Scarlet Pimpernel

Wear a mask...help STOP the spread!!

Hopefully a debate that was over in short order after scanning what's in the liquor cabinet! Cheers!!

I know, right?? Came in here and thought it was a continuation of 2020 or something...

We need a true - JiP (negative Ji post) for really big snows around here.

Merry New Year everyone!

Don't know... It might be fleeting and not very 1996-like?

We talkin' 1996??

Seeing that my lower back went out on me (again!) right on Christmas Eve, at this point I could give f*ck-all about how many cutters we get in the next couple of weeks! That's not really aimed at you, just a convenient place to throw that in there! Sucks...I've had semi-chronic issues with the lower back for several years, a lot of that my fault by lifting things the wrong way without paying attention, that sort of thing (use your knees more when lifting, and tighten your core, dammit!! LOL!). Then all it takes is one little move when it's somewhat weakened by such activities, and...*wham!!** it essentially charley-horses on me and takes a couple or so days to "un-knot" itself. So yeah, I should be more cognizant of how I lift things, and I'm reminded that I should keep up with the exercises I should be doing to keep it in decent shape! But...that all said, that did not ruin the holiday for me!! Oh, and I agree with you...even in a year such as this, there is some joy at this time of year all the same, and hope for the upcoming year! Part of the Holiday music listening included a CD we have called "Festival of Carols", a compilation of Christmas carols as conducted by Robert Shaw (thought you would appreciate that!)...perhaps my favorite!

Happy Christmas, everyone!! May you all find peace and joy today, and better things to look toward heading into 2021!!

Yeah, we can call it "Cutters! Cutters Everywhere!"

Streaming high clouds from this afternoon...

We need @WxWatcher007 to come out with that Bat Signal picture that he uses for @Mrs.J...only in this case, put @Bob Chill's icon on there!!

Agree, it was a great film on many levels, with fantastic acting! I have a copy of it and have seen it several times over the years.

I don't know...the moose may like that!!

Apparently this is what the latest ECMWF looked like:

Looks like I need to watch "Breaking Away" again...

So...essentially just like 1996 then!! That'll never get old. Or will it??? (***No dead equines were harmed by this comment!)

Well, in keeping with @yoda, who started this thread..."Snow or snow not! There is no try!"

Hahaha! Well, "best pattern since '96" might surpass "transient" as the most over-used word/phrase for this winter!!

Haha! Give 'em the Ray Guy treatment!! That person who complains might be (ahem)JI(ahem)!! (ETA: and to keep up with the alliteration, you can refer to those who complain as "Nattering nabobs of negativism!!")

Lovely alliteration there, intentional or not (picture perfect pacific pattern)!! At any rate, good discussion of how we can get decent moderate events, if one is not so hung up on HECS chasing.

When it became apparent that there was something very possible around that time in Jan. 2016, I vaguely recall some discussion that for whatever reason those middle 2 weeks (or there about) of January had a relative lack of good snow events.

Well, that may be true about the last week or so of December, climatologically. But then again, people said kinda the same thing about the 3rd week of January, that we never get any good snows around that time. Then there was some kind of event...oh...sometime about Jan. 22-23, 2016 I seem to recall?? I'm just joking with you, of course, for fun! Not saying a Jan. 2016 redux should be expected or will occur (but we'd take that!), but maybe we can crack through the dearth of WSW snows the last week of December!

Very true, and thanks for pointing this out. It's definitely one of the better setups we've had in some time it seems (though I won't say "since '96" or any other particular year, hahaha!). It will be complicated, the interaction of the various waves during that period, and not necessarily "ideal" (whatever that might be). So yeah, hopefully we'll come out of that time frame with at least one decent snow and avoid the incredible bad luck of getting shut out!