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63F in Tenleytown - just splendid!  Everything starting to bloom lol.

swear I saw some flurries here in upper NW.

6 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Not all Ninas are complete ratters like this one.

yeah this feels fundamentally different in terms of the wholesale absence of winter

2 minutes ago, Interstate said:

And New York City and Boston and Albany and Rochester... and just about any of city on the East Coast.  This is not a Mid Atlantic thing... This is an East Coast thing.  When the West usually get blasted we get screwed and vise versa.

to me the most unnerving thing is that it's not like we've had shots of freak warmth (although we might get that next week).  Sure, we've gotten to around 70, but it isn't THAT atypical for a given winter for it to happen once or twice.  It's just been... mild - basically wall to wall.  It hasn't felt like winter at all except for a few fleeting moments.

13 minutes ago, 87storms said:

Frederick is the new Asheville, Bmore is the new Raleigh, and Charlotte is the new DC...

...at least until the PDO trends positive.

Sort of kidding, but not totally.

i mean that's basically how this winter has played out.  DC's winter has looked like a typical Charlotte, NC winter.

8 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

Not that I want California to burn down, but I have appreciated the ridge west/trough east summers lately.  I’m not looking forward to the next time we have a summer 2010-2012 pattern.

i honestly don't think we're ready for it when that inevitably comes.

I'm in LA just for the night and it's colder here than back in DC lol

yep noticed some cherry trees starting to bloom along 34th St NW in Cleveland Park yesterday

50 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

81 was a mess early this morning. Had to be in Staunton by 7:00. Left Winchester at 5. Saw at least 6 wrecks in that 90 mile stretch. Black ice is nasty. 

low 50s here already lol

DCA was 43/38 on the day - all in all +2 (another day above normal).

Only the NFL could take a truly outstanding game and fucking completely ruin it in the final moments.  It's almost impressive.

Anyone check in on the Philly forum?

Just now, CAPE said:

Any significant snow reports?

 

Cantore retweeted some guy at a higher elevation in VA with snow falling (but not accumulating).

Yeah this sucks - 35 and heavy rain in mid Feb.

LMAO

40/26 in Tenleytown.

6 minutes ago, mattie g said:

I'll take that bet.

just a matter of time before we get a taste of some of those obscene heat waves seen in Western North America or Europe the past couple of years.

mid 60s here as we approach midnight.  Feels like May outside.

66/55 here in Tenleytown at 9pm.  LOL.

Just now, 87storms said:

I'm all in on this week.  I biked yesterday and kinda sore, but might be spotty showers around tomorrow so I may need to cave and get another session in while the iron's hot.

yep - no point in it being cold if it's not gonna snow imo

8 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

That is true. I guess I'm just not seeing any sharp difference that would suddenly lead to snow to just shut off. I mean I have no horse in this race so I don't care, but I just have a feeling it's a lot of bad luck and DC is bound to get slammed one of these years soon. It apparently had no problem snowing in years past in what you or i would consider an inferno winter. An average DC Winter in the cold 1970s would be the warmest Winter on record for Detroit or Chicago. Everything's relative. 

an increase of just 1 or 2 degrees in the mean can mean a huge difference for the actual effects of such a change.

i wanna say it feels like spring, but with only brief punctuations of actual winter, we seemingly have gone from late Fall to early Spring.

63F at DCA at 11am

7 hours ago, eduggs said:

PSU, poor job all around. I encourage you to read the words that I actually write instead of resorting to snarky, strawman arguments. I don't think this is the best version of you. But I'm confident nobody wants to read any more of this back and forth. Let's just root for snow. 

lol you are welcome to not post in this sub if you have issues here.

26 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Something to consider:

What if we all were standing out in a cold, raw rain...and for whatever reason somebody felt the need to say "It's raining!" every 5 minutes...as if we didn't know that already? Lol I mean...if it was painfully obvious to everybody else, would it still be valuable to hear somebody say that every 5 mins? Sure, they'd be 100% correct that it's raining...but after awhile...would an already miserable crowd not be justified and saying "Yes, we know!"?

That's not at all analogous to what we are dealing with.  We are getting insightful analysis of the short & medium term - it's just nearly uniformly bad if you want snow.