You and a million others. I live right down the road from there. The traffic on our little back roads is crazy. If we're not getting a fun storm hopefully we can salvage the weekend. I'm hiking to Annopoils Rocks and Black Rock tomorrow. Looks good as of now.
The GFS made a big jump west and crushes the entire area with heavy rain and storm force winds on the bay. I figured we can talk about the storm here since it's no longer long range. LFG!
Definitely a big push west. Now it looks fun. It's been since last January since my area has seen anything interesting besides localized thunderstorms in July.
Gfs would be 1-2" feet east of DC while Leesburg struggles to get 3". Book this setup for January lol. Gfs insists dry areas stay dry while the swampy lowlands continue to stay swampy.
The GFS looks a little more like the Euro this run. Brutal cutoff DC/NW but hits the lowlands and NE MD pretty good with 2-3" of rain and strong winds. Man.. if it was winter JI would be melting down lol
Nice rug pull for the weekend. Looks like rain will stay where it always rains (east of 95) and leaves the highlands dry. Sucks for drought out there but good for my weekend plans.
Bacon Ridge in Crownsville at 190' elevation has done better than Parrs Ridge at almost 900' elevation for the past 5 seasons. Pretty wild. I've experienced blowing snow and snow deep enough for snowshoes on Bacon Ridge the past two seasons.
I don't hate Nina's at all. We seem to do relatively well in the lowlands during Nina's. The past two winters were respectable IMBY. Especially last winter.
I've seen good reports of color, especially above 1500'. I'm hiking the MD section of the Appalachian trail next weekend. Color should be good in higher elevation. It will look green in the valley.