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The GFS is showing snow in Texas during the weekend that I'll be there. I hope it happens.

If other guidance were looking that good for Garrett/Tucker county, I'd seriously consider a trip. But it has to be significant to be worth it to me.

Felt very nice today and I’ll gladly take this over being fringed with cartoppers.

It was a moderate storm for most of this region. Better for the interior northeast.

Might as well share this again. My favorites in order (IMBY only): 1) Feb 10, 2010 – Around 20" on top of everything that fell 4 days earlier. It had the most incredible blizzard conditions I've ever seen IMBY. Other HECS didn't quite feel like a true blizzard, but that one did. 2) Jan 2016 – 27" with snow all night and throughout the following day. Also had daytime blizzard conditions and everything unfolded just about perfectly. 3) PDII 2003 – The first HECS I can clearly remember. Total was probably 26-28" but I'm not exactly sure. That one really kept me hooked on this hobby, and it finished off what was already an amazing winter. 4/5) Feb 6, 2010 – 25" 4/5) Dec 2009 – 19". It was my first HECS since 2003, so it was a very big deal and I couldn't believe it was happening in December. Made me confident that the whole winter had a lot more to come. Storms I chased: Feb 2013, MLK 2022, and October 2011.

^^^There it is

It is our formative experiences with big storms that will always be the most cherished, even if bigger storms happen after we grow up. I wasn't around but people (including @usedtobe) told me that PDI had heavier rates than any other storm they've ever experienced.

I was there in January 2021 and made a few trips to Wildcat. They had a few decent storms that month.

I think the Presidents Day weekend is looking like a favorable window for something major or historic. And I say all of that because I’ll be in Texas that weekend.

The weekend system has me very interested. Some of us badly need it

Can this keep trending south enough that Richmond and Salisbury get the ice?

January 2014 and January 2016 were by far the best two of the past decade. This month was probably similar to January 2019 in terms of sensible wx in Baltimore.

I was watching a documentary on the history of Earth, and I got a little sad when they talked about Snowball Earth coming to an end.

GFS shows something for Feb 9.

I think he's talking about a situation where the overall setup was much more flawed. 2010 and 2016 had damn near perfect upper air patterns with a very juiced up STJ.

I drove up to York, PA for a few hours. Being there at the height of the storm and knowing it was October felt completely unreal. Not to mention how fast the conditions changed as I drove up 83.

My favorites in order (IMBY only): 1) Feb 10, 2010 2) Jan 2016 3) PDII 2003 4) Feb 6, 2010 5) Dec 2009 6) Feb 2014 (on a college campus, but close enough) Storms I chased: Feb 2013, MLK 2022, and October 2011.

Some posters in that region have a very high bar to be satisfied. If they expected 20-30" then a run of the mill MECS will be a disappointment. And they can take a 12" storm for granted because they get them almost every year.

Measured an inch this morning, plus a few tenths yesterday that I didn't measure. So maybe 1.2-1.3" total.

Snow TV

I don't think anyone is demanding a HECS. Just about everyone here knows that a HECS is rare and they don't happen very often. But some areas in the region (such as Baltimore) literally haven't seen a 6" storm since January 2016. And that is in spite of DC getting two 8-12" storms that fringed the Baltimore area. And on top of that they didn't get much from the usual north and west storms that bury psuhoffman. I think the mood of some of the Baltimore area posters would be a lot better if those two DC storms had delivered just a bit further north as well.

I'm having the same feeling. Maybe it's wishful thinking but I was not expecting it to snow like this right now.

Snow has picked up again.

Please don't do this.

Can we just keep it like this for the next 24 hours?