Random Chaos

If you had a hydrogen alpha scope, there was a spectacular arch shaped promenance erupting from the bottom of the sun that whe the eclipse started was sticking well past the moon while the sun it came from was hidden!

Dusting here. Mist of the ground is bare but some locations have snow.

If you’re not familiar with Maryland’s lidar map, it includes DC and is awesome: https://geodata.md.gov/topoviewer/

I’m confused on the LWX snow graphics. They list worst case as most snow. Isn’t that best case? Worst case is no snow

Don’t think anyone posted this yet…

*jots down note* Snow on April 8th, 2024 during solar eclipse. Gotcha! Don't have to worry about sun angle during an eclipse.

Just measured: 1.5" near the house (~50-75 feet from Chesapeake Bay) 3.5" further inland (~125 feet from Chesapeake Bay) Might be more up at the road (~400 feet from bay), but didn’t walk that far. Typical for snow storms for me. One reason I never do skywarn reporting on snow accumulation - between wind and temperature differences due to the bay, I often have drifting and/or a depth gradient with more snow further from the water.

Haven’t had a lot of accumulation here, but it sure is pretty! I was above freezing until after dawn, sitting at 30.7F now. Photo of my weather station in SN:

Clearly it's about who creates the thread as to whether we get an event.

Are they still using the RPM model?

Starting the PBP, the -72 hr 500mb vorticity on the 18z matches the -66 hr 500mb vorticity on the 12z. We're off to a good start!

Maybe? I know the HRRR had us getting almost nothing last storm. I really didn't pay much more attention than that.

I'm only getting 8.3" on that. Can you find a ratio that gives me more? I want to be in those 10"+ zones up over Baltimore. In all seriousness though, while I like what the GFS is showing, this setup for a storm historically hasn't produced well for us. There's a chance, and us weenies will be hanging on for dear life to that chance, but I'm not being overly hopeful until we reach Sunday and it still shows this solution.

Where's the CRAS. I want something that gives us more snow than the Euro!

Hey, Ichabod Crane's headstone is a nice stone monument point to base everything else off of! You should be glad they actually included something that wasn't going to decay!