January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage OBS Thread!

[Amped]

Pixie dust in Columbia yay

[stormtracker]

Nice sugar coating.

We are desperate here.

[konksw]

Just now, stormtracker said:

Nice sugar coating.

We are desperate here.

Nice grill!

[Scraff]

Flakes and 17!  Now come on Caps! Hold this lead! Stay out of the box. Jeez

[stormtracker]

Just now, konksw said:

Nice grill!

Cheap ass Amazon grill and probably top 3 best ones I've owned.  It's a worker bee.

[Interstate]

First flakes in 21057

[konksw]

Roads are caving in DC already lol

[Nomz]

Dusting in Georgetown here

[PasadenaMDSnow]

Flakes here in pasadena

[Miss Pixee]

18 deg, DP now up to 4. Sneaky accumulation. You can barely see it falling but street is white on one side. Cars look spray painted. 

[WEATHER53]

It will be a true one day event starting right at 12  Maybe trickles over past midnight into Monday

[WeatherQ]

Absolutely massive amounts of clear frigid air falling from the sky rn. I don’t know if my powerful Ariens snowblower can handle this … 

17F/-4F 

30.65 in pressure 

RH 40% 

Virga on the doorstep

extreme NE MD (MD/PA/DE line)

one of MD’s famous snow anuses 

[seawolf14]

18/4 and flakes are falling here on Kent Island


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[WEATHER53]

Thank goodness this wasn’t a 3/4 am stsrt , By 3/4 we should be able to rest a bit .  

[konksw]

4 minutes ago, Nomz said:

Dusting in Georgetown here

Wow if Georgetown isn’t seeing rain we are in for a good one.  

[EHoffman]

Can barely see the snow falling but whitening up very quickly.  Roads immediately caved of course.

[MDstorm]

First flakes in northwestern HoCo

[rickymortyx]

15/-6. Cloudy & overcast with flakes nearby.

[peribonca]

Moderate snow with small flakes in Colonial Beach. 21F

[scope1]

Snow, very small fine flakes. Dusting on all surfaces. 

[Miss Pixee]

26 minutes ago, Yeoman said:

that and zero orographic influence keeps the sustained banding away

AND mountains to the west, southern jet stream to the south, The Bay to the east...yup. Scooby Doo.

[Nomz]

Accumulation immediately stacking up on non-salted surfaces

[konksw]

Nice snow in DC. 

[WEATHER53]

I’ve got heavy rates but small flakes so when they get big it’s 1”ph . It’s weird as you go out and can’t see much accumulation but walk on it and you hear and feel it 

[baltosquid]

Euro lost a lot of QPF in the early morning which lets the warm nose burst through. Would be a cave to the NAM if it verifies. With the 00z euro run in, nothing more to watch really but the radar. A good slug of moisture and the beltway can score. Without it, we're in rough shape.

[stormtracker]

Just went out.  CT ave totally caved.

[Nomz]

1 minute ago, baltosquid said:

Euro lost a lot of QPF in the early morning which lets the warm nose burst through. Would be a cave to the NAM if it verifies. With the 00z euro run in, nothing more to watch really but the radar. A good slug of moisture and the beltway can score. Without it, we're in rough shape.

AIFS is fine though. Who knows.

[Nomz]

Friends upstream (AK, GA, South VA) all reporting warmer and drier than expected

[clskinsfan]

Good lord. that was one of the most cold one mile Jebwalks I have ever taken. The snow is steady. Not crushing. But the cold. OMG very different from my normal Jebwalk. It is cold as shit out yall. 

[SnowenOutThere]

1.6 OTG with the mix line 50 miles south of me. It’s an extraordinary pretty snow but makes me wish we could’ve gotten more. That said, I think the nams may verify as they kept me from 1-3 of snow and I doubt I can pickup over 2 inches before I get sleeted.