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This weather hobby can be hard to explain to people and sometimes feels ridiculous, especially when we get shafted, but (having missed the snow until now this year), beginning of even a mild snowstorm makes it all worth it  

1 minute ago, Paleocene said:

What's up neighbor, Bullis Park reporting in

Corner by Thayer & Grove, so probably within 1000 feet of ya. Beautiful outside now!

Beautiful snow in downtown/east silver spring, definitely picking up and a nice coating everywhere. 25.2, plenty of time left.

There’s the expected winter weather advisory for DC area.

1 hour ago, leesburg 04 said:

Man there are some real wet blankets in the MLK thread....two of those dudes live in prime snow spots as well and yet they seem to only speak in woe is me talk. Shitty

Seems like it’s just an intentional persona.  Actually seemed worse in past years IMO lol

Good afternoon all … exactly what time will the snow start for the NW DC suburbs and exactly how many inches???? Not talking about the storm this Sunday I’m talking about the possible Miller A in ten days thanks 

Really not sure the purpose of a Tweet like this, it’s not even clickbaitey like we see from others (“here’s an ensemble member showing two feet!”)

NAM showing the low more south but also a tad stronger?

31 minutes ago, SnowGolfBro said:

In 96 i remember calling the weather hotline everyday starting 4 days before the storm (I was 9 lol). But day 4 was 1-3 inches. Day 3 was 3-6 inches. Day 2 was 6-12 inches. Day 1 was 18-24 lol. So here is hoping this one breaks that way! I might call that hotline right now

I have this exact memory, and we’re the same age. I think I called that hotline like 18 times a day.

15 minutes ago, Imgoinhungry said:

Onset of precipitation for dc metro sometime around 3pm on Sunday?

Sure if you give “sometime around” an incredibly broad definition to render it useless lol

Even east of the the i95 cities may get a nice ~6+ hour period of snow according to much of the guidance, with at least a good chunk of that moderate or heavy. It’ll make for a fun evening. Love how a 3-6” event is amazing if we’re snow starved but terrible if we’re not. 
 

When’s the last time we were under a flood watch or warning and WSW at the same time?

Just now, baltosquid said:

The whole thing is just getting slower, slower, slower. It keeps backing up run over run into the energy behind it. Spacing is too much in front and becoming too little behind. Nothing has broken that trend. Hard to see it doing so at this stage but there’s always “the wave isn’t on shore yet” to fall back on I guess, for a little longer.

1 minute ago, Interstate said:

I am going out on a limb and say I will like the ICON better this run

Better than its last run or better than the GFS/Euro snow-to-mild-rain bombs?

LWX forecast still is centered on Saturday to Sunday. Figured that would have been pushed a day by now.

A third of this board sarcastically doom posts, a third actually doom posts, and a third thinks the sarcastic doom posts are actual doom posts 

Really fun panels about to be incoming…

1 minute ago, Vice-Regent said:

You are on drugs if you think this storm is viable for all but a very small sub-section of this community. Prove me wrong?

Don't resort to ad hominem stuff.

What’s your definition of “viable”?  

14 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

i don't recall everything - i just remember being at this party (I was a junior in high school) where we were all staying at someone's house overnight, and then the next morning it was just drizzly.  I think I found WWBB shortly thereafter as a place to vent lol.

Snow maps got progressively but quickly smaller and smaller until TWC had us in the 3-6” range.  I thought “okay at least it’s something” and then didn’t even get that…

9 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

I adjusted some of the totals a little...this is my current thinking.  I think during the heaviest precip it will mix out the warm layer just enough to do better then the doomsday scenario on some of the high res guidance.  Ratios will be low but it will be puking precipitation so even if its a 50/50 snow/sleet mix it will accumulate a decent amount.  I also think these gulf systems with true cold air in place tend to run on the wet side of guidance.  

My thinking here:

1. Who posted this ridiculous call?

2. Wait, it's PSUHoffman?  What the hell happened since I checked 30 minutes ago? 

3. :::reads the key:::

4. Back to doomcasting the NAM

One of the extremely rare occasions when I'm not sure whether to stay in downtown DC or head up to Baltimore County.

(The answer is probably Baltimore County, but I like to imagine the snowhole won't happen, just once)

Went out to Frederick for the storm because a downtown DC-classic-rain mix sounded too depressing.  Snow picking up in intensity, probably moderate now, sticking everywhere.  We're at 550', it's 27.7 here.

Sorry if this happened a while ago, but I was pretty surprised to see that the government is already closed for tomorrow.

BWI: 4.4”

DCA: 3.1”

IAD: 3.7”

RIC: 0.9"

Tiebreaker: 1.31'"

GFS getting pretty moderate snow into DC a bit earlier this run 

Icon is early enough for a fun morning in DC