accumulation of snow I've had this month, which beats much of what we've seen in the last few years. Despite the blowing and drifting, I'm glad you could score with this @Stormpc and others on the southside. It was a nail biter all along on how far north this came. The GFS, albeit late, was the first model to get the western extent of the precip shield toward and then just west of Richmond, which was on par with reports. Also, the models did a great job picking up the Chesapeake Bay Effect snow streamer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasnow215 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 2 hours ago, Stormpc said: By all accounts it looks like a general five to eight inches fell across Currituck county. Around 5 to 5.5 up in Moyock by the Va border. Then its 6-8 inches depending upon where and who took the measurement. It's really impossible unless you had a snowboard and we're going out all the time. I have bare ground in many areas and 18 inches in others. By all accounts the storm may have slightly over performed or hit the higher end of the predicted range down here. Euro led the way with its consistency. GFS late to the game. Nam's caught up. All of the mesos were generally good inside 24 hours. RGEM was pitiful My location is right on Currituck sound so there's no buffer for the wind. I'm sure places just a mile or two inland had some lighter winds. RGEM consistently under performs along with HRRR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Per wakefield. 5.0-7.5 inches fell across CURRITUCK County/mainland. I heard there was about five in Corolla but I don't know if there's any way to measure accurately given the winds. Look at radar. It hung around across the southern Outer Banks which was a little unexpected. Great storm for the beaches. Just too damn windy. Ruined a little bit of the cozy snow covered landscape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Had around 2.1 inches near Ghent/Downtown Norfolk when I went to measure around 2 AM last night once the last band moved through. That was before the bay steamer developed though.Definitely a nice event especially since we didn't have to worry about mixing issues. If we can get something else this winter, I'd be down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Might be some sneaky freezing drizzle or snow flurries tonight along the immediate Coast. Nam 3k hinting ( still has it for last few days). Others have backed off. Just something to keep an eye on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldub23 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, chris624wx said: Had around 2.1 inches near Ghent/Downtown Norfolk when I went to measure around 2 AM last night once the last band moved through. That was before the bay steamer developed though. Definitely a nice event especially since we didn't have to worry about mixing issues. If we can get something else this winter, I'd be down! 1.5 here. 4 for the season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris624wx Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Another bay streamer moving through VB right now. Such a cool phenomenon! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted January 23 Author Share Posted January 23 RIC hit 9°F this morning, the first time reaching the single digits since 12/24/2022. Also of note, through yesterday, January 2025 ranked as the 6th coldest on record. Although there was no extreme cold from a historical standpoint, it was just a persistent cold since the beginning of the month. There are about 8 days left, and with warmer temperatures, the current ranking will rise. Even if this month doesn't finish in the top 10 coldest, it will still be the coldest January since 2004 or possibly even 1988. Norfolk also has been experiencing its coldest January since 1985 so far and will likely end as the coldest January since 2011 or 2003. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conway7305 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 James River is starting to freeze over 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldub23 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 33 minutes ago, Conway7305 said: James River is starting to freeze over I saw that. I walked about 100 feet from shore once when i was a kid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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