January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage OBS Thread!

[GreyHat]

7 minutes ago, T. August said:

YESSSS

Jokers

Thought this about the storm.

[GreyHat]

14 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Is it just me or has anyone else the last couple of days been scrolling through threads and read a @WxUSAF post and scrunched your face and thought, “Wtf?”,  and then realize it’s a Grey Hat post? 

Joker,

Thought this was about the storm.

[Solution Man]

1 minute ago, DDweatherman said:

Aldie, isn’t that where creighton farms is? That place looks amazing. 

It right up the road from me at Dominion Valley and I pretty sure it has an Aldie address 

[SnowenOutThere]

Anyone know where the freezing rain line is?

[EHoffman]

I just woke up, looks like we got maybe an inch of sleet since I went to sleep when we changed over.  Jesus I cannot do these all nighters any more (until the next one)

[Snowciopathic Snow Bro]

3 minutes ago, rjvanals said:

7.75” snow/sleet so far in Potomac 

The sleet actually has a tint of blue to it when its shoveled which I’ve never seen before 

Now that you mention the blue hue, I concur.  Thought I was seeing things when shoveling earlier.  Very fleeting, but a strange phenomenon.

[DDweatherman]

Just now, Solution Man said:

It right up the road from me at Dominion Valley and I pretty sure it has an Aldie address 

Just looked up dominion valley, looks lovely as well. I need to expand my horizons and play some more clubs in 2026. I play a fair number of rounds, but all local to my area for the most part. 

[DDweatherman]

Trying to go back to more snow here, cc is right overhead as it has sunk back SE last 30 mins.

[LeesburgWx]

7 minutes ago, Solution Man said:

This is incoming to the DMV

 

 

Reflectivity 

 

 

This will be fun. Even though it’s alert, the heavier, the better

[H2O]

31 minutes ago, snowfan said:

We still have 6-8 hours of this? Geesh

Is that the general timeframe?  Precip cuts off 8pm-ish?

[Chris78]

20 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Is it just me or has anyone else the last couple of days been scrolling through threads and read a @WxUSAF post and scrunched your face and thought, “Wtf?”,  and then realize it’s a Grey Hat post? 

Yeappp

[North Balti Zen]

Lighter sleet at the moment - shoveled the walkway to the cars and shoveled those out and put some bird seed out for any birds out and about. It is unreal cold.

combined snow/sleet ob in Fallston - 7.5”.  Roughly 1.5 of that is since the changeover around 10 am.

[Solution Man]

Pretty much pixie dust snow now 17f

[North Balti Zen]

Harford County schools closed Monday and Tuesday.

[snowfan]

16 minutes ago, Brianonymous said:

I'm also a FlightAware tracking station, and as far as I can tell there are only 3 airplanes flying over the entire state of maryland and delaware, lol.. Unless this stuff is good at blocking 1090mhz.

Usually there are at least 80 I can see.

Yeah it's sparse. Cool ob though....there's an an124 flying over north central pa right now. Dont see those every day in these parts.

[arlwx12]

Visibility in Arlington back under a half-mile.

Some very tiny precipitation is falling.

Maybe an inch of sleet stuck to cleared sidewalks??

[Terpeast]

16, sleet and pixie dust. I’m sure I have 8” total frozen by now. And that plume of moisture headed our way is honestly starting to scare me. This stuff will glacierize

[NovaWahoo]

39 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

as someone who remembers the several inches of sleet we got in PD2 in C'ville - this shit is not gonna melt for a long time.  So that is the one plus side of sleet.  The water content is much higher than snow lol.

I thought that was technically graupel then? At least that's what I understood at the time. My buddy and I call it "The Great Graupel Storm of Aught 3."

[T. August]

13 minutes ago, GreyHat said:

Jokers

Thought this about the storm.

Meant nothing by it man

[pazzo83]

Just now, NovaWahoo said:

I thought that was technically graupel then? At least that's what I understood at the time. My buddy and I call it "The Great Graupel Storm of Aught 3."

yea you are right - it was more like that

[overcautionisbad]

Inches of compact white in North Chesterfield. Your feet kin of sink a little, but stay on top

[PrinceFrederickWx]

4.5” total so far IMBY (snow + sleet).

[LeesburgWx]

2 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

16, sleet and pixie dust. I’m sure I have 8” total frozen by now. And that plume of moisture headed our way is honestly starting to scare me. This stuff will glacierize

Is it going to be freezing rain?

[George BM]

6 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

Lighter sleet at the moment - shoveled the walkway to the cars and shoveled those out and put some bird seed out for any birds out and about. It is unreal cold.

combined snow/sleet ob in Fallston - 7.5”.  Roughly 1.5 of that is since the changeover around 10 am.

I'm just happy that posters like you in northern MD are finally experiencing a nice 6"+ event after so many years. Enjoy!  

[GreyHat]

7 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

Yeappp

Oh, the Joker crew or cyber bullies.

[Solution Man]

Just now, LeesburgWx said:

Is it going to be freezing rain?

Don’t want that shit

[Terpeast]

2 minutes ago, LeesburgWx said:

Is it going to be freezing rain?

I sure hope not

[astarck]

Currently 18 degrees. Seemingly well below forecast at this time. 

[Solution Man]

1 minute ago, GreyHat said:

Oh, the Joker crew or cyber bullies.

Keep posting your observations brother, let’s move forward. We all good

[nw baltimore wx]

16 minutes ago, GreyHat said:

Joker,

Thought this was about the storm.

Just messing with you. Your icons confuse me.