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I want to get under that streamer later this evening!

Ran out before it maybe picks up again and measured 3" on the nose here in Colesville. Cleared my measuring area. 

5 minutes ago, Interstate said:

I also think it is funny that they now get a half day for end of the marking period... Just another reason to give time off.  There is no reason for a half day.

It's so the teachers can finish paperwork and submit grades and such. Teachers are already underappreciated enough - are they just supposed to do that in their personal time? 

30 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

WBAL going 2-4 for central MD...Thoughts?

Were they the ones saying 1-2 or 1-3 for the other day? 

Let's get two events in one week and then start big game hunting  

It's fine because anything with @Bob Chill's name on it seems blessed by the snow gods.

3 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Muriel fucked me over. DC govt on time. I’m currently sitting at my desk in anger. I put my Windows profile pic back up after HR told me to take it down.  

How hard is it to get unemployment?  I’m asking for a friend. 

You're such a rebel and we love you

8 minutes ago, Steve25 said:

Any official reports from the airports?

1 minute ago, Bob Chill said:

We are a really streaky area for whatever reason. Long droughts followed by multiple condensed events is far more common than smooth evenly spaced winters. Prob magical thinking but imho, getting a nice event last night is a sign that Fri will work out "ok". My expectations are it will never look worse than 1-3 in general leading in and even though boom ingredients are largely absent, maybe it finds a way anyway just cuz. 

The Bob Chill magic is strong this winter

9 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

That's what my fed gov office does -- we don't close any more, everyone teleworks today.  Even if we had a blizzard again with several days "closed" we still work.  Good tradeoff with the WFH flexibility we get

Got a touch of frz drizzle coming down now

It's definitely freezing drizzle - spots that I had cleared are SLICK right now on the driveway/walkway. And yes - I really do think that's why my office should do. I'm guessing it's because a few of the secretaries haven't advanced with the technology and are "exempt" from working remotely so to get "everyone" working they just open the office. 

Just now, stormtracker said:

We did it guys, we did it.  Most of us are on the board. We did it. 

And most with not just a measly inch - more! 

15 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

3-4 looks like max boom from what I'm seeing. Not sure there's enuff wiggle room for anything bigger. Good thing about the event is it will be instability driven moreso that lift/upgrade. High ratio snow globe potential could bubble up as the upper level stuff moves overhead. If 12z globals all put down an inch or 2 today, we can prob bank on some amount of accum snow

It always makes me feel better when YOU say something like this...but I will never be able to feel locked into snow here this many days out  

My office is opening at 10am...trying to pass up the management chain that there is now some freezing rain. Certainly my dead end street has not been plowed (usually one of the last). MCDOT probably will have to bump back out onto main roads for extra treating if it ices up again. With how our users adapted to remote work over COVID...they really should just say it's a remote work day. Nothing stopping folks from going in...24/7 keyfob access...but with kids home why not just say it's fine for everyone to WFH. Rant done. 

Looks like a total (so far) of 4" in Colesville. However, some compaction likely happened after I fell asleep so it's only a rough estimate. Getting some freezing rain it seems now. 

Seems the radar returns down in VA me rejuvenate the area that has dried out. 

3.2" in Colesville, MD it looks like

2 minutes ago, TinGTown said:

You can't be serious!  I will take all the rest of my posts to the panic room.  NO snow for the last 2 hours.  I have a light drizzling rain now, and I mean very light!  Where is the snow?

 

Must be Georgetown, DE...or you've found a portal to another parallel universe. Your obs match nobody else in this forum. Get real. If obs on here were QCed yours would be toast. 

A county truck came through earlier and salted the heck out of my dead end street. Was pretty we most of the afternoon. Hopefully it has runoff and the road will cave quickly. 

High so far today of only 28.2 on my PWS> Despite there not being a ton of snow - it's white outside and these temps make it feel like a true winter day. Refreshing.  Hopefully we can get a win tonight! 

1 minute ago, ovechkin said:

Steady light snow in Wheaton,  but despite a good temp of 27 and mid-January, not sticking but it's high noon and tiny flakes. 

Is your road treated? It's also the middle of the day. The sun can make it through clouds. Need rates or sun to go down even with 27 degree temps. 

Somewhere between 26.5 and 29 degrees depending on which sensor I look at here in Colesville, MD. Light pixie dust falling. Love the radar the last handful of frames. 

2 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

Home from CT. Moco death band setting up early it appears. Getting the hazy look with light snow now. Awesome. 

Welcome home to the MoCo hood. Nice to have you back. Settle in for some cold smoke! 

Drove from Colesville area over to Potomac/Rockville during the 6am hour. Not terrible but definitely some snow covered spots - especially where tires aren't hitting from traffic. Side roads are pretty much snow covered except where treated. Very pretty! Just wish I wasn't at work today. 

1 minute ago, Eskimo Joe said:

12z HRRR is cold smoke for everyone west of the bay it seems.

Did you mean 18z?

5 minutes ago, J.Mike said:

My gut is telling me this is the official start of winter for our area. 

Yeah the start of our string of slightly lesser failures