The Ole Bucket

2 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

From my limited years down there, that does appear to be true. I guess on the positive side for winter wx, I'd expect the CAD to hold on a bit longer. Could be pretty icy. 

Given what happened with all the trees around these parts with the last storm... I could do without ice.

5 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

per the weather.us maps, the RA/SN/IP line goes right up 95. Depth map so hardly perfect, but for fun until we get the better maps. Slightly surprised its not better around DC.

Such a close call there for a ton of people. Really seems like we won't be sure how it plays out until we get there.

And I feel like I've seen this kind of thing many times before here in CHO... where I'm always gonna assume there's going to be more mixing and rain than what the models say.

34 minutes ago, nj2va said:

6z Euro (runs to 90) appears slightly faster than 00z and also I’d say it (probably) stopped a further westward shift from 00z as it looks a touch S/E of 00z.  A wall of snow incoming with CHO getting SN++.

*insert M Bison “Yes YES!” gif here*

Getting some purple on the board. Now we're getting somewhere..

1 minute ago, jaydreb said:

Pretty remarkable divergence.  The big L is the OP.  

Lotta tasty possibilities with those...

Too warm, too west, only 11" of digital snow for CHO, which will be gone by the 18z  Next.

(Am I doing this right?)

I’ll lock in those 42” IMBY right now.

That’s the bar.

Fingers crossed it stays below freezing all day.

Gorgeous bluebird conditions. Sunny, 2 inches of fresh powder, barely a breath of wind.

A nice change from our Florida vacation. And quite glad no new trees down or power/road problems after seeing absolute carnage on I-64 on the way into town yesterday.

Kids are loving it out there.

Still virga in downtown Charlottesville. But the air feels and tastes like snow.

Leave it to the NWS to make messaging even more complicated.

Mets say over 4" in Cville.

Regretting my vacation.

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30 minutes ago, CentralVaNATS said:

CWG just posted a 1hr snow fall map between 9am-10am of 1"-4" possibly per hr.
I'm right at around 3" in Stafford for that time-frame.

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Love too miss 3" per hour rates while I'm on vacation in Florida.

Incidentally, this system is so powerful that while there's no precip here in NoFla, we have been having 15mph winds, expected to increase modestly through the morning, gusts over 25.

Hope there's still some white stuff when I get back. Enjoy it lads.

53 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

Nice! All rain in Charlottesville so far.

Definitely a hefty mix now. 50/50 it seems 

Well it said 19F IMBY but it doesn’t feel like it. 

Not a breath of wind nor a cloud in the sky. Sleet still big mounds in the gym parking lot.

Gorgeous now though I know it will get too warm for my liking later today and this week. Ah well. We had a good run this past week.

Time to get after it.

8 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

I totally agree. I wish there was cold powder blowing off the rooftops but this is pretty nice.

27 and bright blue skies.

Given that the snow this year has been quickly attacked by the dreaded sun angle.. it’s been nice to sleet hold up. I’ve come around on that sleet bomb. It was ugly when it came down but now it’s done well.

Aside from the days when it has snowed.. this is the best morning of the winter. Sleet is a glacier (though patchy), the ground is rock-solid frozen, everything is iced over and it’s sunny.

30F but also fairly windy. A quite fine day.

GFS has gone from 18" in Charlotte to jackpotting Charlottesville in three runs.

I assume this means the storm will be modeled to be in PA by tonight.

We've had so much ice in CHO this year that I've almost burned through my first 50-lb bag of rock salt. 

Freezing drizzle here too.

Went for not exactly a Jebwalk since it's sleet... but a lot of the secondary and tertiary roads in downtown CHO remain messy.

Not anything someone with experience couldn't handle easily, but compacted sleet with a frozen ground makes for something that's really stubborn to get rid of. It's a ghost town here.

Ah so we have found the REAL warm nose!

4 minutes ago, leesburg 04 said:

You know what they say about a warm nose.....cold heart....so true...

But he's not been telling lies...

26 minutes ago, SnowDreamer said:

@The Ole BucketI just want you to know that you have my favorite username on the board by far.

Thank you. Though I think, especially for this year, @Warm Nose ought to be considered da real MVP.

A foot and a half for Charlotte next Friday.

Definitely going to happen.

The weirdness of the roads helped make this event not fun or memorable.. but at least interesting. Even after repeated plowing/treatments even the main roads remind me of the Midwest. Persistent ice and compacted snow (in this case sleet) to drive on. A bit of a throwback for me in that regard... while at the same time seeing significant accumulating sleet for the first time.

It sucks that so many are missing out on big snows.. but the silver lining is that this sleet event is pretty unique and it's probably cutting down ice totals.