southmdwatcher

10 percent tornado chance dropped for OH/WV, looks like everything else stayed the same with the SPC update.

You shouldn't be stuck, but there is likely to be two rounds of storms. Prefrontal storms will come through between 6 and 10 pm and then the frontal storms after 1am.

Just drove from Fort Meade with steady moderate snow sticking on grass.and cars at 32.degrees. Now in Crofton, white rain and 33 degrees.

Storm total of 8.5", 6.5" on the ground. Liquid equivalent of 1.01" 2 day total. Sleet and freezing rain fell from approximately 1030am until 5pm. 2.5" after we switched back over. The heavy bands of snow from the upper low never set up over my location. Nice storm for most in the region.

Finally, flakes coming back here after 5 hours of rain/sleet.

Hoping to stay on or just north of the mixing line this afternoon. Larger flakes mixing in and steadier snow falling again.

5.5" from 0.58 liquid at 8am

5.0" at 7am

Flakes south of Waldorf now

PD1 is by far the best in my backyard winter storm, but I have seen all of the storms mentioned since the mid 70's. January 25 2000 is the all time best surprise storm....forecast of flurries in our area after mentioning the chance of a large snow storm the previous week.....well we went from flurries to well over a foot in my backyard. I had a friend on the east side of Charlotte NC call that morning barking that he was suppose to play golf and it was suppose to be 50 and they had heavy snow and got 10 plus inches. The next few weeks of Winter was great that season, since I spent most of my time in North Carolina after their greatest snow storm. Superstorm 93 holds a strong spot for amongst the greatest ever events...I was traveling that weekend. That may have been the most hyped storm I have ever witnessed and it was modeled pretty accurately from 7+ days out as a tremendously dangerous event for the Eastern 1/3 of the country. ...I personally saw 4 to 6 inches of snow in Richmond fall the first evening then change to rain and high wind as the storm passed overhead. Temperatures the night before were around 30 degrees, the next day at Noon were in the mid to upper 40's with heavy rain and strong winds in Richmond as everyone at home had sleet and heavy snow. After 4pm in Richmond, the rain and wind stopped, the building I was in you could see the outside and it became much brighter and no winds. Truly we were in the calm of the storm. Within 30 minutes the winds became strong once again from the opposite direction and it was snowing. Within two hours the temperatures fell from the 40's to below freezing and snow was falling, the flash freeze was underway. Within another 90 minutes it was in the upper teens. Snow was once again accumulating on the west side of Richmond. Afterwards, I had numerous friends that could not get home to the western Carolinas from Richmond....aside from the PD1 storm experience.....this was incredible. Driving home the next day up 301 was an endless effort of dodging downed trees...this was mid March. The ground in DC area was packed with sleet and snow that entire week.

PD1 is the best ever for me. Incredible snowfall rates, extreme drifting, almost zero visibility with strong winds for multiple hours(could barely see the house 100ft across the street) and the vehicles were only noticed as bumps in the snow. Very cold temperatures and 3 to 5 inch per hour snow fall rates predawn and through mid morning. We were out of school for the entire week. Everyone on the street had to shovel out the road. Vehicles would not start until the snow that was tightly packed under the hoods was knocked out and had a chance to melt over the next few days. It was awesome seeing drifts up to the second floor windows and playing in tunnels that we could stand up in as a 12 year old.

GREarth last report for Saipan temperature 82F, pressure 965mb, winds NE 53knts gusts 79knts. Station may be offline now?

81F, pressure 968mb, winds NE 57knts gusts 76knts. Visibility has improved to 2 miles, last few observations were a mile or less visibility.

Saipan latest observation is now 81F pressure 970mb and winds NE 59knts gusts 79knts Observation data from GREarth.

This an EarthCam from Saipan beach, it is still functioning and has clear audio. Loud!! https://www.earthcam.com/world/northernmarianaislands/saipan/?cam=saipan

The most current observation at Saipan is 80F, which is one degree higher than last observation. Pressure down from 978 to 974mb. Winds are NNE 53knts gusts to 85knts.

4.5 inches here, good luck to those on the Eastern Shore.