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Very surprised at these record lows coming at the tail end of two absolutely torcherrific months.

Wow.

The icing on the cake is that the GFS hasn’t shown precip in that area for the past 3 runs. It decided to give up right as it was at the finish line

There's gotta be a new term for this. Slant sticking is when you're salty about your own snow measurements so you inflate your own totals. What do you call it when you're salty about your own snow measurements so you go out and deflate other people's snow totals?

Occam's razor. Either 50+ trained spotters with corroborating radar history + liquid equivalent measurements + hundreds of non-trained measurers were completely off their rockers and ALL mismeasured by half the storm's total or greater, or.. one emotionally-charged postered missed out on the best banding, and got salty about it?

Okay you got me, and all of the shadow measurers who've co-conspired to fake the snowfall totals all across SNE, working in collaboration with Big Accordion to get you so frustrated with this hobby that you go out and impulse buy 10 Pigini Mythos accordions to fix the snow drift-sized hole in your heart. You've busted us, just like your snow forecast busted. The jig is up. You happy now?

Seems like temps are the main bust more than anything on the GFS' part. Saw those gnarly high radar returns up in Maryland and figured it was melting aloft but I checked the temperatures and Brunswick MD is 47F lol

The self-listing of accolades under the Youtube bio tells the whole story by the way, those 4 "TED Talks" are a subset called TedX talks. Basically anyone can apply for one of those so long as they have an interesting story, no accolades or anything required. Someone could probably do one on the ups and downs of being on this board lmao

because it's rain?

In an attempt to break the cycle of nostalgia posting (which I am very guilty of..), the 12z AI GFS looks interesting for that early March window. 2-wave system, looks like it drops 0.6-1" QPF over the course of both of those waves. Subfreezing the whole time, though no idea about 850s.

Basically every other modern A+ winter illustrates how rare 09-10 was. 95-96's 2nd biggest snowfall at DCA was 8.4". In 02-03 it was 6.6". In 13-14 it was 7.0". In 09-10.. A snowfall of 10.8 inches was the 3rd largest snowfall of the winter.

The Feb 5-6 and 9-10 storms being back to back is simply mythological, it's astounding that any sort of pattern could enable 2 big dog storms not even 4 full days apart at our latitude. That being on top of an almost as-rare December HECS and the already regionwide 28"+ winter totals is the stuff of weenie lore. I don't care if we get a winter that rivals 13-14 in totals but with snowpack on the ground from December to St. Patrick's Day. If it doesn't have at least 3 big dog storms, it's not topping 09-10.

One inch for every snowman, how poetic.

I would imagine that, so long as we don't get a Super Nino, the prospect of any Nino raises the floor of winter at least? At least in the event of a warm winter. At DCA for instance, 40F+ winter average and La Nina are a no-go combo, the last 5 such cases averaged 4.4" of snow. 40F+ El Ninos are a different story, 2 of the last 3 exceeded climo, with 23-24 being the odd one out, though its snow total is pretty comparable to this year's despite being 8 degrees warmer lol. Again that's all in hoping that a Super Nino doesn't come in and wreck everything, anything weaker and it seems like we at least won't get nothingburgered.

Pretty sure he just got an AI to modify the Jan 2016 blizzard map. Dont blame him, blame the machines. They’re gonna vex your locale and turn the snow drifts to puddles

It didn't even hold for 12 hours, I was looking at 0z by accident though the ensembles are pretty consistently underdoing cold into the medium range still. Incredibly persistent bias this winter.

This aged almost as badly as your call saying there'd be no storm.

I for one believe in the 100 hours of subfreezing temperatures + snowstorm that the Euro shows for our region at the end of the run.. going into the second week of March. That'll happen.

Wow, the snowiest guidance was wrong? What other newfound wisdom will you bestow upon us today?

Dang, was banking on BWI getting into the Western edge of a late-developing storm like they did in March 2018. Yesterday was the chance, but the window just passed.

Already surpassed yesterday’s 6z RGEM that @snowman19 had as his pick for the model that represented the most likely outcome. Speaking of which.. where is snowman? Enjoying the storm, I hope

The two will merge and usher in the new ice age, Day After Tomorrow style

Branches breaking due to wet nature of the snow according to my folks in McLean

BWI literally got 6.3 inches of snow nearly 11 years to the day - Feb 21st, 2015. Your superstitious view on late February warning-level snow is really just a byproduct of the fact that warning level snow at any time of winter is incredibly rare, but it also just isn't true.

Can confirm, went from light rain to sizeable snowflakes in the past 10 minutes.