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9 minutes ago, nj2va said:

The spring thread will be waiting for you after both miss dc. 

11 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

It’s happening. Don’t miss out. Be sure to view the long range thread at least 25 times daily

I'm already emotionally invested in Monday AND Friday.  Let the pain begin.

3 hours ago, snowfan said:

I need some new coffee recommendations. Must be ground, darker the better.

Anyone use some of the coffee subscription services where you get a different variety w each delivery?

I'm gonna give you a hot tip on this one.  Charleston Coffee Roasters.  It's the only brand I buy now, really really good coffee (it's premium priced but I stock up when it goes on sale either month).  Drinking their French Roast right now, but I prefer their Kiawah Dark Roast.  Available at Harris Teeter, at least.

1 minute ago, ravensrule said:

I can't believe they got a 2nd and a 3rd for him. 

I had the BIGGEST sigh of relief when I saw he went to Indy...I had the worst feeling the Team was going to give away the house for him.

Just now, stormtracker said:

To be fair when I first started posting on Eastern I thought it was Jackson too...but that was like well over a decade ago.  I'm smarter now.

Just now, Lowershoresadness said:

always wanted to ask, why is your profile pic of president andrew jackson??

LOL that's Beethoven

Just got in from a walk, ZR misting most of the walk.  Really cold and nasty out; side roads and secondary roads still untouched but the main roads are generally just wet.  Prob have like .75" of sleet down, not particularly pretty or anything.  Oh well.

Just now, ovechkin said:

It is? Where exactly? 

SE North Carolina, I would guess lol

Just now, NattyBo said:

I apologize, we haven't had a big snow because right after the 2016 storm we adopted an Alaskan husky (me: "we're a snow town now, babe!").

 

At this rate I'm hoping we'll get another storm at least approaching that before the dog is dead :X

You sick son of a bitch

Man, **** sleet

1 minute ago, JakkelWx said:

Damn right I'm sexy

What's wrong with being sexy?

I miss 72 hours ago when I was the weather heel, all this sleet has really gotten people antsy in their pantsy today.

4 minutes ago, ravensrule said:

You are looking at way too many busts. Please control yourself. 

It's all I have left

I can't wait for that first day of 70s and I can break out the shorts again

Is it sad that this doesn't even register to me as an enormous bust? I mean people on here are calling it an all time area wide bust but seems pretty standard to me, maybe even better than most busts in this area.

2 minutes ago, diatae said:

 

The obs thread is always a gift.

The wetbulbs/psuhoffman argument is the dumbest thing I've ever read.

Just now, Jebman said:

27 degrees with moderate to heavy snow here. Big big aggregates! Picked up another inch on top of the ice on the old snowpack. That's 9.5 inches snow on the season which puts us at something like ~ 1600 percent of normal.

Come back to NoVa we don't get snow without you

Just now, psuhoffman said:

for the record I was NEVER worried about "fringe" with this storm 

You did a great job IMO, you called out exactly what the issue would be and it verified.  Fantastic

Just now, psuhoffman said:

This is EXACTLY how this winter is going to end....

Wave 1

Wave 2

And even though we KNOW its coming its still going to hurt sooooo bad.  LOL 

Delete this

Just now, Round Hill WX said:

I say this in a non-condescending tone...hopefully as a weather nerd community, we have learned this winter the NAMs are very good inside of 36-48 hours...especially with thermal height profiles. @high risk has been a big supporter and advocate for it's benefit and hopefully people will elevate it in their forecasting toolbox. 

You'd have to be willfully ignorant to ignore the NAM nowadays.  It might overdo QPF sometimes but it is a fantastic model for sniffing out suspect thermal layers.

Alright boys I'm rejuvenated which bust are we focusing on now? Monday? Next friday?

2 minutes ago, Wetbulbs88 said:

I could tell your emotions were coming into play on this one. It was tough to ignore the potential given the guidance. I appreciate that you're feeling for us down here. It's just beyond painful at this point. The NAM was onto something though, and NWS knew it. In fact I think they knew the warning for DC was misplaced by that point. They're disco last last night was literally the writing on the wall. 

Funny enough, even if it was all snow, it really wouldn't have been that great an event. Once again the swampy shallows of DC destroyed lift for much of the time. And this thing was in and out within what? Five hours at most? Another trait the pros at Sterling nailed, which none of the models did. 

The NAM had the precip shield screaming out of here, and as a general rule of thumb I always knock off 2-3 hours for precip duration because it always goes faster in actuality.  NAM did an incredible job again.

2 minutes ago, Kmlwx said:

It's honestly the reason I've taken to following @Bob Chill. High school/early college me would legit get like a depression after failed winter storms. Life has just sort of developed in a way for me that I still love snow, but I look at the fact that I still got some shovel time in (call me crazy but I enjoy doing it) and then the silver lining is that I didn't get trapped from seeing friends/family for an extended period.

Not to say I wouldn't give a kidney for a Jan 2016 again - I might consider it...just that I've changed since the Eastern days. It can be refreshing - I still get bummed - but I try to let it only be for a day or so and just sort of let it roll off my back. 

At a certain point I just decided enjoying weather and tracking sure beats going on a downer for days after a winter storm that could have been. 

Yeah dude honestly this winter has really accelerated it for me.  It's not worth my mood being ruined for something out of my control, especially something that's becoming rarer and rarer in this area.  I was fine like a day after the Miller B, so I definitely don't get as horribly depressed as I used to.

Just now, stormtracker said:

Congrats. Seriously. I can always admit when I’m wrong.  We were the PARA GFS and you were the NAM. 

I take no pride in it, I wish I was wrong.  I just have been through too many of these stupid borderline events in this dumb city to know how it's gonna shake out.

Just now, Kmlwx said:

Also...and this is not targeted at you - but as I've said before recently...the nice thing about severe season too is the mood in here is way lighter. We miss a severe event and we all kind of shrug it off and talk about EMLs and joke around with each other. 

Winter weenies tend to bring out the low blows, insults and cranky behavior. I can pick out more than a few members of this forum that seem to have completely different personalities in summer versus winter. 

Totally...I wasn't even trying to be a dick earlier this week, I simply called out what I see all the time here and I ended up being mostly right.  I even toned it down past couple of days.

I think the knowledge in this forum is great and there's a lot of great posters, but we are all diseased weenies and get way too emotional over snow.  I sure do.

Just now, rcostell said:

Nope- Sleetfest in town. Underwhelming. 

My buddy in Conshohocken is getting plastered, sleet line must be right over the city.