BlizzardNole

Light snow grains and 27. We sure kept surface temps over night! I should have waited to clear the driveway and walkway because now you could skate on them.

Intensity is typically tied to visibility, with heavy snow being visibility of less than a quarter mile. I think of heavy snow as about 1 inch per hour. Not necessarily flake size as sometimes you can have large wet flakes but spaced way apart. Get this -- NYC could see rates of 2-4 inches at times. Man to see that.

This has been a painful lesson for most of us. Stick to the formula next time we have a Miller B -- take your forecast snow amount and divide the lower number in half. For example, your forecast says 4-8" total, expect 2". Works 95% of the time. Works for clippers too. Oh, light frz drizzle and 29. Less total winter snow than Shreveport, VA Beach, Rocky Mount NC, Richmond and Madrid

We are in Milestone, just north of the intersection of Rts. 355 and 27. I might be moving soon......to the Panic Room

Bwaahahahaha even lower St Mary's County did better than pathetic upper MontCo. What a snow hole. We are the new Richmond

If it makes you feel any better we only got 2" up here in Germantown well NW of the city and we're done. My forecast was 6-8 and my low end was 4". Huuuuuuuge bust. My thinking is we had a chance on Dec. 16 and failed and we had this chance and failed miserably again. We will not get another chance in a Nina winter. We're done

Yup. Multiple 4-5 inch amounts down there. Places that have had more snow than DC: Richmond, Virginia Beach (LOL), Louisiana, central North Carolina, Madrid Spain Very light snow and just under 2" on the ground. Looks to be over. Starting to fill out paperwork for the Panic Room

I doubted this thing all week but finally bought in yesterday and believed we were getting 6 inches plus. The joke's on me. I forgot to use the Mid-Atlantic Miller Bust Formula -- take your predicted range, and divide the lower number by half. For example predicted 6-10 you're getting 3. Now I will not believe in any system no matter what the models show. Bring on spring. About 1.5" and barely snowing, sky brightening.

Ha! I should have set my bar at 6 cm instead of 6 inches. It's starting to look like that split where south of us does better with the thump and the coastal misses us north. I'd be surprised to see more than 3" total now.

Wow, nice looking yard! My sister lives in Huntingtown, right near the high school. Parents are a couple miles up the road, brother in Ches Beach. I experienced lot of winter pain growing up in Calvert! It's fun when you win there though (my God the Blizzard of 79). 1 inch now near Germantown, very light now and sky is brightening. Uh oh?

Very light snow with a dusting in Germantown, 29 degrees. My bar for this storm is 6" and that might be tough with the way things look right now. My point-click forecast is just 2-4 for today and I don't think we get any here tomorrow.

Hurts when it happens! In 1/25/2000, I got stuck between heavy bands to the east and west, and even had sun peaking out. I measured about 7" while areas all around got double or more.

I don't think most would be upset at 5-10 for much of the forum; it's the trends that are scaring people that we might end up with a minor event or even a whiff. My bar is 6" without rain washing it away. I'd be very happy with one storm like that as I was expecting a shutout winter.

What a gut punch it would be after seeing it snow in Louisiana, NC, VA Beach, if this also went south of us. The Panic Room would have a line to get in.

I get a kick out of these Calif. mountain storms. This is from near Ebbets Pass: Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 19. Strong and damaging winds, with a south wind around 75 mph, with gusts as high as 115 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 24 to 30 inches possible. Tonight Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 17. Strong and damaging winds, with a south wind 70 to 80 mph decreasing to 60 to 70 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 115 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 22 to 28 inches possible. Thursday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 22. Strong and damaging winds, with a south wind 60 to 65 mph decreasing to 50 to 55 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 100 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 16 to 22 inches possible.

Light sleet started in Germantown; 35 degrees.

Guess we have to travel now if we want to see good snow. Let's see... there's Louisiana, Texas, Madrid and London

The only frozen my yard will see in Germantown is this from my block freezer defrost

Sure is. I was in southern MD in 1994 for 2-plus inches of ice accretion -- you do NOT want to see it.

Can't believe it's 17-year cicada time again. I remember telling my wife in 2004 that the next time our little kids would be 21 and 19. It sounded unthinkable at the time but here we are!

Now here's a thread I can get into! Winter is so terrible here -- months of bare trees and chilly dreariness with no snow, but we have gardening to look forward to. I'm a flower gardener with emphasis on butterflies and hummingbirds. My hummingbirds arrive the third week of April - just three more months! In the next few weeks I will get my tropical milkweed seeds going for my monarch crop.

A few graupel grains on the deck table this morning. Guess that's worth a report the way this winter is going.

We are flying out of BWI this Saturday to visit family in Florida so this storm is happening

2010 was once in a lifetime. Give me a 2018 type winter (around 30" total with one big storm) and I'm ecstatic.

Snow falling thru super-cooled water droplets. I was showing my daughter the perfect star-shaped ones on the deck table. Pretty neat precip type. All snow in Germantown now.