NeonPeon

Lawns don't like the vast majority of the United states in terms of climate, and they fail to outcompete anything if left alone. They are a colonial obsession aping European elite. They require an astonishing amount of maintenance.

How does it feel to have no soul?

Really nice snow in this last band but this is doing what it said on the package and not what I hoped. Somewhere around 1.5 peeped over my coffee mug. It's so pretty outside though, and Liverpool top of the league so I'm not arsed.

This is the first event where I'm thinking I'll overperform for some reason. And by that I mean advisory snow.

GPS has nothing, NAM nothing, ICON a trace, Euro a trace to an inch. I want to believe.

I read the study, not the gloss on the study. The study itself already responds to your point regarding the land and water temperatures, you don't have to find it convincing. I'm not really interested in the political implications based on the Paris Accord definition, or even the 1.5C "limit" both because it's clear we are going to sail right by it, and because it was established as a relatively arbitrary political tool, not as any scientific metric. The Paris starting point doesn't delineate a preindustrial world, it more has to do with when reliable temperature data began to be reported. Surely one of the points of this study is exploring another set of data that can be measured from before that starting point. It's just one more methodology and one more set of data. The data, as far as sampling goes seem reasonable enough. I'm not sure if it's a "relatively isolated area." The area seems to be limited to where this particular sea sponge lives and is accessible to divers. They could widen the sampling some, but we're talking about a very particular organism with a limited range. Depending on how well reviewed it is, the same methodology can be used to sample data elsewhere, but only where this organism lives, to which you could raise the same doubt. It might spark interest in growth rates with other organisms, but as the research specifies, they'd also have to be an organism that exhibits some very simple linear relationship with temperature that is recordable. I guess I'm more impressed with the good nuts-and-bolts science of this.

It's mostly mood snow at best. There would have to be another couple tics north for it to be anything of note for the south coast as far as I can see. But what else am I going to look at?

What a fascinating methodology.

It's both displaced and it isn't as cold, or there is less of it, which are the same.

3.5" of the heaviest paste should do it. Very approximate because of how fast the snow is melting and settling. It's funny, there have been a million different ways of this storm appearing in models, and that is about what I thought I'd get the whole time, all for the same reason: didn't ever think I'd be in the best banding and it's just too warm and fast.

Half melted snowcone under a bleacher out there. 2 inches on a board, wet heavy slop. After a few runs of sledding later, the kids will be dripping wet.

It needs to be snowing quite hard to be a net gain here. It looks to me like I'll be in the good stuff in a little while, but the radar is hard to read.

Those ladies are trying to steal your snow. You need a snow ombudsman immediately!

There's some revisionist history going on. The gfs like the euro had this storm wrong for days on end, over a hundred miles north of where it is now. I don't know why you would celebrate any model in this situation. If it's just because you are giddy that it's snowing, then you do you.

I hear a lot of talk of a positive bust and that the models that signalled a very rapid sudden shift shit the bed. I mean, yes, they shit the bed, for a lack of any consistency, inside of 24 hours massive changes. Thereafter they were a little wrong, but not very, if not looking at snow maps. But the idea that that whole reestimation of the storm was wrong because the best fronto was a few miles further north? The entire precip shield is still wayyy south, as reflected? Am I missing something? For my part, slop, and ragged radar so far. Surprised to see snow on the grass in places, not surprised to see better banding in all the usual places. I cant figure out whether the bands over Long Island will make it here consistently or not. Hope so later today.