North Balti Zen

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Dude. That's, just, like your opinion, man.

Bro. Dude. Stop.

My read is that Pann plays the part of a contrarian. He decided “overhyped” as 2016 storm was locking in and refused to waver even as it unfolded. Hence my trolling him and getting blocked. Now he seems to look for snow in impossible setups - again, apparently to be contrarian. problem with that disingenuous approach is it is impossible to take him seriously.

Correct, thanks. Thought that was clear, guess not.

What mappy said, I was comparing this winter to the winters I experienced in Memphis for 11 years. This winter has pretty much been those.

It's a dead ringer for almost every winter I experienced in Memphis from 1998 - 2009.

We've hit this part of the snow starved winter on the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu7xiJ_HD6c

Tidying up, doing some dusting. Getting ready, just in case.

<Glances at the futility thread> Still got a good shot at top 5.

I see we’ve reached the part of the snow drought where Weather53 and hoff lock horns.

I can’t believe someone did a drive-by and said they don’t see a lot of upper air maps posted in this thread.

It's fun how each digital run yielding "it's different" observations always ends with "but still manages to miss us" follow-ups... Soon we will have the "if you just change this feature and this feature and this feature we would be close" postings...

It wasn't a good year, the "surprise" January storm that was 10-12" from DC West petered out up here around 5 inches, and we came up too north or south to really cash in on every other system. Baltimore proper has been a bit of snow loser in the area since it cashed all its chips in four years ago in the January 2016 storm/blizzard thing.

That's every day. A quick review of the last two pages in the long range thread tells me my bumping of the futility thread was well timed.

I mean, that was last year. And the year before. And the year before that. It stops being funny at some point, and is just...the new normal.

Seriously, see it.

He says that on June 1, too.

Not for nothing, but Galaxy Quest is probably one of the best movies ever made.

Maybe stop naming phantoms?

The dearth of clippers since I moved to the area in 2009 has been noticeable for me, I think. I grew up In Cincinnati and then central Ohio. For sure in Central Ohio in the 1980s we would pad seasonal snow totals with 1-3 inch events fairly frequently. I thought coming here from Memphis in 2009 I would see clippers again with some frequency, but they have been few and far between really over the 10 years I have been here.

Agreed - the 2-4 inch deals have been harder and harder to come by in the ten years I have been in the area - but looking at the longer record , that seems to comport with your memory from the 80s and 90s for this part of the area. Dovetails with @psuhoffman obs/thoughts in another thread wondering if the global climate trends are taking those events away from parts of the area.

On balance. In the Balt City/BWI area it has been boom or bust. Two historically awful snowfall seasons and one close to historically awful balanced out with two massive years and the Jan. 2016 save. It looks good on average, but those years have been anything but average on balance. I don't know if that fits the historic pattern for snowfalls in this part of the area, but for a decade it has been go big or go home to make it work out in general for inside 695 down to BWI over to Wes's area...

That means two of the top five worst snowfall seasons for BWI location have happened in the last decade. It has truly been huge boom or massive bust for BWI/Baltimore City area since I got here in 2009 - probably why I am constantly hunting big storms - the ones on the margins don't do much for this area of late...

I will go with you - that winter had some screwy measurements for having so little have fallen. If that is accurate, the correct top five worst snowfall years for the reporting locations are as follows: Here's where we are currently on 1/22/20: BWI: 1.8"/DCA: 0.6"/IAD: 2.9" These are the seasonal futility numbers to keep in mind as this horror show continues: BWI: .7 - '49/'50 1.2 - '72/'73 1.8 - 2011/12 2.3 - 2001/02 3.0 - 2016/2017 DCA .1 - '97/'98 .1 - '72/'73 2.0 - 2011/12 2.2 - '75/'76 2.5 - '30/'31 Dulles: 2.2 - '72/'73 2.6 - 2001/02 3.7 - 2011/12 4.4 - '80/'81 5.9 - '97/'98