WesternFringe

What's the timing? 19th/20th or 21st/22nd?

Yeah he said you don’t bring it up in every single (expletive) post, so he had no idea you were the lowest

100% disagree. My family will remember this week forever. 3 rounds of snow totaling 11” and still haven’t gone above freezing since Sunday. The kids got a whole week off from school, as did my wife and I since we both teach. Sledding, fires, plowing snow, movies, blowing snow, family dinners, atv rides, jebwalks, 5° nights, etc. This area in general, and my family specifically, will remember this week in perpetuity.

In reality though, it is cold as heck. Hasn’t gone above freezing since the last storm 5 days ago. We have gotten down to 8° one night and 5° another night. Horses need water heaters in their troughs. I got 6-7” of snow/sleet/snow and then 2 inches of fluff later on Monday night. Wood stove hasn’t gone out since 5 days ago as well. Two inch refresher and the fire rages on!

Southern Alaska is colder and maybe parts of Greenland and central Africa. That’s what I get out of that forecast. Lol

It has mostly ended now. A little more than 2” refresher!

Underdone- from driving in it and seeing it irl

You are always welcome down here! Love to meet for a beer!

Heavy snow driving home 45 minutes ago! 23° and still snowing. Almost 2” so far. Here NW of Staunton Augusta County .

I grew up in upstate NY and it was similar. Snow falling at the bus stop with 4” having just fallen and expecting 5” more. Had to take my mittens off periodically to use my fingers to thaw the ice building up on my eye lashes from my breath. Of course, we had lots of plows and busses with chains and salt and dirt. We were used to 70” a year on average. Not so much in Virginia.

I am a high school teacher. When dealing with public education, one needs to be aware that some parents don’t own cars or have reliable transportation and/or a work schedule that allows them to drive their kids to school. So, it isn’t always up to parents to dictate the transportation method. Thus, the bus is the only option for many students to get to school. I am glad the school divisions are conservative and err on the side of safety since parents would rather school be canceled than have their kids in a bus accident.

Someone posted a line graph of the models and their verification scores a week or so back and the GFS was on a horrible streak in the last month where it went to last place.

Hey, I get an inch plus as well!

Yes jk- I think that is a rule

Last storm it had 12-16” for me and would not budge. I ended up with 8.5” after the 2” in the second round last night. I am not complaining, I’m just saying it is a model and stating the obvious that it is not infallible just bc it has the best verification scores.

One model had one run that said so!

Snowing again and 29 degrees NW of Staunton in Augusta County. Needles mixing in this time around!

Looks like the CMC wrt to orientation of the max stripe.

Have 6.5” of snow with a few layers of sleet mixed in so far. Was like concrete to push with the blade and the atv. Awesome storm!

If this verifies, the Euro was way more correct than the GFS for the last 2-3 days!

Again, it matters where you are looking. The western part of the stripe is heading south towards the Euro solution. For example, LWX has increased snow totals in their warning here compared to their watch. By like 3-5 inches lol

There is movt towards increased totals down south and southwest like the Euro. It matters where you are looking for sure.

Starting to cave to the Euro?

Colder

Okay, I will let you all know if I start sleet or snow at 5:00pm tomorrow because the models still don’t agree!