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The Psuhoffman Storm


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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:38 AM, psuhoffman said:

ok technically its all rain at DCA because surface temps are around 35 throughout the storm. However, for arguments sake lets say the surface temps are a bit warm at this range on the Euro, according to 850's

.46 falls as snow

then 1.0 rain

then another .9 snow

What about IAD and BWI?

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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:34 AM, CRAZYBLIZZARD said:

I guess the question is, where the is the rain snow line for DC, Balt, York etc and up the coast a little.

BWI gets to .6 at the height of the storm at its warmest point on the soundings so I would say the rain snow line gets just past Baltimore at its furthest north/west progression.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:38 AM, psuhoffman said:

ok technically its all rain at DCA because surface temps are around 35 throughout the storm. However, for arguments sake lets say the surface temps are a bit warm at this range on the Euro, according to 850's

.46 falls as snow

then 1.0 rain

then another .9 snow

Wait.......is that 1.36" in the form of snow?

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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:38 AM, psuhoffman said:

ok technically its all rain at DCA because surface temps are around 35 throughout the storm. However, for arguments sake lets say the surface temps are a bit warm at this range on the Euro, according to 850's

.46 falls as snow

then 1.0 rain

then another .9 snow

Where do you get the data? SOunds like you have pay stuff, but does it say rain? To me that looks like heavy wet snow and with temps at the surface of 35 and those heights aloft--I would have to bet that warm layer is extremely shallow.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:42 AM, baroclinic_instability said:

Where do you get the data? SOunds like you have pay stuff, but does it say rain? To me that looks like heavy wet snow and with temps at the surface of 35 and those heights aloft--I would have to bet that warm layer is extremely shallow.

I have special sources :bike:

accuweather pro site

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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:42 AM, psuhoffman said:

BWI gets to .6 at 850 at the height

IAD gets to .5

most of the storm would be snow in those 2 locations but the heaviest falls during the warmest point so its about half rain/snow for those spots

And of course you will remain snow the whole time :popcorn: .

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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:42 AM, baroclinic_instability said:

Where do you get the data? SOunds like you have pay stuff, but does it say rain? To me that looks like heavy wet snow and with temps at the surface of 35 and those heights aloft--I would have to bet that warm layer is extremely shallow.

yea I would agree this screams heavy wet snow, if the euro were to verify like that it would probably be very similar to March 1958 when any elevated areas just west of the cities got massive wet snowfall amounts while the lower elevations and in the cities did well and got 8-12" of heavy wet snow but had a lot of mixing issues when precip rates let up at times. I know the setup of these storms is not the same, just referring to the temperature profiles of the two events and the track of the H5 low.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 6:46 AM, CRAZYBLIZZARD said:

So where does Mount Hoffman and Mount Crazyblizzard stand? Looks like we would be almost all snow and damn pasty snow at that? Front end loader, flame thrower,or jack hammer?

Westminster MD remains below 0 at 850 throughout with surface temps from 31-33. 2.23 liquid all snow :thumbsup:

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