After seeing @psuhoffman mention that J-F 2014 stretch as an analog to the possible upcoming pattern, I pulled up my accumulations from that season. What a great winter that was for this area.
Good stuff, Mitch. Thanks. It was my first snowfall after moving to the metro area from Western Maryland. After that one and Feb 1983, I thought I’d be ok with the move. Didn’t realize there would only be 4 above-normal seasons in the next 25 years.
Before the game, Kirk Herbstreit predicted that a close game would be decided late on a Penn State turnover that would give Notre Dame the victory. Pretty damned good call.
Berkeley County schools have used up their 5 allotted snow days and are now mandated to go to remote learning with any additional cancellations. Don’t think anyone is prepared for that right away, so after 20 days off, they are going with a 2-hour delay tomorrow.
Hopefully the partial day is spent working out the details before the next snowfall.
Most of the recent model runs have a bit more QPF through the Eastern Panhandle than further south in the Valley. Not sure what they are picking up on, but hope it’s right. It means the difference between a dusting and an inch+ here.
Hoping the second stage of this storm can send DCA above 6” and join that very limited list of January 6” snowfalls that @donsutherland1shared recently.
My forecast in the a.m. yesterday was for 6-9”. In the afternoon, it was raised to 8-12”. I’m at 3” so far. With all respect to LWX, who I think does a great job, it wasn’t a stellar call for this area.
I’m sure you will do much better the remainder of the day than I will. Most recent runs of the NAM and HRRR really cut back on daytime accumulations for my yard. Gonna be tough to reach the low end of the 6-12” forecast here IMO.