February 5-6 Sir Mix A Lot/OBS

[MN Transplant]

0.74” fell with temps below freezing and there is basically no impact except pretty trees.

[Interstate]

1 minute ago, mappy said:

They said last night they’d reevaluate and let everyone know by 7. The email came in at 7:03 so they weren’t late lol

They were 3 minutes late. lol. 

[Paleocene]

Trees glazed here in silver spring at about 320' feet ASL. moco sticking with two hour delay, good call. Not as embarrassing as a straight up rain day.

[mappy]

3 minutes ago, Interstate said:

They were 3 minutes late. lol. 

Fair! lol 

Sucks for the kids to close. Last snow day they have without virtual learning

[Interstate]

Just now, mappy said:

Fair! lol 

Sucks for the kids to close. Last snow day they have without virtual learning

Yeah... but I think this was the actually right decision today.

[WxUSAF]

0.08" ice accumulation as official spotter report

eta...cars and all elevated surfaces pretty coated.  Walking around on paved surfaces I didn't notice any slippery spots.  

[Stormchaserchuck1]

Not real picturesque out there this morning, but here is my Japanese maple

[nj2va]

No ice even on metal railings or cars here. Got to my 610a fitness class fine. 

[mappy]

6 minutes ago, Interstate said:

Yeah... but I think this was the actually right decision today.

Absolutely. 

[hstorm]

Pretty glaze.

Transformer just blew somewhere behind our house. Fortunately lights only flickered. 

[George BM]

Just measured 0.04" of ice accretion here. (Herndon, VA)

[osfan24]

6 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

0.08" ice accumulation as official spotter report

eta...cars and all elevated surfaces pretty coated.  Walking around on paved surfaces I didn't notice any slippery spots.  

Yeah, they should have waited until this morning and sent them in to school.

[H2O]

Roads just wet here. 

[H2O]

19 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Thank you northern tier counties for not making HoCo stick out so embarrassingly.

Fauquier said hold my scraper

[mappy]

[GramaxRefugee]

32f and steady rain. 0.35" so far. Bit of ice on car but that's all I've seen. 

Absolute garbage weather 

eta: now that it's daylight, I see that trees and most elevated has some minor glaze. Mailbox was glazed.

Also, I noticed AACo school busses seem to be rolling on schedule.

[Terpeast]

Low of 31.7, a minimal amount of glaze on the deck furniture and trees

[mitchnick]

Lot of sleet and zr. Now for a nice morning drive down to Towson. 

[Stormchaserchuck1]

1 minute ago, mitchnick said:

Lot of sleet and zr. Now for a nice morning drive down to Towson. 

Roads are fine

[mitchnick]

1 minute ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

Roads are fine

My road looks fine even with little traffic.

[dailylurker]

Now that it's daylight I'm actually surprised at the amount of ice on the trees this morning. Roads are fine. 

[wxdude64]

Currently 33.0/32.2, overnight low was 31.4. Trees and other elevated have ice on them. The 'fun' stuff was the thunder and lightning between 4 and 6:30 this morning with heavy rain at 32 degrees. The 1.35 emptied out of the CoCoRaHS gauge at 7 am goes into 2nd wettest Feb 6th, only behind the 1.66 melted of sleet and snow from 2010. 

[Chris78]

30 degrees.

A coating of a mix of sleet and freezing rain  on the deck. Looks like roads/paved surfaces are just wet. Higher elevations of the Catoctins must be icy in the cascade/ blue ridge summit area. I know of atleast 1 accident on route 77 between Smithsburg and Thurmont.

[snowfan]

Here’s a first…..arundel middle just sent out a notification that one of the school road entry points is blocked by low sagging bamboo from the ice. 

[Kay]

Trees, cars, elevated surfaces glazed. 32

[SnowenOutThere]

Surprisingly still below freezing near Reston  with .5 of rain overnight trees are very saggy

[mappy]

Temp holding right at 29/30. Precip is more spotty but comes in heavier batches

[Jeff B]

31/31 here btw Reisterstown and Hunt Valley.

[nw baltimore wx]

54 minutes ago, osfan24 said:

Yeah, they should have waited until this morning and sent them in to school.

Well, two things. First, the western part of the county has very different conditions than along 95. And secondly, as I said yesterday, there was already a half day scheduled for elementary schools for parent conferences. In order to keep the elementary schools number of days aligned with the middle and high schools, they either open on time or close in these situations.

Because of today, HoCo has used all 5 of its allotted snow days. Everyone wanted to go in today and not waste it. Well, except seniors.

[WxUSAF]

Biggest difference driving from Columbia to Greenbelt was lack of ice on grass and low-lying surfaces below the fall line. Trees looked a bit icier at home too, but that’s a little harder to distinguish by eye. Car thermometer mostly 33 the whole way.