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Still holing on to moderate snow. I wouldn't be surprised if we hit 4" here. Just a few more minutes left.
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1 minute ago, jayyy said:
It’s too bad we didn’t have a big ole HP stationed off the coast of Maine to slow things down or anything to capture the low off the coast. This would have been absolutely epic if it were a longer duration event.
Extremely satisfied, however. No complaints. Warning level snowfall verified with great rates. Been a long time since we’ve seen 2 warning level snow events within 5 days in these parts. Crazy part? The pattern looks even juicier from MLK day on.
Not quite Feb. 5 & 9 in 2010, but I'll take it!
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2 minutes ago, Deck Pic said:
31, snow, 2"....this is winding down quickly...i think the only remaining question is whether I make 2.25 lol
My fiancé is on 16th and Columbia. I'm just glad she gets to telework and wake up to a couple inches. We're going to look for places in the city this summer--NOT looking forward to it come winter. Being up here in CC is like day and night. We're probably going to double that total tonight.
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1 minute ago, jayyy said:
Absolutely. Downstate New Yorker born and raised here. I’m from a town called Stony Point, NY. Lived there from childhood through college, when I went off to Buffalo (it was a snowy and cold state school and far away from my hometown) Saw some absolutely incredible nor’easters over the years living in the NW NYC suburbs. PD 1 and 2, 96, Boxing Day, the infamous Christmas storm that featured heavy rain to over a foot of snow within roughly 6 hours… the list is long.
I miss the snowier winters up there, but the snow was almost a given. The chase from living down here is part of the fun!
I think I'd feel like it was a given if I lived in Central Mass or something. In New York, there were plenty of misses. For me it's just a little too tough down here. Ellicott City was manageable because topologically it made for good rates and dynamics. I friggin' hate this DC snow hole stuff. It really is a swamp of sinking air. I guess it's better than Raleigh or something.
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2 minutes ago, rjvanals said:
Yeah my 4 years at Cuse were pretty solid snowfall wise but I would still complain when we missed lol
2003-2004 181.3
2004-2005 136.2
2005-2006 124.6
2006-2007 140.2
Don't we all. Even in 2009-2010 I still griped when we didn't cash in.
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Got about ten or fifteen more minutes left here. I'm more than satisfied. Beat my expectations by a landslide. That last band was worth the wait on its own. Still ripping decently though.
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1 minute ago, rjvanals said:
That storm was well forecasted a few days out on the local news in Syracuse. If I remember correctly initially the thought was more towards Oswego/Jefferson County line would be the bullseye but it turned out to be Parish/Pulaski in the central part of Oswego County. Great storm.
I guess you don't have to drive all that far to get to where it shifts haha.
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9 minutes ago, jayyy said:
I witnessed some doozies - the October storm, among others. Lake effect events there are always the best (2-3” per hour rates and 1+ foot of snow within mere hours) but we also saw a fair share of solid synoptic snowfalls during the winters of 06-11 from inland runners. Amazing winters up there. I don’t miss those bitter cold Canadian winds though.
Don't blame you. I lived in Yonkers and then NYC for seven years. Even that was almost too cold for me when the polar vortex settled. I'd tolerate it for the snow though. NYC was significantly easier than here in DC.
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1 minute ago, Deck Pic said:
At least 2-3 days. It came together quickly but wasn't a total audible. @stormtracker @WEATHER53might recall better..i'm missing some others
If I'd had my driver's license I would've been there.
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1 minute ago, rjvanals said:
Yeah was a Senior at Syracuse at the time. Chased the event and got some good photos w the weather channel crew in Parish. Was a bit depressing heading back down to campus 25 miles south of the storm and bare ground since the prevailing winds were W and you needed a WNW to get hit in Syracuse.
The narrowness of those bands were endlessly fascinating to me as a kid. I couldn't grasp how such huge snowstorms could fit into those tiny little bands.
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Just now, Deck Pic said:
Not sure if you were around then, but a bunch of us on this forum chased the Feb 2007 LES event. Incredible.
How much lead time did you all have?
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Don't be fooled by the fading yellows. It's still ripping out there. We may have gotten two inches in the last hour.
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1 minute ago, rjvanals said:
May have been up in Oswego County. Had one close to 80" in 2004 near Fulton/Oswego and close to 100" from a storm near Parish/Pulaski in 2007
That must have been the time. It was all over national news.
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Anyone in the Chevy Chase area by chance? Holy smokes. Huge blue flash and rumble.
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LIGHTNING!
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Because of the wind dynamics, there are moments when time seems almost to stop, before everything starts blowing around furiously again.
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1 minute ago, jayyy said:
As somebody who lived in Buffalo for 5+ years, I can confirm this is the exact type of snow / accumulation seen with Lake Effect.
2” per hour of the fluffiest snow you’ll ever see stemming from a near picture perfect atmosphere for dendrite growth. Pretty rare we see these types of flakes down here. Amazing.
I still remember the 7'er back in the day. Can't remember if it was Buffalo or Rochester or what. That will stick with me forever. I wanted to be there so bad.
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Still SN+ with quarter or even silver dollar flakes. Wind picking up with the coastal developing. Approaching 3.5".
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Band didn't quite make it down here intact but it was fun to watch on radar nonetheless.
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This is one of those bands you just can't model. Incredible stuff. Right on the back edge.
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Really jealous of those north and east of me. That band looks amazing. Hoping we catch the southern edge of it for a minute.
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1 minute ago, jayyy said:
Definitely saw some very solid storms over the years down near turf valley, but also found myself on the RS line frequently while places 10-15 miles N / NW of me saw several inches more. Finally made the move and the slight change in latitude and elevation has paid dividends for sure.
With that being said - I saw less than an inch IMBY on Monday, while my brother saw 6”
Monday was a 1/10 situation. Someone measured 8.5" down here, though I think that was a bad measurement. We did see about 7" though.
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Just now, ErinInTheSky said:
Was this expected to be high ratio? This stuff is some of the fluffiest cotton candy I’ve seen.
Yeah a lot of the pros were saying it would be.
Jan 6/7 "Event" and obs
in Mid Atlantic
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It's funny, when I was in NYC, the north shore of Long Island seemed to cash in on everything. If you snoop around the NYC thread you'll hear the old timers talking about how different things are now. It might have just been a lucky stretch of years, but damn, they would absolutely crush us 3/5 times because of Lows heading right over the benchmark.
The difference in geographical significance is absolutely true. In the city, the dynamics were really tight because you were on the water, and Harlem (where I was) would often do better than Brooklyn. But overall, you'd have to go really far inland on marginal events. That blizzard in 2017 was absolutely soul crushing. It was supposed to be the storm of my lifetime, but within 24 hours the track tucked in just enough to turn us to sleet after about 7 inches. You had to go at least 40 miles inland to see all snow. Here in MD it can be a matter of being in the District or being where I am.