bsperlin

For the record: 4.75" total snow/sleet at 7:30, 4 mi south of the Alexandria beltway. All sleet at 8:10.

At 7:30 this morning here in Hybla Valley, there was 6" on top of the car roofs. Not sure if compaction mattered, but it was my only measurement. Currently drizzling (water) so the pack should shrink. It's unusual to have the ground with snow for so many days, from late December. The crocus' will be late this year!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Classification Miller A - from the Gulf or Florida - Sandy 1993 Miller B - from the Ohio Valley, jumping the mountains to the Gulf Stream off NC - Snowmageddon 2010 If you have better references, please list them.

10" on car roof, Hybla Valley, VA, 4 mi south of Beltway, Fairfax County

No, that was from April 29. My azaleas usually peak around the last week of April, first week of May. My definition of "peak" is that the most plants are in bloom at the same time. The first azalea flower appeared this year March 24, later to be wiped out by the frost. My last "spring" flower will probably be in mid-June. Starting in August, some of the plants will put out a scattering of flowers until the first frost in mid-November. I measure the first flower on each of my 300 plants and, while the bloom times vary from year to year, they vary around a pretty consistent mean. Many plants have been measured for 26 years.

Azalea flowers have opened at their normal (25 year average) time. A freeze at the end of March killed a lot of buds, and also some flowers that opened. As you can see from the picture, some flowers survived

East Coast NPZ said: " Looking at the 500 chart, what feature illustrates the diffluent signature? I dont really see the height lines diverging. " That was my question, too. However, I can see that the boxed area has an increase of wind speed over the upstream flows, so that would tend to pull in air from below to replace it, but I'd like to hear someone discuss those dynamics further.

Ah, cicadas! I'm an old man, and I can remember when I was a kid (1953??) Northern VA was almost all rural, unlike the present when almost everything has been paved over with houses, roads and parking lots. There are a lot fewer now than then. My main memory from that time was visiting an old man (my current age?) who would sit on his patio and just pluck them out of the air, dropping them into a large glass jar. They were dense! Now, there's just a lot of them around, but you can still see the sun!

I'm an outlier, as I have no interest in vegetable gardening, but plant for flowers. Crocus shoots, daffodils and paperwhites have been up since December. Snowdrop shoots this month, though they always flower first. The warm winter has led to good budgrowth on the azaleas, but the same happened last year and the nasty cold at the end of February killed a lot of them and I had a poor azalea display later. Looking forward, also, to a lot of butterflies on the flowers on the sunny side of the house. 10 miles south of DC in Fairfax County.

It's been drizzling for more than an hour, not a lot of accumulation. Not measured with the ice, but we may have gotten to 7" before it all started getting compressed. 4 mi South of Alexandria.

4.75" on top of car, 4 mi S of Alexandria at 8:45 am. Almost no addition since then.