SnowenOutThere

Meh, doesn’t drop south enough I’m sure we can do better for our required .1 inches of October snow (as the average always occurs)

Of course, those aren't the only pictures I took

All the leaves were pretty much dead. Seemed like it was either summer leaf color or winter bareness. Still was very pretty. Here is are two only lightly edited pictures (first faces east, second faces west)

I saw an all black one that was run over by a bike… which I think sums up a lot of our winters

I’m planning to go leaf chasing/hiking to spruce knob wv tomorrow, anyone know how the colors are out there?

Finally saw my breath this morning while walking to my 8am classes in Charlottesville!

First blue 540 contours over us!

Seems about ready to takeoff

The timing of that meant I relied on it so much for it to cancel at least one day of school and the weekend/week aftereffects where it fell apart was probably my worst week of high school. God, the fact that it just went the wrong way for 8 runs in a row when I just needed 2 inches was devastating.

96.25%

Have my first atmosphere and weather test today! Got to do some studying beforehand this morning, which might bring back some memories for meteorologists here.

It was November 22nd and a more typical storm. Snow mixed in around nova for an hour or two before rain, I think the only places with real accumulations was Mount PSU (4in I think) and the catoctins (where I went ~6in).

Found this research study (The Elevation-Dependence of Snowfall in the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania) examining the impacts on elevation dependence snowfall and the types of conditions that influence events to either be low in snowfall range with elevation or high. Definitely found it to be an interesting read and I'm sure the mets (and @psuhoffman) would enjoy it too. Here is the link (http://nwafiles.nwas.org/jom/articles/2017/2017-JOM8/2017-JOM8.pdf), also if any met would like to chime in I remember a particularly elevation dependent snowfall in late November last year and wonder how those conditions line up with the studies findings.

What’s up with all the radar returns going on right now? I know birds and other animals can cause reflections but I’ve never seen widespread yellow reflections from that.

Seems reasonable enough

Nice pfp change to welcome the season!

Has been absolutely beautiful weather for the first week of college in Charlottesville. Praying the eventual October heatwave isn’t that rough.

Same… are you staying northern obx or going more south.

I can do you one better at .23 got brutally skipped by storms twice.

I plan to head on down to the point lookout beach (right on the cheasapeak) today or tomorrow to get sunset and Milky Way pictures. Any Mets have thoughts on which day would offer a good sunset and clear sky at night?

Some fun pictures of clouds from today! Got a cool shelf cloud from the storms that moved into FFX county along with a little cap cloud on some convection and then finished with a nice sunset.

Absolute light show visible looking northwestwards from Franklin Farm

Lots of wind associated with the backside anvil of the storms south of Reston. It’s been light rain but strong wind. Almost seems microbursty or evaporative heat driven but far less intense.

It is still a little humid out but might as well be the desert southwest after the month we’ve had.

Super cool to see the cold front moving south on radar with the north blowing wind behind it.