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Social media we all know can be a wicked minefield. It's the nature of the beast. As long as you understand that, it is much easier to handle it all. Still, it is so easy for things to be taken out of context or one's tone misinterpreted. The pitfalls of social media. You lose a lot in translation not being face-to-face talking or the like! Etiquette is important, and also not to knee-jerk react to anything you may not like or offends you, but that is NOT easy! We all fall into that trap for just about anything one time or another. And I dislike it b/c it distracts me from enjoying the topic at hand. I say to myself often, "I liked it so much better when we could all enjoy and weenie out about the wx w/o fostering blame, pushing messaging, or seeing non-wx ppl/the public freak out/worried sick about the world ending! Can't we just enjoy wx for what it is? It is amazing and fascinating in its own right. That is more than enough to keep us busy and engaged!" It not always about being self-righteous or correct on social media, just, and we know this well being wx weenies, is that so often we see stuff posted all over the place, and we *know* it is factually wrong. Such as wx history and the media buzzword 'unprecedented" said far too often b/c it sounds dramatic and sells. And lame derivatives like "almost unprecedented" - yes, I have actually seen that. Stupid, either it has happened before or not. How about say, "rare" instead! LOL. This is what gets me more and more, how things are worded and communicated. It's not about being pedantic, despite being precise and accurate is important in many sciences, just I feel for those (the public) who don't know any better, and get duped easily. And a lot of up and coming mets/wx enthusiasts get the wrong idea about things. So I don't mind heated discussion or debate, as long as it is kept civil. I am known for sometimes getting on a high-horse, and then I have to scale it back. I can't tell you how many times I have written something up quickly on social media n response to something that got under my skin, finish it, then re-read, and then I go "nah, not worth it!" and delete, or edit it down to make it less verbose and pedantic.

Now the GFS has mix here next Friday

The snowcrete lasting 3 weeks 3.5 days at my house, the bitter low 20’s highs 5-10F windy lows, all three months below average temps, and 3/4 minor events . The only thing absent was a 10”+ biggie or 3/4 minors/moderate that gave us 4-6 instead of 1-4 An A- for me

Coldest ever recorded in March anywhere on the globe occurred yesterday in Vostok, Antarctica with -76.4C or -105.5F! https://www.facebook.com/MikeCollierWx/photos/big-time-coldearlier-today-vostok-station-in-antarctica-recorded-a-temperature-o/1462495788561020/?

Just as I hit enter on my last post,several rembles of thunder before I could even get this one off.

Nice, steady rain here, of varying intensities for the nearly an hour. No thunder so far or strokes being detected anywhere close to my home .

Very true. The forecast from LOT and SPC was hitting the large to very large hail wording pretty hard. Plus the tornado threat. Knowing what I know, knew that was a long shot. The lake breeze moved through here earlier than expected, and kept going chugging south, unlike 3/10. But the mailman isn't the weatherman. It was interesting to me how that message was a definitely out there, loud and clear. Normally, I believe people kinda shrug off severe potential days, but with what that this city went through two weeks ago, the forecast was certainly well received. But, two to three months from now, same messaging threat, people probably go back to being "meh" about it. Which I get it really...

Heavy rain in Marysville as I try to get to sleep.

A couple solid boomers but nothing noteworthy. Pretty satisfied that we continue to get an at-bat shot for interesting weather!

That's like the panic of El Reno 2013 and Hurricane Rita - recent disaster spooks many.

Chuck, thanks so much. Two questions....I have to assume it's tougher to get the -WPO loading SST pattern ("C") during an El Niño? Secondly, do you have a similar schematic for an EPO correlation? TIA.

B+. A blockbuster winter storm followed by about as cold of a streak as we can muster. Just a shame it didn’t snow more.

I've never seen anything like what I did today. Absolute genuine fear from people here of forecasted 2"+ hail. People wrapping their cars in anything and everything they could find. Blankets, cardboard, mattresses, etc. People scrambling to park their cars in hospital parking garages. Mind you we're 16 days from an insane amount of cars getting damaged from the hail storm of a lifetime, but the PTSD was very real. Thankfully, this was a non-event here today.

Phillies 1-0 ! Current temp is 70 at 10:30 pm

Been a very warm March

You’re a month too late

Flash Flood Warning PAC003-270445- /O.NEW.KPBZ.FF.W.0003.260327T0140Z-260327T0445Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED Flash Flood Warning National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 940 PM EDT Thu Mar 26 2026 The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Central Allegheny County in southwestern Pennsylvania... * Until 1245 AM EDT. * At 940 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. The expected rainfall rate is 2 to 3 inches in 1 hour. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Pittsburgh, Penn Hills, Mount Lebanon, Ross Township, Monroeville, McKeesport, Shaler Township, West Mifflin, North Side Pittsburgh, Baldwin, Scott Township, Wilkinsburg, Whitehall, Robinson Township, Munhall, North Versailles and Brentwood. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Turn around, don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. && LAT...LON 4051 8014 4050 7992 4044 7972 4040 7974 4039 7975 4039 7976 4037 7977 4031 7979 4030 7979 4039 8024 FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...2-3 INCHES IN 1 HOUR $$ WM

Awww. This made me so sad. I always enjoyed his enthusiasm. RIP Roger

Rain pushing onto EPA

Today's Avg EWR: ; 77 / 46 (+19) NYC: 76 / 45 (+16)

Got down to 29 degrees. The tomato plants at Walmart were wilted from the freeze.

A- in Calvert. 6ft, 200lbs and I was able to jump up and down on top of the snow without breaking through for almost a month straight. B- at the cabin near DCL. One stretch had decent snow on the ground but relative to normal up here I was underwhelmed. C at the place in DC. People forgot how to pick up their dog's crap when there was snow on the ground so all the snowcrete was covered with dog shit much of the time.

Fun storm. I suck at pics. Massive downdraft just S of the hail core. I had to stop due to the wind. It was a Close Encounters Stop Sign Shaker for sure lol. Registered 68 at home as it passed. Had a nice shelf cloud as I assumed from radar you can see in the first pic which was just after it was Tor warned. This thing had a wall of dust 2k ft in the air in front of it (love Spring gust fronts). You can really see the outside of the "bowl" of dust as part of the core passed just to my N in the second. Its hard to tell but that thing was glowing red from the sun coming through behind that dust. Thats dust in the second, not rain. I was in the desert one minute then horizontal flying mud then sideways rain then sideways hail. That's a crazy ass progression lmao. I got nickel, looks like ping pong about a mile north of me reported.

it was perfect and just what I needed after a 14 hr work day no peepers yet

Certainly odd but whatever you need to do man .