Stebo

Okay thank you!

You got a source on this I want to share if it's confirmed. Also I am absolutely numb and in shock from what happened today. I never expected this to happen.

Yeah I don't think there is even a chance until the 3rd week of March. There is a real possibility we don't make normal if March is very empty for snow.

yeah see those categories on AWSSI are influenced by cold as well, and to me really cold weather doesn't have any appeal, I am more for the snowfall/big storms.

If we get a big dog at some point between now and April I would say A, but I can't go more than a flat B. Personally I am not one who enjoys prolonged cold so that doesn't help the grade before someone says Detroit has had a good winter. We have had a consistent winter with periodic snows but our biggest storm is only like 5.9". It has been endless penny fluff.

I hope we lock in on a wet spring, those always tend to be fun for severe as well.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if this is a very active year for the region, with the plains being dry you can help push the EML/dryline further east than normal.

It will be!

A quiet feb leading into an active march?

I am taking this here since this is a better place to discuss it, when you throw out the "I have several gay friends" line, you might want to just sit this out. Your post was absolutely uncalled for and a loaded post, then you talk about toughening up. That toughening up line has been used against gay men for decades, as if they are not tough. You honestly just don't know who is LGBTQ here, and let me clue you in, there are several here myself included.

No we don't need to Balkanize this place anymore than it already is.

What?

I mean there is potential systems out there in an active pattern, you know you gotta sniff rain to get a big dog too. I'll take this look over CAD any day.

Too many Eeyores around here. I am pretty sure other than Iowa, most of us are at or above normal for the season.

The added SPECI for snow start and stop helps fluff things up but ya, its been busy. Last month I almost had as many SPECI as METAR

28 here last month during a snowstorm/squall day, the most anyone has had in the records we had going back to 2016.

I had 18 SPECI yesterday, that was a bit of hard money

With the snow today its 21 days in a row with snow here at DTW. I am tired

Has someone in this subforum not gotten snow?

Their snowfall total included sleet accumulation. It wasn't just snow. Sleet counts as snowfall accumulation when you measure at a FAA facility for NWS climate data. Most of the time the ratio will fall at around 3:1 as Roger reported above. I have measured snow before at 2 separate stations here in MI in the past, so I have direct experience in this.

Their 6.9" report gels with everything around them.

The snow amount for DCA is right.

Correct Fozz, it's like my snow totals in SEMI vs where the White Lake office is. There is a higher elevation away from the water.

The last SWO at DCA was MR and you are incorrect here. They actually hand measure snow.

Hi, so this isn't to stir up anything but I just wanted to address this post and a couple others. I know there have been issues in the past at DCA but the current SWO there isn't the one from the past. The current SWO is a former coworker of mine who I helped train to observe. I trust his number fully as he worked 2 shifts over the weekend as well. The microclimate of the Potomac River Valley does play here though. I wouldn't expect DCA to have as high of a value as IAD or BWI considering their locations. I just wanted to help address this issue a bit since I know some of the information and I have seen what has been done there in the past with respect to snow measuring.