Scarlet Pimpernel

Not a task I'd envy doing. Like cleaning the Augean Stables.

Nah. Just that the Banter thread has now become nothing but overflow for the tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth and petty arguing from the regular model/discussion thread! I'm worried @WxWatcher007 might require mods in the Panic Room, at this rate!!

I do believe several of the original Weenie Commandments may have been lost accidentally by Ji sometime in history...

I don't know...I thought his drinking Schlitz and PBR was worse!!

The Browns could win the Super Bowl next year, too. That's still a mathematical possibility...at this point, anyhow!

You don't want to know...

Haha, yeah, maybe. But sometimes the humor here lacks depth as well! Sorry folks, but I think @ravensrule spammed my account for a moment there with that previous comment. But even he might blush at that (nahhhh, not really!)!! Won't touch that with a 10 meter cattle prod!! (Wait...the reaper, speechless???) https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/2c8e1816-27a7-4802-ba80-4c8df5028d3f

C'mon man, show some dignity! This place is rated PG-13 at the worst! (Oh, and love it when you talk so dirty about the models like that! You can grab 'em by the vorticity, and they let you do it, because you're a snow weenie!)

I sure have heard it, several times...and have seen it performed live a time or two. You're absolutely right, the same motif shows up throughout. It also has one of the more unusual transitions from the 3rd to 4th movement (no pause, really, it just goes right into the 4th).

Wow! I'm thinking we might be better off going back to the quasi-political discussion from earlier!! Or not...this might be more fun!!

Along with some fava beans??

OK, while I definitely appreciate music, I cannot read it all that much. What piece is that from?? (ETA: Of course!! From the 1st movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony? Considering @stormtracker issued the "warning" comment, and looking at the musical notes now in my mind.)

I know, I know...shouldn't have made that (not too) subtle comment, but couldn't resist I suppose! Hey...my bad @stormtracker...and my apologies. I probably should not have replied a page or so back with my "FOX" comment, but I thought it would be lightly humorous enough without being *too* political (and it was in response to someone humorously saying "fake nuze", so the follow-up seemed like an appropriate "touche!" at the time!). Didn't expect a bunch of related commentary to ensue...oh well. And this is a fantastic winter! Record breaking...errr, wait a minute, I'm thinking of 10 years ago!!

I think you misspelled "FOX" there...(ducking for cover).

Well, if you're looking at the *total* QPF through that time (I'm looking at TT site), then yeah, it would appear like huge swaths of moisture because it's a total amount over all those hours. Sort of like a Jackson Pollock painting (I use the term "painting" very loosely, hahaha!). Much larger area then, of course, would be covered by something, especially when you get out in time. But if you're looking at the 24-h amounts, you should see more "motion" (for lack of a better word) as a system moves through...it will increase, then decrease, over an area for various 24-h increments.

Yeah, that sure is a nice look. Cold, Arctic high pushing east with a wave underneath that is dumping moisture into the cold air. Not a HECS, but a nice overrunning event as shown. Same general time frame that some form of this has been showing up. And that's some cold air over this area, too, while the precip is ongoing.

Hahaha! I know...I was making a weak attempt to riff on the old "you can take the so-and-so out of wherever, but you cannot take the wherever out of the so-and-so"! (or something like that!).

So...you can take the meteorologist out of moderator, but you can't take the moderator out of the girl!

I would think so too...but at the same time, isn't that ridging off the coast and up into the northeast kind of not ideal? But we're talking day 10, so I shouldn't parse such details. The setup is showing up, and has been showing up, for a little while now in the general time frame.

Yeah...the last 5-6 Marches in particular have highlighted this!

Lunatics running the asylum, it seems..."Weenies Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"? ; ) I admit I'm as weenie as anyone when it comes to snow, following the storms is fun (though frustrating at the same time, too). But I try to keep the frustration mostly to myself and out of the medium range and storm related threads, when things don't work out. Light banter maybe sometimes in there, but I've tried to keep most stuff in the Banter forum or the Panic Room for fun. I'm sure several others are the same, and I know you're not aiming that comment at them or me...but you're right. And thanks to you and other mods for at least trying to keep it somewhat under control. The past couple of years it has gotten really insufferable at times in the main discussion areas!

Yeah, looks like the trough doesn't quite dig as much as the 06Z did (or the other couple of previous cycles that had a good event). So it doesn't get going really until it's well offshore and it doesn't "turn the corner" much up the coast for us. But...the idea is still there at that range, and has been for a little while now. Guess that's all we can ask at this point.

I may not be that much of an expert (nor do I play one on TV, and have not stayed at a Holiday Inn Express)...but my 2 copper coins worth: The "main" southern stream trough actually has a neutral tilt (aligned more or less north-south). The northern stream energy up around WI is neutral to slightly positive tilt. But it sure looks like it's getting close to phasing with the southern stream...which, if it did, would probably result in a closed off system that becomes negatively tilted. (Note: "positive" tilt, trough aligned more southwest-northeast in the flow..."negative" tilt, aligned northwest-southeast, and can become closed off..."neutral" tilt, aligned more north-south. Generally speaking, a positively tilted trough is weaker, and the energy can tend to get sheared out. A negative tilt or closed low implies a slow moving or intensifying system, or perhaps phasing if there's more than one stream...these tend to be much stronger. A neutrally tilted trough is kind of, well, neutral or "in the middle", could imply a trough that's amplifying and potentially can become negatively tilted.)

You know what that means, professor? YOU DON'T GET...THE UNICORN! AWWWW! (Actually, they did get the unicorn in the end, so who knows!!!)

Horrible news about Kobe Bryant...just awful and depressing. May he rest in peace, and may his surviving family find the strength to overcome this tragedy.