Nailed...now, what's next?
8:30 PM EST Tuesday 2/22/2011
The low pressure system which created the Mid-west to Mid-Atlantic snow machine is exiting the east coast today, while a stronger and potentially more high impact system arrived in California today. Another "four-dayer" for many students in Maryland and Pennsylvania as schools and government offices are closed or delayed throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley.
Readers to our Facebook Forecast Centers report amounts of 5 to 8 inches in
the I-70 corridor of Maryland, West Virginia and Ohio. Readers in Pennsylvania fielded observations of 12 or more inches in Franklin and York Counties. With the President's weekend holiday being extended another day, it was the third long weekend for many students and teachers (although the seniors sure are lovin' in!). Hats off to our Maryland and Pennsylvania Forecast Teams for nailing this call several days out, issuing forecast maps which verified nicely, and reporting throughout the night. Excellent work team, you have influenced more people than you'll ever know.
WHAT'S NEXT A mantle of cold is settling across the northern half of the U.S. for the next two days, as high pressure and fresh snowcover will allow temperatures tonight in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast to fall into to the teens. In the south, temperatures remain at or above seasonal levels, with highs holding pleasantly in the 60's and 70's in the southern plains to the 80's in Texas and Florida. Strong west to east, or "zonal" flow will be enhanced each day by influence of the counter-clockwise spin of the system off the southern California coast.
A SEVERE SETUP
The fast moving upper level air currents in conjunction with increased low level air flow from the Gulf juiced with moisture will be creating favorable conditions for an outbreak of severe weather on Thursday from the Southern Plains to the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The Storm Prediction Center has posted preliminary outlooks for this event, and our Southeast Severe Team has begun organizing their schedules so they are at the ready prior to the event. Thursday afternoon, Stormchaser Vince Webb from central Mississippi will go mobile in his chasing vehicle to track and report on breaking weather as the event unfolds.
REGIONAL ROUNDUPS Visit the Winter Stormcast, Eastern or Central tabs above for direct links to the latest details and local perspective from our forecast teams in those areas.
10 comments:
Dr. Ratio here in Fallston!
Final survey: 0.51" of liquid, 5.2" of snow
LE = 10.2:1
7.5 inches of snow on the ground in the woodlands of SE York County. Schools closed up here. My modem was damaged during a power surge from the wind last Friday night. Verizon is mailing me a new one and hope to be back online by Saturday. You almost have to have Verizon commission a Safari or nature expedition to get them out here and check the DSL lines/ modem. It appears my modem is fried so hopefully that is the only issue.
I'm glad my 4-8 ideas came to fruition with this one. The storm packed more of a punch than I thought, but it also moved faster so both those factors balalced out and kept us in the 4-8 range. I was worried that we could go a little higher but it pulled out pretty quck. Nice snowfall considering we were 75 degrees a week ago, More storms on the horizon, and hopefully I can look at some data this weekend to see what they will do! It appears rain first, then we have to see how the pattern establishes itself after Saturday.
ENJOY YOUR SNOWDAY! NOW BACK TO WORK FOR ME! :'( :-P
Man, I feel like I live on the Little house on the prarie. No internet, broken diswasher. At least the liquor cabinet was in order ( I don't condone drinking of course, just making a atatement about the condition of liquor cabinet ;) )
FIVE inches in Pikesville.
Wondering how much we got at my school in Monkton. Mary in Hydes, you're up in that "neighborhood" what were the totals there?
Warm then whomp.
Heartening to see your little can of Manwich!
Good luck with Verizon, Pa Wilder.
5.25" here in NE Carroll County, but I'm not too confident in that, lot of drifting here on the hill. Finished snowblowing everyone's driveways. Right on the cusp of freezing, dang thing clogged up about 5 times.
Yeah, I don't condone Jim Beam either. More for me thataway. :-P
Storm total in Huntingtown- .50" of snow and sleet
That's quite a contrast here southeast of DC compared to the 5-8" around Baltimore, but precipitation amounts were lower farther southward.
We got 5 inches here on my back porch. The way it was snowing I would have thought more.
Came home to the frozen tundra that is York County just to find a little black box on my porch. Checked the fields for corpses and plane wreckage, but alas there was none to be found. As I looked closer I realized the Verizon fairy delivered a special surprise, a new modem. I plug it in, and the rest is history! They really really like me :'( :'( :'( :-D :-D :-D :-D !!!!!!!!!!
Moments of tears of joy puctuated by a mad mans' laughter! They actually OVERNIGHTED the box. I was sure that it was going to arrive on some freight plane from Honduras along with crates of live chickens, then be quarantined by Customs for 6-8 months, maybe arriving in time for next winter. Alas, the boys in corporate came through!
BACK TO TRACKING WHAT IS LEFT OF WINTER! The bitter irony is I almost never use the computer for anything else!
Dear Sally,
Who is to say that Verizon isn't a Foot'sBook fan like millions of other devotees?????
Did you use your new black box to read the wailing and teeth-gnashing going on in last night's Andy-less comment section? I think you should raise your price.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad you're back in the forecast business. *DONT_KNOW* :-D
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