Outta gas and Outta Time: Early March Winter Storm finale

[mappy]

40 minutes ago, MountainGeek said:

 

My WWA doesn't start until 10P tonight for 1" of snow. 

The WWA wasn’t for this snow but for any overnight sleet or mix. 

[Maestrobjwa]

Been a really nice snow TV afternoon here! Bonfide grass and car topper 

[Herb@MAWS]

Columbia pre-snow hi temp 35.1 

4:30pm -  29.9

Widely scattered on/off flurries began 1pm but snow didn’t pick up in intensity until 1:45 and it quickly became heavy, tiny flakes.   

Eyeballing about 1” so far altho 0.75” is more conservative/accurate(?). Will wait until this round ends. 
 

Roads and walks fine. Of the list of items we usually monitor to confirm “first signs of stickage”, the last one today in my ‘hood was car tops, just not what I expected. I’ll blame it on that damn morning veiled sunshine. 

[Eskimo Joe]

39 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

This is the third time this season that I've noticed a different from sea level to 180 feet elevation. Steady beautiful snow and 30 at 180'.

Every vertical foot matters.

[EastCoast NPZ]

1 hour ago, yoda said:

I see @EastCoast NPZ got an inch looks like

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
242 PM EST Mon Mar 02 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0130 PM     Snow             2 E Stephens City       39.10N  78.18W
03/02/2026  M0.9 inch        Frederick          VA   Trained Spotter

 

Not on my side of town.  Grass is white and that's it.  Maybe a 1/4".  My guess is that spotter is east or north of town.  When I left Kernstown (3 miles north) earlier there looked to be close to an inch on grassy surfaces and trees.  

[AmericanWxFreak]

70 after 29 getting snow covered


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[CAPE]

29 with a steady light snow falling. A solid inch on the deck.

[katabatic]

Mid 20s all day. 1.5" total. Nice little event to whiten up the bare ground. 

[SnowenOutThere]

59 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

This is the third time this season that I've noticed a different from sea level to 180 feet elevation. Steady beautiful snow and 30 at 180'.

Interesting. I hiked Seneca regional park (super pretty, pictures will come later) but didn’t notice a different between the top of the hills and the Potomac at the bottom. Guess everything was cold enough.  

[snowfan]

Rte 3 median in crofton. 

 

[rjvanals]

How’s the band on 66 headed into DC? Looks legit on radar

[SnowGolfBro]

Snow picking back up again in Alexandria near Edsall rd

[BTRWx's Thanks Giving]

Do I see training snow bands southern metro?

[BTRWx's Thanks Giving]

6 minutes ago, SnowGolfBro said:

Snow picking back up again in Alexandria near Edsall rd

Hi neighbor

[bncho]

If I slant stick and measure on the grass I might be able to eek out 0.7"

[MillvilleWx]

House at 16’ was probably around 0.25” of snow with light snow when I left. Crofton area looks like at least 0.5”. Really pretty out 

[WxUSAF]

1.0” spotter report submitted! Still snizzling

[winter_warlock]

I'm up to 1 inch here in sparrows point MD 

 

32.3 F

 

[Maestrobjwa]

50 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Every vertical foot matters.

Every vertical foot eh? Alright so let's say there's a specific elevation that's the threshold between sticking and not sticking. If you were to put two steps made of the exact same concrete a foot apart vertically...would the snow stick on one and not the other? 

[SnowGolfBro]

10 minutes ago, BTRWx's Thanks Giving said:

Hi neighbor

Howdy! Looks like i picked a good night to work late. It’s happening here. Wife sent some pretty good pics from Montclair too. About 1pm i was pretty sure we would get shutout lol

[Steckstacks]

Last batch west/southwest of DC looks to be beefing up a bit before it pushes through dc/south.


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[SnowenOutThere]

Man driving back on FFX parkway and Reston town center area got screwed. Areas a mile or two north got the initial band and then a couple miles south moderate dendrites started with more snow on the ground. Now home and nice fluffy snow. Perfect for a post hike hot tub  

[WEATHER53]

6pm update 

Measured 5 places and ranged 1.75-2.5”  Temp down to 32.4 

[T. August]

.2” in Havre de Grace. Just missed out on the heavier stuff.

[clskinsfan]

Its over here. Just some flurries around. I am going to go with 2 inches here. Was probably more at some point. But I wasnt here to see it. Second biggest event of the winter here. Which is ridiculous. But this event did get me over a foot for the winter. Is what it is. 

[CAPE]

Obligatory pic. Didn't pay much attention and wasn't expecting much, but did notice some of the guidance this morning had a streak of 'heavier' precip through here. Wasn't even snowing when I left work in Easton.

Nice little finale if this is indeed the end of winter. Just over an inch. Next- early summer in a few days. 

 

[bncho]

nice little report just north of DC.

[notvirga!]

Saw a report of 3” just north of Winchester city. 
 

https://x.com/weathergeek45/status/2028591767293944274?s=46

 

 

[coolio]

Drove from FFX to Arlington at around 5. It was 31 degrees the whole time when I was on 50 (car thermometer). No spin outs or anything but detected some crunchiness. I think we have a warm up tonight but if there is nothing, it's gonna be hairy for folks. This was inside the beltway. 

[baltosquid]

Eyeballing a half inch on the deck in Canton, lightly snowing still but radar suggests end will come in a few minutes