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Looks good!

Nice!

Well, after HOURS of snizzle here I am back to officially light snow. 29.0/27.9 Vis down to about a mile

Sometime after 1-2 am sleet mixed with or it all changed to sleet. Had 0.9 on board, storm total 4.4 here. Sleet knocked the amount on the ground down to 3.5 this am. Cloudy and foggy here, not much on precip, maybe a little snizzle. 0.56 liquid, so that works out to 7.8-1 ratio of what has fallen. Temp still 28.6, less than 3 degree swing over 24 hours. Off to update snow totals......

Very interesting! Course I am sure you'd rather it be thunder snow.

Just sent in the 6 hour snowboard sweep. A new 2.5 inches to go with the 1.0 from earlier, 3.5 total. Have 3.2 on the level measuring couple places on the deck.

I am liking the back building showing up on radar down around Bluefield/Wytheville.

Don't look, you have my weather 2 hours ago......BUT, if this band makes it your way, you are in! It has more than doubled the previous amount of snow in last hour here. Eyeballing I'd say we close to 3 now.

Back to a decent snow here, have had more accumulate in last 30 minutes than the previous 3 hours, flurries and snizzle with 20-25 dbz's floating overhead on radar during that time.....hoping that change in Roanoke to sleet doesn't make it up this way.

Those rolled thru here 1+ hour ago, 20 to 25 dbz's and flurries......lol.

Oh, it is real, been in it for about an hour.....

Back to flurries here, waiting for next round to rotate in. BUT everything is white so all is good.

Just a bit over an inch here, still moderate snow falling.

You should enjoy the next hour, puking quarter sized snowflakes here and headed your way!

Hi WF. Sadly you aren't in a great location for radar. Blacksburg picks up some for you, and Sterling doesn't pick up well either. The box containing I-64/RT 220/RT33/I-81 could use some radar love. I know I am on the edge of the 'V' from Blacksburg that the beam gets partially blocked, VERY visible in light shallow snow events like lake effect streamers.

DCA: 11/12 BWI: 11/11 IAD: 10/30 RIC: 11/12 Tiebreaker: 3.93"

An easy 2x for me, BUT I was up on a mountain at 2600-2700 elevation, and 1500-1800 above valley floor. It looked much darker down in the valleys? Cool perspective was watching all the street lights and signs light up as darkness approached from above.

Hey! I was just above you on Foothills Parkway. Yes, it was awesome. I was cool watching all the lights turn on down in the valleys as darkness approached.

Ended up at my 3rd choice, but boy was it a winner! Look Rock on the Foothills Parkway in TN. I stumbled upon Jim Renfro and his family and friends 'safeguarding' the air quality/weather instruments and they invited me to join them for the day! Awesome as being 1500-2000 foot above the valley floor to the west we got a spectacular view of the darkness/shadow rolling in towards us from the WNW. Jim kept track of the weather and the temp dropped from 84 to 75 and the solar radiation went to zero like at night. He had set up a white sheet and we were able to capture the shadow snakes on recording. Being up that high I got a really cool pic of the horizon and the 360 degree 'sunrise' too. Maybe 10% cloud cover, and nothing overhead and in path during, great view of the totality! I am ready for 2024!

Yes, that is a win for eastern TN, BUT we still have several days to go. Looking great for now.

I've booked a place in eastern TN and plan to view from there. Hoping for decent weather, being August in the south the haze and humidity is always there. Close as I could pull off with work schedules and such. I got a really decent rate for the room, but I did this back in December before the 'buzz' really got started.

16.5 here for 11/12, BUT....on this date in 2012 I was sitting at 2.0 inches on several nickel and penny specials. Then had 9.8 on 2/20 and another 4.5 event on 3/5-6. The 2-20 event was my 'fun' travel event to Houston. US Air cancelled every morning flight out of Roanoke except mine at 6:25 am to connect in Charlotte to get to Houston. So my travel partner (this was business trip) and I arrived at work (at 4:15 am) and left for Roanoke an hour plus with the road conditions. Before we even made it past gate of plant her phone then mine went off with a 1 hour delay, so we decided to eat at IHOP's on way. Arrived at airport and another delay went through phones as we pulled in lot for additional 45 minutes. We finally boarded plane at 9:45 to make a 11:05 connection in Charlotte. I asked several times while waiting if we were going to make that connection, girl said oh yeah, easy. haha We landed in Charlotte at 10:52, ran through airport like old O J Simpson Hertz commercial to only see the plane backing out the gate at the end of terminal. For those who know the Charlotte airport we arrived at gate E24 and Houston departure was gate A10, about as far apart as you can get there. We were rebooked onto a Continental flight two hours later and finally got to Houston, only to have her luggage not show up haha.

So, from your original post yesterday set a new rainfall record for the 15th for DC? "August 15th has never had more than 1.15 inches of precipitation"

I broke my record low max with a 69.1 reading for the day, beating old mark of 70 from 1995.