Scarlet Pimpernel

3 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Ha..Ninja'd.  Yeah, now I'm legit curious about what went down.  Weather gang wars?

I have no clue what the F he's talking about.  But apparently you're an aviator?? 

2 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

I adjusted some of the totals a little...this is my current thinking.  I think during the heaviest precip it will mix out the warm layer just enough to do better then the doomsday scenario on some of the high res guidance.  Ratios will be low but it will be puking precipitation so even if its a 50/50 snow/sleet mix it will accumulate a decent amount.  I also think these gulf systems with true cold air in place tend to run on the wet side of guidance.  

PSA:  Divide by 2.54 to get 'Murcan units!! 

Just now, Scraff said:

I’m freaking out over here. No doubt! I might run out of beer!! By winter of 2025...which I’m sure JI sees the back edge already for. 

The back edge of your refrigerator?? 

6 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Everybody, stop it.  You can whine all day about being persecuted because of your industry or beliefs blah blah blah.  This is a weather forum.  I don't care whose "side" you are on (unless it's rain and 33).  Stop talking about that shit here....there's a politics board.  I see why the post was deleted.  Not because of your sacred beliefs  (goes for BOTH sides)  but because it definitely would spark what's already happening: political discussion.  Nobody comes here for that.  We all come here to get away from that.   Controversial figures from either side would get deleted.  I know, because I've done it.  To both "sides".   

Can we get back to discussing how we are going to fail tomorrow?  Or any other subject except for politics or political figures.   This is nothing personal against anybody seeing as though some of the folks I like the most from this subforum are on the other "side".   Let's get back to fighting our real common enemy:  Ji's shit posts.  

Thanks for this.  And my apologies for stepping into the "fray" with my response a little earlier.  Probably shouldn't have done so.  Anyhow, totally agree with you here.  Especially about Ji's posts! LOL!

Just now, KAOS said:

I liked it better when we were talking about beer, crabs and fishing. Not to mention the picnic. Were did this all go wrong?

The NAM took our snow away, that's what went wrong! 

Just now, stormtracker said:

We panicking yet?  This wouldn't be a mid atl storm if not.

I thought we have been since 00Z last night!!

A couple of photos of the sky late this afternoon and early this evening (note the moon visible in the 1st one)...

5 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I promise I’m not this weird in person  

 

Damn, that's too bad!  I always envision you as a cloaked skeleton Reaper! 

ETA:  Wait a minute...that probably makes me weird to think that!! LOL!!

18 minutes ago, Deck Pic said:

My friend just asked me to name the 5 crime families without looking.  Got Gambino, Genovese and Bonanno.  Couldn't come up with Colombo and Luchese

What about Pacino?? 

Just now, mappy said:

He’s not that bad.Ji is Ji and either you love him, or find him incredibly tedious. I am of the latter and it’s better for all of us if I ignore him. He does know his weather, and when he wants to be serious he is a worthwhile follow/read. It’s the other 90% of his posting style I can’t stand. I do not have the patience for that. 

Totally agree, and I'm more or less on the same page as you...I find him tedious.  It is kind of sad in a way, because I have seen some really good and insightful posts he has made.  But yeah, that's overtaken by the vast majority of the time when he's insufferable; maybe that's his "thing", but nobody needs the model or storm threads taken up with it.

Just now, vastateofmind said:

I enjoy your puns (any puns, really), but get the biggest kick out of your profile name. I am a chess fan (though generally suck at playing), but after having taken German for six years in middle/high schools, I used to try to find the hardest words to say in German. I think "zugzwang" has claimed that trophy. 

Zugzwang | Definition of Zugzwang at Dictionary.com

Why thank you!  I have always appreciated bad puns (the only sort that are good!).  And yeah, my screen name comes from chess, and is a German word (I enjoy chess though haven't played as much of late, sadly).  I took German for 2 years in high school and a couple of years in college, really liked it!  I actually got halfway decent at being able to read it reasonably well and even carry on an OK conversation.  But that was MANY years ago, I've forgotten a lot of that by now!

Just now, mappy said:

Unless you tell them, like how I ignore Ji and live blissfully 

Probably much better for the blood pressure, I'm sure!

Just now, H2O said:

Good thing I’m not staff. 

But perhaps you are Falstaff (false staff)!!

OK, exiting the elevator quickly while the odor of that particularly lousy pun percolates!

