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Greetings from the Champlain Valley. Not sure I’d call this a white Christmas but it’s better than 100% brown.

100% snow up here in Clarksburg. Insert ::it’s happening.gif:: here.

The snow made it all the way down to the (Champlain) valley floor. Here is a video of the squall as it moved through while I was hiking on Mount Philo (972ft.) earlier today. The squall lasted about 10 minutes and was enough to whiten the ground. 22502A48-4345-4333-852F-6E0B33EEBDB0.MOV

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Clarksburg has been a good happy medium between the benefits of elevation and distance from the UHI of DC vs. commute times. For me, anyways. If you like big, synoptic storms, Clarksburg and the rest of Parr's ridge running NE through MD is not bad. For example, there have been two storms in Clarksburg just in the last decade that have exceeded the largest storm in Indiana history (26" in St. Josephs County in 2011) with that number increasing to 4 in places 10-20 miles NE up Parr's ridge. Those places NE tend to put you away from reasonable commute times to DC. For Clarksburg context, In the last decade, there were those two 26"+ storms (33.6" and 28.0") but the numbers for significant but not-as-large storms increase to 3 storms of 20+", 5 storms of 15+" and 7 storms of 12+" in the last decade. Not bad for what is effectively the south. Also, for context regarding commute times; if I leave my house at 6am, I get to work a block west of the White House in 40-42 minutes. If I leave at 6:15am, it can take 1.5 hours. If I leave at 6:30am, it can take two hours. Big incentive to get out the door in the morning. That's for like 35 of the 52 weeks of the year. The others, (summer, holiday weeks, etc...) are much more reasonable.

Nope. 0.5" in Clarksburg. All rain and IP for the last 7 hours.

0.5” will be the total here in Clarksburg unless something dramatically changes. Pouring rain at 32.7°F.

Bleh. Rain/sleet mix in Clarksburg. 32.8°F/33°F.

Confirmed! 35.1°F / 26°F here at onset.

+1. When it is raining moderately, my temp raises to 32F. When it is light or stops, it immediately drops to 31F.

29.8F / 30F here in Clarksburg. 5.1" of snow at noon as the first IP started to mix in.

I’ve only seen strikes in the MD and WV panhandles so far. 0E4517B8-B498-431E-B552-00AE1F085ACF.mov

29.7°F/15F here in Clarksburg. High clouds are starting to obscure the moon.

Makes complete sense since the Fed has made considerable investment in a mobile-enabled workforce.

The cutoff was real. This is from 30,000ft as I was approaching the Mason Dixon line:

I hope so. I'll dig it up when I get home. First time using these cams so I hope I set it up right.

First bluebird sky starting to peek out. Can't wait to get home this evening.

Those are lifetime memories you are creating for your son. Good job training him up in the ways that are good and right!!!

13.2" was the total for me in Clarksburg. @ka60 just up the road may have had a bit more as he is usually a tic or two higher than me (Clarksburg ranges from 550' to 810' ASL). 7.2" from the WAA+coastal part of the storm and 6.0" from the ULL.

I can confirm @Ka60‘s 12.5” total. I asked my roommate (who HATES the snow) to go stick my 12” ruler into the snow on the back deck and let me know what the snowdepth was and she flatly said to me, “it disappeared, you’ll have to find it yourself when you get here tomorrow”. LOL.

30 dBZ returns still over Clarksburg. Incredible.

I think I prefer this over a more vertically stacked or phased system since it equals 30 hours of snow. Same basic foot of snow but very different delivery.

I like to use this loop to see the subsidence on the back end of storms coming through. Sure, it's composite but that's helpful in seeing the non (or very light) precip features. It's helpful for the back edge hallucinations that are created by the spine of the mountains to our west as well since LWX radar does not typically see over the ridge tops but KRLX and KBPX can see what's over there. https://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/wxloop.cgi?radar_us_full+/2h/

Check your math, big guy. Western extent is still expanding west.

Latest obligatory deck pic from Casa de das: