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.

Based on NWS radar loop, it appears to be snowing along the M/D already - although it could be virga. Precip field has really blossomed the last couple of hours.

Yup don't recall a setup in recent memory where the Warning map nearly encircled DC as it does now. Sad

Yup - similar here. High of 54 this afternoon and down to 40 already. Cooling off nicely.

The Blizzard Warnings were expanded significantly inland along eastern PA, NJ and a good ways up the Hudson in an arc around RI and Mass. My wife is living temporarily in NYC on the upper West Side and taking Amtrak back tonight to avoid what will likely be a shutdown of Amtrak in the NW corridor tomorrow. Tempting to go with her to see NYC get nailed from her 23rd floor view. Had a nice snow in Dec that was awesome to watch from an elevated perch.

Glad you like it. Here's another shot for you. Search on "Incredible deep snow in Japan"

Here you go... Below is just one picture from a web search. They use bulldozers and snowblowers to keep the road open until the chasm becomes too steep to blow the snow out. Separately, Gassan had the deepest snow depth of any resort in the world in April 2025. 380" https://www.snow-forecast.com/whiteroom/japan-weekly-roundup-291/

Great! - been to the BX at Yokota AFB many times. Hope you have good memories of your time there. You are the first person I've ever "met" who knows about Zao. It's a great area. Never been there in the summer time, but can imagine it would be a nice place to visit without snow too. Heard of Aomori, but haven't been there. Climbed Fuji san and skied down once (on telemark skis) with a couple snowboarders. That was a surreal experience. Had great weather with unlimited visibility just after a cold front went through.

If you, Jebman or anyone ever get the chance to visit Japan, suggest going to Zao or Naeba. Zao NW of Tokyo several hours. It is famous for its "snow monsters", which are the wind-swept snow-encrusted tops of pine trees sticking out of the snow. When I was there telemark skiing, there were only 10-20' of the tree tops sticking out of the 60-70 feet of snow. It was amazing how much snow they had, even by Tahoe standards. It was very interesting how they deal with the snow. The Japanese have snow removal down to an art. Downtown Zao and Naeba (not very big villages) have perforated rubber hoses laying all over the streets and sidewalks. They pump hot water from the natural springs out to melt the snow. The whole area smells like sulfur, but you get used to it. Where they don't have hot water running, they use a variety of snow blowers to discard it. There's simply no place to push it - too much of it. They have some really nifty walk behind snowblowers that are really cool and it seems everybody has one. When it snows on the western flanks of Honshu (the main island of Japan), the fetch off the Sea of Japan is accented by the upslope from the Japanese Alps. The result is akin to what Mammoth is experiencing, and then some. Never seen snow so intense for so long. If you ever do go, hit me up offline. Happy to give some ideas. Heading to Japan in a week for several weeks. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be heading to the mountains this time.

Totally agree and well said. Not to be uppity, but I've been here and Eastern since 97. None of us ever learned anything when posting. I'm immensely grateful for all the insight from the red taggers and those more experienced posters who really know what's going on. Many of the younger crew are catching on, but still need to post less, read more, learn and avoid jumping the gun. Unfortunately, that's the era we live in with today's immersive social media frenzy. Mods - sorry for the banter.

rotflmao That's hilarious, albeit not far from the truth.