HighStakes

Torrential downpours for the last 30 minutes.

Have not seen a single one north of Hampstead. Last Saturday at a little game in Westminster and not a one there either. 

20 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

Unfortunately I do remember.  10 pt lead with about a minute left. It was a debacle.  Steve Blake had a couple turnovers I believe. 

Worst loss ever. Even worse than the loss to Duke in the final 4 that same season. Arguably it was the best thing that could've happened to them. They went into a tailspin after that loss and eventually suffered a horrible home loss to an average at best Florida State team. After the Florida State loss Juan Dixon and Gary had a face to face sit down and the result was a big change in Gary's handling of the team. They went on to regroup and play superb basketball the rest of the season. They beat Duke at Duke in the rematch. Then lost a tough game to Duke in the ACC tournament semifinals. They had 4 epic battles with Duke during that season that year. Duke went on to win the national championship. 

6 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

Definitely a disappointing end to the regular season after a big win over Mich. ST last weekend. Losing to an awful Northwestern team and then Penn St will definitely drop them several seedings in the tourny.

Brutal end to the regular season. All their improvement was thrown away in 2 pitiful games. Just awful losses. May have played themselves out if the tournament.

9 minutes ago, nj2va said:

We know how this will end for the cities/low lands.  Miserable 42 degree drizzle when our average high is over 60 by the end of the month.  Meanwhile PSU will tell us how his mountain got 10” but “just down the street” only managed an inch of slush.  

I hope that look breaks down.

Hey, watch it now. I'm that guy "just down the street". . 

2/26: 0.5

Total: 45.5

Flipped to a mix here 20-30 minutes ago. Maybe a half inch before that.

4 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

That’s one crazy evolution on the gfs

Teleconnections for that time day 8-10 argue for a colder storm. 

20 minutes ago, JakkelWx said:

damn, PSU is hella close to HighStakes

I'm actually closer than the map shows. I live on the same side of route 30 as he does. I can pretty much see his house from my backyard.

16 minutes ago, toolsheds said:

North Carroll Middle?  My mother retired from there last year right before Covid hit.  I'm very glad that she decided to retire since she is 76 and doesn't need the stress.

My wife has been back in a Catholic school in Ellicott City since September 5 days a week.  She was extremely worried at first and does get concerned, but thankfully she has been safe.  She did get the first shot a few weeks ago and is scheduled to get the second one next week. 

We let our kids choose if they went back to the Hybrid Model at South Carroll and they both decided to.  Unfortunately, My 10th grade daughter tested positive after the last game of basketball  2/14.   We understood the risks and she has recovered from a very slight case.  Thankfully nobody else in the house has had any symptoms since we have been homebound for the past 2 weeks.  The kids and wife go back to school next week when quarantine is up and we will still all wear our masks until restrictions have eased and respect others choices.

I agree with a lot of points made here this evening, but most of all I just wished that we could all respect the fact the each and every one of us has differing opinions, and that is not a bad thing.  What is a bad thing is when we don't respect (not agree)  others ability to have a differing opinion if it is different. 

If more people in general just stopped being so stubborn, this world would be such a nicer place to live. 

Good post. Yes it was North Carroll Middle. 

I have a 2 daughter's at Manchester Valley High School. One of them is starting in person tomorrow. The other one wants to start some time in March. I'm ok with it now. I also have a daughter in 5th grade at Ebb Valley Elementary and a stepson at North Carroll Middle. Both of them will go back in March.  Most leading doctors agree they should go back in person in some form.  I guess we'll see how everything plays out with more vaccines being distributed and new strains of the virus becoming more prevalent. We're still being as careful as possible and hoping for the best.

A school employee at one of the local middle schools here died a few months ago due to Covid. The situation was hushed. How many other cases were not disclosed?

9 minutes ago, mappy said:

dang you guys are doing good up there. amazing what that extra elevation will do in our marginal events. 

Yeah,  been a crazy year. Never have seen such dramatic differences in such a short distance. Can you believe PSU's total is 6 inches more than mine and I can see his house from my back deck. I'm at 860ft. and his is roughly 1050ft. He is at 51 inches and BWI is 10.3. Just absurd.

