Herb@MAWS

My flight to Puerto Rico next Monday morning looking “interesting” as this weekend’s forecast trending for East Coast snows. Pre-dawn 17.6 imby/6am today may feel warm by the weekend.

Columbia: Temp down from 33.8 at 3:30 to 31.0 at 4:45, aiding in some stickage. Dreading the western edge.

Looked away for 10 mins and boom! Tiny flakes to very steady snow — and still tiny flake-size. Temp was 35.1 early PM. 34.4 3pm first flakes in air. 33.8 3:30 pm — snow, seemingly almost instant stickage on mulch, deck, grill and usual spots.

Columbia 3pm: some very tiny flakes in the air now. Temp down in last hour from 35.3 to 34.4.

Sunday 5:45am Columbia 33.8° rain (overnight low 29.7°)

Snow showers have let up, it looks like an official coating (have not measured), which is almost the same amount we had on the ground just before dawn today, before daylight melted what fell pre-dawn. I’ll be in Culebra, in the Puerto Rico islands, 17mi east of the eastern mainland north coast starting January 26. Encouraging short- and long-term “snow/frozen in the air” forecasts aside … you can be certain that it will snow here while I’m away — same thing happened last year and I missed what turned out to be the (ahem) “best” snow of the season. So I’ll live vicariously through u while I’m chillin’. Culebra Days 82-85 Mornings 72-75 Usually sunny, some rip current warning days are not unusual. A scattered +/- 15 min shower not unusual but NBD. Just depends on timing of stay there. It’s 90 at nearby airport as I type this. Maybe I’ll even provide an annoying temperature update(!) but in the meantime just focusing on the next 36 hours. Will need stickage reinforcements and replacements by tomorrow. Whitened grass becoming more greenish already.

I’m at the gym staring out the window. Waiting and ready for the heavier band. Hope to drive home in it.

Light snow plus reddish sunrise here. 34.7°

Saturday 6:30am Columbia — a bit surprising to see steady snow, slightly wet, at 35.1°. 15 mins ago — nothing!

A few very small flakes passing my Columbia window view. I will temper any excitement.

IMO neither Ravens nor Steelers should have been in the playoffs. Neither was that good this year and certainly were not among this season’s elite teams.

Columbia imby 1.11” Jan 9-10.

Fun fact: Lamar Jackson is the 1st QB in NFL history with 2 lead-changing 50-yard or more pass TDs in the 4th quarter or OT of a game. And still lost! The game was representative of the majority of their entire season — including not being able to stop opponents in the final minute or few minutes, and not able to play 4 consistently good quarters. Offense came out strong, then went silent for 2+ quarters. Regardless, this was Lamar’s best game of the season IMO. Let’s go O’s!

Season theme: Ravens can’t hold a lead in closing minutes. This time they lose lead in last minute.

Columbia/east side: Dec precip imby: 1.63” (3.5” snow) Nov precip imby: 1.59”