It's been snowing hard here but it can't accumulate, sitting right around 32. Maybe it can start to cave later in the afternoon like the previous storm if it's still going then.
SoMD is the new Richmond, it takes a million things to go right to snow here now, and even then, you can just expect your pity inch. January 2022 was probably the last big event we see in our lifetime. If you subtract that month out it's basically been a near-shutout in every event here since 2019. We're supposed to average 19" of snow but I haven't reached that since 2016.
In the new normal, we seem to only get one decent storm in January... my forecast accounted for this one-and-done. But I've seen several people pointing to early February as the time to watch, which would make sense historically, so we'll see if I get blown out or not. Obviously I hope I'm proven wrong.
Yeah this is becoming the meme of the winter on this subforum, up there with amped/Randytastic, Carbondale/Short Pump, and my personal favorite, Jebman telling off some dude from SNE (I think that was 2015).
Final total here was exactly 2".
Roads and sidewalks had caved last night, but are all melted now. Currently raining here.
My kids played in the snow yesterday evening, they're about to play in it now inb4 it all melts.
I’ve been wondering about this a lot. Could it be that our new normal gives us more Miller B’s, etc., or otherwise a pattern that leaves NYC permanently higher while the Mid-Atlantic trends lower? Will some areas in the northeast be permanently better off? Or are they just now in the feast-or-famine stage, which will eventually transition to all famine (like we seem to be doing)?
At some point between last winter and the Canadian wildfires I transitioned into full-on climate doomer. I keep checking in the hopes we at least get a MECS to prove my worst fears wrong, in the short term at least…
I have four young kids and it scares me what this planet is going to look like by the time they grow up.