powderfreak

Ha, the jackpot mentality yes. The old "I got 6-10 inches and couldn't be more angry about it because someone else got two feet"...

Love how much of the discussion revolves around imaging this in winter and how elated or upset folks would be. Some things never change. Winter still rules the forum.

Quite the orographic precip shield after that main band lifted north on models?

Yeah sad to see the changes. Descriptive and knowledgeable AFDs are the best part of the NWS (or were).

What? They issue AFDs like 4 times a day or used to? You hear from the NWS when it’s partly cloudy or when it’s a big deal. That is/was the value of it. I read the man updates almost daily and I bet many on here do too.

18z HRRR is wet for eastern SNE.

That’s an angry ocean haha.

Just ripping most of the night. Sustained 35-40mph, gusts 45-50. Its still hammering pretty good.

I honestly am not sure… enlighten me. The strong jet stream shearing energy apart? Hadley Cell? Lack of amplification?

Models show about 40kts moving in tonight on OBX and hotel room is about 50 feet above the dunes facing east. Could be a little fun on the balcony as the low level jet moves through.

Been sustained 20mph with gusts to 35 here on the OBX shore. We see this at the summits but the vast majority of inland locations don’t see this… the ocean front sustained 20kts on the dunes is fun weather. Cant imagine what a true 40kts+ sustained feels like off the ocean. The sustained part is important… it’s not gusts.. the air is just always moving at that speed at all times.

From hard freeze to OBX. Wind is steady out of the east with blowing sand on the dunes. Ocean is rough.

Widespread freeze. ORH at 40F while all around is in the 20s lol.

30/27… gonna put up a decent number of hours below-freezing tonight.

Fair enough, the urban legend continues to grow for the Euro of old, ha. I was just thinking even if the Euro is consistent now, we still don’t trust it like we used to against the others. It’s too bad.