<p>In PA I-83, I-81 and I-78 are all closed per the Governor.</p>
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<p>Wow, that’s interesting. I’m watching The Weather Channel and they had a reporter standing in Central Park and it looked like Winter Wonderland!</p>
<p>Why is that Weather Channel reporter posted in NYC (and DC) when the Philly area is the one getting hammered the most? We had over 20 last storm and are expecting another 20 again. I have friends who think this is great. I don’t understand.</p>
<p>I just heard on NPR news that Baltimore has closed all roads in the city except for police and emergency vehicles, and there will be penalities for those others who attempt to drive. Wow.</p>
<p>We (way out on Eastern LI) have at least 6 inches on the ground and we’re expecting the worst part of the storm to hit a little later this afternoon into tonight. Strong winds plus more snow is on its way.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m in Baltimore County and Baltimore City has declared a stage 3 snow emergency, meaning no one should be on the roads unless you are in a city owned vehicle. No one can remember that ever happening before. The majority of the secondary roads were not plowed after last weekend’s snow and with another foot on the ground, they are paralyzed. They have a plea out for anyone with front end loaders and bobcats to pitch in. The poor mayor has only been on the job for about a week.</p>
<p>LI Railroad stops running if there is more than 10 in snow on the ground, that’s their new rule.</p>
<p>Wow, 50 car pile up on I-80 in PA. I cannot imagine.</p>
<p>NYC has gotten much worse in the last 1-2 hrs; we’re getting about an inch an hr right now. Not sure how long it’ll last but it’s cool to see.</p>
<p>The snow is coming down with a vengeance now, and the wind is blowing.
It looks beautiful outside!</p>
<p>Mother nature can you please let up for an hour, so I can ski to the store, to get a pint of my favorite ice cream?</p>
<p>I’m in NYC too and we have close to a foot here on Staten Island. It started at nine last night, tapered off ffor a while this morning and then went full blast around 10 am. Has gotten progressively worse since then. It’s so dark right now it’s like the middle of the night.</p>
<p>Ice crea? We’ve had a hard time finding plain old milk in the local stores. Keep in mind it has been difficult to get trucks into DC for 5 days.</p>
<p>There is a preliminary forecast for another snowstorm Monday for this area. Wonder if it will be a dusting of less than a foot, or a real storm?</p>
<p>Interesting to explore the NWS site. They forecast 8-12 inches total for NW DC. We’re above that already. But they forecast a wopping 20-30 for just outside Baltimore. Good luck to folks there.</p>
<p>You can make snow cream. We always made it every time it snowed when I was a kid. You need milk, sugar, vanilla extract, eggs and snow.</p>
<p>Is there a good website (either news or weather site) which has relatively accurate snow accumlations/totals? Every website I’ve seen only has forecasts. Seems like there’s a lot of variance in NYC as Manhattan doesn’t have a foot of snow like Staten Island. Also curious about DC/Alexandria Va.</p>
<p>Heather Mizeur of the Maryland House of Delegates has named the snow</p>
<p>Snowverachiever</p>
<p>off of the regional NWS websites, they have links to spotter reports. For example, this is the DC/Baltimore home page: [NWS</a> Baltimore/Washington Home page](<a href=“http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/]NWS”>http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/) It has a link at the top to [National</a> Weather Service Text Product Display](<a href=“Text Products for PNS Issued by LWX”>Text Products for PNS Issued by LWX) which tells you DC near American U had 11 inches at 2 PM, and Alexandria at 8.8 at 12:15.</p>
<p>These will be updated, and grow quite a bit for Maryland through the night. </p>
<p>For comparison, here’s an extract from the last storm:</p>
<p>PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
SPOTTER REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
453 PM EST SUN FEB 07 2010</p>
<p>THE FOLLOWING ARE UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN DURING THE PAST 29 HOURS
