hosj III

I think its some combination of rosy retrospection and improvements in model accuracy being met with immediate attempts to extend forecasts further. I haven't been watching them nearly as long or nearly as well as you have, but in my view the improvements since 2010 are obvious and enormous.

This will forever be remembered for me as the winter of two storms, one that wasn't a blizzard but felt like one and the other that was a blizzard but didn't feel like one.

Super low impact storm in the city. Sidewalks and roads 100% clear.

I wonder what total precipitation amounts were, roughly 10% of snowfall?

going to sleep a couple hours before waking up to catch the daylight remains of the storm... maybe 3 or 4.5 hours....

I've been saying 17" since friday.... i think i'm gonna nail it

what do you have? ~11" here

I'll go grab some measurements in a few minutes but I'm guessing around 11-12" "

How much do you think the city can get? 15"?

Snowing in cape may per friend. Starting to regret not driving down there for this one.

Cold, dark winter mornings Fog The "pre snowstorm" weather of a sense of "descending stillness" Howling winds that make the building your in shake Walking around after a strong thunderstorm that brings down branches/debris Lightning illuminating a distant cumulonimbus on an otherwise mostly clear summer night

in a technical sense you're right, because a newcomer that acted like Ji would probably get banned

As usual the "drama" in this board is always just a new poster getting absolutely dogpiled by veterans for (not unreasonably) assuming that if Ji can do something, they can too. The moderaters here do a great job removing bad posters but until they start following the same rules they enforce on others they will find there's an unending stream to replace them. Or just literally amend the forum rules to say "these apply to new posters only". I'm serious, would reduce temper tantrums from new members if they knew this was the case going in.

Is the NAM trying to do something here

there is far more complaining about complaining than there is complaining