Scarlet Pimpernel

Tulip photos coming soon for you! Well, sometime in April or there about!

We need the second coming of Jesus (the waiter) to serve us drinks as we await the inevitable conclusion!!

I'd echo pretty much these same things. British Museum, maybe some of the others (art museum type things), Churchill War Rooms, and there's I believe a WW-I museum too (since the US wasn't in that one as much, it's a remarkable perspective from Britain to see how impactful that war was in Europe). Oh and St. Paul's Cathedral...when I was there many years ago you could walk up the stairs in the dome area to the top or near it, and look outside. Stunning view! Food...as @WxUSAF says, Indian cuisine is what you should look for in England, they should have plenty of good Indian places in London. I'd also recommend a nice place for some good ol' fashioned fish and chips! And any number of the local pubs, you'll probably find beers that you can't get around here, and when I was there several places had different stuff on tap, it wasn't always the same in each pub. And of course...use the London Underground by all means, and buses, to get around town. Just remember to wait on the correct side of the road so you're going the direction you want, hahaha! You know, because those Brits drive on the wrong side!!

A'la "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

This is a good comment. One has to hold out some hope that this won't continue forever. Even if one's first "real" job right after college isn't exactly related to your chosen career (such as meteorology), do what you can, and eventually you can get into what you wanted to originally do.

Must be nice to say that from a place of privilege if you're not in that "9 percent", who are losing their jobs for no apparent good reason.

Oh my! The Reaper getting all moist and misty-eyed!! So sentimental now in retirement!!!

I feel the same...though I'll add, it's not just the whim morons, it's specifically designed to be cruel and hurtful.

So...a normal winter in these parts, then!!

Never underestimate the Reaper! He's got a little list, you know! (From Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado", Ko-Ko the Lord High Executioner): As some day it may happen that a victim must be found I've got a little list — I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!

Yup, when the weenies get CRAS, the Reaper in all his glory gets going!! Off to carousel with you!!

I mean really, we endlessly parse the 84-hour NAM and the ICON for every single snow event, for crying out loud!

Eggplant!!!

At risk (oh well!) of likewise getting a bit too political in this forum, I'll have to disagree with your 2nd paragraph somewhat. I'm not one for "both-siderism" to be honest. That's the bane of our awful media situation as it is because too few call out the truth. While individuals, not necessarily politicians, on both the left and right may go too far in what they say, the FACT is that there is nothing on the political left in this country (i.e., Democratic party) anything like the right. Not a single Democratic politician has proposed or done anything remotely similar to what the other side has done in terms of blatant violation of law, political norms, or ethics. Nor have they put up a convicted felon on state charges and one charged with serious federal felony crimes as their standard-bearer for President. One may disagree with proposed policies but it's nothing like what we see going on now. I'm very much to the left in my views, and there are certainly aspects of some liberals that piss me off, but in terms of who is making policy, the Democrats are pretty centrist by world-wide standards. Really, only one side is hell-bent on utterly destroying the very institutions that make this country what it is. This all has me VERY worried and frightened to be honest. But as I said, sorry to get too political here, maybe my inner @psuhoffman in part feels I must speak up just a little bit because these issues are now impossible to avoid. Besides, it ain't going to be snowing anytime, which pisses me off, so screw it, I'll vent!

It's definitely been favoring "BS" around here for some time now!!! Sorry couldn't resist. But to be a little serious, it does seem we've not had many "true" Miller-A storms of late.

I'm half-following to the end, myself, to be honest. I still hold out hope for one more decent snow before we're done for the season. And of late (many years?) we've had better snow chances and more events in early-mid March than any time in December.

You do realize that it's national centers, be they government or research entities, that create and run models, don't you? NCEP, the ECMWF, CMC, etc. The companies such as Weather Bell, Tropical Tidbits, and the like, merely use that data and package it with their own graphics for display. Yeah, they may do some of their own calculations to show precip type or snow amount, or other things like that, but they don't do the modeling.

Haha, right now it's NOBODY's storm!! If it exists, even! Honestly, I don't care "who's storm" it is, if we get one! As I replied to @stormtracker, I'm going to lightly follow things and see, and will still sort of hold out hope for something decent in early March.

I hear ya. I was being a little snarky and humorous with all the semi-political talk so I dropped that line! But seriously, I kind of agree with you. That storm this week kinda let a lot of air out for sure. I don't hold any great hopes, but I'll lightly follow things and if something "real" shows up then I'll go all in with tracking it and see what happens. I really think we're good for one more decent event the first part of March. That may be a vain hope (most likely?!) of course!

So...when do we get the @Heisy storm?!?!

Wish there were a way to add 2 emoji responses. I wanted to put the sad/sympathetic one in response to the stuff that happened to your bf's mom (just awful, and I am so sorry that happened!)...and a laughing one for the Jesus the Waiter line! So I settled with a "like".

I took the Euro AI's name in vain, so doing some hail snowflakes as penance. Hopefully we'll score after that now!

Mimosas...served by Jesus! But I shouldn't bring religion in here (unless snow counts as a religion!).