LongRanger

Overnight low of 8 here is one less than yesterday's 9, and one above the 7 low for the season. Anemometer was spinning slowly most of the night.

13 ar 10 pm, 1 degree warmer than yesteday at this time. Temp dropped overnight during calm winds but then jumped whenever wind kicked up.

21 for the day's max, wind has gone calm, so maybe we set a new min temp for this winter tonight

fwiw, during the cold winters of the '70s, the longwave pattern shifted as spring neared such that we flipped to the warm side

of ne.weather, one can thank the late Joe Bartlo and his pset Jack for why boards like this exist

the last VA bullseye at this range wound up at State College

it's well known the only reason Ji is still here is because he has pics of the mods in bed with the JMA

glad someone mentioned ALEET ALEET, I'd been thinking of that through the sleet, now mostly ZR here, temp has maxed out at 20, baro not falling as rapidly as a few hours ago

sleet continues, 6 inches of snow have been compressed to 4 or 5 by about 3 inches of sleet on top, temp has risen to 19, the high for the day so far

DCA avoids the bounce problem by plugging in their snow board

no HowCow plows in the hoods west of BWI yet, which is just as well since clearing roads now would only expose them to the ice to come

yes, brings back memories of 1994's sleet, IIRC one morning around that time temps near BWI dropped to -15

up a degree to 15 with sleet, gotta wonder if the progged upper 20s are going to arrive

no sign of warmth mixing down here, temps have been stuck at 13 or 14 for the last 12 hours

I imagine the QPF vs snow depth measurements are going to be distorted by IP. Whatever fluffy stuff falls first is going to be compacted by sleet on top.

anyone able to access weather.gov is doing so via a certificate other than weather.gov's invalid one, not everyone has that option

weather.gov's CA certificate has been invalid for months, leaving the site totally inaccessible to many

Clara Peller would ask, "Where's the blocking?!?"

we need more \ and less / Earlier, there were comments about ULL capture of a surface low. FWIW, I recall that happening with the Janury 20, 1978 nor'easter.

How do various current wx station models handle normally-varying wind directions? Do any update the direction display many times per second? Many models display what the wind direction happened to be when that instrument was last queried. As most here probably know, air does not always move in a straight line. A real-time wind vane will show the direction changing frequently, for example, anything from W to N, or even beyond, when the average direction is NW. To learn, I acquired a low-end station because the maker was practically giving them away. When I know the predominant direction to be NW, this unit sometimes displays S or E or others because the wind happened to swirl a bit when the vane was last queried. A few seconds later, the next query might return a very different direction. It's basically useless for determining the predominant direction. Some better stations quote a 2-second sampling rate, which seems too low to me, perhaps because I am used to a wired, real-time vane.

I ended up acquiring replacement parts from d8apro.com and repairing the unit.

Is this a permanent change at the Accuweather channel, or did they give all their OCMs Thanksgiving Week off? BTW, windiest day here in awhile. Helped me test my refurbished anemometer.

Something I'm not observing are humans on the Accuweather TV Channel. Lately whenever I've tuned in it's been just automated graphics, even during morning and evening prime time.

Killington and Stowe have opened for skiing. May the snow soon come a few hundred miles south.

DCA: 12" BWI: 18" IAD: 19" RIC: 8" SBY: 8" MSY: T