Miss Pixee

Snow /sleet steady. Temp up to 31 in SE DC. Lookin' good. Streets solid white. Car tracks from an hour ago have disappeared. Est 1" accumulation.

Everything covered. Streets have solid cover. Snizzle looks like baby powder! 29 degrees in SE DC.

29 degrees, no wind to speak of in southeast washington.

Mostly sunny, 26 degrees in Southeast DC. Some wind.

Same here, downpours and 35 degrees. Eased up at the moment.

Yeah they had snowpack into June or something crazy like that. Boston did too.

Cripes. Anyway, my extra ice melt should be arriving tomorrow. Don't need another skating rink like last time.

SC fringed. People down there are raging.

Odd, local news has everything as rain.

All I know is, (as a native washingtonian) you don't have to wait 50 years for mega storms. "High impact" doesn't just mean outages. It could be travel issues. Saturday an suv skidded UNDER a cement truck in front of a gas station. The truck flipped on its side, the suv went sailing two blocks and collided with another building. Was posted up i news coverage. SE DC. I couldn't get past my steps or landing because of ice. My neighborhood was a frigging skating rink...and its all hills so not fun. Ice isn't good for anything except pictures. I get it, marginal stuff is tough here because we've got a lot going on climate wise. The ocean, the mountains, hot air off the gulf. The latitude. So, duh. I just get tired of the inaccurate narrative about DC, as if this is an eternal tropic zone that never sees snow. I get people are frustrated looking at a zillion color maps, but all anyone has to do is look up all the mega storms of the last 50 years. There's been quite a few, not counting minor events. And this 'heat island' bit could apply to any city at this latitiude. If you're talking about downtown with the heaviest traffic and concrete, ok. That's just the central core. I sometimes wonder if people ever venture out of their neighborhoods. Just sayin'. Maybe its time to just look out the window and toss all the models, I dunno. And now, back to the mood swings over maps...

Saturday night in DC. 28 stone cold degrees. Ice, Ice Baby.

Will go out later and carefully try to get a night pic....really icy out here. Backlight looks great against coated tree branches. Streets half shiny half white. Even my walkout landing has concrete slush. Temp 30.

LOL anything like this?????

Ice snow still falling/accumulating. You can see the slush tracks in the street now. Temp stubborn at 32.

Turning into a small event here in far SE...even little buddies are coming out. You can definitely see icy areas on the streets now. Getting some decent snow cover, too.

Cars icing a lot now...frozen "Popsicle" mobiles everywhere. Ice fangs. Grass now getting frostier white. I hear VA (mostly central, southern) has massive power outages, over 200,000. What's the deal with that?

True. Being off the ocean does moderate the extreme stuff. Still cold as a mofo, though. Last week the arctic outbreak over the midwest was so cold they ran out of colors on the map...the purple turned into gray, lol.

Icing up now in Southeast DC. Cars have cover, some frosting on mulch and grass. Streets are half glaze/half wet. Steady at 32 degrees. Roads are gonna get ugly. News reports of an overturned concrete truck at a SE gas station. Friend of mine at the hospital for falling on ice.

You always notice the pattern of artic blasts like that forms a "V" shape down from Canada...it doesn't go across the upper latitude. I even saw on the news where it dips down into Houston. ND, MN, WI get it the worst with MI a close second. Even Boston doesn't get that kind of cold, being off the ocean too.

Heavy sleety rain in SE DC. Looks wet but icy on grass, unpaved surfaces. Streets are a combo of wet and suspicious black ice patches. Don't envy anyone who has to go on these roads later. Power lines looking shiny too. Current temp is 32.

Fortunately got a couple of inches from the last storm. I'm more curious about the temp layers. What's the deal with all the frz rain/sleet/ice instead of snow? Its like the air patterns are all funky. Don't get me started on the maps people keep posting. BTW it isn't as if DC is its own entity...I heard these same arguments about Richmond. Mother nature trumps, no matter what we think/say.

Wait, what? I had put this storm on ignore...and its snowing now in SE DC! Accumulating quickly, too. No wind...its falling straight down. Temp at 33. The light coating from last night never melted.

Steady sleet in SE, leaves and bushes getting a glaze. Cars have crackle frost on top. Streets getting shiny. Temp down to 33.

That gives me some idea of what's going on where with the temps. I couldn't tell what was what by the reports.

I never get emotional over snow. I love it, but its only a big deal here because we have a dramatic climate.