January 5-6 Thing Storm Obs

[SnowtoRain]

Final tally 12". Windy now, going to be some snow drift issues on the shore.

[Maestrobjwa]

58 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

2nd biggest snowfall since moving back to Maryland in August 2016. I believe the bigger totals just to my south in Columbia and Pikesville. Driving into work today at 4am the snow intensity was much greater once I got off 795 and on 29.

 

 

Seeing what some od you actually look like is always interesting to me, lol All of us talk to each other but we only know by username. I'm always curious what folks actually look like!

[CAPE]

Slept through most of the ULL snow, but looks like maybe an inch. I'll do an official measurement tomorrow but that would put me over 9".

[pazzo83]

the snow is REALLY blowing around out there - wouldn't be surprised if we see some ground blizzard conditions tomorrow

[Deck Pic]

DCA - 7.2"

BWI - 6.6"

IAD - 5.1"?  That may have to be adjusted?  Did they pick up no snow after 7 pm?

[Miss Pixee]

All quiet. 23/15DP.

Early evening twilight, 5-630pm.

 

[MillvilleWx]

With skies beginning to clear out, winds will begin mixing more efficiently to the surface. Blowing snow will be occurring this morning and afternoon before subsiding later. It is truly deep winter in Edgewater with snow blowing off the roofs of houses with locally reduced visibility occurring. Peak climo for snowfall in these parts too, so there is low probability of much melting today outside some very sunny spots. 

[CAPE]

4 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

the snow is REALLY blowing around out there - wouldn't be surprised if we see some ground blizzard conditions tomorrow

It can get pretty crazy over here with blowing and drifting in a situation like this with so many wide open farm fields. Seeing little snow devils spin up in the open areas is cool though.

[Bob Chill]

 

Pretty scenic for a messy storm down here. Lookin forward to my first non messy storm lol

 

[Kmlwx]

No plowing or salting yet on my side street of Colesville, MD! Low of 19.2 which I am at right now. 

[BlizzardNole]

The last round was nice in Germantown adding about 2 to put us in the 7-inch range

[Paleocene]

1 minute ago, Kmlwx said:

No plowing or salting yet on my side street of Colesville, MD! Low of 19.2 which I am at right now. 

Moco has also skipped my street and neighboring small residential streets thus far. I don't mind (working at home)

[aldie 22]

Looks like the ULL left some decent accumulations here. I finished shoveling yesterday at 2:30 and everything looks to have close to 2" added which would put Aldie on the + side of 7". It's really pretty outside and damn frigid with the winds I slept like a freaking rock last night!

[Kmlwx]

6 minutes ago, Paleocene said:

Moco has also skipped my street and neighboring small residential streets thus far. I don't mind (working at home)

Up until the 2010 storms (and really until the 2011 storm), MoCo consistently forgot about my street. They've been worlds better the past few years - sometimes we'll even see a plow before the snow has even stopped and additional ones after. I'm a little surprised we haven't seen one yet with it not being double-digit snow. But I'm guessing it'll be at some point before noon today. With the frigid temps, my guess is they had to exit the subdivisions to spot treat icy spots on the major arteries. 

[vastateofmind]

Low of 21, winds picking up. No plows yet here, but someone was obviously doing donuts in the cul de sac... 

[dailylurker]

I went from 8.5 to 10" last evening. Epic morning out there. Absolutely gorgeous. 

[MN Transplant]

9 hours ago, Deck Pic said:

Final 8".  I think snow growth this morning was the main inhibitor to higher totals.  

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.

[GramaxRefugee]

1" overnight makes my event total 9.7" in central AACo

[WVclimo]

Flurries blowing around this morning.  19° with a wind chill of 5.  Winds 21 G28.

[stormy]

5.5 inches, .5" sleet and freezing rain.  A 5" brick that will melt very slowly.    12 degrees this morning.

[Herb@MAWS]

7.5" IMBY on east side of Columbia.

[Prestige Worldwide]

12” here in Lewes, De.  Very nice storm 

[nj2va]

Going with 8" based on nearby reports.  Great storm!

[DDweatherman]

Pic taken through the window this morning of some deep winter. Not the storm we hoped for up here, but about 4” total. Chilly this morning 18 degrees. 

[CAPE]

9.3" total

That represents the most I measured otg and not what actually fell had I measured properly. I couldn't be bothered yesterday lol. Might have been another inch but whatever. Plenty of snow.

[CAPE]

Nice to have frozen ground preceding the storm. No snow eating from below.

[CAPE]

One more I took yesterday afternoon doing a Jeb walk to the back edge of the property.

Just for you @nj2va

[mattie g]

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.

[yoda]

4 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.

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

[wxdude64]

LOL, walked ON TOP of the snow to do the CoCoRaHS report this morning, which I had to chisel through to get the SWE. Had light freezing rain/drizzle and sleet yesterday morning which froze solid once temps started dropping in afternoon. This stuff will be around a while, currently 5 inches on the ground, 18.3/11.0.