Herb@MAWS

Temps have been rock-steady at 33 since I first checked at 6am. Rose from 33.1 to 33.8 currently.

33.1 current and low temp, on east side of Columbia. Eyeballing more than 1/2" and less than 1".

36 with flakes in Columbia at 12:15am

7:30 pm -- down to 37° in Columbia, east side. Nice temp drops, as others have reported. Skies mostly clear. The cold air arriving just in time, just ahead of the moisture .... for a change. I did notice on a live TV DC shot on (probably a cable news channel or maybe Redskins game), it looked like a few clouds were scattered around DC in late in the afternoon. For any one in DC: did those clouds clear up, or ..... ?? (trying to compute about how many more good hours in Columbia we may have for temps to keep falling before increasing clouds slow up the downward trend)

Time-sensitive but a nice blow-up of clouds early this evening just south of S-ern NC.

Columbia flurries beginning/trying to stick to car tops and deck. 34.2°

Columbia, 6:15pm: a few flurries, 34°

Some sky-brightening looking SW from Columbia.

Best storm in years IMBY in terms of wind + rain. Started with a bit of T&L but then just pouring sheets of rain for a solid 30 minutes and quite windy for a solid 10-15 mins (it felt longer). Tropical storm-like during the 10-15 mins of strong winds. About 3/4"-1" rain. Temp dropped from 84 to 71 during storm.

I'm in Culebra, Puerto Rico (an island east of mainland) a few more days -- 75 at 7am AST, 81 in afternoons. Fresh east wind 15mph+ all day. Sunny. Probably will have a big storm since I'm missing it.

When you consider we didn't even get the main storm but rather the WAA out ahead of it, I can't complain about approx 5" while the main storm went to the Lakes. We can thank the strong HP (strategically positioned) to the north for that. This was an energetic, spring-like system, with plenty of GulfMex juice. While I noticed temps rose toward the end of the snow, the temp has remained quite steady around 30.6 for the past few hours. Just a bit of sleet IMBY as the snow slowly fizzled.

12:30pm 30.1° (up 1° in last hour) Light snow/sleet approx 4-3/4"

Temp up from morning low of 27.5 a few hours ago .... to current 29.0. Snow has hung on very nicely all morning, with only a few times having a "sleet-y look". Going out to shovel now .... and to measure. Eyeballing 3.5"-4", maybe a touch more.

Left house at 8am w/approx 1" OTG, roads covered, mod snow and temp at 31.3 (down from high of 31.7) Got home 9:15am, approx 3"-3.5" OTG now; steady, mod snow, temp fell to 27.9. Driving sucks but is certainly doable altho am not recommending it. Route 108, a local main road, is covered with a few inches.

Like everyone else, rates picked up quickly. Immediate stickage on deck, cars. Looks like sidewalks and my side street not far behind. Mod-hvy snow, small flakes, 31.5°

Does anyone have a link for 3-hr US air pressure changes? It looks like the Unisys weather maps are .... no longer.

SN- began just before 7am (IMBY) 31°

The waiting yesterday late PM was painful. But the results .... more than satisfying!

''Columbia Death Band'' FTW! 5" between approx 5-10pm, 12.3" total.

9.5" to 10" plus/minus looks like a good average at 9pm for eastern HoCo area.

Exactly what I measured. Thought I was seeing things. Gotta be on either side of 9" now.

8.3ish total == and pouring 6.3ish OTG

Finally got into the good stuff about 30 mins ago.

Pouring to the left of me, Banding to the right, Here I am stuck in the middle .....

Activity slowly picking up again. 29.7 degrees