January 16-18th: Rolling the dice

[T. August]

.3 final. Brings the season to a nice even 5.0”

[Jebman]

1 hour ago, SnowenOutThere said:

We should really keep letting me start the threads, trust me I am completely unbiased. 

You keep starting the threads, SnowenOutThere, we WILL get a snow filled BECS in Feb or March. Or both.

[GreyHat]

Magnolia Delaware 

Snowing moderately 

Roads, cars, covered and coating on the grass. 

According to the radar it should last till about 8-8"30.

Winds gusting. 

[baldereagle]

.6 inch near Chestertown.

[jayyy]

2.50” total between yesterday and today. Not too shabby

[Kay]

My dad's side street here in Columbia is literally a sheet of ice right now. 

[GreyHat]

Just flurries now about .5 maybe a little more.

[T. August]

Havre de Grace got a solid half inch+. Downtown’s total is probably around 6.0” for the season. 

[Eskimo Joe]

Areas with even a minimal amount of snow cover are seeing their air temps crash. Parkton mesonet already down to 18 degrees.

[Scraff]

Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

[wxmeddler]

2 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

Classic Flash Freeze. Road & Air temps just above freezing. Get either light rain or snow, enough to get everything wet. Then clear skies post frontal turns everything to ice.

[SnowtoRain]

Somewhere between 0.5 and 0.75" in Easton

[WxUSAF]

6 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

Yup. Wet roads from earlier and the snow melt from the first burst is now all ice. Kids would be getting late opening or more tomorrow if it wasn’t already a holiday.

[Eskimo Joe]

12 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Just a note in Eastern Hoco. Roads were a disaster this evening. My youngest should have had ice skates on the car instead of wheels. Accidents everywhere. Shows that this town with only .4 of snow is a cluster fuck. Untreated roads though so….

After working in public safety and transportation for almost 20 years, I can tell you that light to moderate snow events are far, far more impactful. Folks see the lane markers and think they can drive like it's dry roads. Nope.

9 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

Classic Flash Freeze. Road & Air temps just above freezing. Get either light rain or snow, enough to get everything wet. Then clear skies post frontal turns everything to ice.

Yup. Rapid onset of an arctic airmass and no wind to wick the surfaces dry. Classic flash freeze.

[ravensrule]

Roads are a complete sheet of ice and there are accidents everywhere. I saw cars slipping everywhere. Crazy. 

[SnowenOutThere]

2 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

After working in public safety and transportation for almost 20 years, I can tell you that light to moderate snow events are far, far more impactful. Folks see the lane markers and think they can drive like it's dry roads. Nope.

From my own experience of learning to drive in the snow over the past year I can attest there is nothing more that I hate than driving on "wet" mountain roads with temperatures in the 20s. Feels like a ticking time bomb. Driving in the snow is fine as long as you take it slow and learn to tap the breaks but slush/ice is a complete gamble. 

[nj2va]

We went sledding at Blackwater Falls tonight - it was in the low teens with light pixie dust snow. Fun times and highly recommend for those visiting.

Currently 13.9 with pixie dust flurries, fire going in the wood stove, and enjoying a martini.

[nw baltimore wx]

I weenie’d myself earlier for talking about roads icing up tonight, but side streets are a legit disaster.

[snowfan]

32 minutes ago, nj2va said:

We went sledding at Blackwater Falls tonight - it was in the low teens with light pixie dust snow. Fun times and highly recommend for those visiting.

Currently 13.9 with pixie dust flurries, fire going in the wood stove, and enjoying a martini.

That'll be next weekend. Its always so much fun!

[snowfan]

24 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

I weenie’d myself earlier for talking about roads icing up tonight, but side streets are a legit disaster.

I almost busted my ass on my own steps.

[winter_warlock]

My total today was .3125 inches about 5/16th of an inch .   

 

Brings my season total to 3.2875 inches so far

[Jebman]

6 minutes ago, snowfan said:

I almost busted my ass on my own steps.

This, is one thing I don't miss in my getting older years. It was fun laughing at everyone back in Jan 1987 when I was young and spry and walking faster than the slow moving traffic in the heavy snow and sliding around on ice patches while whooping it up.

But today I'd just fall and bust my hip. I used to laugh so much about that stuff in the later 1980s.

AGE, it's catchin' up.

I am GLAD I live south of Austin TX.

BUT - I am pulling for the Mid Atlantic to get a 4 foot BECS.

[winter_warlock]

11 minutes ago, Jebman said:

This, is one thing I don't miss in my getting older years. It was fun laughing at everyone back in Jan 1987 when I was young and spry and walking faster than the slow moving traffic in the heavy snow and sliding around on ice patches while whooping it up.

But today I'd just fall and bust my hip. I used to laugh so much about that stuff in the later 1980s.

AGE, it's catchin' up.

I am GLAD I live south of Austin TX.

BUT - I am pulling for the Mid Atlantic to get a 4 foot BECS.

A 4ft BECS?? I can live with that!!

[Jebman]

4 minutes ago, winter_warlock said:

A 4ft BECS?? I can live with that!!

This sub would come ALIVE! Watchin models and getting all excited, I'd be GLUED to this place. Kuchera clown maps would be going crazy showing 85 inches of snow over DCA, they'd be running out of colors.

[winter_warlock]

1 minute ago, Jebman said:

This sub would come ALIVE! Watchin models and getting all excited, I'd be GLUED to this place.

This sub would crash !!

[Jebman]

What we need are Mammoth Ski Resort-resolution webcams in N VA. I'd be watching them day and night.

[WEATHER53]

0.2” here and that did mash  down to a mess but now that’s evaporated

[IUsedToHateCold]

1 hour ago, Jebman said:

This, is one thing I don't miss in my getting older years. It was fun laughing at everyone back in Jan 1987 when I was young and spry and walking faster than the slow moving traffic in the heavy snow and sliding around on ice patches while whooping it up.

But today I'd just fall and bust my hip. I used to laugh so much about that stuff in the later 1980s.

AGE, it's catchin' up.

I am GLAD I live south of Austin TX.

BUT - I am pulling for the Mid Atlantic to get a 4 foot BECS.

I too am waiting for a 4 foot BECS. Instead, what I see are year after year of La Nina occasionally punctuated by an El Nino and a regular year. If I see one more BECS in my lifetime I might be lucky.