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-5°F / -11°F here just south of Burlington. Probably not much mixing with the storm here. :^P Virga is now only 3 counties to the south away. It’s going to be a long day of radar hallucinations waiting. For those of you struggling with the NWS “upgrade” of the radar page, here’s my favorite mosaic from Univ of Washington. Change the number of frames there in the link for longer or shorter loops and to auto if you want it to auto refresh every 6 minutes: https://a.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/wxloop.cgi?radar_us_full+30+-noauto And, if any of you want to pass the virga watching time and read up on Froude numbers for blocked flow, here’s an excellent primer from the team at NWS Burlington: https://www.weather.gov/btv/froude

-1°F / -5°F here in the Champlain Valley. Looking forward to 4-6 hours of WCB tomorrow night with the ~700 frontogenic max pushing thru then all eyes are on the froude number as blocked flow commences.

1.1" here in the Champlain Valley. Just enough to pretty up the 3" of crusty snow that's been sitting around for the last 3 weeks.

.25” waaaaaay out west here in the Champlain Valley. In the pre-dawn hours. Maybe we’ll squeeze another quarter inch tonight for a whopping 0.5” storm total. The freezing fog is fun tho.

Truth. 0.7” was the grand total in Charlotte last night. At least it all came in a 1.5 hour period so it looked nice whitening up the snow from the 2nd.

Topped out at 31°F yesterday with minimal sun only as it was setting. It’s all still here in the Champlain Valley.

3.8” was the storm total in Charlotte. It feels like a central Maryland snow. Dense, high water content. Might have to make a snowman.

3.1” here in Charlotte with 32dBZ returns overhead and more incoming from the WSW. Looking at correlation coefficient, the mix line stalled just south of Middlebury and recently shunted east as winds veered. Nice morning so far. Edited to add: 30.9°F here at the house. Going out for a run!

Column has finally saturated and light snow has commenced. 1/4” in the first hour. 28.1°F here in the northern Champlain Valley.

26.1°F and a passing snow shower in Clarksburg. It’s 61°F and raining here in Vermont. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Hi there, all. IP just turned to ZR at the house in Clarksburg. 31.1F / 31F. Storm total so far is 2.1" SN/IP. I'll be enjoying this one from the place up in Vermont. 14F / -3F here now and only expecting 2-3" of SN as the storm skirts by to the south and east.

Totally unrelated but I had a crash course in this. In the 72 hours ending at 3am this morning, there were 52 hourly obs of snow here in Charlotte and a temp that ranged from 24F to 29F. For a whopping 3.6" of snow. And, a max of 2.9" OTG.

There could be three tropical storms (or stronger) in the Atlantic basin at the same time in the middle of November. Incredible.

Here you go:

(sorry for the banter)

Flurries in Clarksburg. Temp is 38°F. It’s good to be in the area for the week!

The 11am update still has Zeta as a tropical storm as it enters SW Virginia. Is it really still warm-core at this point?

I gotta be honest, I am most interested in the potential, eventual interaction between what’s left of Zeta and the upper level low that will eject east out of that phased trough in the west. Whopper Halloween storms are fun.

Just saving this here. Organizing storms at 1min intervals and 0.5km resolution are a thing of beauty:

Saved here for posterity...

Just quarantined for now. I’ll revert back to weekdays in DC/Clarksburg and weekends up here once this thing is over. I’m fortunate that my agency can complete over 98% of its mission with a remote workforce.

There’s some real talent up here. I’m enjoying learning about the microclimate specifics and distinctions of a new place. Down there, it’s all so natural since I’ve been in the mid Atlantic for so long. Up here, I am having to think hard since small areal differences have a large practical weather impact. Just like down there.

Here it is from the west. Very Caribbean looking

Greetings from NW Vermont, where I’ve been for 13 weeks straight. I hope everyone down there is well and safe. We finally got the very first bit of moisture from that cutoff low up here. One, single terrain-Induced shower. It was pretty though. That’s Lake.Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains in the background.

The very first evidence of moisture from that cut off low has finally made it to Northwest Vermont.