North Balti Zen

YES. Forgot about my ancient enemy - the ground.

Dammit. I should know that by now.

For the record, those of us who live in one of the big cities are fully used to failing in marginal events and lash out and blame everything. Sun, cars, twitter, CAPE, and for sure Carbondale.

Also, I wish there was a way to know at a glance if it is Ji in character or Ji being actually serious when glancing at who made the last post in the long range thread. That's twice this morning I have flinched when I saw last post was him - and it turned out to be ok.

I guess that's me who murmured about sun. Old habit. It always feels like an enemy In the city when every temp feels precious, even if the ultimate path to victory isn't cloud cover dependent.

God bless the NAM. Wasn't it just 24 hours ago on that it was showing nada for the Beltways?

Just found the old thread - according to my notes I had .5 of ice from first part of storm and did make it to 5 inches on second part so it did verify the warning.

I would have to go back and check my notes from the annual thread but my immediate recall is that one also underperformed here inside the 695 beltway.

The Jan 2019 storm was pretty disappointing in balt city - scraped for get to five inches and missed the second part entirely. Really, since Jan 2016 it has been pretty fallow inside the 695 loop...

North Balt City: 12/11 -- T 12/16 - .5" Season total - .5"

I couldn't even log a T - just a few miles from you. So close!

BWI: 17.7" DCA: 13.4" IAD: 25.5" RIC: 16.3" Tiebreaker: SBY 10.6"

"Well, young'uns, back in MY day, there was this thing called "31 degrees". I know, I know, seems impossible to believe..."

BWI: 11/8 DCA: 12/10 IAD: 10/24 RIC: 11/30 Tiebreaker: 8.4"

I recall reading it when it was posted here, and there were like - two times on record - where that happened. Extremely rare.

I am super happy for you that you finally got to experience a legit snowstorm. There's nothing like it, in my view.

Thanks don. That captures the forum split on this storm perfectly. Frustrating for those of us in here in the blue. Although I think that frustration was generally handled well. Probably the biggest forum splitter in terms of totals over such a short distance in our forum where a majority of forum cashed and a small area didn’t since I think the second Feb 2010 blizzard left @mattie g area behind in terms of totals. Maybe @C.A.P.E.‘s area in Jan. 2016 in the dry slot too. fun storm to track though and at least no one got shut out.

To put the gentle frustration of the Baltimore city and north crew in perspective. It is 11 miles from my house to Ellicott City. 5.2 inches for my house, a little over double 11 miles away.

It just didn’t work out for us this time. Hopefully next time we do better. I ended up 5.2. Frustrating given how close we were to much more, but also, could have been much worse in terms of far less snow.

I guess? Not really for me in Balt city. Two sloppy inches that melted hella fast. I sure don’t count that as a jack. For Chill land to be at 11.4 and my part of Balt city at 5.2 is a crazy difference over a short span of land.

Glad for you all but this has been kinda a bitter end to things for those of us north. Maybe we can catch a break on the next one.

For sure on that last part.

Yeah. I am .4 since latest round started but it’s backing off already. Does get me to 5.2 for the event.

Just went for a walk - really lovely out with the snow falling even though the heavy stuff you all are getting isn’t here. Still hoping a band gets here and then pushes up to Mappy and Hoff.

I think the banding is here in Balt city finally. Snow accumulating again - will push me over five inches at my house, hopefully more if this can keep up for several hours.