Hank Scorpio

Flurrying again in Ashburn. Best rates of wave one were yesterday when it was 40 degrees before eventually flipping to rain after the temperature dropped to 33, lol.

Time sensitive, but this radar loop does a great job of showing how persistent banding has been in the region since yesterday evening: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?parms=LWX-N0Q-0-200-100-usa-rad

I happened to check radar back at like 4:45 just before that big band moved into Loudoun, in time for my 3 year old and me to get our snow gear on and head out with the sled. Ended up sledding in mod/heavy snow for 1.5 hours and had a blast. Certainly a surprise and puts this storm in a much more positive light. Using the NWS accepted and highly accurate eyeball it method, looks like we picked up a quick 1.5 - 2 inches.

Agreed. Once the splotches moved overhead here in Ashburn rates finally picked up. Still light, but it's accumulating again.

I always think it's fun to view things from a non-weenie perspective. If I had paid zero attention to this storm all week, and then I woke up tomorrow morning to mod snow with a forecast for 10" would I be bummed? Hell no! If I can pick up 6" tomorrow and get outside all day to sled with my 3 year old, does it really matter that some patch of PA ended up with two feet? Nah, and we'll have fun regardless

Even within Eastern Loudoun, there are little micro climates. Very consistently, going from 400ft on belmont Ridge to the airport at 300ft, there's a difference. Not so much noticeable right after the snow stops, but definitely noticeable after a few days once the snow starts to melt. Very common for snow to hang on in the shadows at 400ft while it's about gone at 300ft, 5 miles away, a week after the storm.

I got you, friend

This stuff moving into Ashburn now is sleet instead of freezing rain which is nice, since the trees were starting to get pretty heavy. Hoping the changeover doesn't stall out just to the west... I see it creeping past upperville toward philomont now. That terrain is up in the 500-600 foot range though

Ended up with something like 3 inches of snow in Ashburn, then a bunch of sleet, and now the freezing rain is doing a pretty decent job of glazing trees.

Officially considered ripping fatties in Ashburn. I checked the weenie handbook to confirm

On the topic of kids, recent studies failed to find a single case of a child passing the virus to an adult. While I'm sure it's happened somewhere at some point, the only research and data we have right now seems to show that kids just never really become contagious. One of the examples cited was a 9 year old British boy. They carried out contact tracing and out of the 170 people he came into contact with, 0 caught the virus. Open everything up as if nothing were wrong? No, but we should be putting together plans on how to get kids to back school this fall. Take the summer to develop a plan that protects teachers from other parents and staff, but it's becoming more and more clear it's not kids who are spreading this thing.

Just went from Tysons to Ashburn. 40 degrees in Tysons and raining, dropped to 37ish near Wolf Trap and started to mix with snow, was down to 36ish by Reston and all snow, and then down to 34ish in Herndon and starting to stick to grass. By the time I got to the broadlands area, it was sticking to the roads quite nicely.

Thanks! Something similar popped up a few times in different places as the whole thing interacted with the Potomac. Here's another occurrence earlier, before it crossed 495:

Yesterday I had a nice view of that area of rotation from Tysons as it moved from Fairfax County, across the Potomac, and into MD before the rain moved in and blocked my view. Pretty neat to watch!

Went for a good Jebwalk in the wilds of suburban Ashburn...always so nice to explore, see how the landscape has been changed, and enjoy just how silent the blanket of snow has made everything. I ended up doing more shoveling when I got back, since the plows had moved a mountain of snow just beyond the edge of my driveway while I was gone, and I knew it'd be a glacier come morning. \

Really enjoying winter finally being back here in Ashburn. I haven't gone to measure, but eyeballing, it looks like 2.5ish inches?

This whole storm was unbelievable during the week leading up, during the storm, and even after. It's a lot of fun reading through this tread though - good memories for sure. About an hour after the snow started It wouldn't be a storm without people raiding the grocery stores During one of the heavier bands on the 19th - the farthest building in the distance is 600 - 700 feet away My car didn't go anywhere for a while