Brianonymous

Just made contact with the wind..

That was a super large alert list, dang. Whats coming? lol

Weather radio just went bloop.

1 minute ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Setups like this stink in this part of the country. 9.9/10 times they bust, then you get the 0.1 time where things go gang busters with meager sunshine. You do a post mortem on all of the event and they look all the same, yet you wonder why this one time we nuts.  

That's the part that baffles me. The fear factor behind this one seemed to be turned to 11. It didn't make sense.

The thunder from this little pre-storm isn't messing around.

The school thing is blowing my mind.. I have no idea what to anticipate here.. Is this going to be like the derecho? Or something more extended in time?

Thats odd, AACo schools just declared a 2hr early dismissal tomorrow.

I don't recall that ever happening. I could be wrong. Is this really going to be that bad?

4 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Did anyone from Crofton to Annopoils hear that loud, long rumble of thunder about an hour ago? It was snow hard when it struck. I've experienced thunder snow so many times in my life. I'm always outside during snow events,  that's why. I've almost been struck by lightning during summer at least 5 times in my life. That's another story lol

YES. I thought it was a jet in distress. Very strange sounding.

what the actual hell!? I wasn't prepared for this, lol.

My cars got a nice accumulation thus far.. But that seems to be it.

I'm going to lean positive and be thankful I won't have to shovel things.

Had a whole bunch of false starts, lost a degree (now 34) and now a less chonky snow is falling.

Switch flipped, coming down pretty nice now 

what the hell is that?

Starting to see my snow chunks in my rain again.. Still 36f.

5 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Morning flights out of BWI are being cancelled already.  My brother was heading to Sarasota tomorrow morning, but is now on a plane tonight as his flight was nixed.

Already seeing the decline in air traffic

Mysteriously gained a degree, 36f. My beautiful chunks have stopped falling.

35.. Starting to see chunks fall.

5 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

I hate all of you rn

By being out of state, you manifested this blizzard into existence. Thank you for your service

This is like a 2 week normal snow thread rollercoaster, condensed down into a day or two. Neat.

I almost killed myself on my own driveway shovel mounds trying to get into my car today. I parked a bit too close to them, so I did the natural thing of thinking I could just step on the mounds like we were living some kind of normal snow event. 

Heck no. Solid block of ice. I even stomp tested it in anger. No give.

Controversial, but my back is kind of glad we miss out this weekend 

It does seem weird what is happening with the plowing situation. I don't remember it ever going down like it has.. Is that just because of the 10 feet of sleet and the resulting depleted uranium coating? Day 1 I could shovel fine.. day 2 I switched to smash and remove mode.. day 3, c4

Awfully sus looking.. 27F

2 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

Those things are explosive. Bet it sounded like a cannon when it went off.

Yeah, it did. Scared the crap out of me. It was about 3/4's closed when it blew, so it exploded and dropped like a boulder. I unlocked it from the trolly, but then I found out for the first time how heavy garage doors really are. I wonder if it was temp related, or I just have bad luck timing wise.

Went outside to shovel at 20F, by the time I was done it hit 25F..

And my damn garage door spring snapped clean in half on the way back in..    

lol, holy crap. This is a mode of precipitation I have no experience with. Just had something come through that was like bags of beach sand being dumped from my roof.