notvirga!

Hopefully this will verify for DT 

Hopefully the gfs bites because DT just canceled the storm 

12k nam always sniffs out the big ones early 

12 minutes ago, yoda said:

So... radio show?

Those were the days. Loved listening to those leading up to a mecs or hecs 

982 mb here 

I was out in Winchester and Strasburg early this morning. I knew there was a winter weather advisory but didn’t expect to wake up to much of anything so the pounding snow and sleet was a shock along with the sharp cutoff where it changed to rain to the east. I drove west from Strasburg this morning to western Frederick County Va before driving back into Winchester on rt 50 and then back to Maryland later. Roads were pretty bad. 

My friend in Capon Bridge WV says they have 6 inches. Some sleet on the bottom. He’s actually east of Capon Bridge maybe a mile or two across the border into WVA. Close to rt 50. 

Really heavy snow in Strasburg headed towards Winchester 

3 minutes ago, WVclimo said:

Just passed 3”.  I measured a total of 4.3” all of last winter.

Hopefully you will be able to add 2-3 more inches 

Good returns overhead now but not sure what it’s doing. Sleet or rain I reckon because I don’t see any flakes (stuck at my home office working this morning). Still only 32-33 degrees though 

Shenandoah and Frederick counties in Virginia have been under yellows all morning. Too bad it’s been mostly sleet and freezing rain. (Except maybe far northern sections)

Super lame so far here. Occasional flakes but mostly light sleet and drizzle. A dusting 

Snow mixing in now 

Not really seeing any flakes yet in Owings Mills. Just some light sleet and zrain 

Traffic cam shows it’s ripping snow on wv —va border rt 48 on the mountain. It was freezing rain and sleet earlier 

Fox 5 dc said graf model came In colder. Increased some totals by 1-2 inches 

6 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

It’s not just snowfall. Look at its precip totals. I’m telling you guys that’s the key. Heavy precip will do the trick for a lot of people.

I agree with you about that. Definitely will need the heavy precip for good accumulations but no one is getting a foot of snow in Winchester, 3-6 or 4-8 is probably top end. This is the model that gave me 45 inches in one storm a couple years ago and I got 3. 

Yeah would just look at rgem as a trend. Its snowfall numbers are frequently bonkers 

3k sticks a 6 inch lollipop right over my place west of Owings Mills. I guess that 650 of elevation feet does wonders lol 

Aren’t we like 24 hours away from the nams even being remotely accurate? 

The Mike Masco twitter drama is something else today. Personally I always thought he was a petty good meteorologist. I have no issues with a simple first call map which is all he issued today. Calling him irresponsible for it seems a little much. But that’s twitter/X. Everyone has to have their own hot take I guess. 

2 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Feb 83 was the most intense storm in this area.  Ever.  Nothing comes close.  96 and 2016 (in the Northern part of the area) rival the total accumulations, but 83 did it in basically 14 hours.  32" measured in Warren County.  In 14 hours!  At the height, rates were 4 - 5 inches per hour with thundersnow.  Nothing has come close to that intensity since.

I remember reading an article I think in the Winchester star about it a few years back. Apparently abandoned vehicles everywhere because the snow fell so hard and fast.

7 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

I dont know man. I went to sleep on the SECOND night of 2016 and when I woke up I couldnt find my snowboard anymore. It was just gone. I knew where it was but when I tried to get to it the snow was up to my chest. I was measuring with a drywall t square which is 48 inches long and I would shove it into the snow and it would disappear. I know we had over 40 inches with that storm. But honestly to this day I have no idea how much snow we actually got. And I dont think anyone was capable of getting a true measurement of that storm. 

It may well have been 40 inches or close to it. I lived in the city of Winchester and it was the closest I’ve seen to three feet and that’s snow depth not snowfall accumulation. 

I lived in Winchester Va/frederick county for all the big ones since 83 but I was only 2 in 83. March 93 is still my favorite snowstorm—Snowed in at my grandmothers house in the rural part of the county—we stayed there because she had a wood stove. The wind, the duration, the snow drifts were all unreal. Remember taking a night walk with my dad down our dirt road in the peak of the blizzard; there was an abandoned s-10 pickup amidst the drifts. Jan 2016 is the most snow I’ve ever seen. I’m told Feb 83 was to the  2016 numbers at my parents house. PD 2 was the coldest I remember. 

Great pics Psu!