January 16-18th: Rolling the dice

[WxUSAF]

BWI had 0.2” yesterday. Haven’t seen anything for IAD or DCA.

[CAPE]

Sun about to come up. 16 degrees. Not quite a half inch.

[SnowenOutThere]

I was so confused when I woke up and saw snow outside before I remembered that yesterday happened

[Interstate]

Not a bad little weekend storm. 

[MN Transplant]

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

BWI had 0.2” yesterday. Haven’t seen anything for IAD or DCA.

We had not-even-close-to-accumulating flurries so I'm pretty sure they'll be a T.  The discussion in this thread about slick streets is a completely different world from what we experienced around DC.

[WxUSAF]

2 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

We had not-even-close-to-accumulating flurries so I'm pretty sure they'll be a T.  The discussion in this thread about slick streets is a completely different world from what we experienced around DC.

My wife left to go to work this morning and she said she had to brake in our neighborhood for the recycling truck and she started skidding.  

[soadforecasterx]

We have to snowfall total map yet?

[WxUSAF]

@mappy our Norrisville dude has reported a 2-day total of 7.6"!  

Guy right across the border in Stewartstown has 4.7".  

[dailylurker]

2 hours ago, CAPE said:

Sun about to come up. 16 degrees. Not quite a half inch.

I drove from Annopoils area to Fenwick Island del this morning. Your area seems to have been the jack.

[Miss Pixee]

Had car toppers here with light coverage on grass.  ~1" maybe. Not a whole lot to yak about.

[CAPE]

5 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

I drove from Annopoils area to Fenwick Island del this morning. Your area seems to have been the jack.

lol that's not saying much. I kind of thought places closer to the coast might get an inch or so, but temps were more of an issue I guess plus they didn't get in on the heavier precip either. 

[mappy]

46 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

@mappy our Norrisville dude has reported a 2-day total of 7.6"!  

Guy right across the border in Stewartstown has 4.7".  

Wtfffff there’s no way. I got maybe an inch yesterday total on top of the 3” from Saturday. JFC

[MillvilleWx]

45 minutes ago, CAPE said:

lol that's not saying much. I kind of thought places closer to the coast might get an inch or so, but temps were more of an issue I guess plus they didn't get in on the heavier precip either. 

We had the precip, but thermals were off. Still got some snow and whitened things up nicely over here. Just didn’t really get to the 1” mark. Life at the coast! Still had snow and football….hard to beat that. 

[SnowenOutThere]

2 minutes ago, MillvilleWx said:

We had the precip, but thermals were off. Still got some snow and whitened things up nicely over here. Just didn’t really get to the 1” mark. Life at the coast! Still had snow and football….hard to beat that. 

Wanted to ask you or any other met @Eskimo Joe @high risk @WxUSAF about what happened out near Charlottesville and Shenandoah yesterday. Seemed like on radar we got a localized bit of terrain enhancement with some sort of upper level boost. Was wondering if that is a common thing out here or was just some freak incident due to extremely favorable wind interactions with the mountains. I plan to also pester my microclimate professor about this on Tuesday. Either way was an extremely interesting evolution where I got a rather significant surprise .5ish inch of snow. Heres a radar screenshot from when it was happening

[Eskimo Joe]

2 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Wanted to ask you or any other met @Eskimo Joe @high risk @WxUSAF about what happened out near Charlottesville and Shenandoah yesterday. Seemed like on radar we got a localized bit of terrain enhancement with some sort of upper level boost. Was wondering if that is a common thing out here or was just some freak incident due to extremely favorable wind interactions with the mountains. I plan to also pester my microclimate professor about this on Tuesday. Either way was an extremely interesting evolution where I got a rather significant surprise .5ish inch of snow. Heres a radar screenshot from when it was happening

I concur with the terrain enhancement theory.

[MillvilleWx]

7 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Wanted to ask you or any other met @Eskimo Joe @high risk @WxUSAF about what happened out near Charlottesville and Shenandoah yesterday. Seemed like on radar we got a localized bit of terrain enhancement with some sort of upper level boost. Was wondering if that is a common thing out here or was just some freak incident due to extremely favorable wind interactions with the mountains. I plan to also pester my microclimate professor about this on Tuesday. Either way was an extremely interesting evolution where I got a rather significant surprise .5ish inch of snow. Heres a radar screenshot from when it was happening

Very likely terrain enhancement in that area. Winds out of the NE would support that theory.