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It’s not even winter yet and the long range thread is messy af

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Absolutely terrible. Yet, we still watch lol

Happy Thanksgiving friends! Spending ours at home with just us three, not hosting, didn’t have to clean, will make a small feast, in my pjs, drinking all day with no stress whatsoever. Fantastic

Heading to the Poconos end of next week for a dance competition with the kiddo, Euro at the end of its run has snow

2.3" for a total

i never even posted in this thread until now.

was my first winter up north, finished with 70"

Here is last years. all 3 pages of it

bless the ignore feature.

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Cheers! Just poured my first

heading to BC Brewery for happy hour with coworkers. love their sours

Was coming to post the same tweet. 48-52” or is it 30-40” (colors vs labels, bad map) imby after last years dismal snowfall would be a treat

Feel free to reach out to her. She’s running it, I just offered to help get the word out to get some people interested in the effort.

If you have any other questions I can ask, let me know! Thanks all!

More from Ashley: I have a PGFD group full of firefighters and enthusiasts (scanner nerds) who will put in interesting or big calls in the chat. Usually it starts with a preliminary dispatch (not vetted as it is reported by public) followed but confirmation by crews, social media, or news,. So the goal is a place to do the same - or even do a call out and ask for reports for big events.

Yes. All reports need to be taken as "unverified" until confirmed. On my end, I will not take action before a verification. When the group is up and ready and I open it up to other EMs - they will be trained to do the same. I do think we should make group rules about that. Feel free to share info like that but people need to say the source, especially if it is second hand.

It is not at this time. Folks still need to pass info on to NWS LWX (or correct office) via the mode they request. We might be able to provide that in the future - but I haven't been able to get LWX as receptive to the VOST concept as other offices I've worked with previously. Perhaps with time!

This is a group to share info amongst each other for our own situational awareness. More of an awareness group of what weather is occurring. Of course, if someone shares a damage report or a report that should be passed on to Sterling, folks are encouraged to still pass that on to LWX the same way they would without the group. This group just allows folks to share what weather is occurring in the state and also will help EMs informally have an idea of what is going on. Folks using it (me or other EMs) will still vet the info before we use it. Similar to what we do with general public reports to dispatch or on social media.

I am not sure if they will have a summary, here is their website: https://www.midatlsevere.com/ It is open to the public, tickets were reasonably priced. They will have it next year, trying to align it with AMS Severe Conference that is happening in VA Beach at the end of October, so their thought is to hold the event in Richmond following that AMS Conference nearby. I think October 26th 2024 was the date I saw, but that could change.

GroupMe is free and easy to use

I know when we did it when we were sending stuff to Sterling, it was being QCd by others prior to being sent to NWS. I will ask Ashley what her plan is and let you know.

Great question! My understand is that it would be used by emergency management, and open to general public vs needing a spotter ID to submit directly to NWS. It is not limited to just PG County, would be communicated across other emergency management offices. Also not limited to storm damage, hail, or snowfall reports, could include traffic accidents and other situational awareness reports. So if a neighbor posts something on social media about damage to their house that they otherwise wouldn't report to NWS because they are not a spotter per say, you would then pass that along to the group.