jonjon

Beach snow is very similar to mountain snow is what I'm learning tonight.

39 minutes ago, snowdude said:

Post your snow totals! Would love to see them. I’m the local ABC Met here in SBY. Enjoy the snow! 

I'll do my best!

Its definitely accumulating type snow coming down now.

Flakes are actually falling here already.  Thought we had more virga to survive . . .

Hunkered down in Ocean City ready for whatever may swing this way tonight.  Whatever falls will be snow on snow, arrived to a solid beach area snowcover of 1"+.

7 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

Jonjon just wants to see the snow backdrop to the beach, different look than he's used to. 

I submit that I'm the king of the snow weenies on this board.

I'm headed to West Ocean City tomorrow to chase flakes.  Wish me luck.

Flakes have begun this far north in Davis.  Go time

7 minutes ago, wxtrix said:

and we’re in the Keys scouting out neighborhoods across the Keys in prep for our house hunt. my husband can probably go 100% remote next year so we’ll leave the cold and dreary behind. 

Good luck on your hunt!  Half of the fun is the searching and dreaming.  We all have to keep that in our lives, even after we reach what we were once searching and dreaming of.

Life is short.  Crafting your future to be where you want to be in your later years is so important.

We're closing on a place in West Ocean City on Friday (hoping to see some snow there next weekend), with the plans of splitting time between the mountains and beach after we become empty nesters in just over four years.

Fearless Weatherman forecast for up here.  12-20".  Seems in line with guidance.

https://whitegrass.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Fearless-Forecast-Jan-15.txt

4 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Yep, when you see the final accumulation maps showing 10”-12”+, there’ll be some folks out here screaming bust when there’s mixing tomorrow night/poor snow growth and 1-3” on the ground.  It’s sort of a two-parter - WAA where we’ll deal with lower ratios and mixing with sleet and then pure fluff Monday into Tuesday AM where we stack up.

Y’all are going to clean up with the the upslope down there.  I’ll do well up here but this setup will crush Davis.

Its actually a pretty exciting storm considering its rare track.  Its possible for an upside surprise with the first part of the storm if we can stay all snow and stay under heavier returns for a while.  But the bread-n-butter upslope snow will definitely salvage whatever precedes it.

7 hours ago, nj2va said:

Similar flip time on the Euro for DC but slightly less QPF so totals are lower.  It also has the Monday AM light snow pulling through mainly N MD.

It’s looking increasingly likely out here in McHenry that the bulk of the snow will come from upslope.  Euro has a “warm” layer at 700 poking into western MD (-1 which is warm for that level) which will likely mean less than 10:1 ratios.  Ratios greatly improve as the low gets N of our latitude.  

 

Yes, I believe some out here may be disappointed as to how much we have on the ground Monday morning (I wouldn't be shocked to have a change or mix with sleet for a while Sunday night), only to watch the snow pile up on the backside upslope between Monday morning and Tuesday morning.

15 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

@jonjon

Is your place available this weekend? Might need to take a trip.

Sorry booked up for the holiday weekend (weekends during the winter are tough).

I may have another option if you get to the point where you're very interested in coming.

22 hours ago, psuhoffman said:

Made my big post from @jonjons place Stumptown Ales. Really awesome place.  Anyone in the Davis area should stop in.
 

Ended up skiing Timberline today. Snowshoe never got western territory open. Not sure why. Kinda annoyed. They posted that it would be open this weekend earlier in the week but then went silent and stopped talking about it or updating then just didn’t open. I don’t mind that things changed. It happens although after cold all week and 14” not sure why.  But to go silent and not explain is inexcusable Imo, especially when that’s their best terrain and likely a deciding factor for any advanced skiers trying to plan a weekend. 

But had a great time at Timberline instead. Conditions were great and the new owners seem to know what their doing. Even had just enough snow to pop into the trees a bit. 

Sorry I missed you.  Glad you stopped in!!

1 minute ago, Scraff said:

Good thing you have some of your own awesome beers to kick back and chill on. 

Would it be blasphemy if I said I was indulging in a glass of wine right now?

2 minutes ago, nj2va said:

That’s awesome…the mountains really need the snow this season.  Enjoy it

Yes, just in time for the weekend crowd, too.

Cautiously optimistic the upcoming weeks will provide more goodies.

Local spotter here at Canaan Heights reporting 8.9" so far

4" in the last two hours.

Just now, Fozz said:

Right around 5:30pm when I measured 1.5" 

So that makes it 4.5" in the last 3 hours, and it was really coming down a few hours ago. Great storm.

Sounds like you timed it well.  Coming much later would have been super sketchy.

1 minute ago, Fozz said:

Pretty good storm in Thomas, WV.

6" so far, temp 25 degrees.

When did you arrive?

Just now, Scraff said:

OBS:  I’m reporting this much. How’s everyone else doing?

You're definitely reporting more sunlight than I

5" here now!

Getting 2"+ per hour rates.

Over 2" so far and ripping.

Gonna be a fun night.

Went from sunny, to cloudy/virga, to pounding snow covering everything really quickly!

6 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

Dont think it will last long Jon. Been a rough winter for you so far. Should be a fun night there though. 

Thanks! I plan to have some fun.

Just looked and flakes have begun!

1 minute ago, clskinsfan said:

First flakes showing up about 20 miles west of Winchester. Now we painfully wait.

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?parms=LWX-N0Q-1-24-100-usa-rad

Virga?  No flakes here yet.