North Balti Zen

This. See under - “all of last winter” during the epic pattern that never arrived.

lol - I was making a similar reference in the banter thread

@Steve25For Balt City neighborhoods in 2013/14 - I was in Hamilton neighborhood that winter and had 46" - poster NW Balt (Pikesville area) had 57. Ravensrule (near poster NW Balt reported 64"). In 2014/15 I moved to where I currently am in North Baltimore and had 30 inches, poster NW Balt had 33. I got those from the season snow totals threads for those years on this forum.

If you go find the seasonal totals thread from this forum for these years and find my last post you will be able to see how Baltimore (not downtown) made out. They were good years.

Just found the old thread - according to my notes I had .5 of ice from first part of storm and did make it to 5 inches on second part so it did verify the warning.

I would have to go back and check my notes from the annual thread but my immediate recall is that one also underperformed here inside the 695 beltway.

The Jan 2019 storm was pretty disappointing in balt city - scraped for get to five inches and missed the second part entirely. Really, since Jan 2016 it has been pretty fallow inside the 695 loop...

BWI: 17.7" DCA: 13.4" IAD: 25.5" RIC: 16.3" Tiebreaker: SBY 10.6"

"Well, young'uns, back in MY day, there was this thing called "31 degrees". I know, I know, seems impossible to believe..."

BWI: 11/8 DCA: 12/10 IAD: 10/24 RIC: 11/30 Tiebreaker: 8.4"

I recall reading it when it was posted here, and there were like - two times on record - where that happened. Extremely rare.

I am super happy for you that you finally got to experience a legit snowstorm. There's nothing like it, in my view.

Thanks don. That captures the forum split on this storm perfectly. Frustrating for those of us in here in the blue. Although I think that frustration was generally handled well. Probably the biggest forum splitter in terms of totals over such a short distance in our forum where a majority of forum cashed and a small area didn’t since I think the second Feb 2010 blizzard left @mattie g area behind in terms of totals. Maybe @C.A.P.E.‘s area in Jan. 2016 in the dry slot too. fun storm to track though and at least no one got shut out.

To put the gentle frustration of the Baltimore city and north crew in perspective. It is 11 miles from my house to Ellicott City. 5.2 inches for my house, a little over double 11 miles away.

It just didn’t work out for us this time. Hopefully next time we do better. I ended up 5.2. Frustrating given how close we were to much more, but also, could have been much worse in terms of far less snow.

I guess? Not really for me in Balt city. Two sloppy inches that melted hella fast. I sure don’t count that as a jack. For Chill land to be at 11.4 and my part of Balt city at 5.2 is a crazy difference over a short span of land.

Glad for you all but this has been kinda a bitter end to things for those of us north. Maybe we can catch a break on the next one.

For sure on that last part.

Yeah. I am .4 since latest round started but it’s backing off already. Does get me to 5.2 for the event.

Just went for a walk - really lovely out with the snow falling even though the heavy stuff you all are getting isn’t here. Still hoping a band gets here and then pushes up to Mappy and Hoff.

I think the banding is here in Balt city finally. Snow accumulating again - will push me over five inches at my house, hopefully more if this can keep up for several hours.

Finally light snow that may accumulate again.

Literally just how the storm played out. And we are lucky it wasn’t a hair further south or we would only have an inch or two rather then 4-5. We actually really maximized with a system that we were never flush for.

Big parachutes starting to drift down. Fingers crossed.

4.8. So close to five. Just need a hiccup from a snow shower this afternoon.