Eskimo Joe

BWI racks up a +12 departure on one of the shortest days of the year.

Bro it's 61 degrees outside.

Evergreen post in these parts.

Reality is starting to set in. I'll give it to January 15th, but the writing is on the wall for this winter it seems.

I agree with you, but would vastly prefer it be snow that slowly melts off to recharge the aquifers.

Probably the only thing saving us from jumping into the upper 50s.

That is not a zonal flow. There is a pronounced ridge in western Canada and some troughing out west. Zonal flow would look something like this: https://mattsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2017/11/zonal-flow-and-shortwaves-why-we-havent.html

That's the kind of setup where you want to take a weekend in Sheperdstown or Berkley Springs.

Both of the waves you illustrated above are running along the KY/TN border. That's a classic setup for a high end advisory level snowfall event in these parts. What's far more important is that you see a legitimate and sustained cross polar flow. That will cool things off and right quick if we ultimate experience that.

That's a legitimately excellent look. I hope //this// type of feature continue to show. That's how you win. I want to see tracks laid down and see one light to moderate snow event after another come through. Unless we can score a 2010 scenario, I'd rather we avoid some big event that blows the pattern up for weeks on end. No one and done for me.

It's a shame you have to change majors. You're clearly dedicated to this craft and you would have made one heck of an operational meteorologist.

New York has the ability to sample the atmosphere using Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology. They get a vertical profile of the atmosphere every 10 minutes: https://www.nysmesonet.org/networks/profiler#stid=prof_alba While this technology is amazing and extremely valuable, it's incredibly costly to maintain. It would wonderful to have a few of these in Maryland but I don't see that happening for years, if at all. We still have 70 stations to install and then transition to sustainment.

I remember that storm vividly. I was living in Philly and got a NOAA Weather Radio for Christmas from my dad (). I remember with each forecast update it got better and better. From "partly cloudy" to "mostly cloudy" to "cloudy with a 40% chance of snow". Then the Regional Weather Roundup (RWR) started reporting snow at Baltimore, Lancaster, and Wilmington. What an epic boom that was.

Warm Decembers just seem to be the norm anymore. Do you suppose it's the oceans taking so long to cool off? It seems like the seasons have shifted by a month. April is the new March, etc.

Low of 34 on the hill in Reisterstown, but our Clarksville mesonet site dipped to 26. The 12z RAOB from IAD indicates a bit of an inversion.

If you mean surface observations, yes. These are surface stations. We don't have profiles like New York.

I misinterpreted a map a few pages ago, asked a legit question, and was trolled for it. It's become a joke at my expense now.

Merry Christmas, more mesonet sites are online! Our entire network runs on 5 min obs. Thank you @wxmeddler and everyone else on the team for all of their work. You can also view data on our website: https://mesonet.umd.edu/ PS, for any NOAA or Synoptic users, the IDs for each site are at the end of the URL below. If you want soil data, check out the link on the website above. More sites dropping in during 2024. Clarksville: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=001MD Frostburg: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=002MD Keedysville: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=003MD Easton: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=004MD Ridgely: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=005MD

New normal unfortunately. People are starting to come to grips with it. Our snow climo is going to be like Charlotte, NC in a few years.

Yup. No dry airmass or temp issues. It just snowed.

+3 along I-95...cold rain

Awesome. Thanks for the explanation. My wheelhouse is mesoscale meteorology (hence the mesonet). Trying to learn the long range stuff.

What is the advantage to a slightly -PNA with a -NAO?