Jan 15-16 Storm Thread 3: Obs and Disco

[RevWarReenactor]

I want to know how it can be below freezing and snow melts on contact like this…Got to love this area! 
 

 

[anotherman]

I want to know how it can be below freezing and snow melts on contact like this…Got to love this area! 
 
 

Solar radiation.

[EHoffman]

Steady snowtv for the past 90 mins here.  Sidewalks and roads wet.  Goes to show we literally need to be ripping to get any meaningful daytime accumulation in DC.  

[understudyhero]

1 minute ago, RevWarReenactor said:

I want to know how it can be below freezing and snow melts on contact like this…Got to love this area! 
 

 

Here I am driving around in my EV purchased during the snow drought for the first time.

Make it about a mile and realize the snow is collecting nicely on the hood as I am driving. and not melting since no engine heat.

I am wondering what happens in a REAL snow while driving? 

[nw baltimore wx]

2 minutes ago, RevWarReenactor said:

I want to know how it can be below freezing and snow melts on contact like this…Got to love this area! 
 

 

Blame your neighbor's pumpkins.

[deer]

5 minutes ago, flsch22 said:

streets wet, white rain

Need heavier returns or the sun to go down for stickage

[DDweatherman]

1 minute ago, Deck Pic said:

Latest HRRR - snow end by 1-2 am.  That makes more sense, but it isn't very reliable outside of a few hours.

 

Ends for good? That doesn’t jive so much with some of our other guidance. Especially recent runs that have enhanced and back build in connection with the low moving NE

[TSSN+]

Coming down nicely in Westminster now under some 15ish dbz returns. Have a dusting. 

[konksw]

HRRR has been on an island by itself. 

[wxdude64]

Sent a 0.6" in for the 6 hours ending 1 pm and cleaned the 1st board (that's a giant 0.1 per hour lol), so a total of 1.3 since it started, 1.1 is on the 2nd snowboard. Temp 28.6/27.3 and the light snow is still falling. 

[Eskimo Joe]

Definitely a steady, light snow in Reisterstown. Temp 25 degrees.

[jayyy]

Latest HRRR - snow end by 1-2 am.  That makes more sense, but it isn't very reliable outside of a few hours.
 

It’s honestly hard to tell. Many of the globals seem to blossom more precip over us from the coastal, so it’s hard to gauge when it ends by just looking at the back edge on the radar. Hoping it snows through 12z tomorrow.

[mappy]

7 minutes ago, anotherman said:

About 5 miles from there. We’re in Spring Grove SD.

Thanks! I’ve got a friend in Loganville so I’m familiar with the area 

[nw baltimore wx]

Legit light snow with bigger flakes. 26 on both thermometers.

[TowsonTownT]

The pixie dust is starting to add up here in Towson.

[Warm Nose]

New LWX update

[gopper]

Flake size ever so slightly larger in Towson also.

[notvirga!]

Seems like Owings Mills will be a good place for this one. Hoping to jackpot but I’ll take 3 if that’s the best we can do 

[Amped]

Anyone know what this white stuff is that keeps falling out of the sky? Did the birds form a pact and decide to all take a dump on us at once or something?

[mappy]

12 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

No - but I just got impatient and drove over to the trailhead off of 83 and mt Carmel rd with the dogs and found legit light snow so it has to be close to making it the last six miles to my house. I hope. 

Snow size has picked up quite a bit in the last few minutes 

[87storms]

Legitimate light snow in Frederick with visible flakes out the window.  Might have to sneak in a hike soon.

[Miss Pixee]

29/18D

Steady light snow small/large flakes mixed together. Roads covered this morning are now clear. Good coverage on grass. No wind, snow falling straight down.

[MillvilleWx]

2 minutes ago, 87storms said:

Legitimate light snow in Frederick with visible flakes out the window.  Might have to sneak in a hike soon.

Just came in here to say this. It is a legit light snow that’s accumulating on everything. Radar looks great for this early. It’s beautiful out

[ravensrule]

8 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Legit light snow with bigger flakes. 26 on both thermometers.

Looks really nice outside now. I haven't been working, just staring out the window. 

[Terpeast]

Think I’ve reached an inch, or will soon. 

Light snow 27/24. Sidewalks are gone, road is stubborn

 

[nw baltimore wx]

Just now, ravensrule said:

Looks really nice outside now. I haven't been working, just staring out the window. 

Same!

[H2O]

Just not doing much here.  Radar keeps showing very light returns to my SW.  I know I'm being impatient but just stinks to have hours of snow, no accums and people already reporting SN and roads pummeled.  

 

Guess the silver lining is that it IS snowing.  

[wawarriors4]

1 minute ago, H2O said:

Just not doing much here.  Radar keeps showing very light returns to my SW.  I know I'm being impatient but just stinks to have hours of snow, no accums and people already reporting SN and roads pummeled.  

 

Guess the silver lining is that it IS snowing.  

Yeah, feel the same way down here around Fredericksburg.

[EHoffman]

1 minute ago, H2O said:

Just not doing much here.  Radar keeps showing very light returns to my SW.  I know I'm being impatient but just stinks to have hours of snow, no accums and people already reporting SN and roads pummeled.  

 

Guess the silver lining is that it IS snowing.  

If you try to compare DC metro snow with people out in Frederick you're gonna have a bad time.  We'll get our couple of inches once the sun goes down and it'll be fine.

[WxUSAF]

1 minute ago, H2O said:

Just not doing much here.  Radar keeps showing very light returns to my SW.  I know I'm being impatient but just stinks to have hours of snow, no accums and people already reporting SN and roads pummeled.  

 

Guess the silver lining is that it IS snowing.  

It hasn’t started accumulating again on paved surfaces here either. Finally starting to show again on my car after I cleaned it off earlier around 11.