North Balti Zen

Capital Weather PoPo?

That layer of freezing rain from Monday that crusted over the snow here in Balt has had the benefit of really helping the snowpack hang on - at least in my part of the city. We may actually get enough to remain to call it snow on snow for Sunday...

The council has met. You are summarily banished from the realm.

Crippling. If temps are in the mid-20s and we get steady light rain, it would be crippling. God forbid it would be even a little windy to boot. True ice storms are very rare. The Nashville one mentioned in 1994 was one such - that stretched all the way back along I-40 to Oklahoma if memory serves. Anyone who cares at all about trees, power, and the like should not want to see a true ice storm. Pics from Nashville in 1994: https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2015/02/16/nashville-then-ice-storm-of-1994/23505561/ Here's a report from Memphis from the great southern ice storm of 1994... https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/02/11/breakdown-looking-back-ice-storm-feb/#:~:text=MEMPHIS%2C TN (WMC) -,history occurred%3A Ice Storm 94.&text=That swath of moisture brought,as rain early Wednesday morning.

Just a grammy short of an EGOT in his case. And he was grammy nominated a few times. Cicely Tyson and Cloris Leachman this week too. Just absolute giants.

RIP to Christopher Plummer. Absolute legend, all the way to the end. He was fantastic in Knives Out just last year.

"Outside the band" is on the Baltimore City coat of arms...

We appreciate your sacrifice.

My more serious answer about why people care is that is what makes it feel "real" to them, as opposed to a weather model fantasy.

Um, watches and warnings make it snow. You know that.

Seriously.

Not even close.

You think ICON has a COLD bias? Seriously?

New thread, DD!

Tell you what, I am gonna urge the ice encrusted snow cover to battle as hard as it can to hang on enough to help a little with temps for the Sunday dealie.

The council nods. Then it nods again.

The council nods in approval.

Could be. I just copied that from the contest thread. In any event, once DCA crossed the 2.3" threshold, this thread drifts away...

As of 2/3/21: BWI: 6.0" DCA: 2.8" IAD: 8.1" And with that, we are safe to let this thread fall away until January 2022. Whatever else happens, this will not be a top five futility year.

Don't make me re-convene the council.

This is a bad example of kind of collective will it north attitude this board needs to have to make it a repeat of the 1/30/10 success.

Thanks. Perfect training for the subsequent systems to know where to pummel as it turned out...

Bah. (And probably). I just recall the modeling being so south for so many days up until gametime...

Right? The collective glee that AM around 7:00 am when it became clear that it was well north of guidance and that glee building over the next few hours as it clearly came north and snow broke out all the way to just across the state line into PA was something I will not soon forget. And then, on top of it all, it was a damn fine snow event. I recall the old meterologist on WBAL TV (he's retired now, John ___) kinda throwing up his hands around 11 AM and saying it looked like seven plus inches was likely now. It was fantastic.

There's no question about it. The will hasn't been there. In coach parlance, we just didn't want it bad enough.