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Just now, Weather Will said:

We had our chance, sun angle issues start next week...

Or as Bob Chill once called it...the dumb angle, lol

8 minutes ago, WVclimo said:

BWI had 6"+ on Christmas day 1969.  About 6" on New Years Day in 1971.  Around 5" on 12/27/1990.

Ah ha...my mom has told me about this, and I was about to mention it as a possible exception...I was born two days before that (Dec 24th), and she tells me she stayed in the hospital an extra day because of it, lol (so literally my first time outside there was snow on the ground! ) 

Where did you look up that record? Or did you just happen to remember?

13 minutes ago, 40westwx said:

I remember getting a foot of snow on new years day one year.. not sure which year it was.. but it happened

Whenever it was it probably didn't happen down my way...don't have any record of that amount...but again, that would be awesome!

5 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

Can't speak for Maestro, but Balt City peeps are still chasing their first verified Warning-level snowfall since Jan. 2016 (no, we did not get there in the Jan. 2019 dealie). For my part, I would like a Watch into a Warning that verifies for Balt City. Been quite awhile up here...

Indeed it has...2019 was a total troll with 4.8" being tallied, lol It has been almost 5 years...time for the WDI! 

1 minute ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

Well, that may be true about the last week or so of December, climatologically.  But then again, people said kinda the same thing about the 3rd week of January, that we never get any good snows around that time.  Then there was some kind of event...oh...sometime about Jan. 22-23, 2016 I seem to recall?? 

I'm just joking with you, of course, for fun!

Not saying a Jan. 2016 redux should be expected or will occur (but we'd take that!), but maybe we can crack through the dearth of WSW snows the last week of December!

Ha, well I don't know who was saying that about the 3rd week of January...because if you look at our history that around the time when the money period starts!  But yes, as WSW breakthrough would be nice!

7 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

Dec 26, 2012 was about 6” here followed by sleet and freezing rain. That was the Chill storm

Got no such thing here...total inches at BWI that December is 1.4"

5 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

Is WSW the bar?

I'd like to think 5" is a reasonable bar to consider something noteworthy. It's been my bar since I missed it by .2 inches in 2019, lol

3 minutes ago, gymengineer said:

Are you sure you meant to go all the way to January 9th? 

I had the blizzard of '96 in mind...but I see I was off by a couple days--so Jan 6th! But I picked that date because that was the earliest in January we had ever gotten a big hit (I think)--kinda unusual (usually our hits come from mid-January through President's day, and the occasional March hit).

Not sure I wanna get sucked into this "potential"... Last week of December is a historically bad time for us to get good snow (more than a couple inches). If you look at our snow history...I don't recall seeing any dates between Dec 26th and Jan. 9th where we got WSW level stuff at BWI/DCA (anybody got any record on that?) I'm not sure whether it's just coincidence or what...but for some reason we don't seem to get warning level snows during that time period. Would love for this trend to suddenly break this year though...It's 2020, so why not? Lol

I'm disappointed that this cloud cover might cover up the Jupiter-Saturn thing tonight (and from the looks of it...tomorrow night too) hope we can get some miracle clearing...

Baltimore/Maryland can have absolutely horrible timing with clouds and celestial events...sheesh.

1 hour ago, Juliancolton said:

"Today's music" doesn't even have any meaning. It's gibberish. Jeff Lynne/ELO released in the year 2015 what I'd argue is their best album ever. Is that real music because a 70s band created it, or today's "low IQ BS"? Paul Simon released one of his best-selling and highest-charting records in 2016. McCartney, Dylan, Neil Young... they're all actively creating music that charts and permeates the popular culture. Just say "I don't like rap" and be done with it.

Ya can't simplify this with "I don't like rap" (which btw is also suffering from the mediocrity bug. It was better even 15 years ago, lol). This is more general "pop music" If you want more specific terminology...okay: the newer artists, current artists, (as well as older ones who have sold out and watered down their music to sound more "current"), the more popular "sound" being produced...that's what we're talking about.

32 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Ravens have the tiebreaker over the Browns and Colts. Both teams are playing very well though and Colts could win their division still. If that happens, the Titans would be competition for a playoff spot, and they beat the Ravens. Miami has to play at the Saints the final game of the season. So yeah, lots of possible outcomes. The Ravens need to take care of business and let the chips fall. I just hope they aren't the 3rd 11-5 team in NFL history to not make the playoffs.

And that's where gotta have a little faith  I cannot see us going through we've been through the last month, and taking care of business on our end, and it just ends like that. I think we'll have something go in our favor!

Just now, CAPE said:

There are only 2 games left lol. The Ravens have the "easiest" schedule, so there is that.

That's what I'm saying though...do the Browns, Colts, AND Miami win their last 2 games? (for the Browns 3 games since they haven't played yet) Not impossible...but it can't be that probable either!

3 hours ago, Hoosier said:

Is that real?  I'm sorry but that is pretty funny.

It can't be...it sounds TOO coincidental, lolol

1 hour ago, CAPE said:

LOL the Ravens may very well finish 11-5, and miss the playoffs.

That happened to the Broncos years ago, the same season the Browns won their division with an 8-8 record. The team formerly known as the Redskins were 10-6 that year, and also missed the playoffs. And no I didn't even have to google that. I don't remember the exact year though, but it was in the late 80s I believe.

