BlizzardNole

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.

19 minutes ago, showmethesnow said:

You know in a couple of years you will have to move to a snowier climate? Otherwise you will be putting your child through heart wrenching torment as she tries to deal with the usual mid-Atlantic winters.

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?

4 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

It was 28/19 when I left for work 30 mins ago. 

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.

The heck's going out in Stephens City and Elkins?!  Is it the CAD not deep enough out there bec. you're west?

Thanks all for these ground truth obs -- I'm comparing with the precip. depiction on Radarscope to see how accurate it is.

35 degrees in Germantown, waiting on precip.

34 minutes ago, Potvinsux said:

Snowshoe = 19 and moderate rain....yes, rain.  Winds gusting in the 20's.  Never had rain with temps this low.

That's crazy.  I was in New Jersey in the great ice storm of 1994 and saw 18 degrees and mod frz rain.  Never had seen such a low temp before with liquid rain falling.  

Capital Weather Gang article

That was first freeze for me and it was a hard one -- 25 degrees.  Instant death for my tropical milkweeds, lantana and other annuals.

Starting out November in mid/upper 70s?

Our back windows are filled with the brilliant red and orange of maple trees.  Look out the side windows and we see full green trees, verdant grass and a bloomed-out butterfly bush that still has a few customers. 

9 hours ago, yoda said:

Wes is in that 5 to 10 inch zone though... he tosses the map lol

I grew up in northern Calvert.  Except for a once-in-a-while event, that place was terrible for a snow lover.

I would love Topper's forecast to verify.

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

looks to be another dreary day on tap.

I'd really like to be able to mow the lawn w/o it being caked in dew

Need to mow badly.  Choice between wet grass today or mowing in the summer heat tomorrow. 

I might do it this afternoon to avoid watching the Noles get their eyeballs beaten out by Miami.

1.8 yesterday and 3.7 since Monday.

June:  3.9

July:  10.0

August:  6.65

September:  9.3

I was in a race against that thunderstorm to the Germantown MARC station (6:05 PM).  We got there just 4-5 minutes before it unleashed.  It was DARK as we rolled in and people tensed up and reached for their helpless umbrellas thinking we were going to get hosed bad.  Thanks to good ol' Radarscope, I knew we were good. 

It hit HARD as I was driving home.  Had one CTG strike hit just a few hundred feet from the house just as I walked in.  It was cool seeing on that Real Time Lightning website right where it hit, two streets over.

Picked up 0.7 and have 7.5 for September.  My foot slid and made a big divot just walking in the back yard to the rain gauge. 

Sunny with highs in the low to mid 70s for several days straight starting Saturday?  I will have to see it to believe it, but man it would be glorious.

48 hours ago I was 95/72 and 24 hours ago 88/70.  Now 63/54!

Picked up 0.75 last night.

Wow that's got to be a fun rush hour around DC!

It's going to be strange seeing the temps fall all day tomorrow to about 60 by evening.  Going from July to October in a day.

Good grief -- they need a traffic cop in the Atlantic with all these systems.

Paging El Nino -- what are you doing?

Just had a TINY pop-up shower pass through with moderate rain for a couple of minutes with full sun.  That was weird!  Thing looked about a quarter mile across on radar.  

Lots of games had long delays yesterday due to lightning, and we got chased out of our Clarksburg High game Friday night.

Poor Nebraska -- after over two and a half hours of lightning, they cancelled their long-awaited opener with a new coach and won't be making that game up.  Happened to Iowa State too.  I'm worried about my FSU - VA Tech game tomorrow night, with clusters of westward propagating t-storms likely all afternoon and evening.

Man are we looking hot next week!  No more polos at work; back to long-sleeved shirts and ties. 

My parched lawn and garden need rain so bad.  Once nice cell formed just north over Clarksburg, another just south over Gaithersburg, and they are moving NE away.  Brilliant.

Looking forward to this heat being over, and hopefully some rain.  Boston is sure getting it bad -- 83/72 at 5 am and going up to near 100 with hx approaching 110. 

7 hours ago, yoda said:

How's that rain?

It was great!  Picked up 2.2 inches.  It was much, much needed as my yard was parched after almost no rain since 8/3 and it might be a while before we have another chance.

35 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

I don’t know the exact accuracy, but the bolt and the thunder were nearly instantaneous.  Can’t have been more than a couple blocks away and the direction is correct.

I want that!  Pro Tier 1 only $10 a year so I'm pulling the trigger.

Pretty good rain and some thunder in NE DC, winding down now.  Based on radar, looks like Germandesert will stay dry.  The lawn was hard as concrete when I mowed yesterday.