PrinceFrederickWx

Currently at 0.88" - there was a downpour around 6am that was responsible for most of that total. Now it's just light rain.

0.48" IMBY

I timed my grass seed planting well- it’s coming up really good after the recent rains. Hopefully I don’t lose half my grass like I did in last year’s drought. 

2.53” final total here.

2.09” and still pouring

I’m gonna go out on a limb with the bold prediction that I’ll wind up with more rain than @EastCoast NPZ once again. 

1 hour ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Dang it...totally covered by clouds after being clear a couple hours ago, smh We have the worst luck with this kind of thing, I'm telling ya!

We’ve struck out with so many lunar eclipses over the last 12 years that it’s become absurd. January 2019 was literally the only one that was clear the entire way through. 

Yep as I thought, we’re screwed here, 100% cloudy now and can’t see anything. It rose in clear skies though this evening. 

Who else here is getting up at 2am on Friday to watch the lunar eclipse? 

It was yet another winter that was compressed into January… but what a month it was! The 1/3 squall was awesome and the 1/6 MECS was one of my favorite storms ever. The arctic air plus the snowpack refreshers gave me snowcover for the entire month. It was the first time since January 2022 that it felt like deep winter IMBY.

But… December was a shutout. March will be a shutout. February felt like a shutout too; I got one 9” storm that was completely gone within 36 hours, while the rest of the month torched. Then the big storm that missed us all. 

But I did finish above climo. A final grade is tough, but I’ll go with A- just because the January was so good it outweighs everything else.

Every March is nothing but wind.

Just FYI, the 1.0” “Dept. of highways” measurement at Prince Frederick that’s in LWX’s PNS reports is not accurate. I submitted 0.2” (same location) but it wasn’t posted for some reason. I have no idea how State Highway measured that; we didn’t have any snowcover before this either, so it can’t even be snow depth! That’s quite a slant stick lol

0.2” of powdery snow here. I’m just a little too far north on the radar. Sidewalks never fully caved despite it being lower 20’s for the entire event.

1 hour ago, TheColtrane said:

Your reading skills are impressive.

"I see Annapolis as being 'close to a pivotal point' for steady snow Wednesday night. Heavier Snow will fall SOUTH."

^Found the Berk sock 

22 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Justin Berk isn't giving up on using this storm for click bait. He says the models are missing something and Annopoils is getting snow tonight woohoo lol

He does this every time: Boxing Day, Snowquester, etc… it’s like he wants to be “the guy that called it” in the one-in-a-million chance something happens.

1 hour ago, RVAman said:

6-8" for me... sure

5 minutes ago, RodneyS said:

DCA became the official DC weather location in July 1945, and BWI began operations in June 1950.  Thus, winter season comparisons between the two airports begin in 1950-51, and so there are now 74 winter season comparisons in the books.  During those 74 seasons, DCA has averaged 15.5 inches of snow, and BWI has averaged 19.8 inches, with BWI snow exceeding DCA snow 58 times, DCA snow exceeding BWI snow 14 times, and two seasons ending in a tie.

Wow, I’m surprised it happened 14 times!

9 minutes ago, Amped said:

Going to be a fun battle, its the Ecmwf, Gfs. Cmc, rgem, Icon, hrdps,  ukmet, fv3 hires, Jma, Navgem and 3km Nam vs the 12km Nam, Brime Trucks and CVS.

Can we get the HRRR on our side too when it's in range?

2 minutes ago, snowmagnet said:

Not Dec 17, 2009. That was well modeled for over a week.  I followed Howard Bernstein at that time.  He was really good at explaining the phasing.  

I thought that one was a general 2-4/3-6" storm on the models until the NAM suddenly gave us a HECS, but it's been so long I could be confusing it with another event around that time. This was back when I was on Accuweather forums so there's no way for me to check now.

Just now, stormtracker said:

I mean when absolutely no other model showed what it showed and they all caved to IT.

Dec. 2009? While I think the other models had snow too, the NAM the day before was the first to show the beatdown IIRC

Boxing Day (but in the other direction lol)

NAM led the way in Dec. 2009. I'm just sayin'

How often does it occur where DCA's seasonal snow total exceeds BWI?

Most of this thread should get a WWA level snow still... I think? Or maybe I hope LOL

48 minutes ago, AlexD1990 said:

That's just hurt feelings and sour grapes on their part lol. We all know that eventually the universe is going to even out and they're going to get a storm where they get 20 in of cold powder while we all get 40° driving rain. They always say "oh know your climo", like we don't know it already. That's why I do treasure every storm that we do get probably appreciated even more than they do because I know that 99% of the time we do fail.

My only real complaint with some of them is that they actually don’t know the climo. For example, Prince Frederick averages about 19” of snow seasonally, which is about the same as BWI. Same for Charles County and parts of St. Mary’s. Granted, I’m slightly climo+ this year and don’t expect that to hardly ever occur, but it also wasn’t normal to average 0-2” year after year like we have recently. I mean this isn’t supposed to be Miami- we do snow here occasionally, sometimes a lot. So there was a lot of normalizing the recent bad years as if that’s always how it’s “supposed” to be down here.

Do treasure every storm, because the long term trend (i.e. the “elephant”) in the coming years is still probably not anyone’s friend.

6 hours ago, AlexD1990 said:

We need our own sub, they're showing their asses in the main thread yet again. It's not the Stone age this side of the Bay bridge..

There’s another thread discussion that’s been made for northern tier counties… as if dominating 90% of the main thread wasn’t enough for them already. I’m all for balkanization of the Mid-Atlantic subforum.