Oh I was looking at the H5 map and the vort map I just had no idea what would actually lead to a better storm after comparing runs. I can tell setups like the one we just had on an H5 level but not this mess of phases.
It seemed like accumulation shut off for a good part of Nova post 6-7am which really hurt us. If anything I remember being up from 2:30am onwards and at first the rates were .8 inch per hour and we were ahead of schedule but then the heaviest stuff never came north.
Measured 6.25 on the ground with compaction, so total snowfall is probably somewhere near 7. Got 5.0 inches before the ULL, and overall maybe a little disappointing but hard to complain when it’s so pretty out.
Got a couple nice flakes to mix in with the usual snizzle but it couldn’t even last more than 10 minutes sadly. Looks like this will be a time where southern ffx county will help get me out of school
Did stay up from 2:30am till 6am and was a little worried this may happen for parts of Nova as the bands always seemed to die coming off the mountains before blossoming again east of DC. Oh well, we still got snow
At around 4.75 inches with only spotty radar returns left out west for the morning batch so also seems like this forecast may not be great for me. Glad I hedged my totals with 6-10+
3.5 inches of snow as of 5am and flake sizes have increased as I start to get into the band hitting terpest right now. Though from 4:30 to 5am snowfall rates decreased from .8 to .5 an hour, I assume from subsidence as the band got closer.