Eskimo Joe

One of only two Cat 5. NESIS storms. Bonus points if you can name the other one without looking it up.

Some local weather news. Montgomery County, as part of a locally funded initiative, will be purchasing some additional mesonet stations. These tripod/compact stations will focus on urban areas to better understand risk from heavy precipitation events and urban heat islands. The plan is to have a density of 6 to 8 miles per station. Equipment has been purchased, with the goal of deploying them this year. All data will be public on the mesonet website once the stations come online. A big day for @wxmeddler

Week of Jan 20th. If we don't have something plausible within 5 days of that, then it's probably game over for even hitting climo snowfall. It's going to be feast or famine during the upcoming favorable window.

JB is a clown. No one should take him seriously anymore.

Agreed. Ji is just being Ji.

Please no

This. We won with this setup in December 2013.

Who wishes for warm weather in winter?

Would be happy even with a few solid advisory level events even.

It's a La Nina pattern. That shouldn't be a surprise.

I'm trying to be optimistic this winter, but it's concerning to see a decent pattern getting can kicked or outright canceled repeatedly. The only thing that's saved us from a dead ratter in the snowfall department are the two minor December events.

That's a KU look 9/10 times.

It's very 12/5/09 vibes.

Appreciate the info. You are correct in that 2006-07 was decent when I was in Lancaster/Philly. 2014-15 was okay down here in Baltimore. 1997-98 and 2018-2019 were hot garbage, IMO.