RDM

Great to have you back doing PBP - much appreciated.

Nice picture - thanks for sharing. Pretty amazing when you consider that's a 2000+ mile storm and everything visible is at most about 8-9 miles thick. The fluid dynamics of what mother nature can muster is impressive.

Was thinking the same thing. We have right at 4" - and it's compacted/heavy paste. IAD was under the band for several hours. We lucked out here ivo Vienna.

Took a peek at the New England sub - they are getting nailed. Wind gusts 80+ mph. Half the Cape is w/o power. Some pretty amazing obs up there.

4" here. Based on other observations, sounds like we were lucky to get the band that hovered over FFCO for a while. (Norlun, IVT, whatever it was - it performed well for several hours. Looks great outside this morning. Still a little sn-

Just had a fairly large power outage hit our immediate area - 260 customers/houses w/o power. Fortunately, our house is still online - for now.

Same here NW of Vienna. Had several hits to the grid over the last 5 mins as the wind picks up. There's a lot of weight on the trees with this paste. Expect we'll loose power at some point soon.

Talk about a waste of our taxes... Was out for a Jebwalk earlier and four big snowplows come by... to plow 2-1/2" of slop. Amazing - four large double axle dump trucks doing the job of what one truck could easily do. Plus, because Lawyers road is technically a state route, which means VDOT is responsible. So, the four plow trucks were trailed by a supervisor in a SUV. Five vehicles, five drivers, at who knows how much per hour per driver and vehicle - to plow 2-1/2".

Been watching/reading your posts on the setup of the trough. Thanks for the tutorials. We're not very far apart geographically, but it is ripping SN or SN+ here NW of Vienna. Hope you're getting the same goods out your way.

I must admit that's part of the reason why I pushed my wife moved from West Spfld to NW of Vienna 20 years ago. It's not THAT far, but sometimes is JUST far enough to make a difference. My wife doesn't understand it. Nor does she understand the collective curse of our beloved hobby (or in your case, profession). haha.

Fatties mixing in now. Temp starting to drop - down 2F to 35 in last 30 mins.

With your previously stated 400 ft of elevation, you must be near Tysons. It's the only place in McLean with that much elevation. FYI - the communications tower at 123 and 7 is the highest spot in FFCo except for the land fill at the I-66 transfer station at FFCo Pkwy - It is the highest spot in the county. We're 375' ASL here just NW of Vienna, and just far enough away from the Tysons concrete jungle that we often get a little more sn because of the lower impact of the Tysons heat island. If that band sets up as currently projected, we'll be in business up through MOCO and down to Spfld.

Steady at 36F now. Was getting some white rain with the heavier band. Slacking off now and only rn- atm.

If only that 12k were to validate... Most of the forum would be happy campers. NJ and NYC would be shut down for a long time.

36F with rn/sn mix. Some fatties mixing in but not many atm. Lots of moisture in the fetch running across the SE into the GOM.