Stormpc

That's the big one. It's coming. We're going to get ours!!

Got blitzed by that Coastal front this morning which added almost 2 inches of rain in my location. It's a bog. More stratiform rain moving in after this slug clears. Lots of standing water now.

Emerald Isle is nice. Beautiful spot. Closest airport is Wilmington and that's almost 2 hours. Not terrible. Kind of tucked away in that location. Very rural. Can't do much worse for retirement. I'm not of retirement age and needed to be closer to a metropolitan area so I chose Currituck which still keeps me in the greater Hampton Roads area for work. Need about five more years before full retirement for me. Not sure I want to go any further south but if I did it would be in that area down through Wilmington and as far south as Ocean Isle. The yard maintenance is what is the driving factor. I have a half an acre which is plenty for a middle aged, beat up guy. I have robot mowers that work great but still it's a lot of maintenance otherwise. Might want to move to a place where I don't have to do anything outside. But then you're dealing with people on top of you and I'm not sure I can do that either. Lots of think about. Never crosses your mind when you're in your 20s or 30s. At least not for me.

I can only speak for my area in Currituck/Dare and surrounding counties along the Albemarle and Currituck sounds. The standing water in the ditches along the highways throughout the coastal areas seem to never dry out because they are tidal in nature. Little tributaries and streams fill those basins and they are usually never dry no matter how long it doesn't rain. Yes they do dry up a little bit but it's never empty. Times of heavy rain they certainly fill up more so. Also these places are low-lying and just a few feet above sea level. When they dug my pool and got down to about 4 ft deep they had to continuously pump water out during the process because it would fill. But I'm only about 5 ft above sea level and 700 ft from the sound. Otherwise the soils drain pretty well actually. It's definitely not something I'm accustomed to so I'm still learning after 6 years. You would think the area along the coast would flood more but it doesn't. Yes we get standing water but we never seem to flood. There are a few communities that were poorly designed near Moyock NC and lower areas of Hampton Roads that do flood but it's mainly because of poor planning and design. Great question though.

2.24 storm total. About 4 inches since late Friday. Puddles in yard. Pool full. Another 1-2 overnight into Wednesday with possible storms. Soaked! Been here 6 years, don't remember a late winter early spring this wet.

Bump to discuss all this rain we're getting every other day. I love this morning's setup. Has been on many of the models for the last 7 days. Tight compact system crawling up the coast from the Atlantic. Had about 1.6in Friday/Saturday and looking at another 2-4 over next 7 days. Pretty widespread to cover most of our forum as well. Maybe some storms Wednesday? Something to keep an eye on. At least it's not boring

March looks to be active with chances lining up one after the next. All rain but some severe possible. We have a plethora of cold fronts, gulf storms coming up and Atlantic systems backing in to look forward to. At least it won't be boring. Unless it's another long range fake but I doubt it. Models do well forcasting rain events way out in the future. Some potential for graupel or hail for a few of us today. Maybe some lightning as well. Who knows?

I'm fringed! Ha! Wouldn't that be something? What is that, 4 ft for the Eastern shore?

Show us if you can.

@RIC Airport I HOPE you didn't spend your time and energy running up to Arlington to experience that debacle overnight. What a skunk-job. Even up to the start of the event the most meager modeling was still predicting something. Looked at the radar around 10 last night and it looked like a cold front rather than a northern stream wave. Sure areas in Pennsylvania and New Jersey JACKED, but it was a complete bust in the NOVA area. Poor modeling. BUT, all hints were there leading up to it. It began slipping away 36 hours earlier when it started chopping 40 miles off the southern edge of accumulating snow with each 6-hour run. Oh well! Let's find something else to fantasize about before we turn to severe weather hunting.

Did you see the EURO for the 22nd/23rd time frame?? Our LAST SHOT. Also you are right about being unlucky. Look at Northern Virginia for instance. After tonight they will be at climate average or above for this time of year if things go as forecasted. And there's another 4 weeks or so to go.... how many places are the East Coast can claim that? Probably none. So in one sense they have gotten incredibly lucky while all others are just suffering the fate of this year's winter.

Yes it's not over just looking very bleak. The lack of cold air is what does it for me. Canada warms up nicely into March, so that's what I usually look at. Maybe a fluke later. 1993 was 2nd week of March but that winter was loaded from the start. I lived north of Syracuse for that one and we got about 50 inches with some lake snows on the back end. That's what makes this hobby so much fun. Don't need a 3-day historic event. It only takes one really epic 12-hour event to make lasting memories.

This is probably the last real chance for Richmond and vicinity. Such a quick hitter. Not much chance of a fluke. No room for error. Right now I doubt any accumulating snow gets south of Kings Dominion. Unless things start moving south on the 0Z runs beginning with the NAMS next hour. Looks like a Stafford to Baltimore jack, with ratio snows piling up West and North. Culpeper and Rappahannock County's might be the place to be for this one. And the usual Northern Montgomery into Howard County areas in MD. At least there's something to watch. It's so much easier living down here pretty much out of the game all the time. I never stress but I also never get excited so it goes both ways.

HELLO....RICHMOND!! This is your event. Overnight. Cold enough at the surface. Decent track. On the edge but always room to go further south as we've seen recently. Of course can go the other way but liking the trends for Central virginia. Bring it home.

Glimmer is accurate. Looks like it's OVER to me. Especially SE of RIC.

It's like fantasizing what you would do if you won the Powerball jackpot of 500 million dollars. Exciting, then you realize it's never going to happen. But what if it does?

Not what I'm thinking. Let's get it down towards Charleston...

Going to be a busy week as we can see the transition now on the long range models becoming more consistent and stronger with each run. Might not get there by the 15th but certainly looks exciting after with possible Southern stream tracks which is probably good for most of us in this thread. Here is to a good week ahead with eyes on the long range. Love that Greenland block of all indices. OT...You see what happened in Nova Scotia?

Yes you guys were killing it with the wrap around while places just east of DC and Baltimore could never get back in to the snow band. They got the initial thump then it hung out just to the west and snaked down through Richmond and Southern VA. I was lucky enough to be West enough to get back into that 2nd act of the storm which was awesome. Wind blown powder. Great day that was.

That's another very tight gradient. I'm sure I was grieving that storm, missing it to my south. I still think we're going to have another good shot or two. Especially up where you are. Things are looking pretty good I must say. Possible suppressed pattern. Not bad for me. Not great for further north. Pretty rough to go from 7-8 inches in Williamsburg and barely an inch around richmond. That's tight.

It's a very odd area down here. Southern Hampton Roads Northeast North carolina. I had between 8 and 9 inches of snow from that January event in 2022. Actually Shoveled the driveway. Stuck to the road and pavement very well. So it does snow here. And it can happen. I don't remember the last time DCA had 8 inches of snow during one event. Probably not since I moved out of that area in 2019. Very narrow stripe though. A good 6 inches was still prevalent down to Grandy but once south of Grandy (like a mile) there was basically nothing. Up to Moyock and into Chesapeake a few inches less as well. Most of the times during marginal events my neighborhood gets nothing while just a quarter mile inland can have a few inches. I got lucky or unlucky depending on how you look at it. A few times I've had nothing at my house while the front of the neighborhood, which is just a few hundred yards away, has had a dusting. I need the winds coming off the land. Any part of the Sound and I'm toast.

Just my quick two cents. It looks like everything is going according to plan. We knew it would get more favorable after February 10. Doesn't look like we'll sneak in any fluke before that or even a few days after. I still think this time next week we'll be tracking something around Valentine's Day or after. Progressively colder in Eastern Canada. Going to be a blocky situation. Can't really look at any of the operational runs right now. Nothing looks great on those and shouldn't. Patience. We are not running out of time. Yet. I think I'll start paying good attention after Sunday otherwise quick peeks at some of the ensembles and long range indicators and that's it. Enjoy the weekend SEVA/RVA friends.

Damn it. We were trying to hide from everyone. We come down here to escape.

Re 2/5-2/6...If it gets this for North it's going to be rain. As it looks right now. Still looking like pattern change around mid-month but again that's over two weeks away still. We'll take what we can get between now and then. At least something to look at especially for you folks in the Richmond area and north. If anything I'm getting either some rain or a lot of wind driven rain with this. Not much difference down here. A few cold air damming situations pop up on those ensembles. But Not many. From now till mid month looks to be a gradual step down with a little roller coaster in temperatures until that block gets established north of the maritimes. At least that's what it looks like right now. @RIC Airport can delve deeper into the euro and ensembles later.

Jackson not ready for the big time yet I guess. Terrible game. Regular season poser.