FOR THE STORM THAT HAS BEEN AFFECTING OUR REGION. APPRECIATION IS EXTENDED
TO HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS…COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS…SKYWARN SPOTTERS
AND MEDIA FOR THESE REPORTS. THIS SUMMARY IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR
HOME PAGE AT Baltimore/Washington</p>
<p><strong><em>STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL</em></strong></p>
<p>LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE COMMENTS<br>
SNOWFALL OF
/INCHES/ MEASUREMENT</p>
<p>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA</p>
<p>…DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA…
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 27.5 600 PM 2/06<br>
1 SW AMERICAN UNIVER 25.0 715 PM 2/06<br>
1 S ANACOSTIA 21.0 130 PM 2/06<br>
WASHINGTON 18.2 441 PM 2/06 SN DEPTH </p>
<p>MARYLAND</p>
<p>…ALLEGANY COUNTY…
FROSTBURG 36.0 112 PM 2/06<br>
ECKHART MINES 32.0 631 PM 2/06 SNOWFALL<br>
FLINTSTONE 32.0 300 PM 2/06 </p>
<p>…ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY…
1 NNE CROFTON 34.0 510 PM 2/06<br>
2 NNE CROFTON 34.0 430 PM 2/06 SNOWFALL<br>
3 E LAUREL 32.9 630 PM 2/06<br>
2 NW RIVA 32.0 740 PM 2/06<br>
SEVERN 32.0 630 PM 2/06<br>
GLEN BURNIE 31.8 330 PM 2/06<br>
1 N CROFTON 31.0 400 PM 2/06<br>
1 S CROFTON 30.5 600 PM 2/06<br>
1 WNW GREEN HAVEN 29.8 500 PM 2/06<br>
BROOKLYN PARK 29.0 200 PM 2/06<br>
PASADENA 29.0 508 PM 2/06<br>
1 NE GREEN HAVEN 29.0 631 PM 2/06 SNOW DEPTH<br>
MILLERSVILLE 27.7 400 PM 2/06<br>
1 WSW ODENTON 27.5 530 PM 2/06<br>
1 NW GAMBRILLS 27.5 450 PM 2/06<br>
1 ESE CHURCHTON 26.5 630 PM 2/06 SNOWFALL<br>
ANNAPOLIS 25.5 1233 AM 2/07<br>
1 N BALT-WASH INTL A 24.8 454 PM 2/06 KBWI<br>
RIVERDALE 23.8 830 PM 2/06 AVERAGE DEPTH<br>
3 SSW CROWNSVILLE 23.8 645 PM 2/06<br>
1 NNE OWINGS 23.0 617 PM 2/06 SNOW DEPTH<br>
BELVEDERE HEIGHTS 22.5 445 PM 2/06 AVERAGE DEPTH<br>
EASTPORT 22.4 600 PM 2/06<br>
1 NW ANNAPOLIS 21.5 530 PM 2/06<br>
CAPE ST. CLAIRE 21.0 114 AM 2/07<br>
CHURCHTON 20.3 600 PM 2/06 AVERAGE DEPTH<br>
1 WSW FERNDALE 20.0 600 PM 2/06 </p>
<p>…BALTIMORE COUNTY…
1 NW RANDALLSTOWN 32.0 420 PM 2/06<br>
1 SE GARRISON 31.2 535 PM 2/06<br>
1 W HAMPTON 31.0 330 PM 2/06<br>
1 SSW DUNDALK 30.5 300 PM 2/06<br>
ESSEX 30.4 200 PM 2/06<br>
1 E OELLA 29.5 130 PM 2/06<br>
1 NNW PARKVILLE 29.0 435 PM 2/06<br>
2 NE CATONSVILLE 29.0 500 PM 2/06 AVERAGE DEPTH<br>
1 WSW GUNPOWDER 28.5 406 PM 2/06<br>
PARKVILLE 28.0 137 PM 2/06 AVERAGE DEPTH.<br>
3 SE BALDWIN 27.3 615 PM 2/06 AVERAGE DEPTH<br>
MONKTON 27.0 550 PM 2/06<br>
1 SE TOWSON 27.0 753 PM 2/06 SN DEPTH<br>
KINGSVILLE 26.0 118 PM 2/06<br>
2 WNW ESSEX 26.0 215 PM 2/06<br>
2 NW LONG GREEN 26.0 340 PM 2/06<br>
PARKTON 24.8 745 PM 2/06<br>
2 E PERRY HALL 24.5 315 PM 2/06<br>
COCKEYSVILLE 24.0 100 PM 2/06<br>
1 ESE GLYNDON 23.0 440 PM 2/06<br>
2 NE JACKSONVILLE 23.0 308 PM 2/06 SNOWFALL<br>
TIMONIUM 22.0 540 PM 2/06<br>
1 NW PERRY HALL 22.0 655 AM 2/07<br>
1 ENE PARKVILLE 20.0 140 PM 2/06 </p>
<p>…BALTIMORE CITY…
PIMLICO 28.0 330 PM 2/06<br>
1 S GWYNN OAK 27.3 656 PM 2/06<br>
2 ESE ARLINGTON 25.5 100 PM 2/06<br>
2 W CARROLL 24.0 704 PM 2/06</p>
<p>Poor Olympic planners in Vancouver lamenting the lack of snow. They could do the downhill on my deck.</p>
<p>Includes DC area accumulations, Capital Weather Gang, NWS reports, etc.
[Capital</a> Weather Gang - (washingtonpost.com)](<a href=“http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/?hpid=topnews]Capital”>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/?hpid=topnews)</p>
<p>We are getting bands of snow and heavy winds with periods of quiet/flurries. Eleven inches today, lots of wind and heavy drifting. 64" at our house so far this season!</p>
<p>Glad I got to Trader Joe’s on Monday – they had clearly gotten new supplies that day.</p>
<p>Ok, our snow blower died. H said the snow was too heavy. I did tell him to go out earlier. Of course, he didn’t listen to me. This is a H/W moment of “I told you so.” We have close to 18 in now.</p>
<p>not even sure how we are going to measure the snowfall anymore…just so much of it. Out local paper is reporting a roof collapse on a Wawa in the area…hope the roof on our steel warehouse is okay. Husband is worried about the roof on our store because the building is very old.</p>