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26 minutes ago, Snowshack said:

3 years out of those 10 years in DC accounted for 60%+ of the total snowfall -- thats probably how it will play out here a well.   Bluewave has illustrated the feast of famine nature of our snowfall many times. 

 

 

Yes maybe it already is playing out here. The past 5 years at Central Park are 21, 5, 39, 18 and 2.

27 minutes ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

D.C. area has been snowless for a decade. Yes they had a few minor to moderate events in January but it was also 80 degrees there a coupe of days ago.
 

Other than the oddball event that will pop up every several years there, they are basically Norfolk now, while NYC becomes them and Boston becomes NYC. It's an ever progressing line and sustained winters will be fewer and far between. 

It was just a joke to kind of show that it isn't as bad as it seems. For example in the past decade D.C. has had about 120 inches of snow. I agree it is getting milder and if it continues we will see less snow. It doesn't mean we won't ever have bad winters again.

1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

Agree

First NYC and then it goes north. Soon snow will be a thing of the past for many areas.

Maybe it will go south, D.C. area has had close to 10 inches this year. 

Looks like another storm passing near the benchmark on Sunday-Monday. Might have been a decent winter snow wise, just needed some cold air.

The shot at 60 on Friday now looks closer to 50.

Big range in temperatures this morning from the 20s to the single digits. My lowest of the season at 15.7.

Would not be surprised tonight has the coldest temperatures of the season for some of the suburbs. Nice snowpack and lighter winds.

Snowed most of the day and accumulated to barely over nothing.

Flurries have started here but I would be more encouraged if the sun was not coming thru the clouds.

Wind has picked up substantially and the temperature has quickly dropped from 31.7 to 29.9, everything freezing over with light precip falling.

I got up to 32.3 a few hours ago, now 31.8.

After a short period of heavier snow, it has now turned to freezing rain, 30.2 degrees. 2 inches of snow  here.

After a brief lull, snowing here again.

1 minute ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

 

It was a bogus record to begin with. Two consecutive days last February with 0.9 inches and they kept going on about how it hasn't snowed an inch for two years. Definitely a bad stretch but what's the difference 0.9 or 1 inch. The way they measure either day could have easily been more than an inch.

Yea I think it was kind of bogus also. I mean 1/10th of an inch. Also, everyone else in the area had over an inch

3 minutes ago, wdrag said:

Just my opinion: I think in fairness to the ENTIRE community of met interests... I sure hope TWC did not get this snowfall first. This has to go out in a standard product that everyone can access (not FB or phone). I will stand corrected if someone can show me the product. Thanks, Walt

I have not seen any reports as of 7a.m. but TWC says it is official. We shall see. Apparently they have been adding the hourly updates in Central Park.

Central Park hit 1 inch since midnight, record ended.

1 minute ago, the_other_guy said:

it wasn’t a bust at all

 

Just a bunch of guys talking themselves into a frenzy on a 1-3 inch snowstorm

this was a perfectly modeled, perfectly forecasted, 1 to 3 inch snowstorm.

And as myself and several other posters tried to say yesterday, if you set your expectations for a light snowfall you were going to be happy. And if you set your expectations on a fabricated 6 inch snowfall, you weren’t going to be happy.

Yea I think when D.C. over acheived, many figured we would also. Central Park had .6 as of 2 A.M. If they don't go over an inch, something is wrong.

Between 1.5 and 2 inches here.

26.1 degrees here, so has a ways to go to turn into plain rain. Meanwhile coating on everything including roads.

34 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

Serious deathband. Over 6" already 

Just talked to someone in Rockville and they said more like 3 inches.

Looks like the D.C. area already around 3 inches for many and still snowing.

Light snow has started here.

If you go to Virginia 511 you can see live traffic cameras from the entire area of northern Virginia.

Peak gust now up to 43mph. Farmingdale 49mph in past hour. No advisories but probably should be.

Peak gust here last night 39mph. with 1.80 inch of rain. Peak gust today 40mph.