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3 hours ago, Fasteddy said:

This is from our vacation house in WV (1900')..  That's looking towards Winchester..   I couldn't stay in MD for this storm and watch it rain.. At least I'll get a little bit of snow or more than likely, a nice ice storm.. 

It looks like the view from several miles west of Berkeley Springs 

82 was the famous “Cold Sundays” one weeek apart.

85 was inauguration and I recorded all time low for me -6.

94 was epic afternoon cold with the one day where I was 12 at 11am falling to 1 at 5pm, -6 overnight.

3 hours ago, PhineasC said:

Everyone decided to write this whole thing off as 50 degree rain. 

Not everyone 

14 minutes ago, yoda said:

Wind chills are -50 to -65 at 240 in MN/IA/SD

This is the Mongolian express I referenced. 

10 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

Feb. 14, 2015...yes, literally Valentine's Day.  Front went through on a blast of wind and those snow squalls.  I got about 2" from that in the space of an hour or so.  Though the squalls were not wide-spread...several areas got little or nothing...depended on where you were.  The following day it was still windy and in the teens.

Thanks. It was wet and sideways like out of a fire hose, 1” in 22 minutes 

Models having hard time with lurking arctic blast, snow cover, and assertive cold high pressures in general

perhaps we spike in next two hours but forecasts  yesterday for this afternoon were highs in upper 40’s and were in upper 30’s so far.  This is not garden variety cold lurking and really any high pressure that we have had for these events has been suppressive. There have definitely been stone cold cutters but we are not in that kind of pattern now. 

My weather radio siren going off!

23 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

Euro wind gust panels (usually overdone) are showing 35-40mph gusts with temps in the teens late Sunday afternoon. We may not get much frozen out of this deal but it's going to feel like deep winter late Sunday through all of Monday. 

ETA: Up to 50mph gusts in NE MD on Monday. Not a good day to walk around nude in the yard. 

I think we gust to 50 around DC with sustained at 25-30 for  hours. Who has the date of that arctic plastering frontal squall from several years ago?

Sun is still dead right now, increasing influence of a marginal nature thru Feb and then rapid increase in influence after first week of March 

6 hours ago, losetoa6 said:

WPC latest track looks like the nams 

I said yesterday low goes right over DC. That track keeps us in low 40’s and then when you have extreme cold lurking the low quickly “flushes” the cold air downward and into our area very quickly after moving east/northeast of the city.

Man

-30 850s and moisture. I see how the isobars of the low show northeast move but then by western Kentucky the isobars show  the latitude gain would stop. Also gotta think for an hour or two post arctic frontal passage that it's going to be squally.

1am

light-very light  snow. 1.75” 32F

It’s not giving up and firing off some more volleys.

1.75 and light-very light snow

31.6

The slug of eroding warmth portrayed as entering into southwest PA well may not make it that far north. That’s the trend and that’s some spooky looking cold ready to pounce.

Downtown going to get some near 1”ph stuff.

11pm obs

1.4”, moderate snow started 10.50 otherwise light last several hours. Rate right now .5-.75ph.

31F

Looks like we’re getting busy again. Never did completely stop snowing here even when radar showed zip 

Had a moderate burst from 7:45-8:15 but very light since then

1.2” and 32F

I can’t make this a forecast but just looking at the all day east movement and still almost due east. It’s like the high is asserting strong again and not allowing much northern move Nor west cut. Going to be interesting to see if that holds.

90 minutes since onset, 0.5” accum,  31F

24 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Let’s be honest. Unless we have more coming later, this is a 30 minute flizzard. Radar is pathetic.  Guess I’ll enjoy my 30 and heart it. 

No let’s be happy rather than constant chirping pessimistic 

Snow began at 6:05 and temp has dropped from 37 to 31

receiving steady light to near moderate, have 0.25” on shaded areas and sections of streets and sunny area partially covered 

Chugging right along due east, high doing useful work again, humidities right at boundary, another overpetformer Incoming.

Breaks down like this

low moves right over or just east of DC. Snow on front end then DC gets into 35-39* ranged with a drizzly, foggy, light rain mess. Norfolk hits 60. Low moves northeast late Saturday night/early Sunday morning, temps fall 20 degrees in 3 hours, back to all snow and ending near noon Sunday