Blizzard of 93 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Oh good, I was wondering how your area was doing since it was in that heavier area of snow earlier. Also saw a PNS report of 3" in Wood, (NE Bedford county). Just measured 1.6" here. Edit to add, hey your actually matched up with Dulles' (IAD) midnight snow report and ahead of BWI (Baltimore International). DCA: 2.9" IAD: 2.5" BWI: 2.0" Per the daily climate summary, MDT recorded 1.7 inches of snow as of midnight with QPF of only .05 ! Holy ratio !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Per the daily climate summary, MDT recorded 1.7 inches of snow as of midnight with QPF of only .05 ! Holy ratio !!! Wow 34:1 ratios, that's nuts. I'd believe it though, this is the kind of event that would be capable of delivering those type of ratios. The whole column from pretty much the surface to about 600mb or so is in that ideal dendritic growth zone temp wise (-12 to -18C). We could have really piled some snow up if we would've had some better lift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meteo Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Mag what does it look like for the weekend....any details yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Mag what does it look like for the weekend....any details yet? Spanning from hour 90-132 it has a wave of low pressure that runs out east from approx CO/Tx Panhandle becoming ill defined by the time it gets to the eastern US.. kinda turns into an overrunning look/frontal passage. Light to moderate precip arrives in western PA at hour 114 and spans all of PA hours 120-126. 0 line only flirts with the mason dixon line in SE PA at 126. Seems like a moderate to perhaps heavier snowfall for most of the state. Seems like warmer air is going to want to attempt an offensive into the northeastern part of the country as it likes to try to do with more frequency this time of the year (we are in the latter half of Feb after all) and the abundant cold is going to put up a fight (and probably win). The zone where it clashes certainly could see a pretty sizeable event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meteo Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Mag thanks for the info buddy....hopefully it pans out for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizz Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I like the look of the 00z Euro. Finally back to struggling with temps which usually mean big snow storms. Enough of this 8 degrees with light flurries hoping and praying 30:1 ratios is enough for 1". Richmond got their fun, now its our turn! Anyway, 8 degrees and flurries here with a light trace. Heaviest light snow of the night so far though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Gonna call it at 1.8" for a total here with precip pretty much over with. I'm going to try to get a rough estimate on ratio, but I think it's at least on par with that 34:1 ratio based off the 0.05" out of 1.7" snow MDT reported. This brings the season total to 41.9". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Scooped snow gently off the railing into a crude rain gauge I have and filled it to the 4" mark. Melted down to what I could make out as a best guesstimate of 0.17". So about 24-25:1 is what I got. For being a meteorologist I need better measuring tools at my disposal haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashtown_Coop Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 1.8" here. 9f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Quick measurement here this morning gave me 2 inches of super fluff here. Temp is 10 degrees. I have no means to do a liquid measurement, bt ut I'm sure it's like the others...dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Looks like we will end up with 2.4" here on only .09" of liquid. 27:1 ratio, not bad at all. If only we would see these ratios more often. I must say that say that the new GFS is slowly winning my confidence lately. It nailed the qpf for multiple runs here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5001 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 measured 3.0" snow with .10" liquid so the ratios in the 25-35:1 range seem legit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashtown_Coop Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 2.0" from 0.09" final skies cleared and temp just tanked from 8 to 1 last hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-83 BLIZZARD Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Consistent 2.5 and 3 inch measurements all over the property. Will call it 2.75. Not my 6 that I demanded but office is closed in Baltimore so I will call it the storm of the season for me so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 2.0" from 0.09" final skies cleared and temp just tanked from 8 to 1 last hour. Did the same here right before sunrise. 6° to 0.5° in short order. Had an inch of dusty powder overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itunis Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I find it funny that the plows are plowing the inch of fluff out there but maybe it's just too cold for traditional treatment to be effective when it's near zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 measured 3.0" snow with .10" liquid so the ratios in the 25-35:1 range seem legit Yep, good stuff. i was starting to have doubts listening to others, but as i watched the radar last evening i was thinking we'd be ok for a couple inches. I like this stuff, easy to shovel and plow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 3" of pushbroom snow. Nice event! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomixwx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The fluffiest snow I have ever had to remove. Theres almost nothing to the snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5001 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 2.0" from 0.09" final skies cleared and temp just tanked from 8 to 1 last hour. I just saw the 8am obs and noticed MDT went from 10 to 3 and wasn't sure if it was true... then I saw THV went from 10 to 1 from 6am to 8am and other reports too so I guess it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NortheastPAWx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Had a coating. Next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 3" of champagne powder. My goodness was it ever pure fluff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 PSUHazletonWx, on 17 Feb 2015 - 09:04 AM, said:Had a coating. Next. same here, less than a half an inch. the real problem is that the road crews are using rock salt to treat the roads and it is not effective at these temps. 12f at home this am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 any chance we squeek an inch out of the mid week clipper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festus Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 same here, less than a half an inch. the real problem is that the road crews are using rock salt to treat the roads and it is not effective at these temps. 12f at home this am. Same down this way. Treatment made the roads were more of a paste than anything. Starting to melt now though as some sun is poking through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5001 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 more records look to be in danger later this week: For MDT: Record lows: (Thurs) 2/19 - +1 (Friday) 2/20 - 0 (Sat) 2/21 - +6 Record low highs: (Thurs) 2/19 - +16 (Friday) 2/20 - +14 Through the 16th, MDT currently at 8th coldest average temp for February on record. That could jump to 4 or 5 after just today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 How close are we to passing last winter's avg temps? I am guessing not very since we had a not freezing early part of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Wednesday's squall line redux looks interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Hi Guys... I just caught up on the overnight posts and I am very glad to see the extreme ratios being reported since I was thinking that no one would believe my report. I measured 2.6" of snow. It might have been a few tenths more from sun melt since I didn't measure it until 9:30 this morning, but I will just stick with 2.6". It melted down to 0.08" of liquid for a ratio of 33:1. That's close to the highest ratio I think I have ever seen. I'm vaguely remembering an event back around 2007 or so where a clipper gave me around 5" of snow with 0.12" of liquid for a 40:1 ratio. Had similar conditions for that event although I think it wasn't quite as cold as this one just was. I still can't seem to reach the 4" mark. Maybe this weekend's storm?? Also, I am thinking that with radiational cooling tonight over fresh snow temps may drop to zero or below again. We'll see. I'm up to a balmy 21.1 degrees. The winds have been completely calm since 4:30 this morning so finally no wind chill to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vogan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 How close are we to passing last winter's avg temps? I am guessing not very since we had a not freezing early part of the season. IMBY, I am 1.9F warmer for this winter (D,J,F to date) than last winter. This past December was a warm one compared to 2013 and even January wasn't as cold this year. However this February is 2.2F colder than last Feb to date and last year was well below normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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