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Just for some closer looks

Well this Stinks - Trends went poorly overnight. Hopeful they stabilize or reverse a little bit today. Starting to get fuel myself based on that correction. Euro has been running cold. Nam has led the way on most systems this year. If the event were imminent I would be happy with the set up for MBY...but this has the Lucy feel on snow. It will be a Significant storm.. But I think deep down we see and know what is happening here. 

Just now, snowfan said:

Watches already up to our SW in VA.

I am certain they are trying to get people's attention because they are still recovering from the last event and may be just focused on that. Power companies have to be crying. Fuel companies have to be grinning ear to ear. 

Will have to see what the survey says.. But wow. 

6 minutes ago, SnowDreamer said:

Yikes that hook is gnarly! Looks like maybe a debris ball too. 

The radar showed a strong couplet. Very intense winds. Definitely looked like it touched down 

Wow.. Missed this a bit ago 

33 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

I started a boob arse thread back in the day for one of our storms. 

I started one for a soaking rain storm just so we had a place to complain and post the flooding that was occurring. It was depressing, but at least it was a place to commiserate 

NAM is the ice storm we do not want. Still on its own I think, but not where we want it! We need the  consensus.. we do not have  it yet!

Just now, BTRWx's Thanks Giving said:

GA

Itty bitty bit of gray on that map far NE part of GA.

Someone may do a Leroy Jenkins soon and just post one! I do laugh at "Science Minded" people that are all about evidence based truth.. then get all bent out of shape on a Jinx and curse of a storm thread! 

To quote a famous song! "God is great. Beer is good. But people are crazy!"

Weather Weenies are crazier!

My banter shall end here!

Let's hope the second Ice Storm in a week does not come true for Richmond area! Would be just awful! 

Amazing 

Was mixing Rain and sleet, but seems to be almost all sleet at the moment Purcellville. 28/23

Precip amounts

3 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Reaper Call?

Still too early! Just tired of the tracking, model watching, and disappointment! Worse than usual! Kind of want a break! Wish it was earlier in winter though

The weather is broken! I am sick of the riding the fence crap and the DC area snow hole.. Bring on Spring at this rate. 

About 0.5" from wave 1. But still great to take a walk as the ground remains white! And then this guy showed up!

So the snow that the GFS showed in northern Virginia yesterday appears to have gone north. @Ji I think we are cursed 

6 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

What part of this winter has been nina like?  I am equally frustrated with getting snow into the coastal plain because I want to enjoy this and its difficult when so many around you are rightfully in a piss mood.  But we had a month straight with a deep -NAO and an eastern trough and it did no good.  And everyone said lets get the TPV into N America and try waves.  So now we have that pattern...and the waves are all directed right at us...but it might be too warm along the coastal plain and so....what...what now?  You want that TPV over top of us instead of in the midwest....then its just cold/dry.  We want the boundary running trough our area.  What pattern are we looking for now?  What haven't we tried yet?  Here is the thing that frustrates me and troubles me...the "pattern" DC wants for snow is the same as mine.  From 15 days away the h5 look we want is identical.  Historically we get snow from the same storms mostly.  Yes I get more...but historically if I get a 12" snowstorm DC doesnt get 0.  But that has happened several times in the last few years!  Historically If I get 12" DC should be getting 4-8".  If I get 8" DC should be getting 2-4".   But we used to share most of the same snowstorms.  Now...I keep getting snow while DC is just rain.  That is not normal...not to the extent its happening now.  Historically a winter that produced 35-40" up here would be 15-20" in and around DC.  The last few times I got 35-40" DC was in the single digits!  So I am not even sure what kind of unicorn pattern we are looking for anymore because we have had a month straight of about the best pattern I could come up with if you gave me the crayons and it has done little good for DC.  

The only thing I think could have helped was the +PNA - But I mean - I want Unicorns.. Agree that this year has been a tough one. We had most all the checklist covered except a few items.. but you should not have to get all right to get some good snows. This has been a suck winter in many ways. But, one storm could get many to Climo, but there are still many, especially easy of 95, totally starving from lack of snow. Crazy year! LA Nina and the ripping and shearing of systems was definitely an issue. And the set up now is not ideal.. but you would think we could get something to break the right way! 

.5" of slop.. bummer

2 minutes ago, EHoffman said:

Seems to me based on obs here the sleet/snow line running somewhere around Northern MoCo through central Howard into Baltimore.  Interesting stuff.

Seems this is the line. 

Still sleet/rain mix here in Purcellville. 

And just like that.. flakes have slowed to almost a stop. Surprised by this burst, but that did not last too long! See more building slowly to the west. 

Snowing well out here in Purcellville. Slushing up the pavement and a coating already! Temp is down to 34. Big flakes, but not quite what we say last Sunday.