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At 10.5" at 5:30. Big, big hit.

9" in near West End Henrico, just outside RIC. Still great rates.

9" here in Westham by UR, Forest and Patterson. So, that means 2.5 at the airport, right? Can't complain, waiting for the Xmas lights to come on now that I have cleared them all off. Great start to the season.

Hold that line Anthony!

Just got back looking for snow pants for the stepdaughter, main roads, Parham and Patterson caving quicker than I thought. We called it, now 1" on the grill! Moderate with bursts of heavy.

Light to Moderate here in the near West End. Traffic and brine combo keeping main roads passable. Secondary roads picking up light accumulations. 1/2 inch on the deck thus far.

Ah, the dreaded pings to rain scenario and back again. If only I weren't so familiar with it. Understood.

Yeah, with that tick north on the Euro, I expected the local mets to interrupt programming. Guess they are waiting until 6:00. Assume Wakefield is waiting for 2:00 but Henrico/RIC has to be watch material now.

Watches expanded north and east a little bit. We are still not in one but I am still drinking the Kool Aid.

I don't want to lose anything but it's nice when we and DC are in the game as they have great mets and hobbyists posting in the main thread (BobChill, psu, etc) but when they are on the outside looking in, the misery overtakes, and I completely understand it as it is usually us. Hope for a small enough shift to get them in the game but still have us jackpot.

Great storm rmcwahoo. I measured 11" out in Glen Allen. Absolutely puking snow that afternoon while playing Christmas music and wrapping presents.

Agree...still a long ways out, the key is there is a storm, of that we are sure and can track. We know it's going to tick N at some point, will it tick W enough to get us in the game.

Agree, I would take 4 - 5 inches in December and run! The question will be will the inevitable jog to the north occur early in the models or late, it always seems to. We get the congrats RIC, RIC in the bullseye, jackpot RIC, then it shifts and well, the rich get richer. Hoping for a solution that works for everybody. Let's see today if GFS starts creeping toward Euro solution.

The main thread is definitely worried about suppression, which would likely be a good thing for us. But, how many times have we seen the movie where RIC is in the bulls eye 96 hours out only to have it shift inevitably to the north? Fingers crossed for an event that affects us all but selfish as we are due...want something to fall and stick to enhance the holiday lights.

I heard a stat from one of NBC12's meteorologists that there have been more days with rain this year than not, over 50% of days. I can't remember hearing that one before. I thought 2003 was pretty rainy, year we had Isabel but that might have just been the summer. As much as I like storms, I am glad derechos and hurricanes did not find RIC this year given the soil situation. The tornado breakout was enough excitement to feed my severe weather itch this year.

Seems reasonable based on the model output I had seen in the main thread. It could be that some folks get on the higher end but the melting/compaction that occurs may lessen that total during the day Wednesday. Which leads me to an interesting thought that I will have to google...what is the official measurement for a snowstorm? For example, at RIC Airport, assume we have great snow rates during the night and hypothetically we get 4" of snow on the board and they check that measurement, if/when melting compaction occurs while it is still snowing and at the conclusion of the event is only 2", what is the accepted official total?

Nice video Midlo. Has me looking up Nest cams now. It was also good to see that lonely snow pile get some company at least for a little while.

Wasnow215, guessing you live off Hunton Park Boulevard by those pics. I used to live back there in the Ridge at Hunton Park, used to run through that area...miss it. A little late on the WWA I think, I thought we would have had one around 2:30PM. This is certainly more than enough to impact the evening commute.

Yep, can confirm moderate snow in Innsbrook...slowly sticking to grass, mulch and leaves are faring better. Winter's last gasp. At least the RIC/SEVA thread can be somewhat relevant and near the top of the board here at the bitter end. Roll on spring and severe weather season.

Some faith, wasn't too long ago we had a March Dumper. Just hard to watch in the main thread as RVA was in the bullseye, too early as it usually is, and then you get the inevitable jog north for DC.

Nice. I would think RIC will record a trace...when I went to the gym 5:00AM it was drizzling, I came out at 6:00 to moderate to heavy snow, by 7:00 it was sticking to less traveled side roads. Caught the schools in a bind as buses were delayed due to slush on the side roads...certainly glad they didn't try and close schools. Close to 1/4 to 1/2 inch on my lawn but borderline temps, my weather station said 34 degrees, by the time I was driving to work it was about 75% melted.

Doubtful they break it seeing as how it's 17.5". He meant for the date, 1/17...would be news if they broke their actual daily snowfall record for all days. What are we at for total in RIC - RIC Airport? For the winter, 7.5"?

Yeah, I am guessing, looking out my window at work here in Innsbrook, that it's 2" on grass but as you pointed out, too light to build up on the roads...was hoping for an early departure but doesn't look too bad on the roads.

I just want one big one and I am good. These small events are better than nothing but want one big enough where I am home from work and me and my wife can walk up to the bars near our house in the snow. BUT, that one big one could tear up the kiddie's spring break, they are already going to give up President's Day when they are closed tomorrow. Shoot, that 4 days they missed for that 2", granted the first 3 days I think were justified but the 4th, not sure about but given they have to take in account the whole county and that may have included some jackpot zones, I get it. Hope we get an over performer but looking at radar returns, it feels like i have seen this movie before...