mappy Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 19 minutes ago, DCAlexandria said: Mappy like "i'm so happy for yall southerners" Actually, I am quite happy for everyone who got snow. Except you. Hope yours melts quickly. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I'm going with 4.00". Might have been a little more since my timing on measurements was kind of shoddy, but whatever. Things ended with that tiny bit of freezing drizzle this morning. Kids are up my arse to get them out sledding! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarReenactor Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Nice little overperforming storm. It does concern me that we can't get accumulating snows on the street with temps in the 20's during the day. Its kind of amazing how wet this storm was considering how cold it was. I don't remember that in the past. 20's= cold powder blowing across the street. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 1 minute ago, RevWarReenactor said: Nice little overperforming storm. It does concern me that we can't get accumulating snows on the street with temps in the 20's during the day. Its kind of amazing how wet this storm was considering how cold it was. I don't remember that in the past. 20's= cold powder blowing across the street. Why would it concern you? Are 20s nowadays warmer than they were 50 years ago? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 ended up with 3.2". Compaction/melting has me down to around 3 already! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I'm sure some will disagree and say temps before don't matter, but IMO the warmish temps we had(I had) the few days prior to this storm affected accums. If it had been 30s leading up to this then I think roads/grass would have caved sooner. But I got to 49F before the squall front Sunday. To me and my experience, the ground and pavement was toasty. Not a complaint but more a observation that the snow could have been better for some if you take prior conditions before this storm into account. 29F current so things will stay icy for a while. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 2 minutes ago, RevWarReenactor said: Nice little overperforming storm. It does concern me that we can't get accumulating snows on the street with temps in the 20's during the day. Its kind of amazing how wet this storm was considering how cold it was. I don't remember that in the past. 20's= cold powder blowing across the street. Rates weren't high enough to compensate. As far as "powder", really need to have temps in the teens for that kind of stuff. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 21 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said: 3" on the dot total both both events. Bonus points for cold powder. Best event in Stephens City since - dare i say - Jan 2016. That band overnight saved us. It was coming down really well for a while there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Oh look, UMD closed. Final domino to fall in the PG/MoCo area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scraff Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 4.5” here. Let’s do this again soon! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamHLG Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Just a smidge over 4”. Absolutely will take. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 6 minutes ago, RevWarReenactor said: Nice little overperforming storm. It does concern me that we can't get accumulating snows on the street with temps in the 20's during the day. Its kind of amazing how wet this storm was considering how cold it was. I don't remember that in the past. 20's= cold powder blowing across the street. Being that far east you were probably a bit warmer in the upper layers. 20 degrees is 20 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poolz1 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Looks like a bit of blowing snow in the usual trouble spots later today and tonight. Anyone who drives 340 to Fred knows what I'm talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowsonTownT Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Going with 4.25 imby in Towson. The snow was a breeze to shovel but now getting a bit of rain to make things extra crunchy. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ka60 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Clarksburg, MD 4.6" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 4 minutes ago, poolz1 said: Looks like a bit of blowing snow in the usual trouble spots later today and tonight. Anyone who drives 340 to Fred knows what I'm talking about. The route 30 corridor from Reisterstown to the PA line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osfan24 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 10 minutes ago, wxmeddler said: Rates weren't high enough to compensate. As far as "powder", really need to have temps in the teens for that kind of stuff. This. It was like a light mist of snow. Also, because rates were so light, cloud cover wasn't as thick and the sun could do its thing. The March storms we've had in recent years that accumulated well had temps that were a bit colder but more importantly the rates were light to moderate, not glorified sprinkles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Calling it 4.25" in Arlington but could be convinced by spotter reports around me. Seems plausible it was a little more, doubt it was any less. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 33 minutes ago, osfan24 said: Yeah, we are still full remote, which is amazing, but I have a feeling they are going to try to force us back a couple days a week soon for whatever nonsensical reasons they have. But yeah, the tradeoff of having to work snow days has been totally worth it given the flexibility. And we have hardly had any snow days the past however many years anyway. This just happened at my husband's office. After this time last year saying you can choose your path of working. Told them that "we work better when we are together" without giving any stats, which ticked my husband off. He mainly works with people in the Austin, TX and Montreal office so literally goes in now to sit behind his computer and have meetings that he could be doing at home. He is required now to be in 3 days a week and two of them are Tuesday's and Wednesday's as those are "meeting" days. He is not going in today he decided. Said if they have a beef he can tell them he will just take a PTO day and not work at all. He is logged in now a half hour earlier than if he would have went in. Also he has a MX5 so that was not getting put on the roads today. