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Nice! So we’re pretty much at or slightly above climo now? Would’ve never guessed that going into a La Niña winter. .
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What’s Richmond’s snow for the season at after today? .
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Arguably the prettiest snow Richmond has had all season. Also, let’s appreciate this rarity—we achieved moderate snowfall from a frontal passage. That almost never seems to happen anymore. Usually it’s cold air chasing moisture and they never link up. .
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Doesn’t seem like there’s much chance that’ll happen until we get the fabled moderate, west based El Niño again. .
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I’ll never forget that storm last winter, not only because of how insane it was to watch it snow nonstop for 12 hours and Richmond somehow only picked up like an inch while Norfolk had a blizzard warning, but also how DT was practically cussing out the whole 757 that day. [emoji28] .
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I’m also just getting kinda crotchety the older I get because the over the last few years, cold weather has started causing me significant bone pain. I still love a good snowstorm IF it happens, but this kind of cold can kick rocks. [emoji23] I’m looking forward to it being in the 40s next week. .
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I’m glad you took that away from my past comments. For me, I just find it frustrating the way that people in certain regions complain about “never” getting snow, when they’ve had multiple monster snowstorms in the last 10-15 years. That’s all. It’s a fiction that persists. And if they get another one, I’ll be happy for them. But don’t then go saying you never get anything the following season. .
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The Jan 31 Potential: Stormtracker Failure or 'Tracker Trouncing
SoCoWx replied to stormtracker's topic in Mid Atlantic
I promise you it’s not as heartbreaking as the possibility of Norfolk and Virginia Beach getting yet another monster storm while Richmond gets scraped. They all complain, every year, how they “never get snow” there, and yet, they’ve had numerous big storms there in the last several years while Richmond hasn’t cracked 7” since 2018. . -
I don’t know what it is about Richmond and whatever’s going on with our micro-climate, but years of getting teased by storms on literally every side of us has made me thoroughly hate winter here. I hope after the threat this weekend that we can just start to move on, and all this ice melts away. The average temperature does start to go up every week beginning in February, so there’s at least that to look forward to. .
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This would be how many times in a supposed La Niña that the 757 has gotten a major snowstorm that misses Richmond to the south? [emoji28] .
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Randomly getting a very snow globe-esque snow shower in Richmond right now, Fan area. .
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Literally was about to say that. If we’re in the jackpot right now, another ice storm is coming in a week. Any weather but pure snow is virtually a guarantee in central and eastern VA. .
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Those are significantly lower than what the Euro and GFS were saying? .
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Still kind of a somber vibe in here, so I’ll focus on the silver lining. I know there’s several hours of storm left, but it looks like Richmond may have escaped a pretty significant ice storm thus far. Roads will still be tricky for a few days, given the cold temps. But the trees and power lines seem okay so far. Hopefully we can hold onto power (and by extension, water). .
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Shit, light rates could save us from the dark ages once it flips to ice. [emoji2371] .
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Jan 24-26 Weekend Snow and Sleetfest Model Thread Part Tres
SoCoWx replied to H2O's topic in Mid Atlantic
This makes me wonder then, why the NWS actually ticked down the ice amounts for Richmond this morning? Their local office down here reduced the forecasted freezing rain amounts to between a quarter and a half inch. That much would still be crippling, but not as deadly and destructive as nearly an inch (or more) like the Euro keeps saying. . -
The NWS ticked down the ice totals for Richmond, down to a range of .25”—.50”. That’s not for nothing, and could be the difference between a few days of recovery in the city and a week. Hoping that’s a trend that continues now that we’re basically in nowcasting mode. .
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Listen, if we can manage 10 inches and some sleet on top, we’re golden. I feel genuinely bad for whoever gets it, but that ice storm ish can stay the f*** away. Especially after ice knocked out the city’s water infrastructure last January. .
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But seems to be significantly raising the threat of ice in Richmond, and we don’t want that ish either. Not after ice took out our water infrastructure last year. [emoji52] .
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Seconded. The incessant negativity this early in the game is rather draining, and ultimately, it isn’t going to change the eventual outcome at all. .
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Y’all all need to take a chill pill, respectfully. .
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I hope you’re right. I usually hang out in the Mid-Atlantic forum because I’m in Richmond, and the D.C. and north crew are honking about it trending north. .
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You would think we’re getting nothing but ice down here the way the DC and north crew is talking about it. Is it bad that I want it to abruptly trend sharply south into a Hampton Roads snowstorm just to spite them? [emoji28] .
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It would certainly be easier to shovel. Luckily, for now at least, that model (the Canadian) seems to be on an island by itself showing a near perfect phase that makes the storm so amped it pulls hard north and west and brings the mixing and freezing rain much further into the Commonwealth. .
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Figures the folks to our north are talking about the Canadian a lot, given it seems to pull the storm so far north that the heaviest snows are around DC, with Richmond getting several inches of sleet. I guess we’ll see, huh? .
