Herb@MAWS

Balto=turnovers.bad. Buffalo=none.good.

Breezes have picked up. 32.2 at 4:30 Have had sleety snow at all different intensities. Then it went to all-snow and was quite heavy for a while. Steady snow now. Small flakes make it look less intense or threatening. Sidewalks, car tops, deck and my side street all whitened. Will measure after.

Columbia snowing

Spent morning at Natl Aquarium in Balto. with car temp 39. Back in Columbia at 35. Waiting….

Bad officiating today strongly favors KC. Plus Houston beating themselves.

I know HoCo is divided into a NW zone for higher elevations and then “the rest of the county”/SE zone …. and I suspect NWS does the same for where u see the other split county advisories.

2-4” would be fine by me, with 3 cars to shovel out. Much easier than removing 6”. Oh well, that’s my rationale for being happy with whatever I get. 25.2° imby at 6am. Currently it is the morning low.

Flurries in Columbia and 19°. Almost steady light snow.

Low IMBY 11.3, coldest yet altho surely getting colder Tuesday-Wednesday mornings

Morning low 16.4 — approximately what my expected high temp is for next Tuesday.

Wisp cam was showing some pretty nice and impressive rates a bit earlier. Stayed in Grantsville for 5 days early December. It just wants to snow there.

Columbia inconsequential steady flurries. Temp went from 27.4 to current 28.1

The very fun NE.Weather Snow Forecasting Contest makes direct reference to Joe Bartlo under the section “Who Can Enter” and includes some of his humorous postings (will sound non-sensical if u weren’t there) and ravings complete with his typos from back in the old bulletin board days of ne.weather where everyone fought with posts about who was right or wrong. Inside jokes in this section; “you had to be there” with Bartlo’s posts. Bartlo was a trip. The forecasting contest grew out of frustration with having to deal with newsgroup personalities like Bartlo who tried to hijack and ruin weather forecasting discussions. Not much monitoring back then in late ‘90s. The Contest jokingly honored him after he passed away. http://www.newx-forecasts.com And now, we return to our 21st century regular programming.

Ravens playing pretty well tonite overall. Without the last-second 2Q Ravens TD this is a 21-14 game. Won’t feel confident of a W until 4Q time clock is 0:00. They’ve lost too many times earlier this season on dumb penalties, turnovers, etc. in final 1 or 2 mins.

Beautiful TD pass from Lamar.

Yeah, I measured before 6am.

2.1” imby east side of Columbia.

30/17 in my part of Columbia today.

7.5" IMBY on east side of Columbia.

The HoCo Deathband has been going for about 2 hrs now. Nothing outrageous but it has kept the snow going with additional minor accums here in Columbia.

Moderate to hvy intensity band aligned E to W near Columbia.

East side of Columbia: First shoveling 8:45 measured 5” at start. Snow returned heavily. Somewhere between 5.5” and 5.75” when finished 9:30.

Still snowing. At worst it’s a Columbia Cartopper. Grass has that “whitened” appearance.

A burst of graupel imby/Columbia. 36°