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Nothing will probably compare again to my morning classes at LSC in the dead of winter where the first physical sign of extreme cold was all the snot in my nose instantly freezing up after just stepping outside. I’m not keen on experiencing that again for as long as I’m around!

32/15, smells like snow out there.

Woke up to check progress. Snow was getting steadily closer to the surface for the past 4 hours, but has stalled a bit in the last hour. It's trying to go through the really dry layer now.

Yes that was me. Skied standing up until March of 2022. Just too weak currently to ski standing up. Been doing adaptive skiing at Ski Sundown for 2 years. Did alot of skiing with my son. He's taken up skiing again and will be with me on December 27th.

Coming down nice & Steady now here in Short Pump

Can’t complain no matter what. In this short time between posts it’s already cartopper and mulchtopper (pavement is still just wet though)

Wow 2nd northern band right over my old stomping grounds! I insist on the old HoCo/MoCo band. Look, it may not exactly be Snowmageddon up in here this round, but that band could easily boom them to 4 inches! Look at that -2, possibly even -3 FGEN! WOW is that a -4 over Penhook? Look out Bob Chill! If Dale City booms out to 4 inches, I'll do a stand in for Playboi Carti like I stated earlier tonight. I know most his raps by heart and worship all his tracks. Same for Ken Carson and Kodak Black. Someone is gonna jackpot up there!

Bingo. Unless you live in C/NNE or near lakes you're gonna get skunked. Coastal track is dead and gone...until spring of course

Light snow has started in Cvill a couple minutes ago. Snow flake size looks pretty good so far! FGEN seems to show two bands setting up (and skunking myself) but we’ll see what happens.

Almost to 1 inch.... Nice & peaceful looking outside...

Back to 1995-6, lowest SOI plunges -ENSO/lagged NYC wx -52 on 2/17/17: MB 3/10-18 and 9.7” -49 on 12/10/12: B 12/26-1/3 and 0.4” -47 on 12/19/95: MB 1/2-12 and 25” -47 on 2/2/13: B 2/7-10 and 11.4” -44 on 12/4/25: ??? -39 on 12/14/01: 12/30-1/2 MB/0” -34 on 1/19/17: 2/9-10 B/9.4” -31 on 11/7/22: 11/14-21 MB/0” The above tells me that IF there’s possibly any partial correlation of a strong -SOI during -ENSO to cold and/or snow at NYC, it’s not until 1-4 weeks afterward. A period of very heavy snow and/or MB temps occurred 1-4 weeks after 6 of the 7 sub -30 cases. This could easily just be random considering the small sample size and that this is pretty spread out (1-4 weeks afterward).

Same ole Great lakes tracks. It's cold/dry to warm/wet and back to cold dry. Horrible pattern for snow here. Maybe in January when storm track drops south we'll get something but this is a crappy pattern. Time to move to the lakes, tons of lake effect snows

39 degrees and nothing in York County.

Would rather have snow the last week of December rather then the first week - many times when it has snowed early in the month it warms up towards the end of the month and its mild with no snow on the ground Christmas week .........last year was considered to be a "White Christmas" believe it or not with the little snow that was on the ground in most areas of the immediate metro...........This year the falling SOI and the fading LaNina supported by MJO in phase 8 should activate the southern jet BUT all the players on the field have to align just right to produce a snowstorm here........also another Strat warming event is going to unfold the second half of the month so this pattern should extend well into January.............

This is quite likely the very BEST signature line I have ever seen on this sub in YEARS! LMAO!

Good for you! My late Dad always told me there is more to Life than cold and snow and foolishly piling it up.

I’m off to oversleep and miss the heavy snow band!

Rest/Playing catch-up on sleep deprivation during a snow FUTILITY MARKERS... So many times, when I lived in Dale City - I'd catch a nap during a storm. 1) Oversleep, mainly from way too much watching of the models, and 2) This is invariably the time when the heavy snow band wrecked Dale City - RIGHT WHEN I WAS FAST ASLEEP. Plenty of post-nap anger and disillusionment, over missing the heavy dendrites. More will be added. It's best to overdose on coffee and uppers if necessary. Do whatever it takes to stay awake until the very last flake has fallen. Snow in the Mid Atlantic is RARE. Last ten seasons have been instructive. Otherwise, sleep like Rip van Winkle, wake up in 2037 then head for Mammoth Mountain Ski resort. It snows HARD for days and days as most of the moisture in the greater Pacific Ocean falls as snow there and winds gust over 100 mph at times. You'll get your fix and you won't be jonesing as bad for snow. Better yet, MOVE there, sleep all you want. They get 400 inches each season. You won't regret this! https://www.mammothmountain.com/

Didn’t you ski with a bunch of us at the Berkshire East weenie gathering, when you were still rocking stand up alpine skis? Seems like yesterday, but that was a long time ago I guess.

Off to get a nap, will report back later.

Reapers NEVER retire. You need to be posting every day. You are The Reaper. You are out of retirement and back on the Beat, effective right now. Because it's not snowing in the Sierra and I am eying The Ledge.

Snowing solidly where I am now in Farmville, VA

It has been a busy week, but it’s a 40 ft walk and an electric chainsawing away for dried, seasoned wood in the wood stove.

Looked close, and JUST right at an inch at 12:45. That is 90 minutes to make an inch. Currently 29.9/27.5 with snow falling.

Looking like we’ll struggle to squeeze an inch. Onto the next. The good news is that there seems to be several upcoming swings at the plate.