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1 hour ago, dailylurker said:

It's wild how we go from the same weather for 6 months straight (40's and low 50's) to basically summer, overnight. When I was a kid, 35 years ago we had four seasons. Now we have two. Fall and summer. 

Yep. Nighttime lows in the 60s-70s-(80s?) for the next 6 months.

Sort of fun, here's solar production for the day at my house. Hello eclipse.

Was very cool to see a ton of people out in the local park by my house, just watching. We had good timing with the cloud deck here as it approached maximum. Everything muted, gray, and cool, but still quite bright. A sort of eerie light when you look at the woods or the sky away from the sun and see blue... but it's just not the right shade. Awesome!

Scattered clouds over the immediate DC metro... go away!

Very cool to see all the traffic headed to the zone of totality on google maps right now. Here's NE, but lots of examples across the midwest too..

Where is the sun

Yeah, holy smokes on the bridge collapse. Not a good day in Maryland. RIP for those who are lost. This is going to have regional impacts for a long time.

Best day of 2024 yet today?

10 hours ago, Ji said:

I was shocked to read Pittsburgh averages 44 inches of snow a year? How is that?

They get all the clippers before they die when they hit the Allegheny plateau. Lots of nickel and dime events

Southeast Montgomery county pummeled by rain this am

7 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Lightning and thunder in Columbia! Big long rolling thunder.

Same in silver spring. Bright lightning flashed once to the north

This thread is a weenie nightmare

2 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

lol. Sleet fest 

i was asking for the clown maps so i could see that hilarious gradient 

not that terrible but something wonky going on with sleet.

1 minute ago, stormtracker said:

Nobody  got the pretty clown maps?

sun angle currently blasting my yard in Silver Spring, lawn is hot enough to fry an egg

Clinging to my 300' ASL. I did great in the two january storms so hoping for another heat-island win here.

3 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

So close to flipping over in Silver Spring... A few bombs are making it through.

Same here. Where are you in SS? I'm in 20910 east of downtown

1 minute ago, Bob Chill said:

 I also strongly believe that given the same parameters leading into to another winter can easily yield different results. 

 

^^^^^ this times 10,000. Every winter is unique. Pattern analogues, nino, qbo, epo, pna, nao, etc, help us guess. But they don't predict!

2 minutes ago, nj2va said:

HRRR would be a really fun morning.

Most densely populated part of the metro area jackpot again?? Snow Town 

Putting my 1,000th post in this thread for obvious reasons. It's snain season inside the beltway.

1 minute ago, Terpeast said:

Temps - I'm at 47.5/47 atm. Long way to go.

46/45 here inside the beltway

Look at how heavy that subtropical juice is coming in: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=nrnmidat-02-24-1   

If only it were 5 degrees colder

7 minutes ago, AlexD1990 said:

so is the epic pattern dead? lots of mixed signals in here...

I think the big threat, if we still have it, is not until after this weekend. And it's still there, it hasn't evaporated. Patience required.  And with short run modeling being haywire this year, maybe we can get a quick win (win = seeing snowflakes) in the meantime.

Northeast Maryland....

lol versus snow depth