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At least that city would be a part of this subforum!

Got clouds out there this morning. Lots of clouds. Great storm. We should start making threads for sunny days, too.

Interesting. We moved to Ellicott City (Turf Valley area) and we had drizzle mixed with flakes and then some very short periods of all flakes when it came down a little harder. I thought I was going to see some steady snow but the best returns out by Mt. Airy really fizzled to almost nothing as it came east.

Fringed!

Let's gooooo!!! LOL. What is the earliest those of you in the city and metro areas actually look for it to snow? I always think of first flakes being legitimately possible around November 20 and then obviously first actual legit snow December 5.

Just moved from Southeast Elkridge to pretty much the far northwest part of Ellicott City, so hoping that's a good omen for this upcoming winter and many to come.

Call me crazy, but I think it's too soon to be making declarations like that. 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 wasn't that long ago. 2015-2016 was a crappy winter but we still managed an epic storm. I'm more frustrated than anyone at the lack of snow, but sometimes we go through these stretches around here. It was just hard to remember brutal stretches like this because we were on such a heater there for awhile. Maybe climate change is really impacting our winters, but I think it's too soon to say our last several winters have been poor because of it.

Heh, we are getting our payback, though for some, last year was FINE.

Guidance wasn't the only thing that mishandled plays this past week!!!!!!!!

This week was really the worst. I still haven't gotten over the game. Thought I at least had a great snow pattern to cheer me up. So much for that.

Hour 336 on the GFS is amazing. It's just dumping on 95 with the deform with a 983 mb low right off the coast. Have to imagine there is significant winds with that. You know, the fake system that isn't real that I'm going to analyze for the heck of it.

Yeah this weekend was just a bonus if it worked out. I'm not even a fan of that setup. They usually end up way worse in my actual yard than on the pretty maps. The flip to sleet always happens way sooner than progged and it's mostly a sleet/freezing rain event.

This is a typical Ji post, but it's not really all wrong. There was some hype about the second half of January being really good, but by second half of January, it seems more like the last week, if that, of January could be interesting. 10 days from now is already January 24. And that's if you are buying the 10-15 + day stuff again.

Only an OP but GFS doesn't have much to get excited about.

What a crappy night. Might need to make my first trip the panic room. Ravens go down and the upcoming pattern takes a step back.

I guess we don't have to worry about the weather forecast for next Sunday.

I was thinking the exact same thing as well. Haven't had too many snow games. The Ravens-Vikings game in 2013 was a lot of fun.

I don't either, but fun to look at. It's kinda like buying a lottery ticket before the actual drawing. It's fun to dream lol.

Just saw the 6z GFS fantasy storm. Woooo boy. That looks fun.

Yeah, so lucky. 2014 was an absolute blast.

January/February 2014 was very cold and a parade of storms. It was basically tracking for two straight months. We've had much more snow and much bigger storms, but I don't remember a period that long that was that busy and wintry. February 2015 was basically the same, but to a lesser extent.

It would be quite windy though ahead of the front during the game, wouldn't it?

Judah cancelling winter might mean winter is about to start LOL.

I'm pretty much there at this point. I'm come to terms with it and I'm at peace with it. My hope is that another dud winter (although I know some will argue last winter wasn't a dud since we were around average snowfall but the way we got there sucked) makes us due (even though that's not really a thing), but I just want a big snowstorm. Sure, a blizzard would be great, but a 4-8/6-12/8-14 would be nice, and one that doesn't start melting the second it ends or turns to rain and washes away.

Seems like we are only a few days away from probably cancelling almost all of January.