Eskimo Joe

Got down to 34 in Reisterstown with frost in the cars and porch rails. Nada on the ground.

JB has really turned into an interesting person.

If this were winter, people would be melting down. What a cutoff.

What kind of QPF is Euro spitting out?

So the haptic rain sensor with my Tempest is not the greatest at picking up drizzle / very, very light rain. Looks like it's been underestimating the precip. When you get to RA- it picks everything up though.

Can we just cancel winter and move on already?

Yup. We haven't gotten to the point of no evening snow walks.

IMO, since 2008 we've pumped so much public money into the markets that they no longer reflect the "real" state of the US economy. If we let the market go, there's no way it would be over 25,000 right now. It's on a seemingly odd sugar high.

Today is the anniversary of the College Park tornado.

There are several out there, what was the title?

I'm going to be selfish. So long as I get my Antares launch, I don't care what happens.

Hope we can get this to bump back 24 hrs. I'm down at Wallops next Tuesday PM for my *hopefully* first Antares launch and the upper level winds would not be good right now.

I'm going to answer this publicly. Pros: Affordable, it's roughly $300, but with the one time code Tempest10off you save 10% so you can up the shipping to get it quicker and it still comes out to around $300. Ships quick. Purchased on a Monday, got it on a Friday. Had it set up that day. Easy to install. All you need is a 1 inch pipe to mount it flush with a fence post. The directions are on their website. Sighting of the instrument is as you would any other weather station. Easy to deploy. The station starts reporting within 3 minutes of being turned on. You can make a profile on wunderground and push the data there or to a personal website. The first day or two the data may be inconsistent, but within a week it'll sort itself out. There's a smart phone app so you know what the weather is like at your house and you can integrate it with certain smart home features. Nest is not yet one of them. Wind and temperature are highly accurate. We haven't had rain here yet so I can't talk to that. Cons: Their predictive weather algorithm is terrible. It's never been right, but I have NWS et al so I don't care. There is not long term storage of historical data (IE: highest temp, lowest temp, etc.). I've submitted that as a request for enhancement. There is no physical display that you can mount on a wall or a countertop. You have to use your phone or PC to view the data. I've submitted that as a request for enhancement.

Wonder what, if any, impacts there are from the number of US landfalling tropical cyclones and temp/precip the following winter.

A damn good thread on improving tornado warning accuracy, it includes a couple of radar grabs from Frederick County, MD. Big takeaway is this research so far is only valuable if the storm is within 60 km (37 mi) from the radar site.

You're probably right, it seems we are more like North Carolina climo or tidewater of VA these days.

We have everything going against us into this winter. You'd think sooner or later the tables would turn and we'd have a shot for at least climo.

Everything you need to know: http://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/weather/2011/26-Dec-10.html