Scarlet Pimpernel

17 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Just days before we officially open up too. I hope they’re not trying to muscle in on our territory.

Shame they didn’t call us for clean up. We’re professionals at it. As an aside, our gardening business is really taking off. We offer top notch fertilizer. All natural.

Quite impressive on the outdoor improvements to the Panic Room!  I await the disco room, which should be hoppin' this year!

(ETA:  Yeah, they're not wearing masks nor are they socially distanced!  Probably not good to be scapula-to-scapula like that!)

9 minutes ago, H2O said:

If you want to use weather to describe things it was like people discussing the 84hr NAM when it was only out to 12. Too many were trying to say what was going to happen without all the data or letting the run happen. Personal bias of “too warm”, “looks tasty” etc crept in and clouded the discussion. 
 

So the decision was to go storm mode and get back to actual weather. 
 

If those that left got upset by that then they lost sight of what this message board is supposed to be for. But no one was run off. 

Change "NAM" to "DGEX" or "CRAS" and you're spot on!! 

1 hour ago, CAPE said:

Gourmet meal right here

OK, somehow that looks like a meal bizarro-world @Mrs.J might concoct (or she'd have to be high on acid)!!

(with all due respect, Mrs. J, all in humor here!) 

Just now, fourseasons said:

Maybe it would help if you find a nice wine pairing to go with it?

Ha!  That might be difficult.

However, a BLT sandwich with fine champagne is actually quite a good pairing!

5 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Yeah, that's a hell of a storm on both models.  Problem is, we're on the wrong side.   Plenty of time left...and...150 hours

Ha, that seems to be our problem all too often!  But nice to see something interesting out there at least.

Good to see you Stormtracker, hope all is well!

Just now, mappy said:

very true. but with ketchup? ugh

Indeed...that only makes it *worse*!!

4 minutes ago, mappy said:

ketchup on everything isnt a deal breaker by itself. ketchup with vienna sausages and spaghetti-Os is a bit too far. 

Vienna sausages and spaghetti-Os is a bit too far just by itself!

5 minutes ago, H2O said:

 

Ketchup

on

bacon

 

Yes, I went there

Oh...no, no, no...you did NOT!  You DID!  Such desecration of bacon shall not be tolerated!!

Spam, on the other hand...(spam, spam, spam, spam, SPAM!  Wonderful spam!  Thank you, Monty Python!)

44 minutes ago, mappy said:

1 more week before I pay attention to LR snow chances in earnest. 

My cue for paying attention to LR snow chances is 10 weeks after Ji cancels winter for the10th time for the upcoming season.   So yeah, it's getting close! 

1 hour ago, H2O said:

This looks like the Oscar Mayer hot dog weenie mobile

Just don't bring back that Vienna sausage and Spaghetti-Ohs dish that you put up in here this past spring!

Oh, sh*t, now I've done it! 

3 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

What a twisted movie.

Very twisted for sure!  But a good movie.

5 hours ago, Mrs.J said:

Doing quite well. How are you doing?
Not quite ready for the snow here. But it is getting close to that time. 

I'm doing fine overall, thanks!  Just hanging in!!!  Can't believe it's Thanksgiving next week.

2 hours ago, FXW176 said:

It’s addictive. Stop now.

Tom has found his outdoor home. Again, ty!

Looks like that turkey is wearing a Bishop's miter!!

1 hour ago, 40westwx said:

I absolutely prefer the big one over several significant storms.. their is something about "making history" that makes the HECS events special.. the build up is always better than the actual event.. the tracking on the big ones gives me something to look forward to.. sometimes when they are over.. I actually have a little bit of an emotional hangover.

Kinda agree, in general...as long as it's not a "one and done" kind of deal, if the rest of winter is at least OK too.  You're right, there's nothing like a HECS, tracking it days in advance and then experiencing it as it occurs!  For instance, the excitement before the Jan. 2016 blizzard was awesome, almost better than the storm itself (well, I won't go that far!).  A week out, the Saturday before it hit, all the models locked onto something significant.  It was just a matter of refining the details after that.  I got almost nothing done that week leading into it, awaiting the latest guidance each cycle.  And then...zero hour and the storm began!  Similar feeling for the other HECS events I have experienced in my time here over the years.

That said, a winter like 2013-14 was quite something to behold, even as it lacked an actual HECS.

2 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Put another way, would you 

1) Prefer to have an eyeball removed with a screwdriver 

or

2) Prefer to have your thumbs sawed off by a chainsaw

or, which is probably the worst option of them all

3) Have your eyes glued open while Ji “narrates” a snow event

“The rates are ok (it’s 2”/hr) but we just don’t get real storms here anymore.” 

