nw baltimore wx

Few flakes here. Third T of the year! 

3 hours ago, CAPE said:

Nice to see the good vibes. I'm off to enjoy more DFH beer. So many good ones.  Cant try em all. Well maybe.

Hey. A buddy and I are heading down for an evening next week. Probably Friday. Definitely going to hit up DFH, so if you’re available, it would be good to catch up.

The rain for Sunday reminds me of the rainstorm we had on December 8 and 9, 2009.  Just saying.

Awesome little snow shower in Ellicott City. 
 

edit: upon closer inspection, looks a little icy.

I’m taking this winter like I did as a kid. Ignorant. I’m going to enjoy the moment and when something pops up in the near term, I’ll invest. I don’t want to model watch beyond 5 days. I’m too old to look beyond this week.

I also think it’s going to snow, so there is that.

3 hours ago, DarkSharkWX said:

crazy ass gfs run for the mountains and W of I81

I’d be at a brewery 50 miles west of home.

5 hours ago, cbmclean said:

What about @psuhoffman?  I was worried for him, when hurts was in the blue tent.

Side note, I really never realized how good McCaffery is.  Still wondering why the Panthers traded him.

Injury prone.

7 minutes ago, brooklynwx99 said:

the thing is that a crappy Pacific doesn't just imply some "Nina hangover". strong Ninos often have a really crappy Pacific pattern that straightens itself out later in the year. like this is a typical thing. the Nino is working as intended

what is nice is that we're already seeing blocking, which is a great sign for later in the year. also, moving through the warmer MJO phases of 4-5-6 will also dramatically weaken the SPV and perhaps even net us a SSW that can make Feb pretty wild if significant blocking develops

Falling on deaf ears.

11 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

Was heading home from NOVA tonight. While the sunset to the West was beautiful, the view going East was amazing! It looked like cotton candy. 

I was on a walk with a friend tonight at dusk and commented that tonight was a Charlie Brown sunset.

49 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Looks like panic room will be rocking with the chatter this morning. 

Let's hope it stays there.

6 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said:

Back to calling them the WTFs??? 

Commodes.

Me, as @H2O's neighbor.

38 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

Pretty active pattern over the next 2 weeks and that clipper is interesting this morning on the GFS. Verbatim temps are meh. But at least we are gonna have a few chances before mid December this year. 

1 minute ago, Chris78 said:

Definitely looks interesting. If we have a shot at something it would be in that next Tuesday- Friday time frame.

Both the euro and gfs have that deep trough for late next week, though maybe too sharp.  But plenty of time to smooth it out and get the timing right on some energy rounding the bend.

Or not.

11/28/23:  T

I like that the mid Atlantic forum gets excited about flurries. No sarcasm.

15 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

Shitty football game...NFL should have flexed that dog. Nothing like losing at home on a Monday night to the Bears...yeesh...embarrassing 

That game was so bad that even though I “watched” it, until now I thought MN won! 

Officially a grill-topper. 

Legit snow shower. So nice to see in late November.

Just saw a lone flake here! Not in the mirror either.

1 minute ago, CAPE said:

First time I have seen the finished product. Impressive looking set up!

Does the PID control significantly reduce temperature over/undershoot compared to manual or standard On-Off(thermostat) control?

It will, I think.  And it'll definitely be more consistent than my old cooler mash tun. Hitting my mash target temperature yesterday was hit, miss, up, and down, but I think I've got it figured out.  I'll get beer out of the batches yesterday, but we'll see how they turn out compared to my old five gallon batches.  I'm not worried about it.  A sour, and even a neipa can hide a lot of mistakes.

The annual Christmas/Holiday Party is December 9 so I'll also be rushing the fermentation and carbonation anyway.  Fortunately, most of my friends don't have discerning palettes. 

1 hour ago, mattie g said:

^ Damn...that's insane.

I do BIAB and my setup is positively prehistoric compared to yours!

I only considered it because the brewery that I work at sold me the 20 gallon pots at a discount price.  Who knew I'd still spend a small fortune?  Dave (@losetoa6) came over and hooked up the breaker box and I also got some advice from @CAPE about wiring the box.  I built the control panel, but after starting to wire it, I realized I'd burn the house down so a couple of smarter friends (not a difficult trait) helped me out.  I'm not expecting the batches that I brewed yesterday to turn out very good because so much time was spent figuring things out, but we'll see.  It's got a learning curve to it, but it's pretty cool. 

0.36".  Made for an unexpected wet brew day! 

Banter, but here's the "new" brew system that's finally being used.  Ignore the temperature settings.  The photos are actually from last week when I was testing things.  Finished a sour yesterday that I started on Wednesday, and then brewed a NEIPA in the afternoon and evening.

Just now, CAPE said:

Still dumb.

So many points have been taken off the board this year going for it on 4th and short when they were in Tucker’s range.

3 minutes ago, TSSN+ said:

BN temps ain’t of any use if there’s no snow to go with it. 

To each his own, but I respectfully disagree.

28 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

anyone still planning to mow this year?

Once more for me.

19 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Nam and hrrr are nuts for the overnight.

I don't mean "wrong," just a lot of rain!