Sparky

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.

^^ why guesstimate snowfall to the nearest tenth? Seems silly, just round to nearest inch.

Looks to me like Myrtle Beach is lucking out. Offshore winds all day with the center passing north of them not hugging the coast like it was forecasted.

Oh I agree concerning the the 2010 twins, the first one was a more gentle heavy dumping compared to its late born twin. I actually ended up with one more inch (27) from the 2/9-10 storm than the 2/5. It was a remarkable feat for a miller B.

Surprised 2/5/10 is so low....wish I was in Carroll for Mar 93 but alas I was living in NE Baltimore and only got a foot with sleet/ice....Even though 2/03 was a massive storm out here, I got 25.5", it just leaves a meh feeling in me. I think it was the seemingly tiny snowflakes that made it less exciting and lack of real winds.

Jan 96 is still king for me. Slightly more snow and much stronger winds. I did like the rates better during Jan 16 since it was more concentrated and seemed heavier for the most part. Jan 16 is now the 2nd largest single snow storm in my lifetime...Just by a hair over the 2010 twins.

That was a frigid month though with good snow. Probably one of the better snow cover months for DCA considering they didn't get a massive storm. At the time, Jan 82 reminded me a lot of Jan. 78 only with colder temps. I had snow building on top of snow and that was when I lived in Baltimore not the colder Westminster area.

Jan 96 was just stunning out here from start to finish. I really have never seen anything like it in my entire life. During the final hours of 2/10/10 I was having a feeling of deja vu with Jan 96 only it was not as intense in the wind/drifiting dept. I got 27" from the second Feb. storm, one inch more than 2/5/10, so that was a unbeatable combination for total depth of snow and the one and only time I hired a contractor to remove snow from the driveway and front walkway.