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Snow flakes falling in Waynesboro... Accumulating snow along Skyline Drive according to traffic cams ..

Only received 0.93 inches of total precip this month , following 6.58 for January.... Since mid November we have for the most part made up for that crushing drought in the Valley last year, but heading into the spring growing season down here we certainly don't want a drier than normal March following this February... The drought may have ended but it was still going strong only 3 months ago... Not sure if the ground water level has fully recovered yet...

7.65 total for the season here in Waynesboro... except for Jan 15 , we have been just to far SW for anything much despite being in the Valley...

One of the NFL's biggest mysteries is how the hell the Vikings haven't once made it back to Super Bowl since the 70's despite having one the top cumulative win loss records the past 45 years...

There just isnt much to ever celebrate as a Jets fan....Rare occasion the Jets make the playoffs they actually do fairly well, but there are other players besides Brady that have more playoff appearances than the Jets....

I've always been a Jets fan so there's that.... This may have been the Ravens best shot at a Super Bowl , Jackson improved as a passer this year for certain ....But Rodgers , Herbert and more importantly Burrow lost for the season.... Too many injuries for the Bills defense, and simply put the Chiefs were not as good on offense this year as the past...Plus Jackson stayed perfectly healthy the entire season....This was the Ravens shot..

Just got home in Waynesboro from work in Charlottesville , nothing falling , granted we are on the southern edge of this expected event....

Down to 8 degrees .....

Just got to the 3.5 inch mark down here Waynesboro....

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

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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...