12/14: Sunday funday? Will the south win again?

[Jebman]

Congrats everyone, on the snow, on deep winter, on the vodka cold, and on one hell of a kick ass start to winter. Enjoy!

We have only just begun!!!!!!!

[North Balti Zen]

Just got back and measured in a few spots protected from the wind and sun and would put it at 4” at my spot in Fallston.

[snowfan]

[WVclimo]

18 minutes ago, poolz1 said:

Not enough to coat but a nice mod snow for a few minutes.  Blustery, roof blizzards and sideways snow squalls.  I like days like today.  Looks like a few more coming from the NW. 20/9

Best squall of the day hitting here now.  I might double my storm total from this morning.  

This is a great ob for a mid December afternoon: Snow and blowing snow.  Vis 0.5 miles.  17°.  Winds 23 G 38.

 

[wxdude64]

Not getting any snow, but making up for it with wind. Just had a 52 mph gust, many plus 40 in last 2 hours and steady 20-25. Temp is 15.6/-1.7. WC running -1.5 to -9.3 lol

[mappy]

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

@mappy: Norrisville slantsticker reported 7.1” 

Stfu hahahaha

[mappy]

I mean at least make it believable and go with 6”, but 7” no way lol

[stormtracker]

2 minutes ago, mappy said:

I mean at least make it believable and go with 6”, but 7” no way lol

Yeah, I don't understand why people feel the need to lie about snow totals.

Oh well, imma just sit back and be thankful for the 10.3" accumulation I got last night.

[Interstate]

[dailylurker]

1 minute ago, Interstate said:

Just an absolutely stunning December day. Imo we're safe from a horrible winter this season and there's the possibility of a fantastic season. 

[Imgoinhungry]

Mcps announced a delay. Im expecting most others north of dc to follow.


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[Terpeast]

23 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Just an absolutely stunning December day. Imo we're safe from a horrible winter this season and there's the possibility of a fantastic season. 

This December hasn’t been too shabby in general, though some were unlucky for their back yards. I tend to agree that a ratter is an extremely unlikely scenario. 

[mappy]

BCPS 2hr delay. Kid is happy

[wxdude64]

41 minutes ago, Interstate said:

"Ralphie, you're lucky it didn't cut your eye. Those icicles have been known to kill people!"

[nj2va]

3 hours ago, katabatic said:

You're my early warning detection lol. I got under that band and had over an inch in about 20 minutes and the temp fell to 7. Days like this make all life's problems kinda melt away (no pun intended). Great pic.

I had a feeling this would be an overperformer given the arctic air and trajectory of the clipper and it didn’t disappoint. We’re leaving at 5a tomorrow to get back home and in the office - will be hard to leave. Back for the week on 12/26 through New Years and hopefully more snow then! 

[Interstate]

[Eskimo Joe]

35 minutes ago, mappy said:

BCPS 2hr delay. Kid is happy

Yea BCPS got caught off guard I think. None of the parking lots in Reisterstown have been touched.

[Scraff]

HoCo 2 hr delay! Only important since my wife just did cartwheels with a backflip to celebrate it. 

[Miss Pixee]

In my neighborhood we had about an inch. Streets were covered and so was grass near the end of the storm. I call hoo on .3".

 

[stormtracker]

6 minutes ago, Miss Pixee said:

In my neighborhood we had about an inch. Streets were covered and so was grass near the end of the storm. I call hoo on .3".

 

DCA on some ol bullshit.  Same as it ever was. 

[GramaxRefugee]

56 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

DCA on some ol bullshit.  Same as it ever was. 

BWI too. (Don't want to become a complainer, but it's just so predictable now. )

[wxmeddler]

11 hours ago, SnowtoRain said:

I see the Ridgely mesonet is measuring 32" snow depth, you must have just missed out....

The snow depth sensor uses an echo-location ping (think bats/dolphins) to determine the depth. We've noticed that sometimes a big "spike" happens because the ping bounced off a snowflake(s) just below the sensor. This makes the sensor think that the snow top is right beneath the sensor. We have a few ideas of how we might remedy this, but we're pretty sure we're not going to be able to solve it completely. Humans with eyeballs are much more reliable!

[Dendritious]

FCPS should delay, but they haven't. Will have kids standing at bus stops in 0 wind chill and there's plenty of black ice in my neighborhood. 

At any rate, here's a pic of what the totals looked like in SE PA today. Really white-knuckled it with the wind coming back over the Susquehanna on that flat, exposed I-95 bridge.

[Jebman]

6 hours ago, dailylurker said:

Just an absolutely stunning December day. Imo we're safe from a horrible winter this season and there's the possibility of a fantastic season. 

It's not a possibility. It's in progress! It's upon the Mid Atlantic. Make no mistake about it - Everyone in that sub is going to enjoy an incredible winter!