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I think this will be further south than currently forecasted  and some of the upper air flow across eastern Texas is  from the gulf and makes a sharp right in Oklahoma and seems to want to mingle.

Overnight low of 5 and currently 16

7.7

-21 850 And think will press down some more to -23 Thursday afternoon. Think highs tomorrow will be

DCA:20

BWI:17

IAD:16

Me:17

9

I will be below  10  before midnight and what I have in my weather diary is a check mark for every time I have observed that since 1965. I remember some of them even multiple nights in a row. Tonight is mark 19.

My record low is -6 and in Jan 1994 I was -1 at 11:30 which is only time below zero before midnight .

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10.7 here

19 at 5pm

17 at 6

13 at 8:30

Been a while since I was below 20 at sunset .

Got a dusting in the squall so still have 90% coverage of 0.5 to 1”

I was on the low end of this, 1.6” (now it’s 25 and flash as* freezin’)

Drove thru some 1.5ph stuff but that never got here. Still fun,and more to come, then warm some, then more fun.

54 minutes ago, Ji said:

Euro and fv3 nailed this. Im impressed. Legit event

Impressed or depressed????

0.7” on snowboard, 31.8F, observed 0.5 to 1.5”ph rates on drive back from Laurel. Neighborhood streets here covered, main roads wet 

There was only a few of us last night that were Not worried about ground temps and non roads went white quick 

3:30 pm special travel update

 Here inLaurel and moderate snow, 0.5-0.75ph, 33F

Left Glenmont with 33F at 2:45 and ground whitened. Got to New  Hampshire and beltway and 35 and rain, got off I95 at powder mill rd and back to snow. Ground was not whitened in laurel 15 min ago but is now 

Still 80/20 snow with some doublets and triplets. -1 850 And Oc

925 right on DC/Md north border -12c 850 Garrett co.

1:30pm Special Update

80% snow, light but steady and big flakes. Temp down 2.0 since 12:45pm onset and currently 36.6F

More snow now, 75 rain 25 snow 

Light rain with few flakes. Temp down 1.7 since onset here at 350’

850s and 925 <32.

This time it’s not 27 and rising because rise won’t start until 4/5am. Rising above freezing for 5 hours with overcast won’t warm the ground 

The package  that cometh looks radar goodeth

We are about to rock with some wild and wooly winter weather.

We are cold again tonight , 29 here, and the ground doesn’t have much warmth. So rain to snow of unknown duration and intensity, then quite cold then bitter cold with some more snow action possible and then another. Meanwhile below zero windchills into the afternoon Thursday

Yes it’s 4 days in length and not two weeks but not much is two weeks so love the winter weather we do have.

The Mongolian high pressures continue to show up and make their usual move towards  us 7-12 days later. The “10 day away” touts having missed out now want to cancel Feb. Feb will be fine and a continuation of what we have had since early November-mostly cutters, infrequent suppressed, infrequent hits, temps not significantly below average but episodic shots of frigid air. Final snowfall right around average and tons better than last two winters.

2 hours ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Tell me who here accurately predicted how this winter would go, lol

Deck pic and KA have been excellent with monthly temps and snowfall for months of DEc  and Jan. Isotherm good also. Pay attention and learn something 

Many of the celebrity weather guys are excellent discussers of weather  but poor predictors of it. We tend to be the opposite. 

1 hour ago, DCTeacherman said:

My main concern with this event, as others have mentioned, is surface temps.  These are the euro temps for 00z Wednesday.  By this point most of our QPF has fallen and DC has about 0.1 left.  

It will be from 4-7 and sun has waned. 11-2 and I would have the same concern