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I would gladly take a winter with several small to medium sized events. There were 2 problems with this winter in that regard for my area. It had one medium sized snow event(that under performed) and 2 light ones. everything else was less than an inch front end slop that was gone with the main rain event that followed (and I am still not close to climo). That leads to the other problem- the general character of the winter. Cutter city. Yeah many of our events are flawed, but rarely if ever this winter, in the short range, were we looking at a slam dunk widespread frozen event.

Apparently 2 big FA acquisitions by the Ravens today. So maybe there was a method to their madness after all.. other than just rebuilding/going with youth. "Apparently" because its being reported that both players- former Saints RB Mark Ingram and Seahawks S Earl Thomas- have agreed to sign contracts.

Bomb Cyclone! is back in the news.

lol its fukking Spring.

Yeah the Badlands looks like a pretty bad ass place to be for this one. Blizzard warning with up to 2 feet of snow.

Good run? You are like 5 miles north of me. This winter sucked ballz. No sugar coating it.

Really good winters(above normal snowfall) for the coastal plain are typically solid -AO first and foremost, and also feature some legit -NAO episodes. Not talking bootleg/transient/thread the needle stuff. Real NA blocking periods.

Its always odd here lol. Last couple winters I caught the western edge of offshore coastals that left areas further inland high and dry. This year was just bad luck mostly. Basically the "inversion" of last winter, where I did fine and the DC crew was snow hole central. This winter when the set up was good enough for frozen, my area got snow holed/ less qpf than forecast, or precip was delayed in the front end thump events- and the column went to hell by the time the good stuff arrived. Just one of those winters.

We got really lucky....and unlucky..we could of finished at 15 or 40 lol...I think the winter was frustrating because all we did was wait and wait ...then delay...wait...the climate models were terrible. Never has epic periods despite the weeklies constant looks. Never had a legit nor'Easter....no sustained winter weather It isn't always about hitting average snowfall. One 6-7" storm and I am at average. Wouldn't make any difference. This winter totally sucked here. It was much worse than the last 3. And I pretty much hated 2015-16.

Its just that looking at that map, it does not capture the difference between what fell in my area(totally lame) and what fell in and around DC(very respectable). Keep in mind I average more snow than DC. There is a fairly big difference between 12 and 24" in these parts, as you well know.

We certainly have done soupy. warm + humid is heat in my book.

We do heat. And (precipless) wind, we do that pretty well too. Lets track.

Yeah it could easily be more detailed with localized maps. I didn't go to the link to see if it was clickable to zoom in on a particular region.

Yeah it would be great. I love detail. Very detail oriented.

That map could stand to be a little more granular. That 12-24" area though. Yeah I am in it, but just over 12. Would be more representative if adjacent to the 6-12 area, it went 12-18, 18-24...

Probs see it in May and June, real time and verified. You wouldn't miss it much if you went back and looked at just about every GEFS run for Jan and Feb. Lol another classic LR fail.

Whats going on here? I haven't been paying attention. Total Spring mode..and I been reaped. Do I need to come back as the zombification of bitter man?

Made it to 55 here. 10 degrees below forecast high.

Time for some palate training here I think. IPAs are defo not gross. Well, I am sure there are some poorly executed ones, but there are plenty of superb ones to choose from.

Newark, DE looks like that once every 6 years or so.

Over-performed here a bit. 0.73". Almost always maximize with rain events this winter, but just the opposite when it snowed.

I'm sure we can still manage chilly rain on March 20th. I noticed much of last night's rain fell with temps in the upper 30s. Headed in the right direction!

Well, the Nino pretty much completely failed, and many of the winter outlooks were predicated on that. But to be fair, it was clearly going to be a late developer it it did occur at all, and there were some who were hyping early blocking etc, similar to 2009-10, which was clearly a "reach".

Been a week since my reaping. I think the bitterness has been mitigated. I am in a better place now. There is beer here, lots of beer.

And it's Mr Bitter, not grumpy.