Herb@MAWS

Columbia pre-snow hi temp 35.1 4:30pm - 29.9 Widely scattered on/off flurries began 1pm but snow didn’t pick up in intensity until 1:45 and it quickly became heavy, tiny flakes. Eyeballing about 1” so far altho 0.75” is more conservative/accurate(?). Will wait until this round ends. Roads and walks fine. Of the list of items we usually monitor to confirm “first signs of stickage”, the last one today in my ‘hood was car tops, just not what I expected. I’ll blame it on that damn morning veiled sunshine.

Temps very slowly inching downward. After pre-snow late morning hi temp 35, now down to 30.4. Stickage in all the usual places except for roads, sidewalks and car tops.

1:45pm Columbia: It took 45 painful minutes to go from off/on snowtv ….. to steady snow/small flakes. Immediate mulch stickage. Went from late morning high of 35 to current 33.8 with temps slowly falling now in the steady snow.

1pm Columbia: finally first few flakes falling.

Feb rainfall imby/Columbia is 2.15”, to go along with 2.01” in January and 1.59” in December.

0.98” rain + melted snow — Columbia.

8:30am Monday morning Columbia imby low 29, current 30. Just shoveled a couple inches (will measure soon; looks like maybe +/- 3” considering compaction) and cleaned off cars. Pretty easy. Yeah we missed the big snows but I’m happy with a rewhitened wintry look for 2, maybe 3 days, as everything slowly melts away with no back-breaking effort needed. Sun trying to poke thru amid constant flurries/snowshowers.

I missed out on the big January storm so I’m enjoying this. From the get-go I was thinking for me that 2 inches is a bust, 3-6 acceptable, and 7 inches a boom. So I’ll just enjoy what little bit I get and I’ll rationalize it’s all ok …. by saying well, I got a total re-whitening, I can enjoy it for two days then it’ll mostly be gone, no heavy shoveling or chipping out chunks of ice, just going to enjoy it — in the snowlight. It’s a good night for a snowlight. So far eyeballing 1”+ on deck rail. After falling a few degrees the temperature seems to have leveled off at least for the last hour or so at 33.3°/Columbia. All white except sidewalks and streets. Even driveway finally is whitening.

Ahhhhh, my old ‘ hood and haunts back in the day. Spring Hill Rd.

I missed the big January snow so am enjoying this, whatever I get. After being at 37+ earlier in afternoon, down to 35.3 under mod-hvy Columbia snowpuke.

Columbia changeover appears to be underway. 36.2°

Awaiting puking in Columbia….

A few wet flakes again/Columbia 36.7, down from last hour 37.1

About 1/4” Columbia rainfall so far. May the boredom end quickly.

Hmmmm. I’m using landscape but still don’t see anything other than username, avatar and time since last post. Operator error?

Suggestion: when giving obs please say where you are located at, rather than saying “here” or “IMBY”. Following along on iPhone, I don’t see anyone’s locations by their names — if there’s a setting I need to change someone please tell me — thanks

Slightly better, more wet flakes mixing in with rain at the moment. Temp fell 0.1° past 1/2 hour after slightly rising earlier. 36.4°

9:15am Columbia— seeing first wet flakes falling among raindrops. At a morning high of 36.5, up 0.5° in last hour.

Midnight 36.5. Temps dropped to 34.0 overnight before light rain arrived. Temp then went up to current 36.0 with light rain. Gonna be watching and waiting for drops of fractions of a degree today.

Lived in McLean for 8 years a bit south of Great Falls Park. Snow did seem to accumulate well — and better — there. Always enjoyed drive home from work in DC heading north up GW Pkwy to McLean/Great Falls, enjoyed watching how the snowpack got better the further up the Pkwy I got. DC green, McLean white.

I’m at T-minus 3 hours until Indian Restaurant and some Taj Mahal.

Just recently back from the island of Culebra, PR. Last PR island east of mainland PR, before one heads east toward St. John/USVI. We had sunny days 85/ mornings 75.

0.64” with latest rain.

And it t ain’t over until the fat lady sings.

If you end up being 2-4”, you may be kicked out of bed. ———- Oh, and only a high of 44 today, imby Columbia, felt chilly. But now at 43 it feels good outside.