Fozz
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Fun little nerd fact: Exactly 20 years ago there was another southern slider that brought heavy snow to VA and southern MD, but fringed the northern areas. The difference was, that one didn’t even make it to DC. Atlanta and Raleigh ended up with more snow than DC and Baltimore for the whole winter because of that storm.
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The first winter I really followed and paid attention to was 2001-02. I was just a preteen boy. The following winter was 2002-03. The contrast couldn't have been more extreme.
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You know this is a brutal gradient when one part of the county barely gets a flake while the other corner of that same county gets 6"+ with very heavy rates. A crazy cutoff for sure.
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I don't either, but my point remains that there's much more to life than snow. I can understand a teenager or even an early 20s guy getting emotionally wound up over snow. Young people are immature in all kinds of ways, and I was like that for a long time. But if you're over 25, and an actual grown adult, then it is not normal, and there are so many better places to focus your emotional energy. But I can't change how you feel. At the end of the day it is your life, so that is for you to figure out.
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Snow has ended. Never got all that heavy but the landscape has been transformed so I'm happy with what I got. 1.5" is the total.
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Dude... if you're over 30 then I don't see why a few years of less snow should bring you so much emotional draining and pain. It's just weather. A grown man has more important things to worry about.
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I've been in this hobby for 20 years and I've seen it all. I also wish we could've done better but it's not worth being upset. There will be big storms that hit Baltimore again, while those places in southern MD and central VA that now have 10"+ with "ripping rates" will mix or change to rain. Everything balances out.
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The ground is covered here and the trees are coated. I probably have less than you but I'm pretty happy with this, especially after a snowless December.
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Most likely January 2000.
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Isn't Union Bridge just west of Westminster? Or are you somewhere else?
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That has to be near Dundalk. If you're chasing this, it really is a good day to do it.
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Flurries, 1.5"
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Looks like precip is trying to fill in to my north, but it's a tough battle between the dry air of northern MD and all the abundant moisture to my south.
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Some of these southern MD cams are wild. Almost looks like a blizzard. https://chart.maryland.gov/map/default.asp
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Yeah I'm keeping a close eye on it, hoping it doesn't sag south but it's a close call. For once I am thankful for not being a few miles further north
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1.1"
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Light snow. Looks very nice outside, maybe just under an inch.
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That may be so, but at this range, when everything is still down to the wire, it is a good sign to see that (for those of us on the northern edge). I've seen the opposite, where the HRRR pointed out a red flag that the global models couldn't notice, and then it ended up being right.
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I’m glad to see that schools still close when it snows, and that “online learning” hasn’t yet taken that away.
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I actually think 1-3" is a very reasonable call for my area. But I'd be very surprised if nobody in the DC area or southern MD west of the bay gets over 5" with the heavy rates, plummeting temps, and abundant QPF.
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Tasselmyer has been a great forecaster for a long time. Which is why I expect better from him.
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With temps plummeting across the column, I don't understand why he thinks ratios will be low. Bad reasoning from him.
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HRDPS also looks just slightly north of 12z, which makes a big difference for many of us.
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After all the meso runs I expected this. Most likely this is not our storm.
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January 2019 was a good one for DC.
