H2O

FINALLY!!  A decent snow to take the 4x4 out in since I got it in 2021.  Main roads seem ok.  Slushy.  Side ones are more fun.  Some plowed, some not.  The ones not plowed are fun.  Mostly did 2x4 and traction control works wonders.  But for some roads that had hills I threw in 4x4 and let that thing eat.  

Goddamn I love having a truck.

Needle flakes here now. What does that mean for dendrite growth?

2.3”

Honestly surprised I have 2” already. 
 

Time to be greedy and Hope radar keeps filling back in to at least give me snow tv for a while this morning

2” 

30.1°

3 minutes ago, 87storms said:

All it does now is snow and there's nothing we can do about it.

Except in Georgetown

9 minutes ago, wxmvpete said:

Absolutely. For just about everyone along and west of I-95 (including the metros), WPC 6-hr averaged SLRs are 10-12:1 generally between 06-12Z, but 12-18Z are 13-15:1 (Catoctins could approach 16:1), then 18-00Z tomorrow are 15-17:1. Question becomes how much moisture & lift can stick around the region that late.

Can you make a specific ratio for MBY which is just under DC?  I seem to have a 3.14159:1 ratio for my snows.  Thanks.

10 minutes ago, Deck Pic said:

The new thread effect might be 2 for 2. 

Its like Texas hold 'em.  Our hole cards are usually 2/5 off suit.  The first thread is the first burn card before the flop.  The flop is the storm potential.  Every every bad run is a burn card and every good run is the turn and the river.  Sometimes even with 2/5 off suit we luckbox into a full house or flush.  Sometimes with good storms we get a the straight flush.  

4 minutes ago, mattie g said:

Might as well get Ellinwood to paint you in the pale grey right now.

I'm not in the blue.  Fuck this storm.  Its like it knows where I live

5 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Now watch we have some clown ass wonky maps.  Here's SV

I need two more runs that go souther morether.  

4 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

Minor but heights and flow backing off the coast on GFS, trend over last 3 runs 

To me the piece near WI/MN is slower and giving more space.  helps spread things out more.

Funny how the GFS snow map looks more like the Ukie with the blob near Fredricksburg

2 minutes ago, Solution Man said:

somebody post a clown please

53 minutes ago, MillvilleWx said:

Thought this would be a good time to make a rudimentary snow map for ole times sake. Apologies for the crude map design. Doing this on my phone, but still works good enough. Each area is a zone with a first call forecast. Might have a few edits later, but this could very well be my only call. 
 

Forecast

Zone A: Nothing-1” (Trace begins north of Potomac latitude); Up to 2” possible if everything breaks right

Zone B: 1-2” w/ max to 3” if everything breaks right

Zone C: 2-4” (Highest across Parrs Ridge; elevations >600’) 

Zone D: 2.5-5” w/ local max of 6” (Highest along the M/D Line and elevations >850’. Lowest in elevations <275’ in valleys)

Zone E: 5-10” 

Catoctins: 4-6” w/ max to 7”

Usually being zone A means top notch as A is the best.  You try to get a grade of A on most things.  Not a D.  This zone A means: awful, atrocious, agonizing, awfuckthis, and areyoukiddingme.  

But it happens.  N&W will get to enjoy and thats fine.  Got some snow this week.  Watching it fall again for a bit will be nice too.  The new thread didn't bring it back for everyone.  It still needed a souther, diggier, wetter, more jet streakier pointed at Norfolk to be good for lets say Fredricksburg north.  Can't win them all.

8 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

Didn’t h2o start the new thread last storm?

I started the one that Storm killed that brought the storm back

Now Stormtracker is worried

12 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Got out the shower looked at the board and see the last page dead.   Then i found out the event is back.  And Andy worried. Y’all suck. 

I’m just hoping to do better than Georgetown at this point

8 minutes ago, H2O said:

10.4°

 

might drop a tiny bit more before sun comes up

And it dropped.  9.8°

Need a shift south. Won’t happen cause it never does and what would shove it south would dry it up

10.4°

might drop a tiny bit more before sun comes up

9 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Guys

 

Whats wrong with this?  It is right up there with the opening of Saving Private Ryan.  Or the surprise ending of The Sixth Sense.  Or Darth Vader telling Luke who he was.  Just look at the time spent on the graphics.  Epic!

1 minute ago, stormtracker said:

<shudders>.  Yes.   The only good thing in that movie was the junkyard fight.   I remember going to the drive in (yes, again, I'm old af) with my dad.  And even as a 9 year old, I knew something was just off.  It was like nobody's heart was in it anymore.  And the stupid director, Richard Lester, who used to direct slapstick comedy fucked it up.   The beginning title sequence was just pure shit and as I grew up, it got worse and worse.  It was traumatic for me.  

The REAL reason you hate that movie is when Superman is drinking and he's got a Johnny Walker red label bottle

1 minute ago, North Balti Zen said:

The brilliance of Superman IV is unsurpassed. People simply refer to at as "the IV" and the room goes silent as the genius of the work is considered...

It is cinema veritae. A classic in the same way Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind and Godfather are classics. 
 

I’ve often heard how Spielberg used it for inspiration when making movies and we know how good he is