Scarlet Pimpernel

Egg on avocado toast, maybe?? (ETA: I actually got one of those Squishable avocado pillow things for my daughter years ago, she thought it was overly cute! And it is. She named it "Guaqui" LOL!!!)

All this avocado and egg hate today, I swear!!

Right. Those means at this range, can be highly influenced by one huge solution or a few really bad ones (i.e., zero), so it washes out. The ops GFS essentially was an extreme "ensemble" member itself, in a way.

Including a few that go to our south.

If the ops GFS could still nearly pull it off with that extreme trough and solution, imagine what an even somewhat less digging trough would do?

I thought he was on his way to OZ.

Yeah he started off being very...BLUNT...about it, too!!

LOL, oh I totally got the Seinfeld reference! That was a funny episode, too!

Wow, I come in here looking for a possible snowstorm and all I see is Mulva! I guess that's better than caterpillars and other bugs!

Dude, you get Barney'd...digital purple over your house on the CMC!

Well, folks...we get our first wild ops solution for this upcoming period, courtesy of the CMC. And as I said above, the GFS almost hinted at the same thing the CMC showed, but it phases too late and too far offshore for that same event. Hopefully very interesting times ahead, and something that will actually produce a good snow.

Damn that thing just slows down, sits and spins... (ETA: The GFS kinda sorta hints at the same thing but it phases too late and too far offshore.)

Green'd!!!

Make that double oy Gevalt!

Wow! Oy Gevalt!!

Right. I imagine we will likely see some wild solutions from run-to-run. I would even not be surprised to see a big hit at one point (not saying that will actually happen, but some solution might show it!).

At least you'll see "blue" over your house hahaha!

Your DeLorean is obviously going faster into the future!

That was a classic...should have been nominated for an Oscar, it would win hands down!!

Same here, I appreciate you continuing to post and like your input, @brooklynwx99. It's well-informed and useful. While I get the snake-bitten attitude given how this winter has gone and how many times things have evaporated, the extreme cynicism is a bit much for me. That EPS look, most any other time people in here would be going ga-ga about it, especially since it's been showing up for several runs now. No, it's not a guarantee of anything but it sure as hell ups the probability. I'm not even looking for a HECS, just a solid event with a couple of decently cold days even would be fine at this point.

Heh...you said "bust!"

Reminds me of that old "that's impossible!" Little Caesar's ad:

@mappy, your spring avatar reminds me...tulip photos coming not too long from now (well, OK, later in April)!! Will post those when I take them of course, as I normally do! In the mean time, probably some other spring flowers as they come out.

Well, I wasn't here for that event (was in northeast OH at the time), but locally DCA recorded I think 6.6" as I recall? Of course, that's DCA measuring. But many others in the metro area received a foot or more even, before sleet and ice moved in. The storm was obviously "special" on the large scale given the wide area it covered, with anything from severe weather to blizzard conditions and feet of snow (48" in Syracuse, something like that!). Not to mention unreal heavy snows in AL/GA...in March. From what I've read about that storm for the local DC-Balt area, it still met blizzard condition criteria. For a mid-March storm in this area, that's quite impressive. There was also some pretty deep cold for a couple of days after that (true for much of the eastern 1/4 or so of the country). So maybe not a HECS in the metro areas just going by snowfall amount...but definitely taking into consideration everything else (wind, cold, snow, and ice). In northeast OH where I was, we were on the western edge of that storm and still had blizzard conditions. About 8-12" snow locally and gusty winds, along with temperatures in the teens or low 20s. Not sure what the pressure was in DC (DCA), but I recall the central pressure of that storm was on the order of ~960mb at its peak. To compare and give an idea of just how big that is, the Ohio Blizzard of 1978 (Jan. 26-27, 1978), which I lived through, went right through Cleveland. KCLE recorded their lowest pressure on record, 28.28" (957mb) as it went through. That may still stand as the 2nd lowest non-tropical storm pressure in the continental US. We didn't get extremely heavy snowfall from that...7" at KCLE, a bit more west...but 40+ MPH winds and gusts pushing 100 MPH near the lakeshore, along with temperatures in the single digits made it extremely dangerous (temps fell from mid 40s to the teens in about 2 hours, during the pre-dawn hours, and continued falling into the single digits for the rest of the day). That snow fell on top of about a foot of older crusty snow that already was on the ground.

The crazy pickles (Daffy Dills!!) are blooming all over here right now!