Rain Ruins our White Christmas in Maryland

Last night, it was snowing big wet clumps, jus right for making snowmen, snowballs, snow SAM batteries, the imagination was the limit. It was 30 degrees. Now, for some reason, it’s 32 degrees and it’s raining? All the snow is melting away :frowning: Chance for the first white christmas in the DC area in years, ruined by rain.

Rain, rain, go away…come again some other day!

RexDart, you should be so lucky to live here in western Maryland. Cumberland has about 7 inches already, it’s still falling like crazy, with no signs of stopping!!

It snowed here yesterday from 1:30 to around 7:30, accumulatiing maybe a quarter inch if that; sometime during the night it started raining, and rained heavily until 8:40 a.m. when it changed abruptly to snow. Been snowing heavily on and off, occasionally mixed with sleet, since. There’s perhaps a half inch of slush on the ground. This is as close to a white Christmas as the DC area is ever going to see in my lifetime! :smiley:

And Neidhart, if you’re thinking of driving anywhere, wait 'til later. Around 10 am, I got about a half mile down the Fairfax County Parkway, turned around, and came home. At 20 mph, I had very little control over where my car was going! The slush may not be deep, but it’s very slick.

We’re getting over 12" forecasted in Scranton, PA. Some estimates are over 20" even. You’re welcome to come play in my yard…we’ll even feed you a home cooked Turkey dinner, since all of our other guests cancelled.

Are there any maps anywhere online that show US snow cover? Here in Northern Wisconsin we have a light dusting of snow, I can still see grass. We usually have more by this time, and I like snow.

I don’t mind the snow going away, so much. Lord knows I’ve seen enough of it to last me for the rest of my life. It was nice to see it last night, though.

Er, that rain you speak of actually washed the snow off the road which enabled me to actually get in my automobile and drive.

So, I like rain. Besides, it’s 11:30 am on X-mas Day and it’s assuredly snowing like hell again.

Yup, same story here. Cancelled my Christmas plans for visiting friends and relatives because of the snow. It’s coming down heavy and the local plowmen seem to have given up on keeping the back roads open.

Not that visiting with y’all on the SDMB isn’t nice, but ya’know it’s just not how I expected to spend Christmas.

Hey, it was raining here this morning (in Baltimore); now there’s about 6 inches of snow on the ground and still going strong!

Let me also add that sitting here by the window I’ve witnessed three local families on my block get into their 4-wheel drive trucks and try to brave their way through the snow to go visiting… and the same three families have all returned home within 10 minutes.

Must be worse out there than I thought.

RexDart, CNN reports a big snowstorm heading your way. It ain’t there yet? Be careful.

Goodness, how lucky I was to be in Frederick! Seriously, we had white stuff all day and it’s still there. First white Christmas I’ve had since 1976, which was the one and only year we spent Christmas with my grandparents in Fargo. (It was about -29F, the house was sealed, everyone was smoking and I had an asthma attack that sent me to the ER for an epi shot. For some reason we didn’t repeat the experience.) It’s funny, it looked like the snow line was right at the Howard-Montgomery border. Well, at least you got close.

Wound up with 16" in my yard, according to the official yardstick.

Yep, I live in Frederick. It snowed last night, then stopped for a while. This morning I woke to the sound of sleet hitting the windows, then it changed to snow around 8:30 am or so.

Thankfully, our relatives were able to come over for Christmas dinner as planned. I’m not a big fan of snow, but it was nice to watch it coming down as we opened our presents.

Well, that brief reprieve of rain allowed us to get from downtown DC [where it was raining ice when we went to mass Christmas morning] to my parents in Central Pennsylvania. Oddly enough, it was pretty calm until we were 2 miles from my parents - so sorry - I was praying for the snow/rain/ice to stop just long enough for us to get home. Maybe it’s my fault? [I did go to church 4 times between 5 Xmas eve and noon on Xmas day…just to make sure :slight_smile: ]

Well, I didn’t go anyplace yesterday; the snow stopped by 1 p.m. and has pretty much disappeared from the roads. Doesn’t look like more than 1 inch on the ground anywhere.

I understand that Boston had a major forecast bust: 10 to 15 inches of snow was predicted, and they ended up getting rain all day and a pitiful 2 inches of snow at the end.

We had solid snow all day. And the roads were fine.

We travelled from Hillsboro, VA to Germantown, MD without problem.

What’s in Germantown, oh wait I am! Oh wait no I wasn’t, at least not yesterday. I ended up driving to my parents in Frederick at 8am. In Germantown it was a heavy rain, by the Frederick line it was snowing, still didn’t keep people from driving like idiots, I got passed by people doing at least 70+. Oh well I made it only sliding once, and not bad at that.

I just had my first white Christmas! We were visiting my in-laws, now banished to far far eastern West Virginia by their IRS jobs, when it began to snow at lunchtime on Christmas eve. It was still coming down when we all left for an extended family get-together. By the time we left the party, the ground was covered all the way from southern PA back to the eastern WV panhandle. After we opened presents on Christmas morning, the wife and I went out and made a snow individual…