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You’re joking but it’s true. Clipper type systems are likely going to trend north with time. So far north that AI and gfs already have it too far north
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Euro says wait 7 days and we’re back baby
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PG and AA county spotters majorly slacking today. Got to be at least 1.5” in Greenbelt and wouldn’t be surprised if a proper snowboard measurement earlier would have been near 2”. I’m sure BWI will wait for it to melt before measuring.
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Had my daughter measure on the snowboard at home. 1.2”! Double my prediction yesterday! You were right @Eskimo Joe!
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Woo!
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Fingers crossed!
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1.1” at IAD officially
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We call that 2.75” in this business
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LWX cancelled the WWA for Howard last night before it started and I think they should have let it ride given the overlap with the morning commute…
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Dang. Maybe I did get an inch? Saw an Ellicott City spotter report with 0.6” an hour ago and that’s north of me…
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Don’t know how much at home but squinting through my Ring doorbell cam suggests front yard is mostly covered. That’s why you mow the grass short before winter, people!
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Moderate snow with big flakes in Greenbelt. Beautiful.
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Long reach parking lot from my daughter It was respectable if light. Now at work in Greenbelt and it’s teetering on moderate snow. BW parkway has snow on it except narrow travel lanes.
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Side roads completely covered
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0.1” on the board. Steady light snow with good dendrites.
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Don’t tease me! Got a grill topper approaching car topper.
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Still pretty light but we’re accumulating now in Columbia. Daughter is distraught at the full day of school. Son isn’t awake yet for that news
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I think buses are already rolling. Need some rates…my snow is subliming before 2 snowflakes can pile on top of each other.
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Few flakes flying in Columbia. Kids are going to be disappointed in a full day of school!
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You had a small typo there on I70 and accidentally typed “Rt50”
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Yeah this will accumulate efficiently on roads, especially side roads.
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@SnowenOutThere 0z nam 3k soundings look much better for dendrite production. I just looked at DC, but a nice wide DGZ with moderate lift for several hours tomorrow morning. This is 12z for DC.
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CWG upped forecast to 1-2” for I66/Rt50 corridor and DC
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29/20. Calling 0.6” for MBY. Hoping for over 1”.
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In all seriousness, snow ratios are very difficult to predict with the kind of accuracy we want. Your point about lift being displaced from the DGZ is a good one and probably worth not getting too hopeful of >10:1. But even if we don’t have beautiful dendrites, we should have plates and those are usually 10:1 or so. Needles are the danger zone…those accumulate like sand. Often 5-6:1.
