12/2 Cold Rain and High Elevation Snow

[MDphotog]

8 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

In the last few frames, the CC line appears to be dropping east towards I-81. Maybe our far NW crew flips back to IP/SN?

@Eskimo Joe Yep, I'm about a mile or so west of I-81 and we have switched back into a mix.

[Interstate]

14 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Man if this event were even a week later, we'd probably have 3" - 5" for most folks west of the bay. Just a degree or three off from greatness.

Maybe... Depends on how warm that warm nose is.  

[TSSN+]

Coming down 194 Keymar and trees and powerlines etc have way more ice on them then I’d expected to see. 

[stormy]

1 hour ago, psuhoffman said:

When’s it gonna start. Patiently waiting 

Patience is a great virtue.

[Terpeast]

18 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Man if this event were even a week later, we'd probably have 3" - 5" for most folks west of the bay. Just a degree or three off from greatness.

Idk, warm nose all the way up to the M/D line. Week later we would still have mixed. End of month would have been snowier. It was just not a cold system this time.

[Weather Will]

.5 rain.  Little ice on trees and mulch.  Kids got out of school so I guess it's a win.

[Eskimo Joe]

1 minute ago, Terpeast said:

Idk, warm nose all the way up to the M/D line. Week later we would still have mixed. End of month would have been snowier. It was just not a cold system this time.

My bench mark pre-Dec 5th is just an inch of snow. Snow on Christmas decorations is the best snow. I don't care what Lucy says about December snowflakes, they taste fine to me.

[davidjd1114]

Major bust in York lol been basically just rain


.

[mappy]

Rain with a little ice mixed in. Kid just got on bus, no complaints from her on getting extra sleep

[stormy]

.20 zr and trace of sleet.  Rds, minor to moderate.  32.1/31

The person who composed the AFD from Sterling this morning is about 12 hrs. slow with the threat on Friday. "The system may spread some very light precipitation on its northern side Friday night before pushing offshore on Sat."   Under slept??    The Blacksburg AFD is spot on, "Next system moves in Friday morning, snow transition to wintry mix possible".  That tracs the Euro. 

 

[Eskimo Joe]

Hagerstown flipped back to snow. Martinsburg back to sleet.

[mitchnick]

5 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Hagerstown flipped back to snow. Martinsburg back to sleet.

Snow just started mixing back in with more sleet.

[Eskimo Joe]

Looks like Camp David has flipped back to snow. Getting the "indefinite sky" ob.

[mitchnick]

1 minute ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Looks like Camp David has flipped back to snow. Getting the "indefinite sky" ob.

My sky is getting that dark, snow sky as % of snow increases.

Probably temporary, but maybe slp is winding up and dropping pressures and temps. Idk

[Eskimo Joe]

1 minute ago, mitchnick said:

My sky is getting that dark, snow sky as % of snow increases.

Probably temporary, but maybe slp is winding up and dropping pressures and temps. Idk

DOT cams west of US 15 in Frederick County are showing a flip back to snow, and roads caving.

[wxmeddler]

40 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Maybe @wxmeddler can pull a profiler site up? He's famous for finding those nuggets of information.

Profilers from MDE are wind only. I don’t know of any microwave radiometers in the area that would provide temperature. There might be a fortunately timed ACARS takeoff/landing at one of the big 3 airports but I’d have to look when I get into work.

[North Balti Zen]

Had to leave Fallston for downtown at 6:30 - was 35 and rain - but car had a full glaze of ice on it - so I guess freezing rain to start is what I will record for an obs for the day.

[Eskimo Joe]

1 minute ago, wxmeddler said:

Profilers from MDE are wind only. I don’t know of any microwave radiometers in the area that would provide temperature. There might be a fortunately timed ACARS takeoff/landing at one of the big 3 airports but I’d have to look when I get into work.

^what he said

[TSSN+]

Figures I’d leave for work and it changes back to snow

[Mrs.J]

So my rain gauge stoped recording rain at 5:14 am with .22" recorded up to that point I just ventured out into the slop to see if I could see why it stopped. The funnel was filled with sleet. And I am guessing the inner dip spoon is frozen. So I can say that at 5:14 am today is the point where I switched over from just rain to sleet/freezing rain. I cleaned the funnel out but that probably was not worth it as it will just fill back up.    

[mitchnick]

15 minutes ago, TSSN+ said:

Figures I’d leave for work and it changes back to snow

Back to mix. Just another tease.

[mattie g]

Cold rain is not the best. In fact, it’s the worst.

13 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

Baltimore and Carroll also 2hr delay

Fairfax county screwed up by somehow announcing the delay, but they quickly backed off. Good thing since it’s just shitty cold rain.

[Eskimo Joe]

3 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

Back to mix. Just another tease.

I'd take a mix right now. We're down to 34 degrees and rain in Reisterstown.

[mitchnick]

8 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

I'd take a mix right now. We're down to 34 degrees and rain in Reisterstown.

Back to mainly snow, but not really accumulating. Just maintaining my whopping 1/2" coating.

[TSSN+]

Something about like this in terms of precip types in the area. 
 

 

[Kay]

3 hours ago, Terpeast said:

Not very shoetastic, isn't it? Ah well, we'll get plenty of other chances down the pike.

 Tragically, your shoes are safe.

34 and rain.

 

 

[Mrs.J]

1 minute ago, TSSN+ said:

Something about like this in terms of precip types in the area. 
 

 

Can confirm. Kid in DC cold rain. Frederick for me currently sleet/ freezing rain. Kid up in Carlisle PA just showed a FT video of it puking down snow. She said about 3” on the ground now. She is thinking they will be on the higher end of the 3-6 prediction for her area. 

[somecallmetim]

Never having expected snow here in Alexandria, I'll take as a Phyrric victory that the qpf seems to have outperformed. .64 so far.  

[IronTy]

Cold rain down here in Calvert - 37F.  Gonna have to live vicariously through the spycam for snow.  Looks like deep winter up there.  

[TSSN+]

15 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

Back to mainly snow, but not really accumulating. Just maintaining my whopping 1/2" coating.

Radar suggest it’s rippin there wish I was there to confirm