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it's not a Norlun.

As a met .. looking at radar , obs, cloud tops, what would you forecast?

Magnolia 31F Windy blowing snow Snowing heavily Big flakes Even sticking to the side of the house and drifting

Nah, they are getting obliterated. Family west of Rehoboth is over 6” and just getting crushed with 1+”/hr rates. DE will do just fine with this one.

I dont think the models show the heavy banding this evening. Everything was supposed to get going overnight.

Moderate snow temp 31F here in E CT with about an 1” on the ground. State roads treated were wet and just starting to coat; untreated town roads already covered. Let’s see what happens overnight

1938 my grandfather walked 10 miles to report the death of a neighbor from the hurricane to the state police barracks. They knew the roads wouldn't be open by the next day, forget about the telephone grid. I use neighbor somewhat loosely -- the unfortunate soul lived a couple miles away, my grandfather was one of the folks in the larger neighborhood summoned to try and help rescuing him from the collapsed barn; I imagine there were 10 and 12 year old boys quickly dispatched in all directions to spread the word. Chainsaws were rare, highway departments didn't have payloaders, and every suburban farmer wanna be didn't have 30 horsepower tractors with front end loaders. You can open roads up pretty fast when you're pushing most of the debris out of the way, and only need to make the minimum cuts when necessary to make something small enough to push. (I'm a suburban farmer wannabe.) The electric companies didn't have digger-derrick trucks. They certainly didn't have the ability to mobilize thousands of crews in advance and stage them just outside the expected impact area. Nor any interstates for the crews to travel over -- once they started to mobilize they were driving through the downtown traffic of every city in slower and less reliable trucks. Now people today would be much more bent out of shape -- our dependency on electricity is certainly more. 1938 Connecticut hadn't completed rural electrification (that would come in 1941), so a lot of folks were able to fail back to things like well hand pumps they had grown up using. But the response, especially in the first few days, will be far better than 1938. Doesn't seem like Florida takes more than a couple weeks to get the vast majority of power restored, and the places it takes longer are mainly the relatively small ground zero of the storm coming ashore.

And one day he'll be a fellow weenie posting here. Thrilled for you both.

not getting snow doesn't bother me. and he's been discussing his trip for a few days and posting about it today.

We're talking about Philly and NYC.

I really thought for sure we would get at least 1" on the roads or so....roads and pavement are totally clear in my neck of baltimore city - 9pm

3.5” - moderate snow - 28 degrees

Based on radar trends I think I am done with heavy rates. Light wind-blown snows should continue at least a couple hours before tapering. Not sure how much that’ll add to my 2.5” total, maybe make a run for 3”

after then nam - meanwhile in actual weather

Big screw zone basically our whole area, but oh well that’s miller B’s for you. Eastern shore not doing too well either?

Ehhhhh, 00z HRRR/RAP/NAM all a decent chop with QPF and a trend east. We'll see what happens though.

6” 9 pm 1.5” last hour

I expected the norlun to be more norlun’y

The people don't understand it doesn't include what has fallen. Plus HRRR is 20 more for nyc. The trends have been amazing for the last 10 hours on the mesoscale models. .

Someone get this guy for loitering.

Definitely a heavy hitter throughout Delaware. Hoping you all keep power and get double digit snow

Not really lol. They downgraded the 5-10” WSW in Howard to a 1-3 advisory I believe .

I might reach double digits after this band moves through (at 6 now)

We know you just threw down a frisco burger.