Kmlwx

The product is "Lightning flash density" and thus with lightning would come thunder!

Warning for ice would be 1/4 inch or more

Are you sure you aren't thinking about the 1" "during commute" for advisories. I do not recall something like you are mentioning in my 34 years living here.

Inverted trough?

I remember I was in Downtown Silver Spring having dinner and saw it start to snow. Only had to go from there to roughly MD-650 and Randolph Rd (back to the house) and it was extremely dangerous. Within about 30 minutes of getting home, the roads were all snow covered and by morning everything was SUPER icy. A winter containing an event like that (or two), a few few nice cold shots, and a moderate snow event or two (and if we are lucky a major one too) would be a perfect winter. But even without a MECS/BECS - a winter containing a good blend of the above (minus the major one) can be memorable....even if it isn't a 2013-2014 style wall-to-wall. And those types of arctic snow squalls are NOT something that the long rangers here are going to be able to spot with accuracy at range. That kind of crap is going to make itself known only once in range of things like the NAM nest etc.

Maybe of these arctic fronts can give us something like that dynamic snow squall setup from Valentine's Day 2015. That was a heck of an evening! I know we all want to chase legit snowstorms - but those mini dynamic ones can be 1) Very impactful and 2) Fun to nowcast in real time.

Bold of you to assume there will be a "next storm"

I hope so....it's also our holiday party today so at least by later I'd expect a surge of people coming in - including people we don't normally see...and thus "my monitor isn't turning on" calls.... We don't do IT "tiers" here so even as one of the managers....I take even the stupidest of calls right up there with my lower level employees.

I got to the office early before things started to go downhill on the roads. Guessing the office will be a ghost town this AM...We should have delayed...

Reiterates in my mind that if I want snow....I pretty much have to travel for it.

Crazy snow squall up here in Tyrone, PA. Quick quarter to half inch.

I use spaceweather.com and solarham.com I also get the Space Weather Alerts via text message.

Something LOUD just flew over Colesville area. ADS-B has something but it's not identified. Probably fighter jet(s) - only getting it periodically on MLAT tracking. 340+ knots if the MLAT is accurate.

yeah the shorter days could definitely help us! Fingers crossed (about all we can do with space weather - or ANY weather to be honest)

I would say potentially yes - the prior two may have "cleared the way" for this one. However, if it arrives too early it might not be well-timed with daylight/night.