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

[JenkinsJinkies]

2 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Classic early winter, elevation dependent snow. 

North of the city the lowlands got decent amounts for this time of year. Technically the solstice hasn’t happened yet.

[CAPE]

13 minutes ago, winter_warlock said:

Looks like a Christmas card bro!! 

Picture doesnt do it justice. Crappy old iPhone camera through window panes lol. Doesn't capture all the detail and how vivid it looks. 

[frd]

4 inches here , a very wet snow, but very pretty.

Our greyhound enjoyed prancing in the winter wonderland. 

 

 

 

 

[T. August]

Cousin in the higher elevations of Havre de Grace (400’) got 5”. Frustrating being so close but those extra 2° made a huge difference. Haven’t had an elevation event in a long time.

[jayyy]

4.25” officially - temps plunging - sitting at 25

Off to work

[PrinceFrederickWx]

Two vultures way up in the trees.

Two frozen apples on our Granny Smith tree.

Our Christmas Ducks got paste bombed lol

[WEATHER53]

1.70 in .Kemp Mill 

3.5 in Frederick 

[Terpeast]

I would have done better had I stuck to my initial forecast. It does look like my thoughts on the max strip from MoCo through SE PA verified warning criteria, but busted for the dmv. Some in the dmv were lucky enough to break an inch, and that would have verified on the low end. Still calling it a bust because precip came a bit early and temps took a while to catch up, and that hurt us from the start. Had it been an hour or so in our favor, we would have added another inch everywhere here. 4” would have been greedy, but a general 1-3” call would have been achieved if the precip band was an hour later. These things come down to luck and timing as always. Glad those to the NE got theirs, though! 

[mitchnick]

4 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said:

1.70 in .Kemp Mill 

3.5 in Frederick 

Is Kemp Mill Records still around?  They use to advertise a lot back in the 70's and 80's on DC101.

[midatlanticweather]

6 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

I would have done better had I stuck to my initial forecast. It does look like my thoughts on the max strip from MoCo through SE PA verified warning criteria, but busted for the dmv. Some in the dmv were lucky enough to break an inch, and that would have verified on the low end. Still calling it a bust because precip came a bit early and temps took a while to catch up, and that hurt us from the start. Had it been an hour or so in our favor, we would have added another inch everywhere here. 4” would have been greedy, but a general 1-3” call would have been achieved if the precip band was an hour later. These things come down to luck and timing as always. Glad those to the NE got theirs, though! 

Bummed for our backyards. Suckered in by the model increases and that early burst!  - Hoping January can turn the corner in the long range as Loudoun needs some good snow (And more of the DMV as well)

 

[Wetbulbs88]

Total bust here. A dusting with no road stickage. Saw the writing on the wall for certain by 3:00AM. Just too far south. 

[ChillinIt]

Northern Cecil County 5.5 complete Winter Wonderland!

[Terpeast]

8 minutes ago, midatlanticweather said:

Bummed for our backyards. Suckered in by the model increases and that early burst!  - Hoping January can turn the corner in the long range as Loudoun needs some good snow (And more of the DMV as well)

 

I’m starting to wonder if the mesos have a bias for more qpf in the 24 hours leading up to the event. We know the nam does this, but do other mesos have that same bias? I think the HRRR was onto something with the local minima over Loudoun.

[mappy]

49 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

As we thought yesterday, Harford and Cecil would have verified warnings. North Baltimore and Carroll would have also and NW MoCo and NW HoCo came damn close.

Probably could have hit 6” here but temp didn’t get to 32 until 2-3hrs after snow started, so while it was snowing, it wasn’t sticking very much. 

[Kay]

2 hours ago, T. August said:

This one was a tough measure. Not counting grass, I measured 2.9-3.5 in different areas. Some grass spots had 4”+

I’m leaning towards splitting the difference at 3.2”. @Kay what did you measure?

I had a tough time too, going with 3" for now while watching reports.

Looks great out there. My eyes are happy! A pasty, wet, stick-to-every-twig snow. Glad for the cold temps coming. Thought I heard thunder rumblings in the early a.m. half asleep.

[Kay]

8 minutes ago, ChillinIt said:

Northern Cecil County 5.5 complete Winter Wonderland!

Crushed it, congrats!

[rjvanals]

10 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

I’m starting to wonder if the mesos have a bias for more qpf in the 24 hours leading up to the event. We know the nam does this, but do other mesos have that same bias? I think the HRRR was onto something with the local minima over Loudoun.

Mesos did a great job delaying the cold air at the surface which was one of the limiting factors (and poor snow growth at least imby). 1 more hour of snow below freezing everyone would’ve been happy 

[MDstorm]

4.5 inches in western HoCo.  Winds picking up and snow flying off of the tree limbs. ❄️

[BlizzardNole]

I just scraped the driveway and damn that stuff is dense!  Oh what could have been with good temps and powder

[bncho]

ok calling it 1.5" total. it's icy on the bottom of the snow cover so maybe there was some compaction but whatever

[The Dude]

Looks like about .5" here.  At least it will stick around longer than the previous one.

[WEATHER53]

53 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

Is Kemp Mill Records still around?  They use to advertise a lot back in the 70's and 80's on DC101.

No but Kemp Mill shopping center close by is where it all started 

[MN Transplant]

37 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

I’m starting to wonder if the mesos have a bias for more qpf in the 24 hours leading up to the event. We know the nam does this, but do other mesos have that same bias? I think the HRRR was onto something with the local minima over Loudoun.

QPF was good around here, but it should have been a bigger warning sign that Kucera was less than 10:1.

[Ji]

I’m starting to wonder if the mesos have a bias for more qpf in the 24 hours leading up to the event. We know the nam does this, but do other mesos have that same bias? I think the HRRR was onto something with the local minima over Loudoun.

Any idea how much qpf we got?

[mappy]

Glad we went and shoveled before the winds picked up. Cold out there. 25°

[Chris78]

Getting Moderate snow out here at wisp. Great skiing today

[WVclimo]

Sun was out much of the morning.  Now a decent squall has moved in.  23° with winds gusting to 33.  Windchill of 9.

[pazzo83]

2 hours ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

Went for a run it’s really freezing up in a hurry.  Almost like a mini flash freeze in progress. 

yeah i had to get the ice melt down quick - probably around 1.5" here (maybe closer to 2" - hard to say).  Side roads were covered.

[pazzo83]

1 hour ago, T. August said:

Cousin in the higher elevations of Havre de Grace (400’) got 5”. Frustrating being so close but those extra 2° made a huge difference. Haven’t had an elevation event in a long time.

Yep - we're at around 390' and got some accumulation.  Looks like downtown DC and places close to the river got basically nothing.

[T. August]

1 hour ago, Kay said:

I had a tough time too, going with 3" for now while watching reports.

Looks great out there. My eyes are happy! A pasty, wet, stick-to-every-twig snow. Glad for the cold temps coming. Thought I heard thunder rumblings in the early a.m. half asleep.

Yeah it was difficult. I finally asked my neighbor if he would mind if I measured the sheltered area on his property. He was so confused but obliged. 3.3” was what was measured on the uncleared surface. So could have been a few tenths higher even, but alas, the 3.3” is what was submitted to LWX.