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  1. Scarlet Pimpernel
    Yup, most definitely. If (if, if, if!!!) this kind of progression actually occurs, you know there will be tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth with every single ops run once it gets within range to appear on the ops. Of course, if we can manage some event prior to that time, it may mitigate some of that.
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    Yeah I know this is a snow map way out there for the control member...but damn, that's still quite an expansive area of 12"+!! I don't know if we've seen that kind of signal yet this year, hopefully it's real. (ETA: Just as a matter of interest, since you mentioned it, I believe the 1996 storm is one of only two events that hit NESIS level 5? March 1993 being the other one.)
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    Thanks! And it's a great movie, too! That quote you give is one of many good ones in there.
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    Folks???
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    Verbatim (yeah, I know, ops at 384h!!!) the surface is not great, nor is the 850 hPa level. As depicted it looks a bit too far north? But yeah, definitely agree with you on the overall "look", even if it's a bit off in this run. (ETA: There is actually a surface low forming off the SC/GA coast at that time as well.)
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    Some may find that mildly titillating!
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    Watch us get one super-sized HECS or even a BECS sometime later this month, but not much else. You'll have people complaining that we didn't have wall-to-wall snow from Feb. 15-Mar. 15, blah-blah-blah. Or, alternatively, we score like 3 solid moderate events (4-8" or 6-12" variety) with some legit cold like Feb-Mar 2015, but it "wasn't enough for what should have been an epic pattern!"
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    I'm hoping we'll have lots of F-words (of the good variety!) and Jaws music, and maybe declaring things as being "randytastic" (a'la the 2016 blizzard)!!!
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    I now know more about Beethoven than I ever thought!!!
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    You obviously haven't grown up as a Cleveland sports fan!!! LOL!!!! They've had plenty of teams that were embarrassments!
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    Always love Monty Python references!! But I prefer...BURN THE DEBS (or witch!)!!!
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    Well, seeing that you have just recently posted several such Ji-like sarcastic comments, one does wonder...
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    Totally agree! It's like the complaints about how 2016 was a one-hit-wonder but otherwise sucked. Complaining that 2016 was nothing but one big storm is like saying "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" And yeah, that March 2018 "first day of spring" event was great! There have been many such snowstorms in March, even if they aren't HECS level.
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    Can always count on you to be a total sarcastic weenie. Thanks!
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    Let's just let things unfold as they will, however it happens. We see the remarkable agreement across all ensembles and it has been now showing up in some ops runs more and more in the ops extended ranges. And the extended ensembles/weeklies have been pretty emphatic through the first part of March thus far. Don't worry or get caught up in specific dates or apparent times that "nothing much happened" or "PD is our time!" I mentioned this before, but remember in 2016 there was talk about how we have a relative lack of snow events the 3rd week or so of January...whether due to chance or some actual meteorological reason (traditional Jan. thaw, that sort of thing)? Then something happened Jan. 22-23, 2016...trying to put my finger on it, I recall getting some decent snow then...LOL!!!
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    We had a ~3 week period from Feb. 14-March 5 or so in 2015 that was absolutely amazing around here. And that followed a rather craptastic pattern at the end of January and into early February. Yet we had epic cold starting Valentine's Day that year along with several decent events. No HECS or anything, but wow, what a stretch of cold and snow! That February ended up at like a -10 departure on temperatures, even after a relatively warm first week or so. (ETA: And even the record-breaking winter 2009-10, the winter came in concentrated waves...we had 14 days of amazing winter from the end of January through mid-February, and maybe another week or so in December around the HECS that month).
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    The snow mean for July 4 weekend is a disaster!! Totally sucks! Summertime HECS cancel!
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    I know there are those in this forum who think early March snow (i.e., first half of the month) is a waste, but we've had some really good cold shots and snows in the first part of that month. We've also had some epically cold periods in February (2007 and 2015 come to mind). Who cares if it's not something that would necessarily stay on the ground for a week or two. Really! If these current indications on the extended and weeklies are correct, we could well easily be tracking things not only the 2nd half or so of February, but also into March. I say bring it on!
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    God's sake, even with every blasted model showing a highly favorable and amazing pattern toward the middle of February into the first part March or so, you still have awful downer posts in the medium range thread! I swear, some people really should be five-posted.
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    Haha, I guess that's true, it sure does feel like that many times for snow! And kudos for recognizing the meaning of the chess term ("obligation to move" but it puts you in a worse position!)...gotta love those German words for things!
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    I was just going to mention this is a pretty sick (or slick??) looking pattern at the end of the GFS. Yeah, 384 hour ops and all but I've seen this showing up more out there in ops la-la land, which is nice to see! And I like at the surface how there are some nice highs lined up in Canada on the east side of that PNA ridge.
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    Well hello!!! Former Panic Room quasi-employees can't hide from the Reaper no matter one's name!
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    Right...they have a "severity" scale of 1-5 for the top events, based upon areal coverage, population density, and of course amount of snow. "Lesser" events below the KU scale are the more moderate events which they also cover in those volumes. I'm more or less in line with what others consider for the categories, and all of them should be warning-level or higher: SECS...4-8" solid event. MECS...12"+ HECS...18-24"+, typically covering a wide area of the East Coast. This would also be considered a "KU" storm, one that would be discussed and referred to historically. But even this has nuances for specific "IMBY" amounts...I got ~12" for the Feb. 9-10, 2010 event (though very hard to measure!), but I consider it a HECS based because it had true blizzard conditions, a whiteout for several hours, and it was very cold. Plus other locations nearby got 18" or much more. It also, of course, covered a wide area. BECS...as I mentioned before, enough snow that Moses would have to part the snow drifts on the DC Beltway!!! Maybe enough snow that @Ji would complain that it's TOO MUCH! Or enough that even @Jebman would decline to attempt shoveling it.
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    Is that used for their Atmospheric Dynamics II class, for the Met major???
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