understudyhero

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/weather/northeast-wet-dreary-weekend-forecast/index.html

I remember sometime between 09/10 and probably 2020/2021, there were people here looking into the question “why does it seem to snow more on weekends in NoVa than it statistically seems it should be?”

Did anyone actually find anything legit to this theory?

31 minutes ago, PWC Split said:

Impressive storm in Haymarket. Standing water on the grass bc it rained so hard and ground is so hard. Power has been out for about 30 minutes. A lot of sirens outside.

What side of Haymarket? It was basically sunny down here near the end of 15 when it rolled through for 10 minutes then moved on. It's the first rain in many many days, everything always misses us just slightly north (like 66/15)

9 hours ago, stormy said:

My goodness, take the time to educate yourself.  That is so important in life.  You may possibly become a more rounded and happier person.  Sciencenews is not garbage:  https://www.sciencenews.org/  

I have no dog in this fight, but you can't use the site (and just the homepage at that) to defend the same site you are trying to defend.

I am an expert, ask me. -> they aren't garbage, ask them. same difference.

I used to use iweathernet.com to get estimated rainfall over the last 72 hours, but lately you can't zoom into street level and the maximum zoom is useless now.

Where can I get the same info?

For those of you who hate winter storm naming, sitting at CES in “leveraging technology for social an impact” an IBM vp talking about their weather market space just named dropped winter storm Elliot. 

she is very much pushing ibm empowers all weather knowledge in America now. 
 

Randi Stipes is the Chief Marketing Officer of IBM Watson Media and Weather 

Ah. Now it makes sense. 
Weather and media may or may not be an interchangeable thing to ibm depending on phrasing. (The microwave programming joke from 30 Rock in real life)

Federal Government 2 hour delay. App didn't send notification for some reason.

Just now, BristowWx said:

Code orange…the teachers have to work from home.  The kids will sleep and eat chips

The language and way it came across was very confusing THEN the link to explain the code orange (they just said code orange, not what it meant) 404'd. IT was very annoying.

Prince William WOULD have delayed , but closed:

The weather forecast for Thursday would typically call for a two-hour delay, but due to double bus runs and staffing shortages, as well as uncertainty in temperatures that may cause icy conditions in parts of the county, we are unable to operate safely on a delay.

45 minutes ago, Imgoinhungry said:

Wouldn’t have guessed that most of the heavy rain would miss us to the west.


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What is considered west in this case?

You guys have a weird idea of what pleasant is if you think this has been pleasant. 

Does anyone have reliable observations from Haymarket for today?

Weather Underground insisted it was 100 degrees real (114 feels like) for over an hour today which was significantly hotter than other sites.

Shoveled for the instacart and Thai food deliveries. There was a noticeable amount of snow on the side walk in Haymarket. It probably wasn't quite an inch but impressive for a storm that I dismissed. 

The more interesting part is the very very thin layer of slush under it was frozen. 

It's def. not going to be a night to go outside and drive around I think.

If this booms federal workers are out of luck. If you are at work at eight you will have to leave at eight now to hopefully get there by ten during the best part of the storm?

this is how you get chaos. If it booms. 

Just now, Weather Will said:

This may be only game in town this week, Euro went poof this run for next weekend’s storm.

Next weekend has been on and off in unrealistically long models for weeks.

It wants to snow. This isn't the winter for 7 day lock ins. This is January of snow. 

How are the temps verifying against say the Friday model runs for this time?

1 minute ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

Tomorrow?

Pwc called it for Thursday citing widespread power outages for where the staff lives as a primary reason. 

The quicker they blow the treatment budgets, the sooner we will have a crippling BCSE (it's been so long since impressive snow of real or digital type, what's the biblical snow abbreviation?)

58 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Overall...isn't it kinda hard to get tornados in cities anyway? (buildings?)

March 2000 Ft Worth

this one caused the Tandy (RadioShack) high rise to be imploded (originally scheduled the day after 9/11 and had to be delayed) because of tornado damage. 

That is similar to the Char Broiler Infrared Gas Grill setup I had a few years ago.

It's all radiant heat so it should be more even as well.

I have a real question.

If everything either had a wild swing leading up to this exact moment or totally overplayed it, why do you have confidence that Monday into Tuesday is a complete loss based on the same models?

1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

Why do people buy margarita mix?  It’s just tequila, Cointreau or triple sec, and lime juice. 

 

Try substituting SOLERNO BLOOD ORANGE LIQUEUR for the Cointreau and adding one of the ANCHO REYES chili liqueur.

I read it as "ready to open - pending a lift of the stay at home order that is currently through the 15th"?

7 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

This is nonsense, but I guess it's the type of nonsense that the usual suspects here don't report and the mods love to see.

Not worth my time otherwise.

So you run when presented with facts? If you want to debate... let's go... if you want to just continue to spout nonsense would you take it to Facebook where nonsense runs rampant.

As of today, 62,406 people have died in America of COVID19 according to the CDC.

There is no end in sight, there is no treatment plan (outside traditional treatments for the symptoms that develop along with the COVID19). There is no vaccination.

A large percent of the population can carry this and transmit it without knowing.

There are 1,063,446 known US cases to date. That is a 5.8% death rate. 

This isn't the flu.

Start your argument over again... why do you think we should sacrifice Americans when this has only gone on two months to date and it's this dire already? 

Just now, PhineasC said:

Science is strongly moving towards this virus having a much lower IFR but higher infection rate than we thought. All the data is pointing that way now, debate now is over the degree. It wasn't that long ago that some governors made lockdown decisions based on data that showed 10% or more of people could die. We are still dealing with the reverberations of those decisions because of political inertia. It takes time to clear that kind of bad data when political careers are at stake and the voters are very scared because they ingested tons of bad doom porn data from social media.

You don't think 60k+ deaths in two months while locked down is concerning enough ? I mean the people in 2008 were worried that the government was ready to form death panels under socialized medicine , but you've already been a one man death panel that above stressed 70+ old people should die so 30 year olds can go to tourist restaurants. 

4 minutes ago, Baltimorewx said:

We’re talking about a culture that slaughters dogs and cats for meat...and exotic animals and then cages and sells them, much of the time killing them live in person. What are we really talking about here? Does the entire population participate in this? Of course not. But it is a large part of the culture over there. Again, I stated a reliable source supporting  that particular way of life likely contributes to these disease outbreaks. If you didn’t like my particular wording, apologies but we’re talking semantics 

Have you seen Tiger King yet? Do you think our entire country is above the behavior you are talking about? I grew up in Missouri I assure you we are not. We literally got horse in school and squirrel at the baby sitters.