With one more round of shoveling (which will be my fourth) I’m pretty sure I will have a clear path out to the street. NWS Sterling has listed reports of anywhere from 10.5 inches to 23 inches of snow within a few miles of us, and my best estimate – w…
As I turned off the light last night to go to sleep the sleet rattled against the windows with a vengeance. This has led the NWS Sterling office to back off on snow depths for us down to 12-18 inches, closer to my original 14-16 inch forecast. At the…
At 8:30 I bundled up and trudged outside to shovel snow off the front stoop and the sidewalks. We’d had about 5″ of snow by that time, so it wasn’t too difficult to clean off. Before I was finished the precipitation had changed from all snow to a mix…
The Sterling NWS office debated issuing a blizzard warning for us but decided that conditions weren’t quite at that level, so they stuck with “near blizzard” as the descriptor. Either way it’s gonna be nasty tonight and tomorrow. Latest official snow…
It seems that I have been a bit pessimistic in my prediction of snow depths of 14-16 inches for Fredericksburg. The National Weather Service has been calling for 16-24 inches in its Winter Storm Warning text, and the model forecasts from this morning’…
Okay, the whining’s in the title. As for last night’s snowfall Fredericksburg was in a curiously tight temperature/snowfall gradient. The city and the immediate surroundings only got about an inch or so of accumulation while official NWS reports show…
I attended the initial meeting for the 2010 Virginia Tech storm chase trip last night in Blacksburg. The university website featured the program on its front page as well. It’s really cool to see my alma mater taking steps to set up a meteorology pro…
Okay, for the short term – i.e. tonight – I need to up our snow total to 4 inches. More moisture seems to be available for this weak system than previously forecast. Look for most of it to fall overnight, leading to more shoveling tomorrow as well as…
Tomorrow night could be a bit more interesting than originally thought a couple of days ago. A small system that was supposed to stay mainly south of here has crept further north in the model solutions. With this storm’s moisture plus plenty of avail…
Last night around 9:00 I measured 9.5 inches in the yard as I completed the first round of shoveling. Of course our “friendly” weather system then proceeded to dump another inch of snow after I escaped inside so we have had at least 10 inches here, su…
