RedskinsCountry Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Really would like to have a snow game at FedExField. Where it's actually snow, not flakes mixed in with other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 00z NAM gives us a 1/2 inch of ice after 2-5 inches of snow. May want to take inventory of candles and flashlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I'm glad the power crew came through my neighborhood and cut tree limbs hanging over lines a few weeks ago. Is that for the D.C. area stroker? Or further West? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skins24 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 ^ For DC.  Right now, if you like winter weather, ALL models look good for the DC area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 The NAM puts DC area in the killzone. Southern MD turns to rain monday morning after 1-2 inches of snow and freezing rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I'm going to be in love then. Hope it stays this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Is there a place to read these maps for free/learn how to read them by chance? Have always been interested in weather, but never figured it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 The NAM puts DC area in the killzone. Southern MD turns to rain monday morning after 1-2 inches of snow and freezing rain. I'd love To follow the NAM. Should probably follow the GFS or the EUro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 The Richmond area forecast is degrading rapidly...or am I wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I'd love To follow the NAM. Should probably follow the GFS or the EUro. Â Can you explain the difference for a noobie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skins24 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Can you explain the difference for a noobie? The GFS and Euro are more longer range models. The NAM is shorter range. This close to an event though, the NAM becomes pretty much just as good a guide (that's really what the models are, a guide) as the others.  Another very good run with the GFS (if you like winter.) Even DCA gets about 3-4 inches of snow. 15 hours total of frozen precip. It was also much more aggressive with Tuesday's second wave. Another 3-4 inches of all snow. Looking further down the line, Thursday there's going to be a clipper. Some runs have a few flurries, some just cloudy. Latest GFS was just cloudy, dry. The next threat would be next weekend, every run that I remember so far has been another sloppy rain/snow mix.   FYI, 36 degrees here now, and I hear sleet mixing in with this rain. Precip is looks to end soon, so I don't think we'll see a complete change over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Okay so if you're looking at something for next week, GFS and Euro are the way to go, but the closer it doesn't matter? Or does NAM have an advantage there? Just seems like NAM wouldn't make sense to even use, but again, that's coming from someone who knows nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. S Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 So what are the predictions for the western fairfax/eastern loudoun areas for tomorrow now? Â All weather.com is saying is 1-2" of snow and then up to .25" of ice possible. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huly Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Ok guys I need approximately what we will get for game and drive back to Leesburg tomorrow help please. We are all seeing different predictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Ok guys I need approximately what we will get for game and drive back to Leesburg tomorrow help please. We are all seeing different predictions. This could really suck for anyone leaving FedEx after the game. Especially going back to Leesburg. If its me, I'm sitting this one out. Beginning of the game will probably be snow/sleet, end of the game might be freezing rain or close to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikered30 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 For tomorrows game it looks like the wet snow should start around noon and change to mix near the end of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve09ru Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 The Richmond area forecast is degrading rapidly...or am I wrong? they are although they never really jumped on board to begin with locally, they never seem to pay attention and then once it gets ere they start upping everything. Never seen such a clueless bunch. From what I'm reading and seeing though, Richmond and the western areas of henrico are still in play for significant icing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Wet snow. Well, that might change whether or not I take my DSLR or point-and-shoot camera to the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWFLSkins Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Whoops wrong thread. back pedaling slowly out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Anything new? Still the 3-5" it was sounding like with half an inch of ice? More? Less? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Okay so if you're looking at something for next week, GFS and Euro are the way to go, but the closer it doesn't matter? Or does NAM have an advantage there? Just seems like NAM wouldn't make sense to even use, but again, that's coming from someone who knows nothing.Like he said, the NAM is a close range model. It is better at detecting intricacies within a storm. It is pretty good inside of 3 days, but outside of that it will conjure up some BS alot of the time. EURO and GFS have failed hard before, but they can alert you 7 days out of something potentially threatening.These models detect and dissect the weather, then run it in a simulation a bunch of times (don't know the exact amount, 100 maybe?). Then it takes the average path of the weather system from those 100 simulations, and wala, you have your "run" of the model. There are four runs a day, every 6 hours. The 00z run is the one that weather geeks pay attention to the most. I admittedly forget why, maybe someone can help me out. Perhaps because the Satellite is directly above the U.S. at that point? The 00z model runs occur at night. I remember staying up for the EURO runs at 1 A.M. Right now snow I've seen forecasters calling for 1 inch up to 5 inches for the metro area. So bet money that we get either NONE or 6+. All kidding aside, the threat of ice is still very real. Better to be safe than sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Okay thanks that helps out a lot actually. What are the maps showing right now for weather. I know it's hard to say it will or won't happen, but weather people always try to cover themselves, which I understand for obvious reasons. I was still looking at a couple inches as of now? Or more ice than snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 A 1/4 inch of ice is worse for power lines and tree branches than probably 8 inches of snow. The National Weather Service has the area at 1-2 inches of snow, but in the past they've changed their totals as storm time approached, and have flat out been wrong before. Nonetheless, they have DC area under a winter weather advisory, and are expected to change it to a winter storm warning tonight. Ice storm warnings should be going up as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsCountry Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Well. Hope I don't have issues leaving FedEx. Might have to leave around half time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 If everything plays out as expected tomorrow, the Chiefs will beat our asses and you'd probably want to leave anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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