paulythegun

It's 8 inches of compressed snow and sleet (harder than concrete) plus a week of record cold. a generational weather event in a municipality that doesn't control its own budget. public transit is barely functional (bus lanes are blocked by mountains of ice) so people are understaffed. Plus it's dangerously cold out. i'm not sure what people are expecting. wednesday and thursday, i had to walk 2 miles to work with my dog on my back in a backpack because there was no one to watch him. great exercise though!

I mean it's a double barrelled low with the second one like 1000 miles southeast of it, originally developing over the Bahamas. Think about it like that, and the precip shield won't bother you as much

OUTRAGEOUS. 10 to 1 snow ratios vastly undersell those totals. I demand a correction!!!

The SREF was created to deal with the failure of January 2000. Therefore, the SREF is right. The End.

SREF has between 0 and 39.56" for DCA. The mean is 11.97' and the median is 2.97". Instead of using either of those, let's go with the average of the max and min: 19.78" of snow for DCA. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Cyclogenesis going on at the surface under those messy dashes

Need to use the Tropical Atlantic view to really understand what GFS is doing at the surface. It's offscreen on the CONUS view.

I asked Google Gemini to take a look at the 12z WeatherNext model and compare it to 06z. First, it made up a bunch of stuff. Then it made up more stuff. After insulting it literally a dozen times, I was able to get it to at least pretend to give me some data that was plausible. Here, I asked it about trends in the precip shield: The 06z Shield: Showed the edge of the precipitation (roughly 0.01"–0.05" liquid) flirting with the DC/Baltimore line. The 12z Shield: Pushed that shield about 40–60 miles further southeast. The 12z panel for 84 hours out shows DC entirely in the "dry zone" (the white space on the map), with the moisture field cut off near Fredericksburg and the Chesapeake Bay.

WOW. After ingesting MASSIVE changes in the atmosphere between 12z and 15z, SREF shows this much snow through hour 87, with more on the way

The WeatherNext 2 trend over the last 4 runs through 06z is NW, NW, NW. Found this in another forum, cleaned it up.

Ukmet has been the extreme northeastern outlier on this one. It's just trying to get home...

Agreed. Spite is good. Human beings can live off of a diet of spite and water for over 90 days

I'm guessing we didn't give the Canadians our recon plane data. They never ingested it. Whereas, in contrast, GFS' belly is full

0z models Ingesting the recon plane data like this https://www.reddit.com/r/familyguy/s/mcl2GwxKro

When it comes to this coastal low, the question facing us is this: Tuck? Or no tuck?

You just inspired me. Prepping some steaks and shrimp

Trust me, I'm kind of weirded out!

Roads not fully caving yet in DC. Some sort of new mutant salt

Seeing snow in DC, near the foothills of the mighty Mt. Hamilton

I wasnt expecting anything more than flurries before midnight. I'll wait until then to throw a tantrum...(Not here...in some group chats!) The column is saturating - fairly quickly based on the dew points. All good!

Trying to be positive. Trying SO HARD haha.

Yep! Not a big deal. Will fill in

Mrs. PacMan, as expected. Everything is on schedule. Waiting until about midnight for this to fill in

My guess...they have like 6+ other hires models to look at that are better than NAM, if you include all the experimental ones.