Eskimo Joe
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Flake size finally increasing and we're at a steady light snow in Reisterstown. Side streets covered.
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I did not say that. That was either Bob or Randy. Alexandria and southern Fairfax County have been stuck in a series of lulls all evening.
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M0.1" Reisterstown...radar would suggest it should be thumping but it's really light snow.
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Good. Hope that keeps up. So many things have to come right for this event which always makes you nervous. The straight up Miller As that come screaming out of the south are so much easier on the nerves.
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Hope you keep on reporting snow because man, that's an ugly dry slot behind this initial band of precip. It looked like it was filling in an hour or so ago but that would really kink things up for everyone.
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DCA somehow reporting SN- but it's 33°. Terrible place for an observing station.
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Looks like Chuck posted the image above. No way I'd buy that. It would be a colossal forecasting bust from Baltimore to Philly if it was somehow right.
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Latest RAP is loltastic...runs warning criteria snow right up to Trenton, NJ. DC gets closed to a foot of snow. No way that happens.
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Definitely fighting some dry air here in Baltimore County...radar would make you think it's coming down at a good clip but it's just very light off and on powdered sugar. Seems like folks in Arlington and southern Fairfax County at the lower elevations in DC are encountering the same thing. Really hope we can moisten the column sooner rather than later.
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00z IAD RAOB should be interesting. I'm thinking there a small pocket or two of dry air lingering.
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Quick dusting on everything. It's like powdered sugar.
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In the last 2 frames of the 0.5° base reflectivity, you can see a band setting up over the beltway in Montgomery/PG county.
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SN- at my home in Reisterstown. Very small flakes.
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Regional radar over West Virginia is showing the precip filling in quickly.
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Based off DOT cams, it's a steady snow west of I-270.
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Thicker low deck of clouds moving in now in Reisterstown. Looks almost like a proper winter day.
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3:00 pm AFD from LWX:
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Looks like your first legit warning criteria event since you moved to Maryland.
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This works well too: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/
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JYO reporting SN-
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Good to see stuff is making it to the ground quickly...even with the lighter returns. 12z RAOB from IAD only had a thin area of really dry air just below 850 mb so it shouldn't take too long to get rid of that.
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For the northern folks, the LWX 1.5° base reflectivity scan seems to show some echoes increasing to your west from Cascade MD through Taneytown...looks like the northern jackpot zone is beginning to take shape.
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Based off DOT cams, it appears as though some steady but very light snow has started in Glen Echo, Cabin John and Potomac.
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Remember to report your first flakes using mPING app on your smart phone. The data help radar meteorologists and operational staff understand where precipitation is making it to the ground!
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Thicker mid level cloud deck moving in up here in Reisterstown. 32/19
