Eskimo Joe

Now that would make me eat my words. Huge ridge out west with some increasing heights in the NAO domain.

Dec 5, 2005, Dec 5, 2009 and Dec 8, 2013 were winners for many. December used to be a light snow month.

Yea this is a big test of winter expectations and everyone is carrying almost a decade of scar tissue with them

Honestly, I want them all but Big Savage presents significant logistical challenges for moving equipment into place, personal safety for maintenance, and cell coverage for stable data transmission.

More stations will be coming to western Maryland. Personally, I hope to get a site atop Keyser's Ridge, Sideling Mountain, South Mountain, and Polish Mountain.

We're in a tenuous spot. You wait all year for winter and then we torch like it's nothing. Meanwhile the atmosphere has concepts of a pattern for snow that's perpetually two weeks away.

Hey western MD folks:

FYI

The primary drives up into Pittsburgh and everyone flips.

It happens more than you think. There is absolutely no QA/QC for weather apps. I would love to see something like American Meteorological Society or National Weather Association offer a "seal of approval" for apps that maintain things like updates, appropriate warning information, etc. Worse yet, certain apps like Operating System based platforms are largely not customizable and default to the organizational settings. All of these work to undermine the credibility of weather apps and unfairly degrade the ethos of the meteorological community.

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

Same. It's ten years since we've had any real winter this these parts. It's like winter has just ceased to exist anymore.

Yea we're in real trouble. Winter is essentially on life support at this point.

JFC I hope that's wrong.

Clouds seem to be the only thing preventing our afternoon highs from torching.

Yup. Then it was gone in a week.

Yup. We've really devolved into a winter climate more akin to Georgia or South Carolina.

Overnight GFS showing a rapid strengthening of the polar vortex after this episode. Yikes.

I think we know where this is headed folks

Am I missing something, or do the 12z Euro/ENS and GEFS just dump all the cold air out west and just torch the east coast.

Well said Bob. Good luck to your backyard this winter.

I'd take a continuous series of light to moderate events that don't erode a block, vs one "big dog" storm that melts off in 4 days. Snow-on-snow is the best!