MDstorm

Reading this thread over the last few weeks, I have come to the following conclusions:

I was a youngster when that storm occurred. However, I distinctly remember that on Feb 17th (24-36 hours before the storm even began), AccuWeather was the first to see the possible magnitude of this storm. The NWS and most private forecasters were not making a big deal about the storm. Channel 11, which used AccuWeather at that time came on the air on the evening of Feb 17 and reported a "storm" dropping in from the Ohio Valley looked to explosively re-develop off the NC coast and result in a major snowstorm. The following morning (Sunday), everyone's favorite met, Joe Bastardi, was on the radio and was quite emphatic about the huge potential of that storm (he did nail that one, ). There was one private forecaster on the now defunct WCAO radio station who said during the morning of Feb 18th that he was not overly impressed with the storm, but later came back on in the afternoon and stated that he was stunned by the latest information that he had seen and he was all in for a big storm. (I don't think that it was the RAP or HRRRRRR ). Anyway, with up to 4 inches of cold powder per hour for a few hours, the snow piled up to historic levels and I had over a week off of school.

Looks about right. That small darker blue dot in northern Carroll County must be PSU.

After a couple of hours of light/small flake snow, the Sn++ has arrived.

There was a time when the Ukie seemed to hint at what King Euro would show next.

Stuck in 7. However, it looks like our best week of winter weather so far has occurred in phases 4 and 5 (supposedly the crap phases). So much for mjo dictating our winter weather.

Poor playoff history is now history.

Looks like The Ravens “sharpened up”and decided to “front run” in the 2nd half.

I'm in the yellow zone. I never thought that I'd be glad to see yellow snow.

The EPS control had also predicted the Cowboys and Eagles to appear in the NFC championship game this year.

I forgot..... how do we do with complicated???

I know that this storm is quite fascinating in its own right. However, coming at peak snow climo, this storm makes me

Quite a turnaround over a 24 hour period, lol.

Westward migrating warm water for the upcoming winter.