OK, so let's go the other way...

(1) A winter like last year, with one really small event that you would have missed if you sneezed.  But with the enticing prospect of perhaps *something* on the horizon and even some cold air incursions to give a winter feel.

or

(2) An all-out true shutout, where it's late fall most every day and really no chance of any event at all.  Oh, and even with the warmth, no mosquitos as the crisp nighttime temperatures would have killed them off at least!

15 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I know...greedy, eh?  Hoping for three of the area's best storms ever to hit here in one season.  It would make 2009-10 look like an amateur (well, that's a bit overstated, yeah)!  That would wreak havoc on the Reaper's business I'm sure!

5 hours ago, mappy said:

Ha, we are all doing as well as we can. hope you and the family are well too

 

Doing fine, thanks!  Just gotta keep on keepin' on, I suppose.  Good to hear from you!

OK, to throw another hypothetical out there.  In your "ideal" winter, pick 3 HECS-level storms that you would want to occur during that season.  For instance, pick from (just throwing some out there that I'm familiar with offhand, no particular order, there are surely others...)

(1) Feb. 1979 PD-1

(2) Feb. 1983 "Megalopolitan Storm"

(3) Jan. 1996

(4) Feb. 16-17, 2003 PD-2

(5) Feb. 5-6, 2010

(6) Feb. 9-10, 2010

(7) Dec. 18-19, 2009

(8) Jan. 22-23, 2016

I think I'd go with 5, 7, 8 myself.  But they're all great!

AND, for a bonus.  What MODERATE level events would you like to have, if you could pick 3 to occur in a winter?...too many to list, probably, and I'm sure I don't remember them all.  But offhand I'll state (in no order)...Jan. 30, 2010, Feb. 11-12, 2014, Mar. 16-17, 2014.  Mar. 5, 2015 would be close, too, and maybe should be on my list.

Here's another one:

(1) The February 5-6, 2010 storm ("Snowmageddon")

or

(2) The Jan. 22-23, 2016 blizzard

Now...before choosing, consider these storms in isolation.  That is, ignore that the Feb. 2010 storm occurred in an epic record-breaking year and was followed 5 days later with another event.  And, ignore that the Jan. 2016 blizzard was a "one and done" storm that winter, and that it warmed up shortly after it ended.  Just think of the epic-ness of each by itself.  Maybe not possible or appropriate to try and do that, but just throwing that out there.

And while I'm at it, let me add a 3rd choice to that list...

(3) Dec. 18-19, 2009 (the storm that seems to get "lost" almost, with the focus on that winter so much on the February storms and the late January event right before that)

Personally, I kind of waver between the Feb. 2010 and Dec. 2009 storms, but man, what a tough choice between those!  Can I just take them all? 

1 hour ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Ok...

Would you rather:

1) A mauling progressive system bringing 6 hours of 2”/hr snowfall 

or

2) A long duration 24 hour event with the same 12” snow total 

I'd definitely take #1 on that.  Essentially what we got for Commutageddon in Jan. 2011.  Just colder temperatures so it doesn't damn near melt right away and it sticks immediately!

To all who chose a Christmas moderate snow over a January top-3 blizzard...I totally get that in this year, 2020, as many have said.  I personally said I'd take the epic Jan. blizzard (assuming the rest of the winter was good too, and not a one-and-done!).  But the way this year has been, I have to give a hat-tip at least to the sentiment that a good snowfall around here for the Holidays would soothe a lot of the negative aspects of this year, for sure.

27 minutes ago, mappy said:

That’s what she said-ish

Oh...my!  Channeling your inner @ravensrule?? 

How are you doing, friend?  Hope all is well in mappyland!!!

(or is it mappyville, mappystan, mappyopolis...?)

1 hour ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I loved 2013-14 so I’d choose that easily. I’d also take option 1 for the second question because I’d know we had an epic season lol.

 

I'd choose that one as well.  Tough, but still, 2013-14 was gate-to-gate winter pretty much.  No HECS, but several moderate events.  When even @Bob Chill says he was exhausted and nearly tired of tracking at the end, you know it was a good winter!  And it snowed on my birthday in late March, so that wins for me!  Don't get me wrong, I loved 2002-03 of course especially as it came on the heels of a winter (2001-02) that totally sucked around here so it was a refreshing change.

15 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

Just took the trash out and it is snowing!

Hello Mrs. J!!  I hope you are well!  That's cool...snowing!!!  I've heard there are some good snow showers going on in my home town up in northeast Ohio.