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I split time between Odenton, MD and Colesville, MD - both still have serious issues - especially side roads. Both counties seem to be working hard (but slowly) with big machines to widen the main roads. Sidewalks in a lot of communities are abysmal (even HOA places). I even filed a complaint with Anne Arundel County about the HOAs failure to remotely clear the sidewalks of ice a week after the storm. They switched snow removal contractors sometime between last winter and this winter - the new folks SUCK. My neighborhood in Colesville is notorious for people leaving their cars parked on the road before a snowstorm - and this led to my dead end street being a single file lane...and the county hasn't returned to widen it at all.

Take a look at set ups with decidedly +EPO/+WPO/-NAO...promise it won't be this cold, and often downright mild...we've seen some examples over the past several years.

hey that's my tinder profile anthem. I like to set expectations really low

No it hasn't, the North Pacific has. -NAO can prevent a torch and help to lock cold in when it matters, but it's not the source of this arctic flow.

Long Island Sound was starting to slush over on Smithtown Bay yesterday. Any atmospheric physicists want to weigh in on whether that freezing process is keeping things a little warmer along the north shore than they would have been? On another note: although cold, a lot of days and nights recently have been running above forecast but today is running colder than forecast. Doesn't look like we'll make it any higher than about 20.

Was confused by the vibe of the forum. Seemed all the focus was on the warmup.

Correct!

No, it impacted March, but the extreme RNA still worked mid atlantic and SNE.

Yeah it looks pretty likely that it is going to happen, question becomes, can we recover? The -PNA looks pretty rock solid. I bet we see some old fashioned Lakes cutters mid month/second half of the month. This is normal for any winter to go through thaw periods. It’s not a bad time for it to happen if we can get a reload by March. See what happens

This is the week I usually go to Tampa. Not missing much.

Weeklies show a brief moderation towards mid February . It dropped the very cold idea. It does keep the northeast cool.

Temp got over 20 today, first time since Jan 22nd. Nine straight maxima in the teens or singles - been a while since that happened.

I think we did the same for “events” measure in tenths of a inch…

Amazing the difference out west. Friend of mine moved to Great falls last year so I follow the temperatures. The 10-day forecast for Great falls:

Change "February" to Thanksgiving, then to Christmas, then to January. Cold's going nowhere. February may very well be below average too.

Why is that?

Still have local districts canceling school bc of last Sundays storm. At some point, Lil timmy just needs to get back in the classroom.

Those were my two top SSW analogs, and very good seasonal analogs in general. Hence the KU window in early March,

The Airport also measured 0.5”. All in all, it was a nice outcome for Savannah.

Just being a dick. Long range forecasting is hard...only way to get any better is falling in on your face enough (not suggesting you did). I think I have another 22-32" to go IMBY this season.

Feburary will end up 6-10 degrees below average.

Every Sunday, I listen to the recordings (they dub them podcasts but they just record their radio shows) of Andre Viette's "In the Garden" radio show and am usually a couple weeks behind their broadcasts, but still go through them in order and listening to one of the hours this morning, one of the callers was asking about those Cooper Hawks and whether there were more around nowadays versus in the past. And the response was that they are always generally around but the Cooper's are particularly active in December/January/February. When I used to live in a hi-rise on an upper floor, I had a visit by one who perched right on the balcony rail scoping the area for probably an hour or so. Then it suddenly dive-bombed right off the balcony and probably snagged a rabbit that I had earlier seen hopping around on the grass at the front of the building 18 stories down! Am currently at 23 (my weather station says "Feels like 15.3"), which is the warmest "high" here since January 26. The dp is still an arctic 10.

this is what we're reeling in at this point

ORH finally hit 20F today. They got 8 in a row without hitting it which puts that steak alone in 3rd place behind 1961 and 1979 which tied with 10 each.

Post your February Obs here. We easily picked up an additional 8 inches after midnight. That gave us a storm total of 18". That is the most for this area since 1980. High is our current temp of 31. Low was 17.