Feb 22nd/23rd "There's no way..." Obs Thread

[mitchnick]

37 minutes ago, snowfan said:

My folks in southern York county just sent a deck Pic

 

Wow. No where near that in Hanover.  Eyeballing around 3-4"? Over near I83 was bullseyed by all modeling, so it makes sense.

[North Balti Zen]

Looks like 5.5” at my place in Fallston 

[paxpatriot]

1 hour ago, Chris78 said:

Ended up with 5" here in Smithsburg.

 

Excellent! We got a grass topper over here, crazy what a difference 10 miles is on this one, lol.

[snowfan]

4 minutes ago, Nomz said:

MD Mesonet snow depths. Literally every mile mattered. Some spots out east you probably picked up an inch a mile 

They need to get rid of color scale on the maps until there's more complete mesonet coverage. It makes the interpolation of totals messy and misleading. 

[MillvilleWx]

Measured 2.4" this morning at my place, but probably compacted, so likely closer to 3". Can't verify that though, so I'm not going to report it. Definitely hurt to miss a lot of the bands over the Edgewater area. Not much to show for it this go around. A big branch did come down last night apparently, so more wood for fire pit this spring and summer incoming!!

[Terpeast]

Just now, paxpatriot said:

Excellent! We got a grass topper over here, crazy what a difference 10 miles is on this one, lol.

Yeah, the differences between those under best banding and those in between were even more pronounced than usual in this storm due to marginal temps.

[DDweatherman]

Just now, MillvilleWx said:

Measured 2.4" this morning at my place, but probably compacted, so likely closer to 3". Can't verify that though, so I'm not going to report it. Definitely hurt to miss a lot of the bands over the Edgewater area. Not much to show for it this go around. A big branch did come down last night apparently, so more wood for fire pit this spring and summer incoming!!

Some places could get more snow Thursday if there are some positive trends haha

[SnowtoRain]

Just now, Terpeast said:

Looks like the models were too far west with the qpf, meaning the SLP capture took a bit longer than originally thought. Those kinds of details are tough to nail down, as are meso banding structures.

Yeah, this is a pretty typical result for the Eastern Shore. In my decade plus here my region usually underperforms for the reasons you mentioned and I reset my expectations. I was guessing Greenwood DE to coast would maximize and Easton would be 5 to 8". If the daytime accumulated better would have easily been closer to 8". Overall pretty good forecast by NWS.

 

[MillvilleWx]

Just now, DDweatherman said:

Some places could get more snow Thursday if there are some positive trends haha

Certainly looks that way, but I'm definitely not counting on it in the lowlands. This time of year takes a lot at 16ft elevation. However, those with elevation could get some the next one later this week, but jury still out. How'd you end up doing out there?

[T. August]

5 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

Looks like 5.5” at my place in Fallston 

Nice! Final here is 3.5”. Favored cold spots in the neighborhood at 4” with no clearing. It just wouldn’t stop snowing all night despite zero radar returns.

[Ajb]

3” here after who knows how much compacting and melting. 

[DDweatherman]

Just now, MillvilleWx said:

Certainly looks that way, but I'm definitely not counting on it in the lowlands. This time of year takes a lot at 16ft elevation. However, those with elevation could get some the next one later this week, but jury still out. How'd you end up doing out there?

About 4.5” or so, still been snowing all morning. Beautiful wintry scene at the very least. Wife and I took a 6am Jeb walk, it was a great start to the week (before the kids woke up - they had to get another snow day) 

[WxUSAF]

Elevation and marginal temps obviously a huge factor as were rates. For MBY, I’m sorta puzzled by how inefficiently it accumulated in the 5-9pm window. Like I legit probably had like 4-5:1 ratios and temps were 32-33. And those were big aggregates!

[SnowtoRain]

9 minutes ago, Nomz said:

MD Mesonet snow depths. Literally every mile mattered. Some spots out east you probably picked up an inch a mile 

That Easton site must have some issues with melting or blowing, should be 5 to 6"

[RDM]

4" here.  Based on other observations, sounds like we were lucky to get the band that hovered over FFCO for a while. (Norlun, IVT, whatever it was - it performed well for several hours.  Looks great outside this morning.  Still a little sn- 

[CAPE]

Reposting here. I put it in the other thread. Here is a shot from my security cam. Lots sagging tree limbs and I am sure there is damage. The power was out there for 2 hours last night.

Looks like Narnia lol.

 

 

[GramaxRefugee]

1.8" measured. 

Eta...corrected to 2.3"

[CAPE]

5 minutes ago, SnowtoRain said:

That Easton site must have some issues with melting or blowing, should be 5 to 6"

It's compacting. At 6am when I checked Ridgely had 8.1"

[winter_warlock]

Snow has stopped here in sparrows point MD. I got 3 inches here and 32.7 F

[MN Transplant]

3.6” total, sticking to everything.

0.89” precip, 0.55” after the final changeover to snow which means ratios were even worse than we were worried about.

 

[nw baltimore wx]

4" on the ground here.

[EastCoast NPZ]

Pummeled 

[scope1]

Eyeballing around 3.5" inches here, still light snow falling.

[Nomz]

5 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

3.6” total, sticking to everything.

0.89” precip, 0.55” after the final changeover to snow which means ratios were even worse than we were worried about.

 

0:1 ratios IMBY 

 

 

[MillvilleWx]

Pictures and videos from parents west of Rehoboth look surreal. Probably a solid 18-22" there and still snowing lightly. Thankfully they kept their power. 

Snow came up to the bottom of the patio table, which should be 20+ of clearance. Might be the most snow that area has seen in decades. 

[NorthArlington101]

0:1 ratios IMBY 
   

In a marginal event you should legit drive 10 minutes into Arlington, it’s a game changer. Or real NW. If temps are sketchy you gotta bail

[WxUSAF]

7 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

3.6” total, sticking to everything.

0.89” precip, 0.55” after the final changeover to snow which means ratios were even worse than we were worried about.

 

Exactly. I think I had at least 0.25” and maybe as much as 0.4” of liquid between 4-10pm yesterday and had 1.3” of snow…

[Ajb]

So, was the thing that sat on top of my house last night a norlun or not after all that build-up?

Still lightly snowing here. 

[baltosquid]

19 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Elevation and marginal temps obviously a huge factor as were rates. For MBY, I’m sorta puzzled by how inefficiently it accumulated in the 5-9pm window. Like I legit probably had like 4-5:1 ratios and temps were 32-33. And those were big aggregates!

combo of ground warmth and moisture? Feels like snow was just getting swallowed by puddles as the soil was so saturated already from the snowcrete melt, prior rains and opening rain from this storm. Also probably made the ground temps way more stubborn due to the moisture content. At least that’s my guess.

[TSSN+]

33 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

Wow. No where near that in Hanover.  Eyeballing around 3-4"? Over near I83 was bullseyed by all modeling, so it makes sense.

Been in bed since got home from hospital but since I’m a weenie had to throw on some clothes and go measure. Measurement of 4.25” in the books.