"Don’t do it" 2026 Blizzard obs, updates and pictures.

[Coach McGuirk]

Yeah, NESIS sucks. I have measured more and less in every snowstorm in VA.  They probably go through Wakefield and they have been way low lately.  

[The 4 Seasons]

8 hours ago, MJO812 said:

So where is Jan? Had to be a Cat 3 easy but they still haven't done it?

[vortex95]

10 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Atypically sharp/confined big S+ area, given the center passed just outside 40/70.  The screwy 500, as noted in a previous post, probably resulted in this.

The 4" area DC area S and SW is overdone.  DCA only had 1" for the event.  3" nrn suburbs.

[andyhb]

This storm has been rated a high end Cat 3 on the RSI scale for the Northeast, which to me seems like a fair ranking considering it didn’t quite bullseye most of the population centers with the heaviest amounts, missed DC/Baltimore entirely, and was fairly confined to the coast. However, it produced historic or near historic snowfall amounts over the area it did strongly affect and did drop 20+” on most of the NYC metro. Way better than NESIS IMO.