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    This is the best cloud to cloud lightning I’ve seen in many many years on the back end. Amazing splintering right overhead. For a half hour now.
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    This and Aug 27th were the best two storms of the year on the Rockville/Gaithersburg border. At least for lightning. It intensified right as it went down the I-270 suburb corridor.
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    Best show of the year in Gaithersburg. We had 4 hits that were on top of us and it is still going. Two may have hit my property it was so bright and close. Also saw green lightning. My 4yo even asked why it was so green.
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    Across the street from me workers were on scaffolding that partially fell (per fire radio, I couldn’t see it on my side). This is in Gaithersburg. Sounds like they were okay. Saw fire equipment I didn’t know existed like an 18 wheeler truck (technical rescue 731).
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    It's crazy I've had nothing this year. Every single event is a miss.
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    I’ve lived in Maryland 4 years and I swear Frederick gets hit 10x for every one storm I get in North Rockville. I’ve yet to have lightning this calendar year besides some distant rumbles. Looks like more of the same.
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    Good amount of lightning over Leesburg now, looks like more firing up there.
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    Not seeing a lot of breaks in the clouds yet except way out west: https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/maps/washington-d.c._united-states_4140963#coords=6.5/38.615/-77.413&map=satellite~sat~none~none~none
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    From what I remember, CMC was the first I noticed hinting at large amounts of sleet across DC metro, as early as Tuesday night last week. But that’s just one data point.
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    I took apart the drain filter on my washer last year and it was disgusting. I had about 8 kids socks in there clogging it up and making it smell. Seems like a design flaw. The big design flaw was the hatch to get to the filter is on the back. Ugh.
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    Instagram seems to like to feed me things that are 3 days old, which ends up hilarious when I keep seeing the weather channel maps from 3 days ago.
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    Every 6 hours I check back in and the mixing is earlier and earlier. I’m seeing now around 9 AM. Unfortunately, that will really limit the ability for people to enjoy the storm. We’ll have kids home for likely two days stuck inside, and going out in sleet and freezing rain isn’t a good time. I’d much rather be on the northern fringe and get 4” of powder.
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    I was also in NYC and if I remember right, that was the storm (on some other forum) where a ~40 yr veteran but retired NWS person called bust early and was eaten alive.
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    Northern Illinois really had a crazy couple of days https://imgur.com/a/uxQXMDS
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    Seems like the storms up by Rockville died out right on the doorstep. Still the most lightning I’ve seen all year, which is to say, not a lot. Sadly barely any rain. But on the plus side we have a nice rainbow now.
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    The Gaithersburg tornado passed about a 1/2 mile north of me. Easily the craziest cloud movement I’ve ever seen for a few minutes. They were moving every which direction. Saw some interesting rotation right as it passed Gaithersburg downtown. https://imgur.com/a/rTvadzv
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    What luck! Brother is getting married Sunday night in LA area. My flight back to east coast is monday midday. I just booked a backup flight on Tuesday because this does not bode well for flights out of LAX Monday.
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    The entire University of Maryland campus has had no power since 5:30 PM yesterday. Hopefully getting it back today, but the nearby neighborhoods had some major damage, especially Berwyn. Can see the bow echo was at peak form right as it hit College Park.
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    I actually have more surfaces covered in snow than any point during the last storm! The wind just kills ratios and accumulation here right on the Hudson River. I could still see huge swaths of ground during the storm last time because nothing would stick. I’m like 10ft from the river so winds really crank here between the skyscrapers.
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    3k Nam doesn't look as good for NYC. Throws 14" over Morris county but 7" over NYC due to mixing.
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    Here we go again, let's hope the trend stops now!
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    That makes no sense. First of all, it wasn’t really an outlier. Secondly, you can’t properly measure the snow two days later.
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    https://www.weather.gov/source/crh/snowmap.html?sid=dvn 35.1” report out of Mt Arlington, NJ
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    Montague, NJ reported an average reading of 33" at 7 AM. They may set the NJ record of 34" in 1899. However, not sure why Boxing Day Blizzard reported amounts of 36" in NJ don't count.
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