BlizzardNole

Just did the driveway and walkway with mostly sleet falling, but changed back to snow in that band as I finished. Bob Chill was not kidding when he warned of dense snow! My electric snowblower was choking on that stuff and it was sticking to the shovel. I hope we don't hear of heart attacks from people shoveling. Measured 4.5" with moderate snow, 30 degrees. For cellies: 2 miles NE Germantown.

Sleet snow mix 2 miles NE Germantown, with 3.8 on the ground, 29 degrees. Going to clear half of the table to measure sleet.

3.5 with light snow. About 2" of that fell between 8am and 9am. 28 degrees. As another poster said, it's a good sign that we stayed snow with the much lighter precip between bands. Later on will be a good test for the precip depiction on Radarscope comparing with ground truth.

This doesn't do it justice -- it was REALLY coming down for a while there! Dropped about a half inch in 15 minutes. I love that we are getting this in daylight hours.

Heavy snow and 28; about 1.75 on the ground. Looks beautiful with the air-filling small/medium flakes. 2 miles NE of Germantown

All in! Four inches would put me at a cool 25" for the winter which is damn good considering how the winter has been for the MA and NE as a whole. I just looked at snowfall at Boston Logan -- only 8.4" for the whole winter (3.4" for biggest event), and predicted for just 1-2" from this before flipping to rain. Areas west have fared much better of course but still. Snow fans up there must be crawling the walls.

Josh! Where in FL are you moving? Were you here long enough to see some of our great winters? I am hoping for a nice front-end thump with next week's set-up, but man ice could be concern for some. One Damascus guy I know lost power for 10 hours in that last deal.

I take and RUN with it. That would put me well over my average. I'd feel almost guilty given how this winter has gone for others in this sub.

I was surprised to find my car crusted with about 0.2" of ice this morning. I have my timing for making the MARC train down to a science so I was scraping frantically. Then I get there and the train is 20 minutes late LOL. Trees, grass and cars were icy in Germantown, but roads just wet. It was right at 32. This would have been a really bad ice storm if it was just a couple degrees lower.

I did and never want to again. I was in the devastating 1994 ice storm in northern Calvert County. It was ridiculous - two days of steady moderate rain with air temps in the low to mid 20s leaving THREE inches of solid ice glaze. I stood on our covered porch at night and watched the sky lighting up in greenish flashes from transformers blowing in all directions, and heard branches and trees cracking and smashing to the ground in the woods. I have never seen so much ice -- it was surreal. My folks somehow did not lose power, but many did and for up to two weeks. It took years for the tree line behind my parents' house to look normal again.

Wow those flakes look like something made of white insulation blew up!

LOL San Antonio, TX area. Paging Jebman!

Congrats! Clarksburg has a nice little microclimate going on. I've seen times in the past when I drove three miles from my house to Clarksburg High School and seen snow on the ground when I had nothing. I wonder how the High Street area of Damascus did. I got 0.5 before changing to rain before midnight. Here is another measurement just a few miles from you:

Light snow and 31; about 2/3" on most surfaces. Streets just wet.

I like hearing about snow in places like Dumnfries and Waldorf. Good sign. Light dusting on surfaces in Germantown, 32 degrees.

Light snow started in Germantown; 33 degrees

I don't envy the forecasters for early next week. From the end of the LWX disco LOL: In terms of sensible weather, this leaves the range of potential outcomes anywhere between well above normal temperatures and rain, to well below normal temperatures and snow. The level of uncertainty is captured well by the range of high temperatures forecast by ensemble guidance for Tuesday, which ranges anywhere from the upper 20s to the lower 70s.

2 miles NNE of Germantown, 39.208660 N, -77.251600 W November 15: 3.0 Jan 12-13: 12.5 January 17: 1.3 January 29: 2.5 January 30: 0.2 February 1: 1.5 Total: 21.0

Light snow falling again in Germantown.

Trudged around in the yard a little bit with 1.2 new snow on top of 2-2.5 old from Tuesday. Nice winter day, and we might get a little more looking at radar.

1.2" in Germantown.

Now at 0.6 which gets me to the 20 inch mark for the winter. The 2 or so inches still on the ground makes for a nice wintry landscape to enjoy before I'm grilling outside for the Superbowl.

It didn't account for the snow magnet our area had installed for this winter.

Oooh I remember that one too -- all eyes were on the blizzard and that little one sacked us from our blind side. But the event I am thinking of was a number of years ago. My wife's mom (who spent 7 hours in her car that night) retired in 2008 so it was before then.

Wow you are living the dream having a place up there! Enjoy some powder skiing tomorrow morning before the big warm-up.