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If you all don’t send pics we’ll banish you to another subforum for real! Good luck

Agree, its definitely colder... In Charlottesville at the moment - already down to 33 according to the car...

looks like every run's a different focus ... 12 hours, 24 or 36 apart from where it was on the last run, because it's actually a different wave altogether in a general careening buckshot of probably nearly impossible to process s/w swarm

Loaded up and ready to go in Bedford county.

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The last few years have just been very paltry everywhere, so there's more random variation with one or two storms versus six or seven. Lower numbers = higher standard deviation. Like in 2011- 2012, Central Virginia got a random storm that dropped 4-8" and ended up with more snow than DC/Baltimore. That was the only snow that winter. If we're moving back into a more favorable climo, we will go back to a more normal regional distribution.

Just how it always seems to feel but things have evened out over the past few seasons I feel like. Def in the “sweet spot” for the time being. .

True or not, let’s not do this here. Good luck to all and post pics please!

Was close to something nice for NYC on the 15th.

Most interesting part of this storm is the surface temps dropping from near freezing at onset to mid 20s during the meat. I didn't get good ratios last storm due to warmish start and temps just below freezing when it mattered. Could be a lot fluffier this go around. I like my yard for this one.

Really? Y'all have gotten more main courses of sliders than some of us northerners have had in 8 years!

can't make this up #Snowhole

Thanks. I asked google but prefer asking an educated person, not AI. I just received a weather alert for freezing fog in the morning and didn’t understand. I’m in Raleigh.

I'm telling ya this is gonna be a Miller Too Late.. I'd almost bet a 6-leg parlay on it, lol This is a nina and these kind of setups snow around us but not on us. Not even gonna give this one the time of day (unless it's Saturday night and it looks like it'll buck the trend). I'll prepare the last words of Beethoven: "Pity, pity...too late!"

Racing downhill, let’s go! Any hopium I can get I’ll take.

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That’s a gorgeous spot day 7 for gfs , if it had support and wasn’t the 18z gfs…

Things always seem to slide North leaving us with the leftovers and somehow we could go 2/2 and still early December is wild. Fingers crossed for the snow day tomorrow! .

Freezing fog is not really a meteorological term, Pearson said. In order for it to form you need items or an object near the surface to be below freezing temperature, he said. This could include, trees, power lines and power poles, fences, tall weeds or cars. The air above the ground has supercooled water droplets in it, that might be just below freezing but are still in liquid form. Once those droplets come in contact with something at the ground or just above the ground freeze on contact with the surface of that object, Pearson said. Most often, freezing fog does accumulate on trees and power lines and if the wind is calm or maybe even light, can make a very picturesque scene as the supercooled water droplets turn into ice crystals (also called rime ice). If there is some wind, then the water droplets will just form more as a hard layer of ice vs the more crystalized picturesque rime ice.

Or just become hurricane hunters ?

Nice snowy evening with the clipper. Should get a 2-4” refresh.

It’s very rare around here, which made last night so interesting but like normal fog, you have to have high humidity and that saturated air super cools into droplets. Those droplets then freeze on surface objects like freezing rain, but the main difference being that these droplets are tiny - much smaller. Think steam in a bathroom after a shower vs the water coming out of the shower itself - similar concept. It’s a lot more common in coastal communities that get cold: i.e. New England, Seattle.

See you in South Hill!

Gfs has next Sunday again. And guess what, it’s a southern Va hit lol

Yeah, people mocking it, but it’s absolutely the most likely outcome right now, and by a significant margin too.