Hello all,
I have been busy, thus the reason for not posting lately. We had a
6" snowfall Sunday, falling mostly between 10am & 6pm, at times 2" per
hour.Some of the flakes, being fed by WAA, were 2" across. Roads were
hazardous until they were plowed Sunday evening or today. Most are free
of snow but patchy black ice replaces wet spots. And our cable system,
Adelphia, after agonizing us for 15 years of the "blue screen" forecast,
we finally got upgraded to the newest Weatherstar computer.
The NWS seemed proud to nail this storm in advance, even though i had
told locals to expect 6-12" on Friday, 36 hours before the NWS put
accumulations on their forecast. Balt/Wash forecast disc this am
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 230 AM EST MON JAN 31 2000
AAAH...I CAN SEE THE MONDAY MORNING HEADLINES NOW - "MODELS ACT LIKE A
SCRIPT FOR A WELL STAGED PLAY...WEATHER SERVICE NAILS MID ATLC STORM TWO
DAYS IN ADVANCE."
I AM INCREDIBLY PLEASED OVER HOW WELL THE ETA PREDICTED THE SUNDAY STORM
- AND HOW WELL OUR FCSTRS INTERPRETED THE MDLS WITH REGARD TO PCPN
TYPE..AMOUNT..AND TIMING. AMOUNTS OF SNOW VARIED WIDELY WITHIN SMALL
DISTANCES...BUT AS FCST. LIST OF SNOWFALL TOTALS AVBL IN COMPREHENSIVE
1045 PM PUB INFO STMT.
AFTER SVRL "OPPORTUNITY TO EXCEL" SHIFTS THE WX ON MON AND TUE SHOULD BE
MUCH MORE BENIGN. ALL MDLS AGREE THAT UPPER LOW TO LIFT NWD...BUT A
REINFORCING SHORT WV TO DROP IN ON TUE. SOME LOW LVL MOISTURE TO PRODUCE
P SUNNY SKIES BOTH DAYS...BUT CLRG TNGT. A CHANCE OF SNSH OVR THE MTNS
TDA. I HAVE TRENDED THE TEMPS DOWN BOTH DAYS DUE TO XTNSV SNOW CVR. W
WINDS TO KICK UP TO 15-25 MPH THIS AFTN.
.LWX...SMALL CRAFT ADVSRY POTOMAC AND NRN HALF CHES BAY
WOODY!
A week late post script to last Tue's snowstorm that snuck up on the
NWS. My snow total was 5". However, no snow fell 15 miles to the NNW of
town, and 8" 10 miles east. And 14" fell 20 miles east of my town
Various NWS maps
Jan 30 winter storm totals, text version
http://www.nws.noaa.gov:80/er/lwx/pnswbc.txt
Jan 30 winter storm map
http://www.nws.noaa.gov:80/er/lwx/Jan30-00.gif
Jan 25 snowstorm map, Wash/Balt area
http://www.nws.noaa.gov:80/er/lwx/Jan25-00.gif
SE PA snow totals for Jan 25
http://bookend.met.psu.edu/~lacorte/25jan2000/25_25jan_pa_snowfall.jpg
-Steve Minghini, Winchester (nw) VA
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