Good morning, Baltimore!  I would have to say the forecasters performed admirably on this one. I am looking at 17 inches of dense snow on my deck in Cockeysville, and it's still snowing lightly. However, the barometer turned the corner at about 4 a.m. It bottomed here out at a respectable 29.56 inches of mercury, and is rising now, slowly. So after a few more hours of snowfall, we should begin to see this storm move away.

Here is the latest from Sterling. And here's their chilly forecast. They say the snow should end by 10 a.m., with 10-16 inches before it's all over. Here are some storm totals from around the region. They're reporting 11.2 inches so far at BWI. Added to the 6.5 inches prior to this storm, in November and December. that brings the season's total to 17.7 inches. The average for BWI, based on a 30-year norm, is 18 inches. So we will probably hit our mark before the snow stops today.

I'm afraid I slept through the thundersnow mentioned in comments to the previous post. But it had been predicted, at least by the NWS forecast office in Mount Holly, NJ (the official station for the Philadelphia area). Thunder during a heavy snowstorm is rare, but not extremely so. I can recall hearing it in Baltimore during the February 1983 storm, and a handful of others since. And, we wrote an explainer here in a post late last month.

Anyway, latest radar shows this storm is about over. Except for the shoveling. Remember this is pretty heavy stuff. Take is slow. You have all day, and I suspect the kids will get the day off tomorrow, too. Take pictures before the wind picks up and blows everything out of the trees.