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Snow came in like a wall here in Deep River/Chester, CT. The beast is here. Enjoy it everyone!

True, look at the 1 hr precip maps on the HRRR our event goes bye bye pretty quick.

Insane micro-climate going on around DC. Mostly rain, wintry mix on the national mall. Drove over the bridge and moderate snow in Rosslyn. Interesting!

I meant less for us more for west of our area, along/west of 81. 2” or so earlier and added .75” or so since 330. Starting to stack much easier now, road covered.

Top of my mountain. Hammering! Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk

Huh? We've never had warnings and advisories whose criteria were not met?

Dude between usa hockey and this weather channel beauty..my nostalgia level is at a all time high. We are re-living history.

When did you give Tip your phone to post?

How do the roads look like out that way? Might decide to spend overnight in Atlantic County for safety reasons.

Roads are giving up. Accidents spiking along I-270 in NW Montgomery County up to Frederick. Also in Mt. Airy.

994 and tucked in more from last hour

Below freezing ,snowing at a good clip roads everything covered. Wind picking up.

No prob! I work and live in the Chicago area (NWS met at WFO Chicago/LOT) but I grew up in Queens in NYC and started my career at OKX. Wish I could be there to experience this one but happy to offer insight to any questions about the storm. Sent from my SM-S936U using Tapatalk

Hrrr is ticking N and W this run fwiw. Still has our death band in E PA Eta: tightens the western gradient even more this run

So slushy out. Very slippery. Lots of sirens in the distance.

As of 6 pm, we have 2.5" of snow, so another 1" last hour it's snowing at moderate+ whatever that is. Temp still 31F. Very pretty snow coating everything including the trees since the first inch or so was pretty wet and it stuck, despite ~15 mph winds with gusts to 20-25 mph now.

Have to get this off my chest! There is a lot of talk going around comparing this to the Blizzard of '78 or "will be like" the Blizzard of '78. To deflate the senseless click-bait hype and assuage fears, it will not be anything like the Blizzard of '78 when looking at the entire picture, and the details count here as well! Both from a meteorological and non-meteorological standpoint, this imminent storm will not reach the legendary status of 1978,. I can say that w/ high confidence. Why?, b/c when you know history and circumstances, not only for storms, but also how society has changed, the picture becomes clear. In this post, I will talk about the more obvious and straightforward, the non-meteorological parts/factors Preparations leading up to a storm are *everything*, or at least a lot more that many think, as to lessening overall impact. As I have said before, a disaster is typically only as bad as the preparations, or lack of, before it. This does not mean very high impact still does not occur, but so much "bad" is averted or mitigated. The forecasts for the Blizzard of '78 were not that good overall, so many from the individual to local/state agencies were not prepared. This almost never happens anymore for storms, certainly not for the really big and high-end ones, and the science of forecasting and modelling have improved immensely over time. And the way we get information has also dramatically changed, so it is very hard *not* to know what is going on w/ the weather now. Yes, it has gone the other way w/ *too* much hype for every single event, no matter how small or typical, and that has its own share of issues, but we are hardly ever "caught by surprise," at least for big winter storms. So something like the Blizzard of '78 Rt 128 disaster w/ 1000s of ppl stuck and cars stranded resulting in the highway closed for a week, simply can not happen now. Ppl know to stay off the roads and businesses closed down for the storm, so the road crews can do their job. So from what I said above, physically that made the Blizzard of '78 much worse, and also psychologically was huge b/c witnessing the region paralyzed like that is an unsettling thought, to say the least! Another aspect, snow removal has evolved over the decades, and we are much better at it. From better chemicals to put down on the road to the actual snow removal equipment itself to how it is all coordinated. We learned a lot from the Blizzard of '78 and many other blockbuster snowstorms since then, and that's a good thing! There are a lot more private contractors plowing now than 50 years ago, and things like those little Bobcat front-end loaders are ubiquitous now. Didn't see those much in the region through the 1980s for snow removal. Snow removal has become big business! And the general population knows ahead of time what is coming, so the shock and awe factor is much less. Ppl change their plans, stock up on supplies, and think of various contingencies, like if power goes out. This smooths out the impact of the storm psychologically, and again, that is a good thing!

Color me shocked that Baltimore is getting fucked yet again. A decade of misery continues.

Ahhhhh, my old ‘ hood and haunts back in the day. Spring Hill Rd.

Also that new warning amount of 2 - 8 inches is a cover your butt forecast.

If radar is to be believed some heavy snow ready to come in

In harriman NY during the 25th Jan storm I was probably looked at weird for sitting out on the bench in front of the hotel with my heavy coat on at 5 degrees w heavy snow for an hour.

No trees left in GHG after this!?