MN Transplant

Lowest vis at IAD was 1/4 mi, DCA 1/2 mile. DCA did have gusts near 50.

A nice wintry scene but it isn’t going to add much to the seasonal totals

I think we might have some rimed flakes mixing it still. It certainly is loud at times against the windows.

Holy crap, you just blew my mind. 33.3 in Falls Church. Mulch and roofs are covered. Visibility is probably under a mile, but by no means a white-out.

Same. 33.8. Flake size has started to increase.

Sleet and tiny snowflakes. 34.2 in Falls Church.

I'm enjoying the reports getting closer and closer

Its all snow here in Leesburg. I can see snow on the cam at 7/28 just north of Dulles. It is coming, I just want it faster.

0.31” rain for CoCoRaHS. 36.9 degrees. The changeover line sure moved more swiftly through MD than it is VA.

Traffic cams have the change just west of Haymarket/Gainesville along 66.

5z HRRR has 0.3-0.4” precip after the changeover for many of us near 95. That number is fairly consistent across the models. A wind blown 2-3” is looking decent.

Just past Deep Creek.

3km has about 0.4-0.5” precip from 13-19z after the changeover along 95

We don’t really care about the heavy stripe to the east because that is rain. The precip max to the west is in the favored spots, so no shock. We just need to score with what we get.

March 5, 2015. For no particular reason. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/03/05/d-c-area-forecast-wintry-mix-changes-to-substantial-snow-record-cold-likely-to-follow/

HRRR holds the temps flat all night long. It really isn’t until about 6am along 95 that we start to drop.

My brother moved to the Frederick area and that section that goes down to two lanes is awful. Every trip it is the same slow spots, before the bridge on 495 to get into Maryland and after Clarksburg.

Rates are king in the spring.

Bomb is maybe used loosely. There isn't much precip left after the changeover.

Noticed today that College of Dupage has added Total Snow Depth as a map.

I know that this low placement, along a front, in March, is totally what I look for in an impending snow event. At least we'll get some wind on the backside.

0.61" rain, 40.2 degrees. Gross.

The line just completely evaporated. 0.04” on the day.

Still in the distance. The original concept was the system that could do multiple things, like track weather and aircraft. That fell apart. I think NOAA presented at the last AMS meeting about system requirements, which points to a phased-array due to the benefits of the faster updates. But there still has not been a NEXRAD-quality S-band phased-array radar constructed. The technology is now there, but it takes a lot of money to build the first one that can do dual-pol and small enough beamwidth. I imagine that we’ll start to hear something in the next few years, but a grand rollout of a new system is in the 2030s or beyond.

Got to 80 at DCA despite cloud cover. That's a record.