MN Transplant

NAM nest is pretty good for the metros. I’ll let the others with the pretty maps take that on.

Falls Church, VA 1/3/22 - 8.8" 1/7/22 - 2.8" 1/16/22 - 2.8” Total: 14.4” Odd that each of my final measurements have been just over the 3/4” mark.

I’m just a mile or two west of you and my official CoCoRaHS total is 1.36”. 0.33” snow and sleet, 1.03” zr and rain.

Sigh

Pressure with a nosedive right on the back side of the rain shield.

And…no power. Can really hear it in the trees, but only in the 20s on my anemometer.

That’s our 850 jet. Thankfully, unlikely to translate much to the surface.

Or a remnant tropical storm that hit SC

Raining. 36.9, pressure 995mb and dropping quickly. Snow is holding on.

Just broke through freezing. 32.2. Now waiting for a whole bunch of rain.

Switched to ZR in Falls Church so I emptied the gauge. 0.33” precip. I’ll go with 2.8” snow&sleet total.

2.7” snow. We’ve gone to sleet.

2.2" in Falls Church and coming down nicely. Temp has moved up, but still only 25.7.

Bigger flakes. Grass starting to get covered.

0.7” on the first measurement. 22.6

Temp has dropped from 24.4 to 22.8 over the last hour. Nice coating to start. Dud of a football game though.

I recorded 980mb (28.94") on 2/7/2020.

Some comedy from the northern VA subreddit. There were a lot of people doubting that it would snow earlier this month because of surface temps.

It isn't. The automated algorithm clearly is struggling there.

The front end frozen on the HRRR looks decent, but it has also been pumping the temperatures on the back side of the precip shield. Now nearly 50 degree rain at DCA at midnight.

You can see some flakes on the traffic cams just south of Richmond and steadier, but still very light, snow around Petersburg. 14Z HRRR has effectively held its ground.

Oh, NAM. 12z is snow through ~6pm with about 0.3" precip in DC and frozen through ~8pm with another 0.2". So, not only a later changeover, but more precip early. And in Minnesota - Climax is very close to Fertile and up the road from Moorhead. So, yeah.

My wife grew up on a 200 acre campground (her parents maintained the place for church camps, yes, they were quite poor). She has always wanted to own some land and have a place to retreat to and potentially retire to. I totally get it, and I could have a blast wandering around a big property and doing all sorts of projects. However, I am a suburban kid and that's where I have always been comfortable. I just can't wrap my head around being long distances from major hospitals, not having a ton of grocery and shopping options nearby, and the other things that come with rural living. But one thing seems to bother me more than all the rest - the internet situation. I don't know what the future holds for Starlink or other satellite providers, but the lack of good broadband in many places that do have available land is just a killer. Hopefully you can find a good spot!

14.5 for the low. Coldest since the single digit temps of late Jan 2019.

Comparing to the 06z HRRR, the frozen precip totals are very similar, but the HRRR hangs on to snow for an hour longer, so the snow totals are more like 2” with a bit of IP/ZR on top. By the way, for the Winchester area folks, ignore the NAM nest precip totals. The NAM is too aggressive with topographic lifting. There is still a 800mb warm nose that is problematic, but you should get more precipitation than the nest shows. Hopefully the HRRR pans out.