December Discobs 2023

[Paleocene]

Light flakes in Silver Spring, 20910, at 1145am. Woohoo

[clskinsfan]

Snow/sleet mix out here a little west of Winchester right now. 

[Eskimo Joe]

Data from the Maryland Mesonet is now available to the public. Our Clarksville Site (001MD) can be found on the NWS Enhanced Data Display. Additional sites will be installed next week, and we hope to have about 6 to 10 sites in total streaming data by New Years. So long as the winter isn't too rough, we may be able to keep installing stations. 

We are working on a map on the Maryland mesonet website, but there have been some complications with data getting past the UMD firewall. Eventually, we'll have products similar to Oklahoma and New York mesonets.

NOTE: For any NOAA folks here, it's site ID 001MD in the Synoptic API.

Click HERE to view data.

EDIT: To add the data, click on the link above then under Layers -> Surface Observations and Analysis -> Near Real-Time Weather Observations (NOAA) and click the Synoptic API radio button under Interactive Observation Control.

 

[Chris78]

Catoctins in Northern Frederick county had a dusting overnight.

[Jeff B]

Light snow @ 37

[MN Transplant]

Flurries in Alexandria

[Deck Pic]

light snow, 42/30

[NorthArlington101]

Graupel/-SN in DC near Union Station.

[H2O]

had a brief flurry shower

[GATECH]

Small mangled ice things falling from the sky. 40

[Maestrobjwa]

Whoa! Pretty strong snow and sleet burst right now. 41 degrees. (Hey...first flakes I've seen since last year! Awesome )

[TowsonTownT]

Legit burst of snow in Towson right now. Approaching "trace".

[Its a Breeze]

Can confirm graupel with flurries mixed in

[mappy]

We have a deck dusting at home with snow/sleet. Was white rain in Hunt Valley not long ago, some mangled flakes, but mostly rain. 

[Terpeast]

Grats to those who saw flakes today. Sunny here lol

[vastateofmind]

43 with sneet.

[RickinBaltimore]

Sleeted a bit earlier, now more a white rain

[MaggyNoLia]

Around 11:30 a mix of flakes, ice pellets and rain in Rockville and now @ 12:30 a few snowflakes in Rockville. If you blinked you missed it.

[GramaxRefugee]

Just plain light rain in Annapolis, (even though we've been on flurry watch)

edit: sleet mixed in for a bit now; and maybe a few flakes.

[Kay]

I couldn't post at the time but snow shower in Fells Pt right on the water around noonish. Possibly snow mixed...? I also couldn't run to a window to get a good look. Snow weenie torment lol. First flakes I've seen this winter.

[TSSN+]

Flurries again here in Westminster 

[TJ3]

Flurries in McLean 

[George BM]

Brief light graupel. I'm on the board!

[nj2va]

Nice to see a clipper produce some precip east of the mountains.  Nice to get on the board and see some mood flakes/frozen.

[jayyy]

Flakes be flyin’! Nice to see some snow falling for a change.


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[Eskimo Joe]

Legit decent burst of SN- in Reisterstown. Marking today as Trace amount of snow.

[WxWatcher007]

It’s always good to see snowflakes. Hopefully the first of many snow opportunities that materialize for us all. 

[mattie g]

Good to see some of the closer-in folks report some very light frozen because I thought I saw some while in the car in Burke a little earlier.

[CAPE]

Just had a sleet/rain shower here in Rehoboth.

[Eskimo Joe]

36 minutes ago, mattie g said:

Good to see some of the closer-in folks report some very light frozen because I thought I saw some while in the car in Burke a little earlier.

SPC mesoanalysis has low level lapse rates of -7.5 to -8 c/km over our area. That's efficient for transporting cold air to the surface and sustaining frozen precip as the convective elements work through the region.