BlizzardNole

14 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

1.8" 

Roads and sidewalks clear.  Light mist falling since I woke up.  March snow sucks.

Same deal in Germantown - measured 1.9 inches.  What will really suck is if we get rain and 33 tonight, more cold rain Sunday night, then super-cold and dry for a few days as currently predicted.

I hope the SE ridge sets up shop after next week and stays for the rest of the month.

18 minutes ago, Snowchaser said:

Oh what that storm could have been with a better track.  In Calvert, I got 5" then a flip to rain and spiked to 50 degrees. 

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

February 10:  0.5

February 20:  5.0

Total:  26.5

10 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

That march 2017 storm was something else. The world around me was like a glacier.

 

Hardest snow I've ever shoveled, all 3" of it.

The great sleet storm of 2007 was one the craziest things I've ever seen.  Sleet is usually a just transition precip around here and we rarely see more than a coating or half inch of the stuff.  In that 2007 storm it POURED heavy sleet for hours with a loud hissing sound and sleet literally cascading off of roofs.  We got like 6-7" of pure sleet which was welded together by a crust of freezing rain.  You could walk on top of it without breaking through.  I remember people's cars helplessly stuck because inches of ice had their tires locked in place.

5.0 total for me in the Milestone area of Germantown.  Puts me at 26.5 for the winter which is incredible given the overall pattern.

Radar looks like the precip is over, and I am fine with that.  I did not want a bunch of freezing rain.  It would be great if the rain stays away tonight.

Edit to add that my parents in northern Calvert (4 miles south of Dunkirk) report only about an inch with light sleet falling.  That's why I am N/W of the city!

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

57 minutes ago, snowfan said:

...For this storm, you're safe going in expecting the following to happen.......1) we will get a short period of snow accumulating 1-4" depending on your area. 2) That will be followed by a period of sleet going into the early afternoon before transitioning to ZR. 3) The surface cold air will be tough to scour out as it always is, so even while roads may get to that state of just being wet in the late afternoon, raised surfaces/trees will still glaze. 4) eventually we go to light rain/drizzle as we all rise above freezing.

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.

23 minutes ago, Joshfsu123 said:

Same truthfully. I'm moving to Florida in early March, so this will likely be my final snow system/storm in DC ... as long as it snows, could care less how much. Gonna miss it. 

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.

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

I'd love to experience a REAL ice storm even if I lose power for a week.  Seeing ZR with temps in the low 20s would be sweet.  I came close once when I lived in New Salem, PA during the '13 - '14 winter.  We had about 0.5" ZR and lost power for half a day.  The countryside was so beautiful and still.

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.

7 minutes ago, Snowlvr said:

Big big flakes. Fyi rates are .75 to 1 per hour right now per cleared board 

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

1 hour ago, Ji said:

Ops just being ops I guess. Big lag

LOL San Antonio, TX area.  Paging Jebman!

1 hour ago, Ka60 said:

Clarksburg, MD Total Snow: 1.4"   @ 6:30 AM rain Temp: 30

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.