@capitalweather Can you help me understand the meteorology behind it being 16F outside right now, yet the snow is clearly wet and will transition to sleet/freezing rain shortly? Isn't it plenty cold to be all snow?
Snow totals mounting as sleet line reaches DC's southern suburbs (7a)
Snow amounts around the region have climbed to 2.5 to 5 inches; the most common amounts are between 3 and 4 inches. Washington Dulles International Airport has received 4 inches while Reagan National Airport picked up one inch in the last hour and has at least 3 inches on the ground.
The sleet line is advancing north, however. Radar suggests it stretches from near Waldorf to Manassas to Front Royal. We’ve received reports of sleet near Middleburg, in northern Stafford County, around Fredericksburg and even as far north as Springfield.
The Beltway area will probably transition to sleet over the next hour or so but another inch or so of snow could fall before the switch.
Snow is falling heavily in some areas — or at a clip of more than one inch per hour. Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport recently reported visibility of one-eighth quarter mile in heavy snow.
The limited visibility and snow-covered roads will make driving hazardous.
Just when I thought I'd seen it all, a resident sends me this photo of a lobster, or similar crustacean, walking around Buddy Attick Park Lake! I've heard of shell-shocked, but this is a whole new level. Any idea for a name?
You ran some cool regression analysis OK great. Make some nice graphics and put it on a Substack. Engaging headline, 1500-2500 well-written words. That's literally 100x faster than trying to publish in a journal and it's better peer review anyway.
Academic journals might be a lost cause but they'd probably be better if you had some non-academic practitioners serving as reviewers. Journalists have their problems too but they have much better bullshit detectors, for instance.
⚡ Remember this?
On this day 13 years ago, a ferocious derecho ripped across DC area w/ hurricane-force winds, leaving widespread damage & millions without power.
📹 Relive the storm in this gripping footage from @dcstormchaser who captured the derecho barreling into DC: