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Remember your post last week about this being rain and or warm?

Magnolia Going to bed will take photos in the a.m. while it's still supposed to be snow through the morning

Okay will do. I didn't realize they were willfully spiteful.

The guy who posted the ‘yikes’ lives pretty far west in NJ. That run was bad for his area.

But, you need to consider the sun angle this time of year...

Heaviest band about pushing through nortrn monmouth into middlesex

While it stings that we're missing out on a legitimate late season snowfall in DC/Baltimore, I'm happy to see our Delmarva friends score a storm. We cash in so many times while they get stuck at 34 and drizzle.

This area has had nonstop yellows and some reds appearing all evening. Is it something with the radar or is it just dumping in that particular area?

Well the whole system is a bit too far southeast for my liking. Would have preferred a bump north. The evolution on the mesos is sort of funky so I'm honestly not quite sure. Thinking 10"-12" or so here.

You should be under that crazy band now, how is it? I'm next in line.

I made a post early this morning about the forecast for here being too bullish. I said it should be more like 8-12, but I would favor closer to 8 at this point.

Lol so you're actually small enough to expect that people track everyone's comings and goings across this entire forum? You're making this worse for yourself in public.

Just better off to ignore. The political board is still closed so some need to kill their time here.

That was also on top of everythin till 7pm, or from 7pm onwards. Classic!

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