RDM

Well done. Thought I was the only one who was thinking the same thing. Took about half of ours down outside but left up enough to provide the ambiance.

Just drove from Dulles to our house in Vienna on Lawyers Road. The Toll Road and 28 were fine - just wet with snow crews lined up along the berm on stay. (Athough some infidels were still driving 25mph with their flashers on). Hunter Mill road is starting to cave w.slush and ice. Portions were surprising slick with a layer of slush transitioning to ice in spots. Lawyers road was even more tricky. Does not appear to have been treated since this morning and the traffic is compacting the slush and turning it to ice (currently 27F here). Was hard to get stopped to turn into our driveway. Amazing what a since inch can do around here. I grew up on Ohio and this would be a non-event.

When will the soundings come out for DCA and IAD? Curious if they show the warm nose intruding.

Thanks - Interesting - they bumped it up by an 1" for much of the forum within the last hour.

NWS has the upper limit for several locations at 5". Realize this is likely not going to happen, but one of the locations in that category is the National Mall in DC. Rare.

Snowing here now 1/2 mile NW of Vienna - at 40F (was 46 30 mins ago). We don't get that very often around here.

Cold air inbound - it's 19F now at Garrett Co. Airport. Hard to see a warm nose survive the inbound air mass, but we are DC so anything is possible.

Thanks for the pop Randy - anything is something, which is more than most of us have gotten for 2 years. Bring er home!

Once again this week NOAA has more colors on their national map than a box of 64 Crayola... https://www.weather.gov (64 Crayola was what ever lad in elementary wanted when I was a young-in)

I'm reading it as... the warmer the SST's (Sea Surface Temps) the moisture for the L to tap into, which the arctic air on our side of the front will wring out as sn+

Just about finished here... .96" for the day and temp stayed at 36 +/- 1 degree all day. If only...

Damn... .73" of rain so far and still at 36F. If only...

Someone has a new avatar - haha

Heaviest.... RAIN so far now. .58" and pouring out.

Pouring rain here - ,33" so far - at 35F sigh...

36 and light rn here NW of Vienna - good luck to those to the NW....

Yup - I had hopes you'd get at least some mood flakes on the front end too. Regrets.

Was at 29 when I went to bed at 0300 - 33 now. Blah. Had hopes for at least a dusting on the front end but per the norm around here the only color outside is brown. When caveats started getting into the discussion a week ago, it reminded me of our motto for these parts "when everything has to be perfect to get SN, if one variable is out of whack our chances to score are significantly reduced". Good luck to the NW crew, hope you score something.

Temp up from 27 to 29 in the last 90 mins.

Yes - a fairly thick band too. https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-more-layers/overlays?satellite,37.983,-77.695,7,m:eHJaelN

Down to 26 with a 22dp. May drop a couple more degrees, but not much. Winds are shifting shifting around already. Hope to get something on the front end before the mid lvl warm fetch scours out the cold. Going to be depressing with temps in the low to mid 30's with rain.

32/23dp here. Never got above 38 today here.

He must live in a trailer down by the river!

NWS posted a large swath of notices from Fredericksburg South for Hazardous Weather Outlook for Fri night/Sat. Somewhat odd - nothing N of that.

If sheer willpower was an applicable variable we'd skip over HECS and go straight for a BECS on this one. The forum needs it in the worse way.