3/16/26 Severe Weather Event Thread (Moderate -> Enhanced -> Slight) RESULT: Significant wind after dark

[TSSN+]

Heavy sleet 36 

[Chris78]

32 degrees with Moderate snow. 

Elevated surfaces and grass covered

 

[TSSN+]

Mixing over to snow now. 

[AlexD1990]

@CAPEtornado warning near you

[87storms]

Snowing now. Today was officially a memorable weather day in Frederick.

[87storms]

10 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

32 degrees with Moderate snow. 

Elevated surfaces and grass covered

 

This was actually impressive. Started out this morning with mild/humid and a thunderstorm, then windy af, then sleet, and now snow.

[das]

Can’t say I’ve seen this before. Strong rotation signature in heavy snow up near Thurmont.

 

[MDSnow93]

Snow and sleet mixing in in Germantown

[hstorm]

Snow mixing in with the sleet in Great Falls. 36.0

[Chris78]

1 minute ago, das said:

Can’t say I’ve seen this before. Strong rotation signature in heavy snow up near Thurmont.

I thought I heard a clap of thunder in Smithsburg about 30 minutes ago but thought it was something else since it had already changed to snow.

Heh. Maybe it was actually Thunder

 

[Chris78]

6 minutes ago, 87storms said:

This was actually impressive. Started out this morning with mild/humid and a thunderstorm, then windy af, then sleet, and now snow.

Pretty wild day

 

[JakkelWx]

dead center for a tornado warning!!!

[The Dude]

We have some sleet mixing in in N. Bethesda

[AlexD1990]

Just now, JakkelWx said:

dead center for a tornado warning!!!

Yep just watched that one pop up. Watching WBOC live coverage 

[LP08]

Some windy sleet in Arlington 

[87storms]

4 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

Pretty wild day

 

Just investigated. Minor accumulation of slush on the car. Did not expect that.

[ThePhotoGuy]

Tree down on an apartment building in Glen Burnie. Significant damage to 3rd floor with occupants displaced. 

[LongRanger]

snow? MoCo schools will be closed all week!

[hstorm]

Mostly snow here now. Dusting of snow/sleet on the car. 

[stormtracker]

SLEET!

[triniiphone]

Sleet in falls church 

[MDSnow93]

Snow is really taking over as the main p-type

[WxWatcher007]

3 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

SLEET!

Mod risk and a T on the same day  

[stormtracker]

Just now, MDSnow93 said:

Snow is really taking over as the main p-type

Time to reopen my thread

[stormtracker]

Just now, WxWatcher007 said:

Mod risk and a T on the same day  

What a time to be alive

[stormtracker]

2 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Time to reopen my thread

I just checked radar.  I'm out

[Nomz]

3 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Mod risk and a T on the same day  

and both events suck! we are who we thought we were

[TSSN+]

It’s snowing in waves. Slush on the car. 33 

[MDSnow93]

5 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

I just checked radar.  I'm out

Yeah, I was just about to report that it's over already 

[WEATHER53]

Some sleet mixing and down to 38.  25  degree drop in two hours