BlizzardNole

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.

I look forward to NFL D-linemen getting a piece of Lawrence.

I was just reminiscing about the awesome December 2009 storm. 11 years ago today was our office holiday party and I was checking the model runs between having drinks and fun. I remember a post by one of the Moderators saying "welp, it's just about time for the Euro to pinch on off in the punch bowl" and another guy (Ian maybe?) said "If this goes bad I will intentionally roll my car on I-70" The Euro run was great and we had no stress leading up to that incredible storm. I cannot believe it's been 11 years!

I remember a storm way back in 1978 in Kettering, MD where they were saying a brief period of snow, then rain with a low passing over the area. I was bummed. I remember walking home from school looking at the smooth overcast sky and how sharp the cold felt and thought how much it sux that it's gonna rain. Light snow started in the evening and turned heavy quickly. We got a completely unexpected front end thump with 5-7" in about three hours or so. The news broke in with special reports. It was so fun! When the changeover happened later that night into the next day it was mostly drizzle and the snow stayed around with temps in the mid-30s. The snowballs were brutal! Models were primitive compared to now but it would be awesome to get another surprise like that.

Thanks for these updates. You're gonna be making a lot of guacamole ha. We've got relatives on the other side in Marco.

My mother still talks about Hazel. She remembers those big, round metal trashcans they had back then flying down the street in her Cheverly, MD neighborhood.

I told family, friends and co-workers that last Tuesday's snow might be the only one of the winter. I hope I get shamed mercilessly.

Yup. Although before last night's 1.25 inch deluge (that's a deluge for my area), I was sitting at just 0.9 for the month. Mad at myself for not cutting my approx. 8" high grass before the rain last night. Uh oh.

I voted for PD1 - 1979. I was in northern Calvert, which was the bullseye for that storm. I don't know what the actual accum was with the extreme drifting, but DCA I think was 19" and the amounts were much heavier by the Bay so say 30-35". The wind was UNBELIEVABLE, like 40 mph with gusts to 60. It was like a hurricane of snow with howling winds and such whiteout that the woods just 75 feet behind the house were completely obscured at times. One observer in the area later reported 6" in one hour that morning. My mother and her friend who was stuck with us tried to walk the 100 feet to where the cars were and actually got disoriented. They were legit scared when they got back saying that they almost got literally lost in the front damn yard! My mom said it was hard to breathe with the snow and winds so extreme. When it was over, cars were only lumps in the snow and we had 6-7 foot drifts. One funny story is when my dad finally got his '74 Charger dug out, it would not start. He opened the hood and found the whole engine compartment completely packed tight with snow. I have of course seen some great storms in Germantown since 1995, but NOTHING for me can top the Great White Hurricane of 1979.

Just visiting to say hi -- I'm in Germantown but grew up in Owings (about 4 miles south of Dunkirk) so I am very familiar with how things go in the winter down there. But it's fun when it goes the other way isn't it? Remember the big January 25, 2000 storm? I ended up with just 7" from that, but my parents and siblings who still live down there (Calvert and St Marys) got like 15-20" and they were all over me LOL! I got lots of phone calls that day. My best memory was the Blizzard of '79. Northern Calvert was the jackpot in that monster. It still tops all of the storms I've seen since in my new area, including 1996 and 2010. I hope this Sunday night/Monday system takes a nice track and puts a swath of good snows west-to-east across the whole area. Good luck!