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What the fuck is cutter season in the first place

We made it back to Birmingham around 4:30 this after noon. It was a little hairy getting down the mountain but once we made it to ski mtn road it wasnt too bad. Not too many places you can go in the SE and see over a foot of snow and make it back home the next day. Really do love this section of the forum and follow it like a hawk in the winter. Id love to retire to the mountains one day and live the life yall do. I’ll keep following and will see yall again next year! This storm was up there with January 2022 for me. I have never witnessed anything like this in Gatlinburg during the last 15 years of chasing up there. Happy winter to all of you! Awesome pics, Buckethead. .

Those who are sick of the cold E US pattern and thus want it to end ASAP and stay away (definitely not me) must love the much warmer E US vs how it looked late last week on the models for mid-Feb. Due to much warmer models for the E US weeks 2-3 vs how they looked Friday, natural gas opened as sharply down as I can ever recall it doing (-15%!). I hope BAM isn’t too upset lol. When you realize how much warmer the EPS is vs Fri, you’d realize one of the reasons: Fri 12Z EPS HDD (lower left purple): week 2 gradually warmed only to normal HDD Today’s 12Z EPS HDD (lower left purple): week 2 now plunges to significantly below normal HDD/warmer than normal causing the HDD for Feb 8-13 to drop sharply from 148 to 124. In addition, today’s Euro Weeklies for week 3 (2/16-22) are significantly warmer in the E US vs Fri’s run: Friday (1/30/26) Euro Weeklies temps for 2/16-22: Today’s (2/1/26) Euro Weeklies temps for 2/16-22:

@Met1985 is hardcore. He got out of his truck, chugged some antifreeze and said "let's go." Sent from my Pixel 10 Pro using Tapatalk

Almost time to change my avatar to reflect the mood

Snow Moon

It was a fun ride while if lasted. See ya in September when you cancel next winter.

Yep. The low water content makes it evaporate really quickly.

Where are the freaking gloves LOL

We made a thread for flurries. I love you guys.

Can anyone do an over lay of weather next forecast compared to actual. To my untrained eye it appears to have done pretty well less the dry slot or maximas.

nice swath of 12-18+ down there and freeze warnings just about to the tip of FL, not sure I've seen that before, let alone snow and freezing temps in the deep south back to back years.

I feel for you. it is going to sting for a long time I know.

Met and I went up to the top of the bald this evening. Single digits and 30 mph had us ready to get back pretty quickly. Sent from my Pixel 10 Pro using Tapatalk

That's what I've harped on for Year's. It goes into the MIS. Bad Spotter reporting and Official Co-op Station flawed Data , location or reporting.

ya new recording said it was safe to go in now.. she never went outside since TSA leaves at 8 and wanted to be able to make her flight

First thought, civic center roof collapse.

This looks chilly on Saturday for 1pm in the afternoon. 925mb at -23C to -24C all the way to the Long Island Sound. SFC at 1pm Sat.

Thanks for your message. Maybe I will post a little more often to add a voice from a region that’s not well represented here. Denver does have especially unusual weather. My family left the Front Range for the CO mountains in 2021. The weather tends to be more stable here and can be very interesting - and very boring (long dry spells). I’m “only” at 7000’ but we usually have a solid snowpack from December to March. Not this year, though. We’re probably 50+” below normal seasonal snowfall at this point and it gets worse compared to normal heading east towards the Divide and up in elevation. Most ski resorts in CO are around 50% open or less, which is just mind boggling for February. I joined an older version of this board around 2005, as a New England resident at the time, and still remember fondly the intense excitement of tracking big coastal winter storms. But, broadly speaking, there really is no comparison between the importance of snow in the East vs West for the health of the environment and related things like tourism. A poor snowpack out here, especially year after year, can inflict a massively detrimental impact on forests, fauna, water supply, fire season, the economy, etc. I say this simply to provide a little more context for my repeated and likely forthcoming grumbling about the state of the snowpack in the West. It’s a very important metric for many reasons beyond simply enjoying snow for enjoyment’s sake - though that is certainly a reason to root for winter as well!

Phil came

Temp dropping faster than forecasted. Already down to 21.

Ah. I saw it while scrolling on my phone but didn’t try anything. Was gonna try to tinker with it when to got back on a computer .

Looks like a potential swfe overrunning event from midwest to NE, but could include us depending on how well we hang onto the cold. Usual disclaimer applies