2/18-19: 7.5

2/22: 5.0

Total: 45.0

1 hour ago, psuhoffman said:

@HighStakes Nora demanded we take our normal walk, snow or not, so we made it down the goat trail and are walking in your hood now.   There is a definite MAJOR difference. 

Up top

at the bottom 

 

It’s not uniform and I’m just eyeballing it but it’s ~12-15” depth up top and 5-8” at the bottom. That’s CRAZY!!!!

That's amazing. My parents live on the top of Westminster St. at 1050ft. but I haven't been there because of Covid. I'm curious to see how their coverage is. I've got about 7-8 on my south facing front yard and 10 in the backyard. My deck which gets no sun has 12 now but was 14 this morning during the snow. 

This has been an impressive stretch of snow cover. My front yard usually takes a beating on sunny days but I've had full coverage since Jan 31st. The freezing rain and sleet was no doubt partially responsible for the staying power but its also been quite chilly.

39.68°N

76.89°W

32 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

Where are you for the year? I'm right around 35" on the west side of town in Westminster. I suspect you're mid to upper 40's? 

I'm around 45. PSU is over 50.

17 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

@HighStakes my 5.5” was definitely low. Now that I’m out clearing and looking around the 5.5 area i typically measure in was a low spot. Wind was unusual with this one so snow drifted it weird ways compared to what I’m used to. The 5.5 areas are compacted down to 4.5 now but I found a general 6-8” of new depth on top of the ice on the other side of my property (downwind) of the ridge which was the opposite side of normal.  Even one foot drifts very common on the front side of my house. 

If I simply take an average of measurements around my property between the board on my driveway, the deck, and the front walk I get 6.5” and that’s without counting the 1 foot drifts. Plus it was likely more since there has been a lot of compaction since 2 hours ago!  

This season has been a little weird for measuring. Mixing, compaction, wind etc. We've had multiple events that compacted immediately. 

This year also has been the largest spread between our measurements due to the marginal events. I've also been a little lazy this year and missed an inch or so along the way. The first event of the year in December you got 3 and I only got 1-1.5. Then the Feb. 7th event I got 5.5 and you got 6.5 -7.0. That storm became very marginal the last 2 hours. 

We probably have a 5-6 inch spread between our houses.  

4 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

I got 4 on the 7th. I think it was the 10th/11th event that made the biggest difference. I got an inch of slop while you guys got hit pretty well. 

3.5 here on 2/10-11 and 7.5 on the 18th/19th.

Just now, clskinsfan said:

Pretty incredible year up there for you. You usually do better than us out here. But not usually by this large of a margin. I am not complaining being over climo. Just making an observation. I have around 6 or 7 inches of snowpack. I expect it will be gone, except for the piles at the end of my driveway, by Friday. 

You missed the Feb. 7th event? We got around 6.

8 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

It fell between like 4-6am and melted on non snow surfaces by 8am. It was a quick thump band from the “cutter” kind of similar to today but MUCH weaker and not as cold.  It got really warm that afternoon. 

Right. Now it's coming back. Thanks 

Just now, psuhoffman said:

Got 5.5 but could have been more I’m teaching and couldn’t clear when sleet started to mix the last hour. Lot of compaction so the last band didn’t add any depth even though it was puking snow/sleet for 30 mins. But since I didn’t clear the area I can’t get a perfect measurement and I don’t want to guess and inflate so the final depth of 5.5 was what I recorded. It was very likely 6 had I done it correctly. 

I noticed you recorded 0.9 on 2/5. I have nothing recorded and no recollection. 

2 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Nice!  I haven't followed this threat but that seems like an overperformer based on the LWX map I saw last night, right?

Yes based on lwx forecast maps but I felt like we had a good shot at 4. Every model had us getting between  35-.45 qpf. and every model looked cold enough up here.

5 inches.

Over 3 inches. Heavy snow. 27.

Went from nothing to heavy snow.