RIC_WX

55 minutes ago, katabatic said:

East of the ECD got nailed. Those of us on the west facing slopes (upslope favored areas in winter) fared much, much better. I am at 1.89" for a storm total. 

My station was around 2" as well.  Hopefully enough to top off DCL before Memorial Day,  It's come up considerably in the past 6 weeks, but as of last weekend you could still see the waterline on the bridge pier to suggest it was still below normal for the time of year.

Leesburg 45 / 0.28”

DCL 37 / 0.02”

Clearly we are weighting snow above cold in our grading...

For DCL / Garrett - a major pre thanksgiving snowstorm, epic weeks of cold D-J-F, 4 consecutive sub zero mornings in January (peaking with twin -12 readings), lake iced over solid for 9+ consecutive weeks, 100"+ of snow spread across too many events to count.  Worst week was the mild stretch between xmas and new years, no matter what we can't seem to escape this.  Still, it will take this weeks sustained 60*+ temps to finally get the ice out of the lake in mid March.  I suspect it will still be too cold for swimming memorial day weekend, in stark contrast with last year.  Grade: A

For Leesburg - kids missed a ton of school.  High utility bills.  Enough snow to break one shovel and the gas powered snow removal machine, despite accumulations being on the low side of normal.  Spring green up appears delayed until...well, spring.  Grade: B

Given our overall warmer climate period we are in, this will be remembered objectively as a very good winter in a series of mostly bad ones I think.

9 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Easily just had a 50-60 mph gust.  

10* and full sun when I showed up early Friday morning 

31* and icy drizzle all day Saturday, including when I fell asleep close to midnight 

45* and dumping rain when I woke up Sunday AM

22* and wind driven snow now 

Make up your mind why don’t you

Not quite blizzard conditions at Deep Creek, but it is windy and snowing.  The slushballs falling from the sky around 1:30 were enough to get the kids to put down their iPads. For 2 whole minutes.

25/23 moderate sn

47 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Blizzard Warning for the WV/MD mountains tomorrow into Monday.

I just saw this, and was like “is that right”?  We don’t see these too often.  We are currently under a warning for wind, flood and blizzard.

54 minutes ago, katabatic said:

I hit -15.2 yesterday and -8.9 this morning. Definitely the coldest since I've been here (but that's only 3 winters). I have no idea how unusual -15 is. My guess is lately (of course) it's extremely rare but prior to say 2015?

I think all of this is microclimate specific.  There is probably a reason why I consistently bottom out around -12 under the most ideal conditions.  Now that the lake is frozen, I have noticed the stations lower than me (at 2595', I am 160' or so above the lake) seem to be bottoming out a bit lower as the cold air settles.  This is not typical when the ice is out, I will radiate much faster after sunset and typically the lakefront stations will be 2-3*F warmer.  Your microclimate is inevitably different and influenced by the toppgraphy closer by.

19 hours ago, RIC_WX said:

Cabin at Deep Creek bottomed out at -12.8 this morning.  This is the lowest observation there since 2022.  The below zero readings for three consecutive nights is unprecedented for me during my time at this property going back to 2021.  Impressive cold!

Despite a forecast for rising temperatures overnight, DCL bottomed out around -7 and strung together a fourth consecutive night of subzero temperatures.  
 

The zero reading in Leesburg this morning was the coldest of the series here.

Cabin at Deep Creek bottomed out at -12.8 this morning.  This is the lowest observation there since 2022.  The below zero readings for three consecutive nights is unprecedented for me during my time at this property going back to 2021.  Impressive cold!

Light snow and calm wind at Deep Creek.  18.2 / 9.3

6 minutes ago, nj2va said:

When we drove back home Sunday, you could tell the lake was ready to freeze over fully (had been in parts).

The wind keeping the lake churned up last weekend was pretty much the only thing keeping it from freezing over.  I assume it will be solid and snow covered at some point this weekend.  Every time I check my cameras, it’s snowing.

20/14 at Deep Creek.  DP ticking up steadily and the temp will follow, although it’s colder than I expected it to be this evening.

Going to miss this airmass, the past 3-4 days have been glorious up here.  Rare stretch of decent cold without much wind.

7/4 at DCL.  Crystal clear skies and calm winds.  Feels like we have a little further to fall.
 

Lake is just primed to ice over, too bad it’s warming up after tonight.

This storm is on track to meet/exceed the January 19 storm impact at DCL.  Consistent SN+ for at least the past 90 minutes not anywhere near as squally as I might have expected it to be.  

26/24 at DCL, steady moderate and occasional SN+.  

Classic winter day here, not extreme but attention holding.

33.2 / 29.5 and snowing on the cameras at DCL. 

Heading out at zero dark thirty tomorrow, hopefully we keep power through the event so I can work from something bigger than an iPhone.

25 minutes ago, mdhokie said:

Barely a couple drops in HoCo but enough thunder and lightning to cancel sports practice 

1.26” at DCL with another round incoming.  Will silence “the lake is drying up” on FB crowd for at least a day maybe.

34 minutes ago, peribonca said:

Really hoping everyone gets drenched but especially the mountains. The Shenandoah/GWNF trout streams have had a couple rough years and can really use some water

Most of the highlands you can walk across the rivers and streams and in some cases, not even get your feet wet.  It's difficult to fully appreciate unless you've been out there.

100 / 76 on the Leesburg PWS

81 / 68 at DCL

A near 20*F differential in the mid afternoon is pretty atypical for the warm seasons, not as uncommon in winter

1.67" yesterday at DCL, 2.87" for the month.  

Considerably less at home in Leesburg.  Lawn was last mowed on June 11.

21 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

The flash drought occurrences seem to be increasing infrequency over the past decade. Though these events pale in comparison to the drought of 1999 - 2002.

They tend to reverse pretty quickly, as I expect this one too as well as the hot pattern of the past month appears to be transitioning and we get closer to the heart of tropical season.

1.20" month to date at DCL, .74" in the past 48 hours.

Deep Creek Lake is approximately 12" lower compared to this time last year, with most all of that deficit materializing during the "flash drought" period.  

Perhaps the highlands can give the Potomac a drink tonight after all…

If the tropics start cooking as expected, no way we don’t get in on that eventually.  May not save July but hard to see any drought seriously persisting beyond a few more weeks.

6 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

CWG Twitter says Canaan hit 32 and a spotter in Garrett county MD had frost. 

We managed several hours overnight at DCL in the 40's.  I bottomed out at 46*F, but by the time I was out for my morning run it had rebounded well into the 50's.  Still refreshing to sleep with the windows open and AC off.