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The 18z GFS has finally started to trend toward the Euro and Canadian at bringing the PV lobe farther southwest. Maybe this increases the chances for conversational flurries on Monday, 11/10?

Latest CFS says yes to snow lovers for late Nov through January. Looks like a solid Feb torch though

LFG

We're really starting to see some impressive microclimates emerge. Thurmont dipped to 34 degrees, but just to the northeast Harney at its lower elevation decoupled to 26 degrees.

CONGRATULATIONS! MILLER A's FOR EVERYONE!

Could you imagine if we got a legit Dec 5th event? Something like a regionwide 3" - 5" fluff storm? This place would crash from excitement.

For me it's a toss up between PD II (Feb 2003) and December 2009. Both events I experienced in Philadelphia and Lancaster County, PA respectively. PD II: I was in high school in Philly just got into winter weather tracking and had access to the Internet at my high school library for the last period of the day. The librarian was always gracious enough to let me just quietly geek out on model guidance and NWS web pages. Watching this storm get more and more interesting as we closed on the end of the work week was awesome. December 2009: I was working 2nd into 3rd shift at the IT Help Desk at Millersville University and got paid to do homework and watch both the 18z and 00z model guidance come in on a triple monitor display with a nice Internet connection. I was also was a lead forecaster for our campus weather service at the time, and we had access to a read-only version of NWS chat. It was just pure giddiness to watch the 1.5" QPF line creep north with each model cycle, reach the AFDs from LWX/CTP/PHI and see the inklings of watches or warning start to come up in the chat rooms. I felt like I had access to almost secret data and it was AMAZING! Then came the morning before the event and I knew it was going to puke snow all along Mason-Dixon. It was the end of my undergraduate years and I was supposed to walk in graduation on the 19th, but I knew that wasn't going to happen. So I rushed back to Philly and boom...White Christmas.

Cool story: about one month after I got my basic SKYWARN class (Mt. Holly WFO) we got this low topped, limited lightning line that blitzed through Philly. My home weather station recorded a 61 mph wind gust and it just totaled all of the sycamore trees in my neighborhood. Was the first time I ever witnessed such a thing.

Camp David just gusted to 59 mph.

Just gusted to 51 mph!

Impressive spike of wind here in Reisterstown.

Anything outside of HR 60 to 90 just treat with skepticism.