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So does that mean growing season is over in the high terrain?

Amazing morning today. Had my window open last night and it cooled my room to winter room temp. This whole August has been great, feels very pre-global warming. Unlike last month.

It was crazy a few hours ago… we ended up with 2 tornado warnings and the sesh got wild for a bit. But thankfully I’m still alive.

Tornado warning here. This is insane… I’m actually worried

I went to Dallas, and watched the eclipse with my younger cousin and told her all about them. It was an amazing experience, and my second time seeing an eclipse after 2017. Of course the pics don’t do justice, and a few minutes is never enough. But it was 100% worth it and I can’t get enough of it.

I told you not to give up! Texas is looking a lot better than it did before. You can’t jump ship a week out.

I wouldn’t give up just yet. It’s still a week away. I have a refundable ticket so I’ll see how it goes.

Years ago I remember speaking to @usedtobe about PDI... he has all kinds of memories of it, and if I'm remembering correctly it was some of the heaviest snowfall rates he's ever seen in his life.

If we can get 70 degree weather in January (incl 80 in DC) then I’m not going to shed a tear if people get mad about spring snow. Yeah, I know I’m being spiteful. But unseasonable weather can go both ways

March 2014 was much bigger south of us, but March 2018 was a big one here.. 8.5” and it was after the equinox

Even the closer N/W suburbs (think IAD, MoCo/HoCo, etc) can still score in mid-March. Sometimes even late March but that’s pushing it. I’m not giving up. In 2018 the greatest moment came right after the solstice and I’m still yet to see a storm that big ever since IMBY.

Yes we’ve done ok considering how ridiculously warm it’s been. A large part of the reason was that cold spell in January. But the problem is that this kind of warmth has become so normalized.

The snow depth map from 18z 3k NAM yesterday gave me 2” exactly. My actual total was 80% higher. It’s a bad tool most of the time.

Thats why the mid-January cold spell with those two snow events felt so special and even extraordinary. It brought back memories of the past, as if the atmosphere decided to give us a rare taste of the bygone 20th century winter cold we used to enjoy years ago.

I find it incredible that many places just a few miles from that band didn’t just get 4-5”, a lot of them got less than 2” while they were just miles away from 6-12”. That has to be infuriating.