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Brandon is headed towards MHC just coming off the Havelock bypass:

Solid past hour. Up to 3.6”

Dang

I am pulling for you

Radar is indicating dry layers are becoming saturated. Donut hole is reducing now.

Tough crowd

Joke all you want about sun strength. Just got in my car and the seat was toasty

Yea some ocean effect for you. Id rather nothing than a few flakes here, because the most we’re going to get is coating causing the salt trucks to dump a bunch more salt on the road. Pass

The radar is playing tricks on me. Looks like it should be snowing by the radar but the sun is peaking thru the clouds lol

Big blocks (especially the NAO) have a history of this. Some of the dmv's coldest/driest periods have happened during strong neg naos. Carolinas biggest storms have occurred during the same. The flip side is some of the biggest dmv storms have happened during the breakdown of big blocks. Based on history, were prob not even at the halfway point of the current blocking cycle and it will oscillate. The next 3-4 weeks are also the dmv's prime snow climo. I'm pretty optimistic for snow chances over the next month and (imho) chances for a large storm are above to much above normal.

Just because the radar shows snow, doesn't mean much. I have been under solid blue since 9am, with flurries. Whatever does fall vaporizes on contact.

Sunny with temps warming to 33 here in the sun hole

21.4 .

You sure?

About 5” here in Jefferson. Anyone in Wilkes County?

Good God... I know you guys love winter, but really, when is this pattern going to flip or relax, and why has it been so persistent?

Light snow still falling here but at this point I think we're about done as far as accumulation goes. Measured 3.7 inches which was almost dead on with what most of the models had predicted for my backyard, snowfall gradient and all. It was nice to see the foothills and NE TN get a good storm and that the whole valley seemed to get at least some snow

I love it! keep it comin' Yeah, so, you know all this, but for the general audience. Feb 9th is the closer approximation time 45th parallel exits of the solar minimum. About the 8th at 42... It's an interesting aspect of celestial mechanics that these time windows do not correspond with the seasonal calendar. These human inventions handed down from antiquity are actually irrelevant to astro-dynamics. The first day of spring in terms of planetary orbital mechanics should be on or about the date the sun switches from nadir to gaining. The first day of summer should be on or very near May 8th... Autumn should begin on August 9th or so and so on. Winter is November 8th. Thing is, the year is split up in to 91.25 days per temporal quarter. That makes up 365 days total. However, there are some numerical idiosyncrasies baked in that make it not exactly 91.25 days per max vs min, vs the two transition solar seasons. For one, the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is not a perfect circle. We do in spent more in summer max than we do in winter min ... by a small fraction to atone for the fact that the Earth is actually closer to the sun in the winter, whence its orbital velocity is faster than the summer. So the solar max is actually about a couple of days longer on each end... I think the solar max actually begins around May 4th or 5th... then running out to August 10 or 11. But for simplicity, we just figure a roughly 91 and change days goes into each quarter. So Nov 8 to February 9 to May 10 to August 11 then reset at Nov 8. When we pass through these virtual boundaries in space, you don't really notice much difference at all. We are already sensing some warm direct sun exposure sensation just 41 days past the Solstice now. But, that sensation will be noticeably stronger by the 15th of February. That's sort of how these boundaries are blurred as they pass. I have ruminated in the past how hopping in your car at the end of a work day having parked it in the sun, the interior is noticeably warmer from solar bake on or about February 10, noticeably more so than February 1. There are some specialized physical settings where these transitions may evince. Also, snow backs facing the sun will start to shard appearance no matter what the ambient temperature is by February 15. That's the intensifying solar radiation heating darker embedded particles and then the melt back through. Micro effects.

And the observation thread, joshm's obs thread did not keep the mojo going for many of us.

Coastal low ramping up on sat:

Does the HRRR agree with the good Dr?

Glad to see the Chattanooga crew score!!!

can't speak much to the Linux aspect of ur question, but I think grlevel3 could be run through "Wine", which lets you run windows applications on linux. not sure how technically involved it is to set up. I think radarscope (should?) be linked to an account with user/pass, so I'd think you could download on a new windows machine and sign in that way. For the display, Hz is basically the refresh rate, so how many times per second the display updates. 60hz is pretty standard, if a bit on the low end. lots of new displays have a refresh rate of 120 or 144hz, which looks much smoother, especially if you're gaming. this probably won't be super noticeable unless you're playing a lot of games. for the rest of the specs, what are you planning on using the laptop for? the "copilot" thing just is microsoft pushing generative ai in everything they sell. copilot is basically their version of chatgpt. a laptop advertised like that probably has a dedicated "copilot key" on the keyboard, and a bunch of gen-ai features in the software you probably don't want. that would turn me off of buying the laptop, personally.

21.7/19.3 south of Clayton, GA. Right at 7 inches now. Another band building in to the east let's see if I can get under it!

Coastal is just getting underway Eastern NC is going to get hit hard