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January 5-6 Thing Storm Obs


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6 minutes ago, mattie g said:

A weenie in Burke reported 9.6". I guess it could have happened, especially if I had some compaction once the sleet started yesterday. Since I didn't measure until well after that flip, I may have shorted myself. Curious to see if other nearby spotters report similar.

Dale City spotter says 10.5, burke says 9.6, im averaging out to ~10 here. Very nice storm for us!

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1 minute ago, Terpeast said:

Yeah that can't be right. IAD should be around 6" unless they got shafted between the ULL bands, which I seriously doubt. 

They obviously messed up.. we had 6 inches by 9am.. picked up another .5 before 2 round.. and got almost another 2 inches..   with compaction at 9 PM I was at 7+

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Just now, DarthHokie said:

They obviously messed up.. we had 6 inches by 9am.. picked up another .5 before 2 round.. and got almost another 2 inches..   with compaction at 9 PM I was at 7+

Could be 7 for IAD but the lull band missed them just to the north, and it got me a little bit. I had less than 5” before 9 am though

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Final tally (after some compaction in the afternoon) was about 7" in my yard. That's averaged across several spots at 8am today. I cleared the driveway around 4pm yesterday and there was probably another 1-1.5" on there, but it had blown around a bit so hard to get an accurate measurement. That's near downtown Silver Spring.

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12 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

Yeah that can't be right. IAD should be around 6" unless they got shafted between the ULL bands, which I seriously doubt. 

There was definitely a dead zone in Loudoun i flirted with it a few times throughout the day. 5.1 seems low but probably not too far off honestly

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41 minutes ago, yoda said:

I think it's fine looking at the LSR and PNS

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=lwx&issuedby=LWX&product=PNS

 

.Fairfax County...
  Newington              10.0  1100 PM  1/06  NWS Employee
  Burke 2 S               9.6  1013 PM  1/06  Public
  Lorton                  9.5  1000 PM  1/06  NWS Employee
  Hybla Valley 1 ESE      9.5   947 PM  1/06  Trained Spotter
  West Springfield 2 W    9.3  1010 PM  1/06  Trained Spotter
  Fairfax Station 1 SE    9.2  1145 PM  1/06  Trained Spotter

I suppose if you look at the Burke, Fairfax Station, and West Springfield ones together then I might be low (and that's why I'm not a trained spotter lol). Either way, it was a bummer when we pinged, but there was frozen falling for almost the whole day and then we did pretty well with the ULL. No complaints!

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I received 8" from the storm itself (thank you, ULL) and since then, steady upslope snow since about 8 PM last night added another 3.5" so just shy of a foot. Fluffy stuff as temps are bouncing between 14-15. Visibilities this morning have been under a mile, so this is turning out to be a fairly significant upslope event as well.  

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39 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

There was definitely a dead zone in Loudoun i flirted with it a few times throughout the day. 5.1 seems low but probably not too far off honestly

No they are off by 1.5-2 inches.. this has happened many times with IAD measures.  Got love they are surrounded by 7s 

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Looks like only a coating was added from the ull imby near DT Frederick.  Basically 3" and some change, so i was a little surprised by some of the measurements closer to 5" coming out of Frederick County.  This can be sugarcoated, but it was a bit of a bust up here.  Could barely even see the flakes during the overnight period and hardly snowed during the day lol.  With that said, there was a pleasant, effortlessness to this snow.  Once it started, it required no work.  I just woke up yesterday to snow, and I was able to get in a nice walk (during one of the times there was clearly still light snow falling).  Felt very wintry even with 3" and, honestly, there's something to be said about the roads being already cleared (or so it seems).

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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
1016 AM EST Tue Jan 07 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 AM     Snow             Dulles International Ai 38.98N  77.49W
01/07/2025  M6.0 inch        Loudoun            VA   Official NWS Obs


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Event Number LWX2501352
 
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15 minutes ago, 87storms said:

There must have been a lot of compaction throughout the event because I 100% measured 3" in multiple spots yesterday morning and hardly received anything thereafter.

There was a lot of compaction between the first and second rounds. I had sleet, freezing drizzle, snizzle for several hours before the lull band and ULL. 

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4 minutes ago, yoda said:
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
1016 AM EST Tue Jan 07 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 AM     Snow             Dulles International Ai 38.98N  77.49W
01/07/2025  M6.0 inch        Loudoun            VA   Official NWS Obs


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Event Number LWX2501352
 

Ok that's better.

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On 1/4/2025 at 1:48 PM, Kay said:

I've had a "hopefully 3-4 inches min with def upside potential" attitude for days. I try not to become unmoored by sightings of WB pink :lol:  I am really looking forward to a good, cold snow that sticks around. Big snow pack person!

Generally speaking I'm sorta 'north crew' bc of latitude but sorta..not bc of being east, low, close to bay

My post above (in response to a...what are north crew thoughts/stages of grief lol) worked out pretty well in the end. Finished with 4.75", slightly higher than other sparse reports, but not inflated, one decent evening band was a help. Going to enjoy the snowcover and hope for a refresher :)

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