Gotta have a little faith, dude...we win out, I am almost sure one of the other games will go our way. Think about it...the other teams ahead of us would have to win out as well. Not impossible...but I'm not sure of how probable it is. Besides, we've been through too much to go out like that...I think we get something to go our way.

17 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

 

 

 

ok boomers

Not sure about the other two...but I ain't! Born in 1990, lol

4 minutes ago, JakkelWx said:

Don't invest in anything dude...lol

15 minutes ago, nj2va said:

I haven’t seen the surface maps but 12z Euro has a monster closed 500 low off ACY for 12/30. 

ETA:  Great Lakes low jumps off the coast of DE and strengthens as it heads to the cape.  Slams interior upstate NY.   Block exerting its influence on the GL low.

Alright I'm a bit confused here...GL lows are bad, right? And can't they impact a Miller B screwjob? My thoughts on this are a bit jumbled because all I can remember is the March 2018 Heartbreakers where that dang low dove down and screwed up the timing or something. @psuhoffman perhaps you can clarify what happened there?

2 minutes ago, Weather Will said:

I have zero expectations for more snow before Christmas but the models have not figured it out yet....compare WB 0z EURO to 12Z Friday 1 am.

Yeah to me seems to be enough ambiguity to deem Christmas flakes as a toss-up right now...I wonder if this is one of those ones where details that are usually ironed out Day 3 or sooner could give us a chance!

4 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

My bigger worry for the post Xmas threat is a miller b screw job not cutter. I’m talking about the Dec 28 period. Anything after that is way too far out to worry about. 

Count on it...none of of our bigger snows have come between Dec 25th and New Years...something always seems to happen (i.e. Dec. 2010.) It's just a time where the atmospheric dice don't roll right, lol

15 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Yeah why dont people write songs like this anymore?

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03i2759LM-ln_Jxr3RiClecvXmtnA%3A1608431670371&source=hp&ei=NrjeX7q3E-iw5NoPgsyTyAI&q=dan+fogelberg+new+years+song+lyrics&oq=dan+fogelberg+new+yea&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgBMgUIABDJAzIGCAAQFhAeOgQIIxAnOgUILhCRAjoFCAAQkQI6DgguELEDEIMBEMcBEKMCOggIABCxAxCDAToCCAA6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOgQILhBDOgQIABBDOggIABDJAxCRAjoHCC4QsQMQQzoICC4QsQMQgwE6AgguOgoILhDJAxBDEJMCOgUILhCxAzoKCC4QsQMQgwEQQzoKCAAQsQMQgwEQQzoOCC4QsQMQgwEQyQMQkwI6CAguEMkDEJMCUKIFWPYrYIA3aABwAHgAgAFXiAGnC5IBAjIxmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab

thats how a real writer writes....

 

14 hours ago, Kborne said:

I have three sons.  They know the words to all my fav 80's songs...Their friends come over...they like those songs too..  it surprised me to hear them say today's music sucks. 

 

13 hours ago, HeadInTheClouds said:

Your kids are smart. I grew up with The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Stones, the Who, Peter Frampton, Van Halen, etc... Todays music just doesn't compare. 

Hello! From the Mid/Atl thread but I lurk up here occasionally! (transferred the quotes hear so as not to take the other thread off topic). 

But as a musician who regularly rants about how terrible today's music is, I couldn't help but chime in and agree here. I am also stoked to hear your kids are enjoying music from other decades...and I'm actually encouraged that they came to a similar conclusion about the quality (or lack thereof) of today's music! And I believe that's evidence that this generation CAN appreciate better music if given the chance. I often wonder if it's a matter of exposure (or again, lack therof)...You may not realize you're getting fed musical slop from a lot of "current" music if you don't have anything better to compare it to! And for the record industry...if people keep buying up the slop, is there real motivation to change? Ya gotta wonder...

And even worse is seeing some artists who were popular even 20 years ago start watering down their music to fit the "current" sound (and in this case current too often becomes musically mediocre). I could go on, but...just thought I'd add my two cents!

12 hours ago, GATECH said:

Happy Anniversary @mappy!  Dec 19 was one of my favorite DC snowstorms, seen them all since 1998 when I moved to DC, something about a Blizzard just before Christmas was magical though!  Plus I was hammered Blizzard eve at my work Christmas party, stumbling home as it was starting...and yes the snow was up to my Golden’s eyeballs that evening!

Oh dang I didn't even remember it being classified as a blizzard--wow!!

31 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Yes. And if you believe the means it anchors in and meanders around the general NAO region. So hopefully as you said timing and luck can play a role when it ventures into the more favorable areas. GFS op is eye candy wrt HL blocking the entire run and even becomes more favorable farther out. But alas....op at range so salt grains and all that jazz.

Yeah don't wanna have to rely on luck and timing for anything...lol Let's hope it sets up in a better position!

Shoot...even when we can get the PV to split, then we gotta get it to split the right way? Always something, lol

38 minutes ago, mappy said:

Thank you friend! 

Happy Snowversary to ya!! Wow...a wedding can't get much better than that!

10 minutes ago, 40westwx said:

Think Ray Lewis

Yeah I figured it out! I'll forever associate that song with #52, lol