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https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=kdca

Is the snow depth reported here automated and how accurate is it?

Based on CC it appears that the sleet line is running from just south of the lwx radar through Baltimore.

5 minutes ago, 87storms said:

seeing some returns showing up on cod.  not sure if that's virga, but it's a good sign.  interesting system, that's for sure.

Plain rain in Bethesda.

Maybe this band of precip is where the jack will set up

4 minutes ago, JoMo said:

The Wxbell Kuchera maps are obviously flawed. It wouldn't surprise me if it was purposely done in order to get people to post them to advertise or drive business to their site. Wichita was reporting 20:1 ratios yesterday.

There was a tweet yesterday by them about how they found and fixed a bug in the Kuchera maps. Twitter is being slow for me right now so I can't pull it up.

16 minutes ago, rochesterdave said:

The way that band is pivoting around Binghamton is just gorgeous. I’m so jealous. Once in a lifetime type thing. Drink it up

Pretty sure something like this happened for the March 2017 storm too. Man that was a fun storm. It was my first winter in Ithaca for college. Now I'm in St Louis and we call a dusting a major win. Miss the snow and glad you guys are cashing in again.

2 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

There is some very confused species of cherry tree around me that is partially blooming right now

It's probably Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis' which produces a sparse fall bloom. 

23 hours ago, ErinInTheSky said:

What time was this?

 

At 10:00 I saw essentially barely a smudge, it was oriented like the comet so I’m pretty sure I saw it but it was very hard to see.

It was around 10:30. That was a 1.5s exposure. But yeah it's pretty dim.

7 hours ago, ErinInTheSky said:

I want to check out Comet Neowise tonight. Is there a good place in the region I can find a dark sky and an unobstructed view of the horizon?

Was at Darnestown Park last night. Still kinda bright but I could barely make it out with the naked eye. Much better with binoculars. I bet if you went farther down route 28 you could find open fields that were darker.

Little pop up cell just came through Bethesda with the most impressive winds thus far this year. Was over in about 5 minutes though

4 hours ago, RDM said:

Don't recall ever seeing anything like this in May.  There's a lot of navy blue there...   Interesting that the border of NY and PA is not under a warning too... 

https://www.weather.gov     

Growing season hasn't started there yet.

On 4/27/2020 at 9:19 AM, Eskimo Joe said:

Two question for the lawn folks:

1.) Do you have a recommendation for a de-thatcher/aerator that isn't overly expensive for a home owner to buy?

2.) We have a lot of wild violets on our lawn.  We have a lawn service that does some light spraying for us, but the violets just laugh at it.  Are there any suggestions on how to slowly reduce their numbers?

We also have a lot of violets. The most effective way is to probably remove them by hand with one of the stick weeders. The rhizomes are pretty shallow and easy to find. I've sprayed them with roundup before and they still came back so chemical control is pretty much a no go unless you want to repeatedly nuke with powerful herbicides.

Mixture of grauple and needle like flakes in Ithaca. Mix line is still pretty far south on radar.

Hoping for more snow than liquid down here but that may not happen with the traditional last second NW push.

2 minutes ago, yoda said:

MCD issued to our south in E VA and E NC... 80 percent chance of a watch

Annnd now it's gone. I get an error message when I try to see the MCD.

6 hours ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

Looking ahead... When is a good time to transplant an Alberta Spruce in this region? I’m thinking around November? I moved a Weeping Cherry last year in January and it turned out fine, but since the spruce never goes dormant idk if winter is appropriate.

Either late fall after the other trees go dormant or early spring after the ground thaws but before the tree wakes up is what I have been told over the years. 

But really any time the ground isn't too hard to dig in the winter is fine too. 

Pulled this from the New England Forum.  A tad wetter and r/s line a bit NW.

12 minutes ago, WxNoob said:

It’s actually gotten warmer here the past hour as rain is pushing up from the south faster than the cold from the west.  Closing in on a half inch of rain so far lawn is flooded.

HRRR suggests we flip by midnight.

I think this is the year where we have a chance of getting more snow than the NE... All we need is one well placed snow bomb that misses the NE... and then torch until May...

It snowed today