January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage OBS Thread!

[NorthArlington101]

I imagine we got another 3 hours at most 

You’d think. I gotta work up the energy to go outside. Pretty nice on the couch

[EHoffman]

Beautiful dendrites now

[snowfan]

2 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

I imagine we got another 3 hours at most 

If thats the case, DC hits 5 at least

[Wetbulbs88]

5 minutes ago, Demeter said:

Pinging hard here. 

Wow it's so cold the radar's blue all the way down to North Carolina. You can only see it on the pinger. 

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?parms=LWX-N0C-1-24-100-usa-rad

[Cobalt]

1 minute ago, 87storms said:

Gotta love having to worry about a sleet line when it’s 14 degrees lol

It’s a bizarro world, down to 9 degrees with moderate sleet here. 

[stormtracker]

Just now, NorthArlington101 said:

You’d think. I gotta work up the energy to go outside. Pretty nice on the couch

Go out dude.  It’s beautiful.  Once the sleet hits I’m going to bed.  Enjoying this now. Bout to go back out soon. 

[EHoffman]

Some of the best snow since 2016 right now.  

[Wxtrix]

visibility well under 1/4 mile—heavy snow. 12/8.

[Berlin1926]

Pressure's falling 29.66 and hour ago -- 29.59 now.  Temp still 17.  DP 14  Winds out of the S/SW.  (Midlothian, VA).  Sleet steady-heavy, maybe starting to get a glaze on metal surfaces.  3".

[EHoffman]

Go outside if you aren’t 

[Cobalt]

Just now, stormtracker said:

Go out dude.  It’s beautiful.  Once the sleet hits I’m going to bed.  Enjoying this now. Bout to go back out soon. 

Those yellows to the southwest of y’all look like they want to break free from the CC sleet line. Hope you guys get crushed with that stuff. Solid snow back home in NoVa, meanwhile we’re constructing the next glacier here. 

[LordBaltimore]

HRRR has been showing pure rain along and east of 95 at the very tail end of the storm for the past few runs. Imagine it's overblown but hoping that doesn't get anywhere close to verifying

[NorthArlington101]

Those yellows to the southwest of y’all look like they want to break free from the CC sleet line. Hope you guys get crushed with that stuff. Solid snow back home in NoVa, meanwhile we’re constructing the next glacier here. 

I thought about chasing this to my sister’s in Harrisonburg (also at JMU). Any sense of what ya’ll got before the flip?

[87storms]

1 minute ago, Cobalt said:

It’s a bizarro world, down to 9 degrees with moderate sleet here. 

Yea, it’s unacceptable lol especially in January. Gonna just enjoy it while it lasts. It is what it is.

[stormtracker]

Come on baby

[Cobalt]

1 minute ago, NorthArlington101 said:

I thought about chasing this to my sister’s in Harrisonburg (also at JMU). Any sense of what ya’ll got before the flip?

Eyeballing from my window but maybe 2-3 inches? Grass is completely covered, and it already looks like the sleet has tried its best to cover up some of the pathway footprints. 12+ hours of this stuff might match or exceed our snow total.

[WVclimo]

Moderate snow.  1/2 mile visibility.  1.8” on the ground. 13°.

[EHoffman]

3 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Come on baby

They’re coming baby.  They’re already losing their sleety look too

[stormtracker]

Eyeballing about 3"

[balltermen]

15/13. Snow 

2.5" 

[stormtracker]

Rulered it. 2.5

[09-10 analogy]

Yeah, the (former) Uptown. Even that rings a snow bell. My wife and I, back in 2002, went there on Xmas Eve (or Day?) to see one of the LOTR trilogy, I forget which one, with a little bit of snow that was either falling or had fallen. So that's three obscure data points. It's a tiny bell with the ringer covered in gauze tape. But I do know it was the Uptown.

Pretty heavy in up nw, but I'm not really invested in the storm for some reason. Pre-occupied, maybe, or the fact that we've all this bitter cold, and we're going to get a Burning Man of sleet. Which isn't that bad from the point of view of winter histography, but is a bit of a disappointment because, as others have said, I feel we're wasting a golden opportunity, which don't come around too often around here, for a quasi-HECSnowstorm.

[EHoffman]

This stuff is really piling up fast.  Prob have gotten half an inch since I started walking about 20 minutes ago

[wawarriors4]

Snow/Sleet mix, in Fredericksburg 

Heavy Snow at home in Stafford

[TSSN+]

Got yellows over me and it’s barely snowing. Typical Hanover pa. Going to go back to bed for another 2hrs 

[Weather Will]

Beautiful mantel of white.  Winter of 25-26 is a winner!

[balltermen]

if you don't have a ruler, a credit card is 3.4"  measure and use this site.  hopefully this will be moot in about 45 minutes  

https://www.piliapp.com/actual-size/inch-ruler/

[RevWarReenactor]

11 minutes ago, LordBaltimore said:

HRRR has been showing pure rain along and east of 95 at the very tail end of the storm for the past few runs. Imagine it's overblown but hoping that doesn't get anywhere close to verifying

It has the entire state of Delaware going to plain rain. I can't imagine we go above freezing and get rain, but if we do, it will soak into the snow and everything will be a block of ice and plowed surfaces will become skating rinks. That would end up being the bigger story. 

[Steve25]

When would yall say the optimal time to walk just north of Baltimore would be? Tempted to go now, but I’d really like to try to time it with the best rates before the changeover 

[Terpeast]

Eyeballing around 2.5” at 14.4 degrees. Pure powder