I was a kid in Central PA for 1996 and I remember absolutely insane snow piles on the streets. They seemed like mountains, as I was 8 at the time. 2003 was similar, as was 2010.
OP GFS has a juicy southern wave rolling out of texas and thru the gulf states around D10, so, aligning with the EPS's idea of something headed our way around the 19-20th. In OP la-la land its too warm.
yeah they didn't have their coffee yet. I think that is where sleet/ZR is modeled. Often ends up looking weird between precip types on the margins. If you look at the ZR map, could be a bad ice storm down in the GA--> carolina piedmont zone.
There are a few complexes back in my neighborhood and IDK why the County hasn't prioritized clearing roads leading to them out. In Silver Spring, its seemed like they're getting all the roads that the ride-on buses go on clear first.
A rare blue-sky arctic day around here. Local weatherbug reports 27F, with 15mph wind gusts. Snow blowing off the trees and whipping around. Montgomery County ignoring plowing the tertiary residential streets. Deep winter feel, 10/10.
Final tally (after some compaction in the afternoon) was about 7" in my yard. That's averaged across several spots at 8am today. I cleared the driveway around 4pm yesterday and there was probably another 1-1.5" on there, but it had blown around a bit so hard to get an accurate measurement. That's near downtown Silver Spring.