North Balti Zen

The go big or go home bottom of the ledger casting their eyes at this next few weeks and crossing fingers...

All obs this year for me are from Fallston, MD -

11/30 - T

12/2 - A little frz rain to start - trees and car glazed - but 35 and rain for most of event

12/5 - T (dusting from a few hours of flurries as dry cold death air ate any chance of anything else north of BWI
 

12/14 - 4” 

1/2 -  .2" (frontal passage snow squall dealie

1/17 - .7"

1/18 - .5"

Running season total - 5.4”

16 at the farm this AM. 

2 hours ago, North Balti Zen said:

It’s just rain in Fallston as of 6:15 am.

Shortly after that it flipped to snow for a bit - maybe half an inch. Trees are pretty.

1 hour ago, mitchnick said:

Just lt snow now. There's a heavy band incoming but it'll just clip me or miss altogether. Again, to my east will get hit. I suspect Mappy should get another 2"+ out of this. 

It’s just rain in Fallston as of 6:15 am.

@Interstate

Thanks !

18 minutes ago, Interstate said:

Way over preformed here in 21057

Whoa! I am flying back from New Mexico this AM - I will use your measurement for my spot - what do you have ? 

I am in Albuquerque today and Santa Fe tomorrow and Friday. Someone tell me which direction I need to step outside and strongly exhale to change things upstream to fix the snow issues for us. 

44 minutes ago, RickinBaltimore said:

The AFC title game is going to be Bills/Steelers and I'm going to want to die. 

Texans are gonna smoke the Steelers.

5 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

There is shockingly good agreement in the operational models for the January 18/19 storm for 200+ hours.  

Yes. Kinda hoping that becomes the focus in the models and we don't end up in the the 15th thing messes up the one after scenario...

For the record - I recognize this from past winters.

Two waves - people get invested in one, then the other, then a why not both hope sets in.

It looks promising for one, then the other, then magically, a shift to a middle compromise with a massive storm. Hopes surge.

Then, it starts to look muddy.

PSUHoff weighs in to say that with better spacing it would be two nice events, but that unfortunately the worry is that they are too close together and interfere with the development of each.

That ends up being right and we get flurries on Friday and gray skies on Sunday and see reports from the Carolinas of getting smoked in the first event and the Poconos in the second event. 

21 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Heat and wind overperform here. It's about all we're good at.

We've missed forecast high temps for weeks. We were more than due to overshoot - especially with sun available. 

Full sun is MOST welcome for me anyway to start the day. Happy with 50s too. Need a mental weather reset after too many days of cold and gray with no snow. 

4 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

6z gfs is the wettest run for this weekend yet. Just about doubles the totals of earlier runs across the metros.

I really want to see something overperform in terms of precip at some point - would feel a lot better about any future snow hopes if we could see something juice up and hit at gametime - so let’s start that this weekend I say.

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BWI:

.2 - 2022/23

.7 - '49/'50

1.2 - '72/'73

1.8 - 2011/12

1.8 - 2019/20

DCA

.1 - '97/'98

.1 - '72/'73

.4  - 2022/23

.6 - 2019/20

2.0 - 2011/12

Dulles:

.4 - 2022/23

2.2 - '72/'73

2.6 - 2001/02

2.9 - 2019/20

3.7 - 2011/12

 

BWI at 2" indeed not gonna add to this list of shame but not a robust start.

DCA at 1.5" is almost clear of a top 5 dead-ratter.

IAC at 2.1" though...should be safe obviously but still work to do. 

18 minutes ago, Ji said:

Of course it’s true

I was here in January 2010. Pepperidge Farm remembers. So do I.

10 minutes ago, Ji said:

last legit storm we had was Dec 2. That was the one the GFS was showing 20 inches for. Had that storm happened a week later, we would have 8-10 inches of snow this winter and id be alot quieter.

That’s not remotely true.

As usual, neutral perspective from me as a Bengals fan -

My main takeaway is pretty genuine befuddlement that Harbaugh, who is a special teams oriented head coach by background, knowing precisely how tricky kicking in Pittsburgh is late in the year in the cold and especially when the winds are a factor, and who watched an outstanding kicker in Chris Boswell just not ten minutes prior push an extra point wide, looked at a 41-yard field goal attempt with 12 seconds and a timeout left and chose to lose three yards on a kneel down rather than try to get five or ten yards closer. He had a rookie kicker, every yard closer would have helped mentally at the least, and maybe helped with wind. In any event, clearly Loop didn't hit it right as it was a miss from the jump but holy hell that was not a great coaching decision to settle for a 44-yard attempt rather than try and shorten it given the timeout in hand. 

All obs this year for me are from Fallston, MD -

11/30 - T

12/2 - A little frz rain to start - trees and car glazed - but 35 and rain for most of event

12/5 - T (dusting from a few hours of flurries as dry cold death air ate any chance of anything else north of BWI
 

12/14 - 4” 

1/2 -  .2" (frontal passage snow squall dealie)

Running season total - 4.2”

Did the thing in Fallston about 5:15 am - just took the dogs out - looks like .2 or so - ground is covered. 

Happy new year all, grateful for this community. 

Going snow tubing on New Year’s Day at 12:30 pm at Roundtop - if you all wanna swing some of those snow showers/squally things through there early afternoon I would be much obliged…

7 hours ago, nj2va said:

NBC really needs to move on from him in the offseason.  CBS and Fox are so much better with Romo and Brady — they have both really grown into the roles IMO.

Omg. No. NO. Brady is fucking awful. AWFUL. This is the worst opinion anyone has ever had. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.

A cool as hell thing for me anyway - there is an eagle who clearly has a nest quite close by the farm - seeing him/her several times a week now - just a stunner living in this proximity to an eagle - hopefully will never get used to seeing it in flight. Stunning.

Can we name the thread something else…

(The lambs are still screaming )