North Balti Zen

You can take the boy out of the DMV but you can't take the DMV out of the boy...

@WxUSAF Sigh

If we took up a collection to get Will to stop posting those maps of infinite sadness, how much would it take to get him to stop, do you think?

I assume one motivation is draining all hope, fun, and joy out of the weather and chatting about it.

I don't know, it's a new kind of hell to be disappointed in two threads, and disappointed out of order to boot. +1 for a new winter weather board torture.

In all seriousness, that number is well ahead of mine from June 2016 to the present here in Balt City. Wow, that's...that's disheartening as hell frankly. By the way, glad to hear from you in these parts again. Actually, your timing on that move was equisite - like a weather Costanza leaving after the Jan. 2016 high note - "Well, that's it for me! I'm out!"

shrewd move - you are seeing way more snow down that way since you moved than we have seen here...

Took my son back to college in NE Ohio this weekend. At least got to see, walk, and drive in snow showers for two days. Pretty snow covered fields and trees up on the PA turnpike from the Laurel Highlands over to that tunnel 25 miles west of breezewood. Was nice to just confirm that snow can still happen somewhere.

Not me. My complaining was designed to force this from the GFS.

Where did I say that? you guys get so weird about this. I am not blaming you or anyone for lack of snow. I am noting that we have been in a moving 30 day window for almost 30 days now. I said I hope this finally draws closer in time but I am now firmly skeptical. You are not responsible to make it snow, nor is CAPE or Ralph or wentz. The analysis has been good. Just more me noting the length the snow payoff has now drifted sideways . And that it may indeed keep slipping sideways.

I don’t have the patience to go find them, but I could collect some posts from the really good posters on here that have said , since Jan 1, to “watch the period starting on the tenth” ”by the 15th we should be seeing blues on runs” ”the period around the 20th is ripe” ”window should be wide open by the 24th-26th” and now Ralph’s above. and that’s setting aside the posts from mid-December that the period from Christmas to New Years and just after New Years were ripe. larger observation is we’ve been kicking this can down the road for about a month now - the can being “ something , anything to track”. When I’ve seen this before in the previous 11 winters I’ve been here, it is, generally, not ideal. this road ends with the people in the maryland highlands trying to convince anyone below 1000 feet in elevation that snow on March 25th is good while they get five inches and everyone else gets puddles... hope one of these goalpost moving periods gets closer in time, but for 30 days now the goalposts keep moving. also, side note, props to the GFS for generally refusing to show blue over us in the long range, as that has been accurate as hell...

“Loving that look last few days of January into early Feb. Thats the period that holds the most potential the entire season once things slow down and relax. Until then we are playing with fire with the NS shred factory“ you all literally keep moving this period back. That’s a really bad sign.

There have been several “wait til February “ posts the last few days - that’s how you know things are going GREAT.

Bojangles are by FAR the best biscuits. And, to make that relevant to this thread, you can get them all over North Carolina, making your snow chase there tasty...

Still feels like early november. You could be in shorts.

Rodney is this thread's reaper. He's well paid to keep it brutally real.

The six months of November theory holding - November-January been like November-November and November-December.

Well, he had already dusted their DBs twice for TDs, they had progressed to "so crazy it just might work" stage. Spoiler: it didn't work, but it was crazy.

I just had a co-worker text me that her husband heard the polar vortex is coming, so I assume some sort of hype is hitting media somewhere...

That was hilarious this AM in the long range thread - some borderline maybe some good new posts and then PSU with a vat of acid just spraying it everywhere. Had to laugh.

Matt Lanza on Twitter: "Winter Storm Watches have been hoisted for the weekend storm NW of Houston for Huntsville, Navasota, College Station, and the Buc-ee's in Madisonville. https://t.co/gBS1HsdA5D" / Twitter

From Asheville? Yes. From the outer banks? No.

Futility thread ready to go.

Tidying up. Setting out some chairs for guests.

Nods.