Blizzard of 93

Our forum is good most of the time. The NYC, New England & Mid Atlantic forums have been un-readable at times this year with all of the doom & gloom. Thank goodness there are some good posters in the Mid-Atlantic forum that actually provide great analysis.

Sure, too much of anything (expect snow ..of course) is usually not good, especially if people have blinders on. It just seems like the “debs” have overwhelmed the threads this year. They have actually chased away several good quality posters.

I thought @Itstrainingtime recently Said the “Met from Millersville” did not give up ?

This is not directed at you....or really most on our thread. I meant Other regional forum posters & several pro forecasters that have given up. Yes, they should stay away if things get good again in my opinion if they made those bold proclamations. Bandwagon people only come around when things are good, or they take joy in bringing people down, because they only root for a winner. They don’t have the interest or ability to see or search for the light at the end of the tunnel. Some good posters actually contribute on here with more than “meh” or “It’s over” or “it’s not happening” or “next”.... @showmethesnow had one of the best posts of the year yesterday in the Mid Atlantic forum. It’s worth a read if you can find it. It was directed at negative & worthless posters (again no one in here). They add No value & derail the threads. Basically, If they think something isn’t going to work out, they should post something more than just “it probably won’t happen. They should add a map or at least a little reasoning as to why they think that way. They do it just because they are pessimistic, miserable people that do not allow for the possibility of good. They want to protect their emotions & rather just assume the fail. I AM DONE WITH THOSE PEOPLE!!! Now, I’m going to go back to chasing unicorns (or possibilities of change or something different for those that choose to have a positive outlook....)

Great post! It is not over, until it is over, despite the terrible start this year. Our snowiest month the last 3 years has been in March. The long range telleconnections look good, especially with the EPO heading negative again later next week. Cold air has returned to the pattern, & is coming back this week. I too love the thrill of the chase. Some chose to give up already. They should stay away even if we get a late snow save, but I’m sure they will just hop on the bandwagon... I won’t stop until it’s impossible to snow !

I was just having a little fun. We have a great group here! I can’t wait until we are under a CTP wide Winter Storm Warning with the only question being just how much snow our yards will get !

Ha, Here is some banter... Cheating Red Sox! Awesome, just like the cheating Patriots! There, I finally did some good non snow talk banter .. ! Also, I promise everyone that it will snow here again unless we all melt from the rising temps ! Banter is fun !

The only thing that I know is that one sweet day it will snow again in my backyard!

What are your thoughts on the winter “song” changing towards later next week into late February ? The MJO & ensembles seem to be leaning towards a change, hopefully it will be music to our ears...!

Sleet & rain mix currently here in Marysville. The EPS looks improved as we head into the last 10 days of February. The MJO on the Euro looks to head into the COD towards phase 8. The EPS is also showing the stubborn southeast ridge getting booted out as well beginning later next week. Hopefully we all get back in the snow game soon & salvage a decent last 6 weeks of winter.

Thanks man! The 0z GFS has a Winter storm chance next Friday. Maybe this time we will have a better chance? We just need to keep swinging to try to get out of our hitting slump.

It will make it that much sweeter when we get our late February MECS & our March HECS ! One can dream a little....right ?

The 0z GFS brings front end snow to most of CTP, including the LSV north of Rt.30 with storm late Wednesday into Thursday am.

I wouldn’t mind seeing some flakes in the air at this point. On another note, it looks like the 18z Euro took a step towards the GFS with the system later in the week. It wouldn’t take too much to get most of CTP in the mix for a minute minor front end event.

Do you think that the LSV has any chance at wet snow this evening with the band of precip that is running near the turnpike? The dew points are in the mid 20’s, & It looks like western PA is getting light snow with temps in the mid 30’s.

Yes, it sure does. Maybe for once it can lead the way on a good trend back to the better solutions from earlier this weekend. Go USA !

Maybe it’s just radar hallucinations, but there looks to be a growing area of precip over southern Ohio. Most models developed the heavier precip across northern PA during the early stages of the event. Perhaps even southern PA can get in on some wet snow tonight if the heavier precip arrives before the little cold air that we have leaves tomorrow morning ?

The 12z GFS actually kept the low under PA & delivered a decent event for our I-80 & I-99 crew later this week.

The end of the 12z NAM run looks like mixed precip for CTP on Wednesday. It is a shame that the models now insist that this southern stream system will run out earlier than originally shown a few days ago. If the storm had held back until later on Thursday, the fresh cold High could have delivered a good snow event. Maybe the better idea is to have it speed up even further, so it can’t cut to the lakes, but be weaker & pass underneath us ?

Ok, you made me look at the 84 hour NAM... I’m not so sure that it would cut to the lakes. There is a lot of traffic in southern & eastern Canada that could create confluence to push the storm to the east instead of north. Also that Arctic High in southern Canada is starting to push south as well.

Extrapolating the 84 hour NAM is like...fill in your joke here.... Heck, some of us probably just got done shoveling the 2-4 inches of snow that it showed for much of the LSV for Friday that showed on the NAM on Thursday night, 12 hours before the storm !!!

Unfortunately, the Euro is not on board. The southern stream lifts north out ahead of the northern stream, allowing the low to cut to Lake Erie. This is still far from decided.

We have been saved a few times even well into March the few years. There is still lots of time. Let’s do this !

The Canadian makes us 3 for 3 today at 12z with our Thursday snow chance.

I see your point, but there is more cold air available this time & a fresh High pressing in that could make the difference north of the Mason- Dixon line. I understand proceeding with caution with what we have gone through this season so far. I think that we are due to end up on the right side for a change. Heck, this place might be kind of empty even if we get snow when considering how many people have canceled winter already & have given up hope. #jimmyVdontgiveup