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1 hour ago, Ji said:

Where did you live? I got 28 inches of snow

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Crozet , Western Albemarle .. Presidents Day 2  Feb 03  yup all sleet down this way ... Waynesboro  Charlottesville....

15 minutes ago, Ji said:

Probably the biggest thing that got me excited about this winter was a Feb 2003 type storm. We get that I will call it a winter

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7 inches of sleet... was so diaspointed at first-but that turned to amazement at that much sleet...

Approaching 1.75 already down here now...  

Already up to 1.15 inches of rain this morning ...

3 hours ago, stormy said:

Oragraphic lift will create some very heavy downpours on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge. Would expect some 4 - 6 inch totals.

Hopefully some of those rates in western Albemarle will sneak over to eastern Augusta 2mar...Growing up in nw Albemarle along the Moormans and Doyle's rivers with big flooding is what started my love for weather... Nov 85.   April 92.   June 95 were the most memorable... This setup of a huge moisture feed up the entire coast reminds me a bit of April 92 ...

38 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

i mean it generally is supposed to be easier for it to snow in CHICAGO than in the southern Mid Atlantic.

Can't argue with that statement!  Except for that type of event on the gfs which is more likely to be in the mid atlantic historically... Can't find more than a dozen 15 inch + storms there since the 1800s.... 

Dam that really is a monster this weekend on the gfs......

At work in the Charlottesville area now... Steady heavy rain at times temp around 31.... Dam - what could have been today if temps aloft had cooperated ...

Light freezing rain here... bamboo sagging ... but barely a tenth of total precip...

Down currently to 14 , another night with lows under 20.... 

Finished with only 0.5 from the event... Looks as if December will finish up at 4.61 ... This late year push of  rainfall since the middle of November finally pushed my year total just over the 30 inch mark...3 months ago I didn't think I would pass the 23 or 24 inch mark it was that bad down here....

3 hours ago, Paleocene said:

That post where the random guy mentioned inhaling the second hand crystal meth was probably one of the best posts of all time on this board (excepting of couse @Jebman 's finest). Sorry @Weather Will

I dont post often , usually just obs but thank you - I'm honored !!!  I'm glad that I was able to bring a laugh out of some of you guys at the expense of my younger self.... But seriously once that stuff wore off , for the next 12 hours or so my mind was so clear and bright that I felt like I could solve the world's problems maybe cure cancer, build a time machine and looking back now maybe invent a weather model that would be 100% accurate a month in advance...

Bit off topic, but speaking of hallucinations and the weather... Late in the 90s a bunch of us 20 yr olds went to a skynyrd concert in northern Va in different cars.. Me and a friend riding with me forgot where I parked 'large parking lot and had never been there before' ... It started pouring rain , some random dudes gave us a lift to find my car.. They started smoking PCP even though we were total strangers... I opened the window to avoid the 2nd hand smoke - it didn't work... The ride back down 29 to Cville was a disaster... I was seeing tornados in the lightning,  trees were tractors and somewhere near culpeper Abe Lincoln was standing on the side of the road , he jumped on my hood he flew through my car , I looked at him and he looked at me and flew out the back... Got to northern Charlottesville and it wore off like I woke up from a dream... How I drove down 29 I'll never know, but it scared the hell out of me after I "woke" up..... 

Down to 17 degrees ... Seems like a unusual amount of sub 20 degree nights here so far this " winter " ... never really tracked temps - only precip so I could be wrong...

Lighter snow now  -  just measured right at 2 inches... bamboo in the back yard taking a beating....

Not bad, real pretty out tonight.... Very large flakes..

Just passed the 1 inch mark...

Snowing hard enough to overcome the wet asphalt...

Snowing nicely temp at exactly 32....   0.25 inch so far

Pretty obvious that the front just came through Waynesboro ... Quick gust of wind with a fast 3 degree temp drop in less than 5 min... down to 51 

1.04 last couple days -- only the 9th inch plus event of the year... year to date total up to 26.80 now.... nice improvement over the last 10 days..

Finally a extreme drought designation for most of the Shenandoah Valley , centered over (surprise surprise)Augusta County & the central Blue Ridge... Was wondering when they were going to upgrade the drought status here... Just over 23.30 inches here in 10.3 months is wild or absurd for basically any locale in the eastern US...

8 minutes ago, TSSN+ said:

Just the way winters have been trending. Also just get the feeling it’s not going to be amazing. Should be better than last year but, that’s not a high mark to beat lol. 2” would be 100% higher 

If this does morph into a drier than expected winter following this year long severe drought we are in over here , with the corresponding large drop in ground water levels - The Shenandoah Valley and over toward Culpepper will be a massive agricultural disaster area going into the next growing season...

Down to 23 here , thought the jeep temp was wrong driving home from work , but no it really has reached 23 already - thermometer confirmed it..

Dropped to 18 here...

2 hours ago, stormy said:

You were very lucky!  I received .53".  16% of normal.

0.49 right down the highway from you.... 23.28  year to date.... drought drought and more drought.!!