BlizzardNole

If Charlottesville gets 12" they will be sitting at 24" for the winter. That's nuts! 33 and overcast.

Just got a report from relatives in Leonardtown, St. Mary's County with 5 inches; just changed over to sleet. What an over-performer for central VA to far southern MD! The VDOT traffic cams for I-95 in and near Richmond are a hoot.

Glad to see the far southern reaches of our area getting a taste.

I can imagine how awesome that Biltmore mansion would look all decorated and with snow on the ground. If I was not tied down, I'd have zipped down there. Enjoy your storm!

2 miles NE of Germantown, 39.208660 N, -77.251600 W November 15: 3.0 Total: 3.0

Just to show how fluky yesterday was, here are the high temps for Nov 15 since 2013 (IAD). Even more impressive is that yesterday's high of 37 was just after midnight and it was 31/32 from 7 am to 1 pm. IAD measured 1.50" of precip so just think what this storm would have been a few weeks later! 2013: 62 2014: 43 2015: 66 2016: 63 2017: 54 2018: 37 (3.0" snow)

Oh man. Once we had 6-7" of snow which turned to a long period of freezing rain putting a half inch crust on it. Afterwards an arctic blast came in and temps crashed to the teens and you could walk on top of the snow without breaking through! That night there was a full moon and the reflection off the solid ice was other-worldly. Everything was silver. We were taking chunks of the ice and letting it slide down the long hill behind the house and you could hear them continuing down through the woods. Another time we had a full 24 hours of steady freezing rain with 25-degree temps leaving three solid inches of ice on everything. Spend enough winters here and you will see some wild stuff. That's why we have so many weather weenies here -- we get a lot of mild, boring winters, but sometimes winters are NUTS.

Sorry man. Calvert can be tough sometimes.

Did it! The roads were AWFUL. I was really surprised. Even my Outback was slipping a little. Passed over top of I-270 and it looked baaaaad. At the intersection of 355 and Father Hurley (Rt 27) there was an SUV with a smashed in front, and a huge plow 50 feet away on the southbound side of 355, facing north. Those two must have met. The SUV lost. The shake was great though! Switched to heavy sleet for the drive back. That stuff actually stung against the neck and ears! Got 3" here in Germantown. What an event.

Look forward to reading -- I'm thinking of heading out to hit up Chick Fil A for the just released peppermint choc chip shake. Mod small flake snow and about 2" Best November snow I can remember since ahem Nov. 1978 and ahem Nov. 1995. (I wasn't here in 1989 but I hear 1990 was kinda blah).

Not only all snow in Germantown, but smaller flakes that you see with steady snow and not the borderline mixy stuff. Got about 1.5" here. Still 30.

Tell them to concentrate on the tops of the cactus branches

Do you see the little sig lines people put at the bottom on mobile? If so, I'll add my location there.

Back to mod snow in Germantown, still 30 degrees.

WOW! Jackpot for the area? Can you post a couple more pics of the yard?

Quick changeover to almost all sleet in Germantown. Radarscope precip depiction has the snow/sleet line at about DC so not quite accurate. Still a nice function though. Stuck at 30 degrees so it will be interesting to see how long it takes to get above freezing. Might get a decent ice crust.

Super: you live in Germantown or Gaithersburg? Your location has both. 28 degrees is a gooooooood temp. Never thought it would happen when we were 37 at 10 pm.

I'll be watching for those updates and comparing to Radarscope. My parents in northern Calvert are right on the border of green/blue and they do have a mix. Sleet just mixed in just NE Germantown, 30 degrees, 1"

Welp, MontCo gonna stick with opening 2 hours late - only ones west of I-95 looks like. They'll be glad they did because they only built in two (!) snow days for the winter. Mod snow now with no sleet mixed in. About a half inch.

CAD is a beautiful thing here. This one is classic (that map posted above really shows it). Snow in and around DC while its a rain/mix in the mountains of WV.

Moderate snow with large flakes and 31, coating on everything. Streets caving like FSU's defense. Montgomery County schools sticking to their two-hour delay.

She'll be in a great spot for this area though. I grew up in Calvert County which was purgatory for a snow weenie. Still a snow/sleet mix.

I like the way the changeover to snow/sleet is expanding SW-ward on Radarscope -- makes the CAD look good. Can't wait for the heavy precip to get here so we can have a couple good hours. (And legitimize me teleworking )

Light snow/sleet mix in Germantown and 33 degrees. Cars and rooftops whitening. Official cartopper?

WOW that is nice. My wife has a co-worker who lives there, and it amazes us how much snow she gets. She loves to text us snow pics - I expect a couple today. I'll reply with a pic of some wet leaves LOL. Just saw some teeny, tiny flakes coming down.