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This is something I’ve never seen before. I have literally hundreds of snow balls in the yard. I’d say they vary from a small cantaloupe to a small watermelon in size. The upslope from the past few days is pure fluff. The snow falling now is much wetter. The wind pushed the snow into these perfectly round shapes. Almost like Mother Nature starting a snowman.

Steady snow this morning - temperature rose to 40 overnight on SW winds but once precip started, fell back to its current 30. About 1.5" otg from this latest round. I'll probably pick up another 2" before temps climb late morning/early afternoon.

Added another 3.5" to the tally last night for a total in the last 48 hours of 14.5". A local observation had 3.8" with only 0.09" QPF, giving a 42:1 SLR so it's obviously massless fluff. Still pretty tho and Wisp is back into good shape. Looking for another 3-5" tonight with the WWA hoisted so a nice snowy stretch as we approach meteorological spring.

Intense snow showers throughout the day - tough to measure but I'm estimating 11" combined with what fell yesterday. Hi only made it to 26, currently 19. Beautiful deep winter day.

A classic upslope snowstorm on the western side of the Allegheny Front. Since yesterday morning, 6.5" imby with steady, at times moderate, snow continuing. Temp is 22.5 with winds remaining under 25 mph so the drifting is a relative minimum. Had a long pause yesterday afternoon/evening but overnight, it's been cranking. I'm a bit surprised since Erie is still closed for business, but regardless, it's very welcome for folks at the local ski resorts to be able to punch into March with a bit of a base.

Snowing steadily with about 1/2mi visibility. We have about 2” otg and temp is down to 25. Nice start out here - hope it continues!

Colder air is coming. Down to 27 here in Garrett County.

Steady light snow. 29.5 currently - temp was around 31 at sunrise, so going in the right direction. Main roads are fine since they've been treated but neighborhood/side roads caved. I'd say a little less than an inch so far.

I'd like to be the first to report snow. Hi today was 49.8 but cooled off nicely to 33 now. I would absolutely love to be in New Jersey but that inconvenient thing called work is keeping me in the home office. I hope we all do well!

It's like watching the development of a modern art masterpiece.

Jesus talk about a chase opportunity in our backyard. Inland a bit in southern DE verbatim? Om, yessir.

I've heard a lil somethin' about this

58 and sunny. I'm sick of this damn heat.

I ended up gaining 53 degrees today for a high of almost 41. Warm enough that I washed my truck for the first time in forever - my god it was disgusting. Canaan NWR rose nearly 67 degrees...a record difference between hi/lo there (I know it hasn't been in existence all that long, but still that's pretty damn impressive especially since we have a ton of snow on the ground). But, the air is super dry and with a bit of a higher sun angle, voila, a noteworthy rebound.

Very cold low of -12.3 this morning. Second coldest low so far this season (few weeks ago it was -16.8).

At its core, this board does one thing: bring people together united by our love of weather who otherwise wouldn't know each other existed. You are a sterling (no pun intended) example of an awesome human being who happens to love weather. I had an amazing time staying up until 2 am talking about weather and appreciate your patience as I asked forty million questions about my passion, lake effect snow. I am no met scientist and know my lane here and appreciate the fact you let me take a drive in yours. That intercept up at Keysers Ridge is on my short list of all time weather experiences. Heck, Justin Berk loved it and reposted a pic of us getting crushed! The mark of a good time is answering a single question: would you do it again? Hell yeah, times a thousand. My door is wide open for you any time, any day.

Based on several highly unscientific measurements/observations, I'm going to call it at 7". That could be wildly inaccurate but it's impossible to measure. Temps have leveled off around 2 with winds in the 25 mph range. The squall intercept last night with @MillvilleWx at Keysers Ridge was just frickin' epic and as I told @NorthArlington101 it was truly a high-end Great Lakes-esque experience. The difference is it lasted 20 minutes here and the Great Lakes would've lasted for 2 days lol. I'm still trying to organize some victims, er volunteers, for tubing tonight at Canaan. Any takers?

My Dad lives in Midlothian and he reported a very surprised 3.5".

Beautiful scene at Swallow Falls. @Millvillewx was in his element.

Hell yeah! I absolutely LIVE FOR THIS! I must say tho my offer to go tubing at Canaan Saturday night hasn't had many takers, unfortunately. I've promised the hubby a puppy if he'd go but given he's been outside 10 hours a day for weeks on end at Wisp, even the promise of a lil muffin isn't moving the needle. If anyone is around, lemme know and I'll pay for the ticket lol.

I like the way you think! Pretty sure we'll at least try to get to Davis tomorrow afternoon. Don't have a death wish, so we'll see but there is nothing like a solo drive on 90 getting to Thomas in the snow from Oakland. I think that ~13 mile stretch might be my favorite drive around here. Had a nice visit to Stumptown a few weeks ago and if we're in the hood, we'll stop by again.

Temp this morning here was -5.6 so a hint of things to come. Just got upgraded to a Warning with 6-8" and up to 60 mph winds. Still not completely sold on that kind of accumulation with Huron mostly and Erie especially closed for business. While this is nothing historic of course, it's still going to be a pretty solid ~24 hours out here in the Boonies.

Cracked freezing today for the first time in 13 days altho not by much (hi was 34). I must say it feels like it's about 60 out lol. Amazing how the body adjusts to temps.

I was surprised that I got down to -16.8 last weekend...usually Bittinger does a little better than I do. Tell folks you need to do some serious QA for the mesonet sites and come out with us

If anyone wants to come out, @MillvilleWx and I are going to do the local chase thing...and I got room in my truck for others. Heading to Keyser's Ridge and probably on to Davis and a few spots in between. Waterfalls are completely frozen and you could build a house on Deep Creek the ice is so solid. Great pics if nothing else. Should be an intense few hours during the peak of this thing as well.