Stormfly

13 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

 

You guys need to come out here in the winter and listen to the roar through the trees. It’s nothing to downplay.

I have no idea what it is like down there.

We do hear it roar through the trees. It's cool.  I like the wind, hate cleaning up after it.  We get just the perfect amount when it blows, just wish that was more often.

3 hours ago, dallen7908 said:

If you think we do wind well here you haven't been around much

Totally agree there!

Breeze is one thing, but wind is another!

21 hours ago, SnowenOutThere said:

How much would you people pay for p16 to happen? I would pay over a 100 dollars

And to whom would you make the check out to?

If we could pay for weather events with 99% guarantee of realistic experience (from past events) which would you choose and how much?

The calcs are too slow with larger factorials.

Smart phones particularly Apple's amazing A15 can run circles around them!  Typically dealing with n! where n may be over 50 billion.

But a stronger Nina is good for tropical, right?  

Switched majors from atmospheric to electrical engineering myself.  Worked on both sides with instrumentation and meteorology.

Ti89s were fun but the real trenchwork was done with slide rules and Curtas!

6 minutes ago, Rvarookie said:

Come on man. Let’s just close the blinds and meet back here next winter. Please?

Used to it in NE MD TBH.

Low 50s in May, OTOH, sucks.  Like 1989.

1 hour ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

Well, OK...one more.  Same Japanese maple I shared earlier, but with more snow coating the branches (Audubon nature center)

Ours is about 40 years old and 30' tall at top and just amazing looking too!

3" total for this storm but I have to say it's probably the best 3" I've experienced.  (get your minds out of the gutter!)

5 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

What does a 0.1" drift look like? 

2016 If you were say a sugar ant!

I lost two tennis balls in the snow, the drifts were easily 10".

3 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Already used earlier this week in reference to AmPol, but perhaps applicable here:

I find super glue works better!

Flizzard in full swing here.  Viz zero at times!

1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

I definitely think the wind is some of it. But you can see in the woods there isn’t that much there either. I didn’t see any drifts to indicate they got that much but it just blew around. But I’m sure the wind was part of it but it definitely struck me as a significant difference even factoring that in. There were a few storms last year where the valley literally right under me got significantly less. One in December where I got 3” and they barely had a slushy coating at the bottom. But this was even more drastic. And before last year I never noticed much difference between my house and the valley below. Not a drastic visible one anyways. But this is like the 5th time in 2 years there was a visible difference. 

We have interesting "shadows" around our spruce pines.  Basically little to no snow, just frozen grass.  It's weird.

That radar filling in looks nice.  May get a flizzard warning.

Got really bright here.  March sun angle kicking in.

Hurts my eyes to look outside it's so bright!

1 minute ago, mappy said:

12pm 28° wind blown snow now, maybe there are pixie flakes falling still, hard to tell. Measured 3”. Will be interesting to see what that developing band does west 

We got stragglers coming in, look like volcanic ash.  When big gusts shake snow off the (pine) line it looks like a viscous fog ready to eat everything in its path and the deck rail almost disappears!

My border collie bounces off the walls if he isn't outside running and snow and mud days put a damper on things.
I suited up and went for a walk.  He had a blast gathering sticks!

Sorry about the wind noise, I was trying to get a decent sound in this video of the trees groaning.  They are covered in ice/snow.  Doesn't take much to get them complaining LOL.
 

Stick a fork in this winter!

Pines are groaning at winds.  A good shellacking from this morning's rain.  Snow stuck to EVERYTHING facing north!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
 

Wow when there is a lull in the wind the flakes coming down look like snow on an old TV with no signal!.

Then the wind comes and totally twists things up.

32/31 Jarrettsville.

This pretty much sums it up.

And first power flicker already!

This is the weirdest snow I've seen.

I look outside and it's dumping half dollars with hardly any wind.

A minute later it's much smaller flakes and lighter.

Another minute and it's swirling around again.

Just now it looks like nothing but some blowing flakes.

And now not 20 seconds later big flakes and vis down to 50 feet maybe.

33/32

More snow in the sleet and rain mix.

Lawn, deck, roofs white from what looks like sea salt granules thanks to the 40 minutes of sleet bomb.

Jarrettsville, MD

WWA just upgraded to WSW for 3-6" for us!

Talk about a hail mary event!

35/33

Snow/Sleet mix.  Things are starting to gel over.  Splendid!

The only good news is the quick thaw is coming soon!

Heavy rain 43/42.  Temp just started dropping and winds have picked up considerably.

With the forecasted wind and changeover to snow I'd expect some issues with tree limbs and power outages with this one.

9 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

It’s wind related. I was under a blizzard once as a kid with less than 1” of snow forecast

Yes it is!  In 1982 we had a nearly dry frontal passage with 30-40 mph winds that caused blizzard warnings to be issued.  There was a good 10" of snow on the ground and some main roads here drifted closed.  The stars were out yet winds were whipping snow reducing visibility to zero at times.  Fun stuff!