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30 minutes ago, SpringfieldSkins said:

 

Burke VA - 8:55 am.  Eyeballing, looks like 4-5 inches.

Just measured the deck, 4 inches.

Haven’t measured since a little after 7 am, but I had 5.75” as of then and have definitely gotten up to 6” total since.

I’m in Burke, by the way.

Snowing lightly in Burke with similarly light returns. Looking juicy to our south and southwest.

42 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

M3.0" Reisterstown...not snowing at all.  Looking like a bust up here unless things turn around quick.

Glad it’s meeting your expectations.

5.75” of fluff in Burke

First flakes in Burke.

1 hour ago, BTRWx's Thanks Giving said:

Someone please turn storm mode back on.

Seriously man...lighten up.

56 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

BWI hit 32 on the intrahour. RIC fell short.

I'm pretty impressed. I always go with BWI and RIC on or around the same dates, and didn't think we'd get enough of a cool down to get BWI there just yet. Hopefully Richmond can hold off for a couple more weeks.

DCA...forget it.

3 hours ago, North Balti Zen said:

At the time this thread was made, it was an attempt to get one particular doomsayer to stop derailing every long range winter thread. 

I know...and you confirmed that the thread is dumb.

19 hours ago, psuhoffman said:

it seemed like such a dire thing .. its not like typical cyclical climate variance could have solved such an emergency situation

That’s why this thread is dumb.

DCA: 11/26

BWI: 11/2

IAD: 10/20

RIC: 11/2

Tiebreaker: 2.2"

On 7/13/2018 at 7:10 PM, psuhoffman said:

I put a fence up around the garden. I lived the bottom foot with chicken fence to keep the smaller vermin out and then tucked the fencing underground about 6" for a foot to keep groundhogs from burrowing under. I also build a cage with bird netting for the strawberries. We haven't had an issue with the other berries.  You can see in the background the strawberry cage. 

 

These are old from right after I finished laying out the garden and putting down the boxes and stone walkways. What is now the pumpkin patch is in the background. 

Beautiful garden, psu. I’m definitely jealous that you have so much sun-drenched land to lay out a really useful space.

I’ll be laying out my space much differently than it is now, and I’ll likely be putting up a cage structure to help keep the pests out. This year has been worse than ever with squirrels and chipmunks doing a number on plenty of my plants. I’ve got a ton of trees around, which will make it a little difficult to clean up in the fall, but I’ll make it work.

11 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

We’ve had so many really light events that it didn’t dawn on me that we were headed back under climo.  Mowed the lawn, mostly to pick up the late winter leaves, and there was much more dust than I expected.  Soil a few inches down seems fine, though.

It's a little surprising that it's been that dry in the last month, but in no way do I think we should be thinking too hard about any long-term effects. If we're still parched come July or so, then I think we can start talking about issues.

I need to get the dethatching rake out to pick up the holly leaves that came down this winter. The dryness and cold did a number on the holly in my front yard - it lost at least 1/3 of the leaves by the time the windstorm finished. Those leaves choke the life out of a lawn since they don't break down easily. Once I get those up, I'll probably get to mowing for the first time this year.

1 hour ago, MN Transplant said:

Doesn’t matter. Just normal variation.

On 2/1/2018 at 1:32 PM, North Balti Zen said:

Feels like Stormy gets an early victory lap.

Stormy should run that lap backwards now.

Oh noes!

Severe drought!

1 minute ago, MN Transplant said:

1.85" since Veteran's Day.  Not great.

DROUGHT!!1!!!1

12 hours ago, Bob Chill said:

Nice stats Rodney! The precip in July is probably the only reason we didn't end up in the top 10 for heat. August is looking unimpressive so far in the heat dept. Would be nice to have a BN month.

I'd imagine that precip is the limiting factor for heat in most summer months: More rain/less heat v. less rain/more heat.

13 hours ago, Prestige Worldwide said:

No let's continue the run. Many of the people from the main discussion forum are pompous individuals who clearly think they are better than us.  They think they are the only ones who can actually interpret a weather model. If a non regular chimes in they do their best to discredit the post.  So I hope we continue getting hits and they get shutout. 

Isn't there already a thread that covers the topic in the above slew of posts?

Just sayin'...

Feel for you guys - tough livin' in winter down there. If it makes things any easier, our snow may mostly be gone this week!

December wasn't hot.  It was warm.

Ice storms suck because they're a wasted combination of QPF and cold surface temps.

Wow, you really did get hosed in the 2/10/10 storm. I got lucky, it's that simple.

Yeah...we had one good band in mid-morning, but otherwise it was mostly intermittent light/moderate snow.

26-28" wins hands-down. 'Eff the rest.

The second February 2010 storm was interesting, but I had about 8" total, so I'm not that taken by it. Thing is, I feel like we're far less likely to get a storm like that again - a raging Miller B - than we are a February 5-6, 2010 storm - a quality Miller A.