WVclimo

I’ve chased snowstorms many times over the years and have never really been stranded for more than a day, or two at the most. I generally try to position near major highways, which is certainly easier if it’s a spot near the coast or near cities and not mountainous areas. I have a decent 4x4 truck and I carry most of the implements to dig out if necessary. if it did end up being like that famous photo of the cars buried on the interstate in NE in ‘78, I guess life would just have to wait on me to return.

I typically won’t chase a storm if my yard is in line for any snow at all. But if the weekend storm is going to have me trying to scratch out an inch while any part of the east coast has blizzard conditions, I might have to reconsider that policy.

I remember that exact experience loading model runs before the Blizzard of 1996.

MRB is -2.8 for January so far. If it snows 0.5” here Friday, I’ll have a double-digit snowfall total for January. It’s been a pretty good winter month.

Agreed, and yet we see it mentioned often in WFO forecast discussions.

Have to go back to the 1990’s to find those kind of wet Januaries.

I am going with 3.5”. It was one of the tougher moderate snow events to measure.

Made it up to 33° for two hours overnight. Now back below freezing here. Barometer bottomed out at 29.01”

1/7 — 6.0” 1/16 - 3.5” season total 9.5”

Heavy snow now. 0.25 mile visibility. 16/13. Winds picking up as flake size increases. 2.5”

Clear moonlit skies. 14/1 Static electricity is off the charts. Barometer at 30.36” and steady for now. Maybe sub 29.20” tomorrow night.

LWX dropped the forecasted low temperature tonight to 5°F for Hagerstown and Martinsburg.

You should get some great snow drifts out that way. Enjoy !

The ECMWF continues to be the wettest model for this area.

Interesting that the models aren’t depicting much sleet near the rain/snow line.

12Z Euro says days 9/10 are frigid.

It’s a PDF file. May need a reader if your browser doesn’t open it ?

Discussion of the models’ performance (with some 20th century maps) leading into Jan 1996, from pgs. 19-30 https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/bz-mrg.pdf

WxMachine ?

I never emotionally invest in a storm… until RuggieWx is on board.

I’m kind of expecting a big snow in the Carolinas out of this upcoming pattern.

Light freezing rain and 30°. Glaze on car tops and some elevated surfaces.

High of 27 for the second day in a row. Barometer crested at 30.66” this morning. I rarely see higher pressure than that here.

5.5” with moderate snow. Looks like another hour or so before the good stuff cuts off here. Should easily pass 6”. Overperformer for sure for the season’s first snowfall.

I was inside the Beltway in College Park at ~300’ elev. Got way too much sleet. Only time 19” ever felt like a let down lol.