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January 5-6 Thing Storm Obs


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29 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.

Not for me just north of Baltimore. It was all snow all the time. Can't see where these numbers are coming from in my area.

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47 minutes ago, 87storms said:

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).

Agreed. I literally used a broom to remove the snow from my sidewalk this morning. Haven't done that in years.

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20 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

Ok that's better.

That makes more sense and lines up more closely with what we had here -- I didn't do a final measurement, but we were likely around 6.5 post-ULL.  We got a little a bit out of the lull band, but less than you.  IAD likely missed that band entirely.

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20 hours ago, jnis said:

Lol… How’s it going? I have not measured, but closing in on 5” In guessing. Not much snow has fallen in Damascus since around 9am

It's going great!  Great to hear from you!  

It looks like there was a 7" report in Damascus when all was said and done.  Not a bad storm.  I am heading down on Sunday for a couple of weeks.  It'll be nice to come to a place that has some real snow.  Ha.

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5 minutes ago, das said:

I prefer the IEM Mesonet numbers typically vs. those reported into NWS.  For example, they reported 7" 4mi to the NE and 7.5" 4mi to the SW of my place and my kid measured 6.5" OTG at the end in Clarksburg but with no "clearing the board".  

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I am super close to that 7.7" reported just northwest of Baltimore and it seems high.  I have 6.0" with .52" of liquid.  Are all those reports done by the standard snow measuring practice of regularly clearing the board?

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12 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

@das looks like 6" - 7.5" between Germantown -> Hyattstown. The back end snow appears to have "saved" upper Montgomery County.

Thanks!  I'll go with the 6.5" that was measured by my kid even though it would have likely been 7" using proper measuring methods...

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Just now, nw baltimore wx said:

6.0"

I am super close to that 7.7" reported just northwest of Baltimore and it seems high.  I have 6.0" with .52" of liquid.  Are all those reports done by the standard snow measuring practice of regularly clearing the board?

No guarantees, of course but you are supposed to be an actual trained spotter to submit.

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22 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

That’s because those numbers up this way are flat inaccurate.

It doesn’t appear the maker used spotter reports and probably cocoroahs. Then did a very low res interpolation to fill the gaps. No one north of Towson got more than 4”. Not sure where that 6” came from.

Anyway, the Bentley Springs report is me. 

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3 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

Yeah, I only tacked on 2.5" from 7am to close yesterday on 0.33" precip.  Not even the later snow helped with the ratios (and I didn't get that much from the ULL pass, certainly not 2").

Final, 7.7" on 0.84" precip.  

The IAD number seems strange, but there is another observer in Sterling Park that has the same 5.1".  When everyone fills in the CoCoRahs reports we'll see if that looks like a bad measurement.

Yeah. This wasn’t the easiest storm to measure either. I didn’t get uniform totals even on the same flat tables.  I might adjust down to 7.5”.  8” seems a tad high for me even though I didn’t sweep so there was probably 0.5 - 0.7 compaction. 
 

I got about 1.5” in the ULL. I was sitting at 6.2” for much of the day. 

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14 minutes ago, DarthHokie said:

Unfortunately they just don't measure accurately .  No way they all werent at least 10:1

Quoting meteorologist MN Transplant in Falls Church, VA:

"Yeah, I only tacked on 2.5" from 7am to close yesterday on 0.33" precip.  Not even the later snow helped with the ratios (and I didn't get that much from the ULL pass, certainly not 2").

Final, 7.7" on 0.84" precip."  

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57 minutes ago, Imgoinhungry said:

We thinking delays for most school districts tomorrow?


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Honestly I'm expecting a lot to concede and close. Our neighborhood inside the beltway in MoCo is still completely unplowed and if MoCo has to decide based on the entire county.... I can see them deciding it is unsafe.

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