Hopefully this means we all flip over for a minute… I’m still salty that there is a good batch of precip after the line but that the temps didn’t line up w/ the line.
If the front had aligned with the temperature drop, that stuff out past Reston might’ve got the job done, if the job was a quick quarter inch of snow. At least the additional precip will add to the flash freeze fuel.
Heavy graupel and/or sleet. Might’ve even seen something that looks like it’s dancing in the precip up on the 8th floor of my building. There does seem to be some precip behind the line, but the cold obviously isn’t here yet. Figures
While we were bickering I think we missed the EURO becoming the snowiest model with the anafront. It's not a lot but we are clearly desperate, lol. Would whiten the ground for some MD folks
It's willing to play ball with the anafrontal too -- massive grain of salt, given its the long-range HRRR, but seems to want to flip most to snow. Around B'More it even manages to spit out an inch on the ol' 10:1.
@high risk-- figured I'd pull this over to banter, what's the deal with the SHiELD suite of products? As far as I can gather it's tied into the FV3, but perhaps more experimental? Hi-Res?
I'm not sure its ever been a useful tool but it's nice to see the FV3 hi-res kind of agree with the GFS. It doesn't always do that, e.g., it looks nothing like it's parent(?) for the Thursday morning part of the system.
Don't think that would solve the temperature issues for most of us but kinda cool to watch.
Upped the ante for those who were already likely to see snow, though.
It was a big jump up. Surprised nobody noticed it earlier. The 10:1 is even weenier -- verbatim pushes the T line into DC.
RA/SN line gets pretty far west. Guess stranger things have happened at 48 hours.
Too bad it wants basically nothing to do with the anafrontal. It’s a bit of torture knowing the GFS is all alone with a (truly) snowy solution and doubling down…
I'll stop digging into this clearly off the rocker run in a second -- but this is all the precip that falls clearly after the freezing line has passed DCA. The additional .3-.4" falls in the hour the temp change moves through -- probably a pretty wicked rain-to-snow.