WVclimo

I added this years ago. It's a great addition but it does underreport up to 15-20% at times due to airflow above the heated cone. My station is sited about 75' from the house. The anemometer is on a pole that extends about 7' above the pinnacle of my roof (to achieve the 10m height standard.). The wire coming down from the anemometer is mounted to the side of my house and once it reaches the ground, I strung it through a length of PVC pipe that runs to the station, that I buried in the ground. In that same pipe, I extended the power cord from the heater which returns to the house and runs through a small hole I drilled so it can connect to an outlet inside and allows me to switch it on and off from there.

I have had one for 13 years. One of the best investments I ever made. Only one hiccup in all that time, when a lightning strike messed up the console. Tech support was first rate. Great equipment and company.

32/8. Baro 30.58” with a light northerly breeze at 3 mph.

I made the call this afternoon to close the business tomorrow (in Winchester.) Always a stressful decision. It had better snow a decent amoun there.

DT's call:

I was living along Rt 1 between Jessup and Savage, MD in Feb 1983. I measured 4.8" in an hour that featured the best thundersnow I have ever experienced. The nearest house to mine was about 300' away and for much of that hour I couldn't see the place from my front door. Truest white out I have seen too, though there were moments in January 2016 that came close here in WV.

Don't know if Wednesday will be our last shot at appreciable snowfall this season, but if the storm performs as modeled here, it could solidify this as a good winter. With 3.5" I hit climo in my yard. With 5.5" I would be able to record back-to-back months with double-digit snowfall totals. And with 7" I would pass 30" for the season. Hitting any of those marks puts this into the top third of winters in this area.

I thought they were too bullish in the forecasts for the November storm and the mid-January event. Both times they nailed it. They have had a good season at that office imo.

Probably too early to take anything from the NAM verbatim, but 18Z 3k has HGR-MRB-OKV with 0.55"-0.65" QPF as snow, then 0.60-0.80" as sleet with up to 0.25" of 32 degree rain on top. If that verifies, upper 40's on Thursday will be welcome chain saw weather.

Excessive precip amounts on the 3k NAM for that area. Having seen many storms like this growing up there, these events can be much more severe in the valley around Cumberland than even the high ground Frostburg and west. Certain locales where the cold banks up against the ridges like Eckhart, Vale Summit, Clarysville, Lonaconing, Mt Savage, Barrelville, Corriganville and Hyndman can really take it on the chin with heavy ice in these type of events.

Nice graupel shower moved through with the temp at 41. Behind it, the temp is now dropping more sharply.

OKV: 10.8" + 0.73" FZRA Should we start working on the calculation for how much to reduce this model's totals when it goes live, the way we always did with the ETA/ NAM ?

This is my favorite panel from the 00Z run. 6" already on my yard, heavy snow falling, heavy sleet a few hours away and look at the sub-25 degree pocket wedged over top of me ! Lol @ hr 66 NAM.

I ended up with almost two weeks of snow cover with those successive events. Pretty nice for December. Then by Christmas it was back to upper 60's.

Looking back at my records, it was 69° on 12/5 and 59 on 12/6 with a couple of inches of rain. By the 7th the high was 39 and the next day finished with a max-min of 29/24 during the heavy snowfall. So about the same leading in as this Tuesday's forecast, but a few degrees colder for the event than this one is progged.

Euro is a major winter storm for here. A lot can change with 72 hours to go but as of now we are in a good spot across guidance.

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.