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Eskimo Joe

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  1. Agreed. We're like 12 hours off from a legit event for everyone.
  2. Thus far, the 12z suite gives credence to a storm somewhere in the 1/15 to 1/17 time frame. It doesn't appear to be a cutter either, either it hits us or to our south. That's about all anyone should glean.
  3. Seems like a 50/50 low locks everything in? Not a terrible spot for the antecedent high, not great either. IIRC, that setup worked for 12/19/09 too.
  4. DGEX and then the DGEX and Canadian for the 2/10 event.
  5. As @Terpeast and @WxUSAF have often said, worry about thermals inside D5.
  6. Yea there's a decent moisture feed with that storm and it looks fairly neutral at 500 mb?
  7. Will echo others' sentiment about Jan 2025. My records indicate a total snow depth of about six inches for several days, with a low temperature of 1° twice.
  8. Indeed. Unfortunately some folks misinterpret posts like that so I was attempting to add a crumb of context.
  9. Paul Kocin cooked that metaphor up. He gets all the credit.
  10. Yes. To get a Major East Coast Storm, you need multiple ingredients to align. It's like cooking - a phenomenal meal needs to come together almost perfectly.
  11. Slightly reassuring to see the 18z suite of ensembles hold or beef up snowfall.
  12. Equally important is the western ridge trending stronger and sharper.
  13. No high pressure to the north to impart better cold air advection. Heavier precip rates overcome a marginal profile and turn precip to frozen, elsewhere, it's rain. Very believable.
  14. Until we properly fund NWP, nothing will change. Well just torch all next winter.
  15. My one goal is to not git 60° in the winter. Looks like that is a pipe dream anymore.
  16. Heat and wind overperform here. It's about all we're good at.
  17. It's 52 degrees at the Thurmont mesonet site, but 31 at Clarksville. What a temperatures inversion.
  18. Additional sites will be: Germantown, Gaithersburg, Chevy Chase, and Laytonsville. While these stations are more compact in size, and therefore able to fit in more urban locations, the limiting factors are: available land partners, cell reception, and open sky for accurate wind measurements and solar charging of batteries.
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