Sparky

That was a nice storm even for Baltimore ~ 10 inches and cold.

12/04 - 0.75" 12/11 - 1.00" TOTAL - 1.75"

03-04 was even better out here. Very cold with 35.5" total.

Winter 04-05 wasn't terrible out this way. Got 7" in the January Miller B storm and 32" total for the winter.

I always use 4:1 in my hummingbird feeder and get the birds all summer, I still have them around now. My feeder is on a hook attached to the railing of my deck and I have never had any racoon problems with it. Plus it is a good 15 feet above ground as well.

I didn't get as much as some folks to the south but what I got was pure powder. Finished with 5.75" which melted down to 0.33" for a 17:1 ratio. I think the .33 was pretty much along the lines of most guidance except probably the last NAM runs ha ha.

Enjoy your wet pavement.

I'm in a pretty good band now. Best rates I have seen since around midnight. Should put me over 5".

C'mon baby Parr's Ridge is waiting to catch you.

Getting close to a nice looking green band. Where's my lasso?

Except he qualified it saying I would have 4 by dusk on Saturday ha ha.

4.5”

Been in some decent rates for a while. Prob topped 3”.

The band in south Carroll and Frederick is making a move to the north now .... stretching north I should say.

Getting a nice uptick in dendrite growth now.

Adequately sized dendrites are falling.

I'm starting to think I have a shot with the latest model runs today.

Deck dusting.

Detecting sarcasm.

First flakes.

Awesome!

Really dry air up here dewpoint hovering in lower single digits. Delay of onset?

Nice pivot all the way back into Carroll.

PD II (25.5" IMBY) was the storm that could have eclipsed the Blizz of '96 (30") in my backyard if it weren't for the changeover to sleet Sunday night for several hours. I figure it would easily have reached 35"+ if all snow. But every other thing about that storm was plain boring compared to '96. There was very little wind, little drifting, and even the snowfakes were small and unimpressive to watch falling. The flakes in '96 were smallish too, but not quite as small. But '96 had some kickass wind on Sunday evening and through the night into Monday morning which gave it a genuine blizzard look and feel. Drifting was about as impressive as I have ever seen. Mind you it is pitch black at night where I live but whenever I flicked on the floodlights on Sunday night to see the action all I could see was a sideways curtain of snow blowing around the house. I could barely see the darkness of the woods that lie about 100 feet in the back. The only other storm that gave me that '96 look and feel was the 2/10/10 blast (27" IMBY) which had much larger dendrites to enjoy and was compressed into a shorter period of time with heavier rates. 2/10/10 was like a blend of '96 winds (though not as intense) and PD1 (Feb 79) snow rates. PD 1 is still the rates king though. That's when I saw 10" in a 3 hour continuous period which I haven't seen beaten since with a total of about 20" in the end.