WVclimo

Sure would be nice if the GEM could be correct for the first time ever.

20 of the past 30 years had less snow at DCA than this winter. If another 2.5" can fall at the airport before the season ends, there will only be 6 winters in those past 30 years with more snow than this winter.

The thing I find most strange is that this has actually been a pretty decent winter for our region. I am a few inches from an average snowfall year with 4 weeks to go, and so are many folks throughout our sub forum. Yet to read the board daily you would think we are having a terrible winter. I get that some folks like the Baltimore crew have fallen short of the rest of the area, but there are always winners and losers nearly every year. Last the year the Shenandoah Valley continually got the shaft while the snow totals piled up on the eastern shore. I shudder to think what some posters will be like when we get our typical "bad" winter like, say, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2017-18. I get why the SNE folks who get 45-90" almost every year are unhappy with being in single digits for the season. But the mid-Atlantic has little to complain about this year imo.

In 2017, I entered March with a seasonal snowfall total of 3.3" and finished at 13.3". Last year, by the first of March I was at 7.3" and finished the year with 22.7".

My yard rides the .20" QPF line on 18Z. 0.40" is 25 miles south. Good measuring stick to track trends over the next couple of days.

I'm counting on this. 0.10" QPF at 32 degrees as depicted won't mean much. Need about 30-50 miles as we close in.

Wendy with flurries here this morning. Looks like a nice blustery February day on tap

1.58” storm total

Hourly forecast from NWS has temps in the low 30's until the pre-dawn hours, when they dip below freezing for a couple of hours. Forecasted low for your area is 30. Winds are forecast to pick up considerably around dawn.

Just ticked above freezing for the first time during this long duration event. Currently 32.8 with about a quarter-inch of ice on trees and a little over an inch of snow on the ground.

11/15 - 7.4" 12/05 - 0.1" 1/12-13 - 6.8” 1/17-18 - 1.4" 1/19 - 2.0" 1/29 - 0.9" 2/1 - 2.5" 2/10 - 1.3" 2/11- 0.7" total - 23.1"

0.5" of new snow in the past half-hour here. Pouring giant flakes right now at 32 degrees.

Just flipped to a snow/ sleet mix. Already a new coating on cleared surfaces. Hope this keeps up for a while.

After light rain/ freezing rain all day, snow is starting to mix back in here with precip rates increasing. 32 degrees.

11/15 - 7.4" 12/05 - 0.1" 1/12-13 - 6.8” 1/17-18 - 1.4" 1/19 - 2.0" 1/29 - 0.9" 2/1 - 2.5" 2/10 - 1.3" total - 22.4" 4" away from climo