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Wow I just looked again. Amazing.

Just started snowing here.

A lot of these storms that crush Philly to Boston but screw our area tend to happen in La Nina winters, even storms with a decent STJ involvement. December 2000 (I don't recall the specifics of that setup but I know very well how it ended) December 2010 Boxing Day January 2018 "bomb cyclone" And now January 2022 I don't have the knowledge to explain exactly why, or whether they're specifically linked to La Nina, but it keeps happening over and over again.

It is not an unreasonable desire. Baltimore does not usually go 6 years without seeing a storm like that, so being disappointed is completely justified, so long as it doesn't become true depression or anger. But nothing lasts forever, not even a snow drought or streak of screwjobs. We will get ours again.

Thank God I'm not in central or southern Indiana this year... yikes.

LOL you think so? Would it be from another west shift?

I'm not in the area anymore, but I'm happy for all of you. Looks like my old stomping grounds in RI are about to get crushed.

I already chased the Feb 2013 SNE HECS, as well as the Garrett/Tucker county MLK blizzard this month, but were it not for those then I'd feel a serious urge to go after this.

New England is not the MD eastern shore. They clean up well.

The area of RI where I lived for a few years will be damn near the jackpot. Oh well.

I'll take 3". Hope it comes further west.

I just moved out of NE Rhode Island a month ago, but this storm is making me wish I waited just a little longer. It’s looking possibly historic for that area.

Now here's a storm that will make everyone happy (except the ones who don't want cold and snow).

I have a family event planned for that Saturday so of course it will snow.

You talking about the storm that the GFS shows exactly 12 years after Snowmageddon? I think it will happen.

I did a full lifting routine last summer and fall in the gym and it made a big difference. I'm still not all that strong, but I have a lot more energy and even feel younger now than I did a few years ago. I couldn't do a single pull up until like 4 months ago, so I've come pretty far but still want more. I'll be back in the gym once the omicron bullshit dies down, but for now my main goal aside from skiing is working on my upper body, so I'm doing chin ups and diamond pushups just about every day. A simple way to add lean mass without too much fatigue. It's not quite a full lifting routine and I know I'll need to do more in the long run, but for now it works for me. Also skiing is a lot more fun now. I used to get easily gassed and exhausted whenever I hit the slopes, especially early in the season. Not anymore.

I finally got serious about it last summer. I'm out of the gym for now (COVID), but I have a pull up bar and I'm working on my chinups. So far I can do 9 per set, but my goal is 15.

These days I don't really drink much of anything except water and protein shakes

Oops

It's not done up north.

It sure is beautiful for Delmarva and the beaches.

I was a dumpster fire weenie back in 2009-10. I remember being just barely content if not slightly disappointed after Feb 6-7 that I missed out on the 30+ totals. Ended up with 25". Never again will I feel that way (only "content") after a big storm. Of course, the following storm completely blew away my expectations.

When there are haves and have-nots within the same subforum, the main problem is not really jealousy – that is just immature and thankfully not so common. The tension comes from the fact that the mood will be very different for those who haven't seen a significant storm in years, as opposed to the ones who've seen many 8"+ storms that the others did not get. So people who otherwise normally have similar climo just won't be on the same page, because of these disparities and close-misses. Hoping for a 5-7" storm is not at all unreasonable for Baltimore's climo, so the disappointment is understandable. But it's all part of the ups and downs of mid-Atlantic winter climo. Getting fringed is not fun, but it looks to be in the cards yet again for those of us around Baltimore.

It looked to me like the precip was about to consolidate closer to the coast and the surface low afterwards. But it's the NAM at 84 hours so who knows?

The NAM looks like a regionwide 3-6" event with maybe 6-10" on the Eastern shore. I think most of us will take that.