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 11 minutes ago, H2O said: I'm sure some will disagree and say temps before don't matter, but IMO the warmish temps we had(I had) the few days prior to this storm affected accums. If it had been 30s leading up to this then I think roads/grass would have caved sooner. But I got to 49F before the squall front Sunday. To me and my experience, the ground and pavement was toasty. Not a complaint but more a observation that the snow could have been better for some if you take prior conditions before this storm into account. 29F current so things will stay icy for a while. There's no doubt that the paved surfaces were too warm to cave with rates like they were. Things were covered when I woke up, but it was only 0.5", so it melted from beneath before too long. Then you get just a little insolation and already-wet ground, so snow won't pile up with meager rates. I was honestly impressed with how easily it accumulated on elevated surfaces and grass given the rates! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 17 minutes ago, H2O said: I'm sure some will disagree and say temps before don't matter, but IMO the warmish temps we had(I had) the few days prior to this storm affected accums. If it had been 30s leading up to this then I think roads/grass would have caved sooner. But I got to 49F before the squall front Sunday. To me and my experience, the ground and pavement was toasty. Not a complaint but more a observation that the snow could have been better for some if you take prior conditions before this storm into account. 29F current so things will stay icy for a while. I think it was a sun angle + rates problems more than a temps problem. I guess if it was sub-20 it all would've stuck, but the second rates improved ever so slightly and the sun went down the roads caved no problem. Maybe it didn't happen for you - but the roads caved overnight during the pre-show in the neighborhood. Hence my slight skepticism 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxdood Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 1 hour ago, Terpeast said: what creek is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osfan24 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 7 minutes ago, Mrs.J said: This just happened at my husband's office. After this time last year saying you can choose your path of working. Told them that "we work better when we are together" without giving any stats, which ticked my husband off. He mainly works with people in the Austin, TX and Montreal office so literally goes in now to sit behind his computer and have meetings that he could be doing at home. He is required now to be in 3 days a week and two of them are Tuesday's and Wednesday's as those are "meeting" days. He is not going in today he decided. Said if they have a beef he can tell them he will just take a PTO day and not work at all. He is logged in now a half hour earlier than if he would have went in. Also he has a MX5 so that was not getting put on the roads today. It's very frustrating. I get that some jobs are such that you are more productive in an office setting, but most office jobs are not that way. For me, personally, I am for more productive at home than I was in the office. I don't have people constantly stopping by to talk about nothing, we don't schedule meetings unless they are actually needed, and I'm just far happier overall which makes me more productive. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleocene Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Measured 4" on the grill and in the yard at 8am today near downtown silver spring. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Man Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Just finished using my snowblower, been a while and it was ready to roll. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Snow total: 4.75 Temp: 29 Freezing Drizzle Interested in seeing other spotter reports from Pasadena area. My guess it was closer to 5 inches but compaction/icing made it 4.75 at 930 am. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowsonTownT Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Which model did best with this one? Seemed a bit of a rollercoaster with the GFS sniffing it out early then losing it then finding it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osfan24 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 2 minutes ago, TowsonTownT said: Which model did best with this one? Seemed a bit of a rollercoaster with the GFS sniffing it out early then losing it then finding it again. Seemed like GFS. Mesos seemed to be a bit too bullish once the event got going. GFS had a solid 4-5.5 across the area and that seemed to have verified very well. Euro seemed too dry. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSG Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Haven't measured at my place but reports around me are all in the 2.5-4" range. We had some light ZR around dawn as those last bands came through, should glacier up nicely tonight. We're running a few degrees below forecast down this way. Last night's short range guidance had central VA making it almost to 40F before the front arrives this afternoon. Seems like that's going to bust low. 30/25 with thick overcast in Hooville. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Man Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 2 minutes ago, TowsonTownT said: Which model did best with this one? Seemed a bit of a rollercoaster with the GFS sniffing it out early then losing it then finding it again. Global: GFS, CAN, EURO, ICON Meso: NAM,RGEM and and and….HRRR last 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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