1 minute ago, gymengineer said:

As Matt said, something’s off about the WB Kuchera map. This is the hour DC and southwest flip to sleet. The 0.5+” band is narrower than in the 12K, but its nowhere as funky as the Kuchera map suggests. 

Thanks.  Yeah, something looks a little odd.  And sorry @Deck Pic, didn't see you had already posted the total QPF just before I asked my question, but thanks!

9 minutes ago, Deck Pic said:

Congrats Ji

What's the total QPF look like...is it just as pock-marked looking as this?

1 minute ago, mappy said:

Ha! Yeah bad picture, sunlight was behind them lol - Peaches didn't use to tolerate him, but he's grown on her.

Sadly though she is getting old (will be 12 in April) and she moves a lot slower these days, sleeps a lot. She had some sort of cardiac event a few months ago, so we are mentally preparing ourselves...

Sorry to hear she's getting up there in years and has had cardiac issues.  Hope you'll be OK when "that time" comes...it's never easy really to prepare ones self for that, I know.

4 minutes ago, mappy said:

Ollie (the puppy, a lab mix, on top) and Peaches, our senior dog, a beagle mix. Both rescues. 

Overcome by overexposure to pure CUTENESS!!  Thanks for sharing...

Just now, EHoffman said:

I mean you can but do it in the banter thread...

Or the Panic Room...

12 minutes ago, H2O said:

Someone needs to go to the corner and suck on their binky for a while.  And by that someone I mean Ji

I think applying a gag would be more effective...

Just now, KAOS said:

Fixed...

Looks like a burger that's been sitting out for a few weeks.  Science experiment! 

ETA:  Or a St. Patrick's Day meal that went wrong!

16 minutes ago, GATECH said:

Y’all are creeping me out with fire ant stories, my brother almost died from those MFers.  He was stung about a thousand times after stepping in a mound while retrieving a basket ball.  Quick trip to the ER where they didn’t even mess with paper work and got him in right away.  Reason 10,019 I don’t miss Georgia.

Yeesh!  Where in GA?  When I lived in Atlanta (going to GA Tech), I don't really recall anything with fire ants up in that part of the state.  But I can imagine the southern part and near the coastal area around Savannah might be infiltrated with those damned things.

9 minutes ago, mattie g said:

 

My wife and met each other while she was living down south, so we started our lives together via long-distance relationship.

One late night, a couple months after we met, she called me to tell me that she was headed home after an evening out with friends. She also told me that she had gotten bitten on her foot by what she assumed was fire ants. I asked how she was, and she said that her foot had swelled up and that her face was starting to itch. She then mentioned that she was driving by a hospital and wondered whether she should check herself in (and then laughed about it). I told her emphatically YES, so she did.

5-10 minutes after she checked in, they took her into a room where she passed the F out. A shot of Benadryl brought her right back, but if she hadn't pulled into the hospital right then...

Oh, that's awful!!  Really bad allergic reaction.  I'm glad you told her emphatically to head right to the ER, and that she was driving by a hospital.  Glad she ended up OK!

Just now, mattie g said:

Your stepmom sounds like quite the geek!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She is!  Scientist at heart!  As was my dad.  Geekiness runs in the family, as does bad humor! LOL!!

6 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

Yea, but coming back appears to be at the expense of MY sanity (and my soul has fire ants crawling on it now)

Ugh...fire ants!  Nasty little f**ers!!  Experienced those in Florida when I was in grad school for my Master's (FSU).  I have a vivid memory one time of being in the outfield during some softball game practice, running in to catch a fly ball and inadvertently kicking one of those fire ant hill nests.  In one motion right after I caught the ball and kicked that damned hill...I reached down and flung my shoe off.  Thank goodness I didn't get bitten all over the place!

Looking at the range of weenie-d out emotion reminds me of a tale my step-mom told me years ago about the "ephemerons".  Very scientific beings that lived on the top of the mercury column of a thermometer.  Their lives were on the order of a microsecond.  After thousands or more generations, they figured out the extent of their world:  where the top and bottom of the thermometer glass was.  After a couple million more, they realized they were accelerating upward, and panic ensued as they thought their world would be crushed on the top of the glass in some number of generations down the line!  Then, after awhile, they realized things were stabilized and the panic stopped.  After a million more generations their measurements indicated they were going down, fairly rapidly.  Upon more and more measurements, they were growing very worried that they would crater at the bottom of their universe!  And so it goes...