SnowenOutThere

Nikon D850 with the 24-120 f/4 lens for all of the pictures I've posted. I'm lucky where my hobbies of meteorology and photography align quite nicely (though meteorology is SO much cheaper lmao). Besides, if you think that picture is nice that is the 50% quality 4 times downscaled pixel wise version that AMWX lets me upload.

The students weren't the only ones on Grounds enjoying the snow today!

Did a basic ruler measurement which showed that I got somewhere between 3-4inches of snow (since compacted to 3). I’ve been up since 3am and outside for 9 of those hours so now it’s nap time before lighting of the lawn (holiday light snow) and the midnight snowball fight

UVA's chemistry department's amazing decision to make our group exam online over zoom is currently going great. 1. No one knows which group to go in 2. No one is able to access the questions 3. No one knows how to submit them. Meanwhile I am watching snow fall outside my window this is cruel

Think I’m around 3 inches at Cville which definitely makes this a good storm

Now all that’s left to do for today is take my online chem exam in 15 minutes then go on a walk with my hopefully more than a friend in the snow on grounds

@NorthArlington101Hope this suffices for my UVA pictures from this morning

Wow this storm deathbanded both UVA and Reston up in NOVA, the atmosphere must really love me today.

Cville has grass fully covered and roads have caved. Since around 5am we’ve been getting dendrites with moderate to heavy snow and look to have a couple more hours left too

Been out photographing since 4am give me a break I don’t wanna miss morning light by the Dell

Yep, it’s where half of NoVa ends up

Legitimate heavy snow for the past hour or so with great dendrites and I look to be good for another couple hours with good dynamics. Hope some of that makes it up to you guys!

Huge dendrites sticking to everything right now

Oh I moved (went to college) at UVa so I’m in Cville for this event. In Fairfax I’m just south of Reston town center.

Continued to accumulate on grassy surfaces while pavement is still just wet. Going to be honest I think the higher end totals (at least for myself) are off the table the best FGEN and lift seemed to be located to my north and south. Will be going on Jebwalk regardless in a bit. Best of luck to everyone else!

Can’t complain no matter what. In this short time between posts it’s already cartopper and mulchtopper (pavement is still just wet though)

Light snow has started in Cvill a couple minutes ago. Snow flake size looks pretty good so far! FGEN seems to show two bands setting up (and skunking myself) but we’ll see what happens.

Yeah I don’t think we do. Thank you for looking though!

My chem professor also moved my 8:30am exam to be over zoom so I guess I’m waltzing into that with like 5 hours of sleep. It’s a group exam so I should be fine though as I’ve lowk carried the past ones.

Radar hallucinations have started in Charlottesville

Do you have a link to this for other airports (CHO in my case)?

Thank you for these posts as I think I get what you’re saying now. If I’m understanding you’re saying that the FGEN takes on a more titled angle of SW to NE because the mid lat low amplifies and pumps up the height lines ahead of it just a tiny bit (alongside some jet dynamic sorcery). In practical effects this tilting would cause the eastern bit of the FGEN to be lifted north relative to the screenshot expected trajectory by wind barbs (as they change with the mid-lat cyclone deepening), while the western FGEN would tilt south some. I do worry a little bit that my new location (no longer NOVA as I’ve progressed to UVA) may end up between the 850mb FGEN focus in NoVa and the higher level FGEN further south but honestly from what you’ve said it looks like I’m pretty good to at least catch the western (if tilted south) half of the 700-500mb FGEN! Oh also am NOT looking forward to knowing the equations behind this stuff because damn lapse rate and first law of thermodynamics stuff already almost took me out.

Yeah, this is where I can admit that this is way beyond my pay grade and that real mets are on a whole nother level thats basically magic. Though from trying to piece together what I can understand and the SPC analysis page you're basically saying that the primary max stripe is driven by the 700-500mb FGEN (as it overlaps with DGZ better) and strong 850mb FGEN and this setups somewhere in Central VA. Meanwhile NOVA and the like are displaced from the higher level FGEN and will use the 850mb instead. While I don't understand the math or physics behind it should I generally assume the 700-500 FGEN will just progress along with the wind barbs (which does seem to place it oddly northward to even fringe me?) Oh, and while I'm annoying you I'm targeting around 3:30 start of my Jebwalk lmk if that checks out.

700mb frontgen is entering the southern parts of our region were now at Nowcasting time! Also some weird line of 850 frontgen over NOVA that has been strengthening over the past couple hours. Anyone know whats up with that?

Looks like its the band hits Charlottesville a couple hours earlier (4am sounding for refence). Will be a fun Jebwalk! (sorry to my poor roommate who has to deal with that though). But what a thing of beauty compared to the HRRR runs we were looking at earlier.