Kmlwx

Thank you! Honestly - my knowledge level is pretty low overall. I think summer is also beneficial because the ratio of mets to general lay people becomes a lot better. Add in lower forum traffic and you get a TON of great discussion between the folks that stick around. @high risk and - @ers-wxman1 are absolute rockstars in here during the severe weather season. And their posts are a lot easier to find since the forum isn't moving at a mile a minute. I just get irritated when the rails come off like 15 times during the same storm. It's really not that hard to just be cordial and at the same time try to make quality posts.

There's only so much anger you can generate from hitting 99 degrees instead of 100 in the summer I think severe wx fails are easier to handle as well...usually in the summer you're only a few days (at most) away from your next shot. The anticipation for big severe events usually creeps up on us more than long lead snowstorms.

I had told my friends locally that I thought 4-8" was a good call with 4" being the absolute minimum for my immediate area around Colesville, MD. I think I'll end up being right....but it didn't go down at all like I would have expected it to despite our Miller B climo. That WAA thump REALLY underperformed for my back yard (well my parent's). But this continuous bombardment of light to moderate snow is likely going to get me past the 6 inch mark. Let's hope this is an appetizer for the next part of the pattern!

Your dumb stuff is lovable dumb stuff, though.

- Thank you for the kind comment. However...I've just suppressed the weenie behavior . I think I've ultimately just learned that weatherfails happen. It's not come conspiracy against me. I've mentioned it a few times the last few days...the @Bob Chill - approach to weather is really refreshing. I'm 100% all for fostering great connections with new posters - but it goes both ways - if newbies are going to get so excited that they can't stop hitting the post button...something has to be done. It took me a long time to realize that having 10K posts wouldn't make me a good/balanced poster.

Honestly...it goes both ways. Everyone has their posting style. Weenie newbies back in 2006 were SWIFTLY dealt with. I hung onto that god awful weenie tag in my title for way too long. It was almost like putting a dunce cap on posters. I think we all need to be cordial of course - but at the same time, I think people really get their feelings hurt a lot more easily than in 2006. It's been a hell of a year - we all need to realize that ultimately...it's weather. Most of us saw snow, a lot of us are still seeing snow today. IIRC the weenie tags back in 2006 even had the Oscar Meyer branding. I will say....compared to toxic social media....we really aren't that bad. People just start to glom onto negatives and dogpile on people. Let's bring the friendliness of the summer months in here and apply it year round.

I hope I didn't come across as targeting @DCTeacherman - definitely wasn't my intention. I have no beef with anyone here. But gosh darnit people...stop interrupting my reading of the lovely snow obs coming in. When I mash F5 I don't want to see 15 posts dogpiling on somebody. Let the mods handle. I came here for the weather.

I won't agree or disagree. But there's a few factors here - There's a difference between asking a meteorologically relevant question and asking "How much for Philly?" in a fast paced discussion thread. I was an AWFUL poster in the Eastern days back in 2006. I posted too much, opined on things I had no clue what I was talking about, and did too much hand wringing over storms. I started reading, listening to met posts, and not feeling like I had to be posting to stay relevant. We just all need to be friendly towards each other and give new posters friendly nudges if needed. But if somebody keeps up terrible posting - I have no issues with the mods 5-posting or taking other action. The vast majority of people on here are friendly and willing to teach newbies.

I understand - I just didn't want it to start to shift to another devolution of the obs thread. I'll say one thing...I love snow...but a huge benefit of sticking around here during severe season is we seem to have a ton less issues with threads coming off the rails. I think a lot of it is just lower overall traffic. But sheesh...I'm reminded why I sideline myself most of the time unless I'm updating my observation.

Guys - let's not cycle into another round of making this thread unreadable. If you're going to continue this can we please do it over in banter? Bottom line, we now all know the proper measurement procedures - his amounts shouldn't be included in an official map or mappy's map at the end of season. The Winter Storm Warning criteria is not simply 5 inches. Okay?

Here's the LWX Winter Storm Warning criteria - A Winter Storm Warning is issued when a significant combination of hazardous winter weather is occurring or imminent. Significant and hazardous winter weather is defined as a combination of: 1) 5 inches or more of snow/sleet within a 12-hour period or 7 inches or more of snow/sleet within a 24-hour period AND/OR 2) Enough ice accumulation to cause damage to trees or powerlines. AND/OR 3) a life threatening or damaging combination of snow and/or ice accumulation with wind. The snow/sleet criteria for a Winter Storm Warning for the five westernmost counties (Allegany, Mineral, Grant, Pendleton, and Highland) is higher (6 inches or more within a 12-hour period; 8 inches or more within a 24-hour period).

700mb mesoanalysis.

It's been such an interesting storm - so much of the accumulation has been drawn out over a ridiculously long period. Talk about nickel and diming.

Picked up another inch or so (perhaps a little more) overnight with this banding! Wow.

I don't think I've ever gotten such a small accumulation that has necessitated a plow coming through my parent's street 3 times. They've done two passes since the snow started on Sunday - and with that band that went through...seems they will need to plow/salt again. Already had a neighbor skid down the street in a truck already.

That is a salivation inducing post around these parts...

Actually coming down nicely here now in Colesville! Walkway is slushily caving again - maybe even a hint of a dusting on the street too (dead end road/low traffic).

If I could just get a taste of that deathband down here in Colesville for even just 15 minutes I'd call it a storm and move on to tracking the mid/long range again.

That band looks neat on radar. Kind of reminds me of a backdoor cold front!

Light snow with varied flake size here in Colesville, MD.

Depending on which part of Rockville you're in, there's some subsidence between bands of whatever is falling.

Tell us how you really feel In all seriousness - YES to Radarscope - probably the most widely used mobile radar app. It's great.

Definitely seems like north of the Potomac and then north of US50 might be your best shot at seeing more wintry weather today. And ideally the further NE the better (of course).

Surprisingly lost only a few of my parent's bamboo stalks (big swath of it between the neighbors and their house). Still no sign on the snow here - light freezing rain persisting. No pingers that I can hear either.

A 7-day forecast is always going to change except under extreme rare circumstances. Even a 5-day is likely to shift - though hopefully not as much.