North Balti Zen

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I looked at weather models alone Upon narrow monitors of plastic and chrome 'Neath the halo of a desktop lamp I turned my eyes to the virtual maps When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of snow hole so bright It split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the naked light, I saw Ten thousand snow weenies, maybe more People screaming endlessly People lurking w/ ensemble maps of doom People writing prayers about memories of something once called snow And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence "Fools", said I, "You do not know Hope for snow like a cancer grows" Hear PSU's words that he might teach you See Weather Will's maps of doom that he might reach you But my words, like silent 34 degree raindrops fell And echoed In the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the snowiest models that might have been made But those models flashed out their warning In the words that they were forming And the model output said, "The place for snow is ever 200 miles south or north And not in DMV halls" And whispered in the sound of silence

Whichever one has shown no snow has been money - so lately the GFS has been killing it.

Seriously. Snow on snow on snow with each hit bigger than the last. Yes please.

The @RodneyS, @MN Transplant, and @PrinceFrederickWx notes from previous page really capture the run of snow futility we have been on.

It is with the heaviest of hearts I straighten up in here this AM...

The futility thread captures some of this. In balt city we haven’t seen a verified winter storm warning snowfall since January 2016...

LOl. That is, actually, literally where we want this seven days out. We are good and very much in the game.

I am considering having Weather Will arrested.

Whoops. Sorry. Randy confused me. 28th threat still in here?

There's a thread for that one now too. This thread for anything beyond that.

He will.

That looked like an amazing show . Looked like maybe they let them off closer to ground since no one on the mall.

Any of you all living in DC close enough to see the fireworks?

And, in fairness, they’ve been chasing red and blue upper air blobs for weeks. Getting that to translate to fantasy snow has been hard. Really good to wake up to the euro holding and the gfs starting to cave this morning. Among other reasons it is a good day...

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...