Scarlet Pimpernel

On a related note, I'll admit, cold weather softball SUCKS big time! I played on a softball league for many years. The season started in April and it was almost a guarantee that the first game or so would be 40s and drizzle. Hitting a ball with an aluminum bat HURTS in cold weather! No fun! Then again...I didn't care for the upper 90s or 100+ degree days when we had double-headers either, in late July a couple of times!!

I agree. And to be honest, I really don't care for this "March snow sucks because it melts too fast" attitude. Who the F**k cares? If we get a MECS or better storm, I'll be following that and enjoying it all through. Don't care if it's in early March or early January. Yeah, you're not going to get mid-January temperatures in March after a snow. But I recall several times that we had very good March snows that actually did stick around for a few days after a storm with cold temperatures that didn't disappear in a day. 2014 is a perfect example as you mention. Same with 2015. There are other examples. I even liked the small event in 2022, even though I knew it was going to warm up in another day. But on THAT day, it got quite cold and wintry. You're right. Even in mid-winter, we don't necessarily hang on to snow for weeks on end in these parts. Yeah, I saw that in northeast Ohio (where I'm from and grew up) of course, but that's a lot different and a much different climate. This January was unusual compared to many recent years in that we had consistent cold through the month, so the snow we got on Jan. 6 and around Jan. 20 stuck around for as long as it did. And yeah, some of the big snows we've gotten hung around for awhile simply because it was a LOT of snow and took awhile before it got melted or washed away. So long and the short of it...if we have a shot at one (or more!) solid or better events at the end of this month or the first half of March, I say BRING IT ON!

Very squishable!!

We are dressed in our weenie best, and are prepared to go down as gentlemen! But we would like a brandy!

ICON is not only way far south, it's as if there's not much of a storm there at all...very dry looking overall. Even the max zone is pretty small compared to earlier.

Or as my brother used to say about Bernie Kosar (when he was QB of the Browns): a "Kosarian" drive: go 85 yards, chew up 12 minutes on the clock, and have to settle for a field goal!!!

I just went and checked DCA's max/min for Jan. 30, 2010...high of 23, low of 18, 6.4" snow (day before was 27/20). And that 6.4" snow was on 0.33 liquid equivalent.

Anyone seriously looking for a HECS right now is either being deliberately ignorant or a complete fool (or...both!). I still hold out hope that a decent warning-level cold powder storm is on the table.

If this damned thing comes back from the dead somehow, I propose we call it the "@ravensrule yank and tug storm"!

Interesting that right now it's like there's almost no real low, and it's drier relatively speaking. But as you say, if we're actually seeing more interaction, hopefully the surface and precip will "respond" in upcoming cycles.

I think at 12Z it seemed oddly dry too, even in the jackpot region?

How does this all compare to its 12Z run? I'm thinking like @psuhoffman, it just seems like some disconnect looking at that H500 and comparing to the surface, not sure what is going on. I guess it is just too flat of a flow off the east coast?

Is that @Ralph Wiggum doing the PBP???

LOL it literally pushed the purple-pink area of better snows like 100 miles southeast compared to its run 6 hours ago (06Z), and it looks drier even in that max stripe overall.

Hahaha! Yeah, not a fan of his chicken if I can possibly avoid it. And I hope you didn't mind my comment, I was just bustin' your chops a little for humor! It's a common mistake, the "e" vs. the "u" in that name!

Hey Bob...OK, as a PURDUE grad here, I must take exception to your spelling of that chicken farmer...he spells it with an "e"...PERdue!! Don't confuse the two, or lump him with the university, LOL!!!

Hi Wes! I believe the easiest (only?) way to do this is to go to the top of the screen when logged in, where your username/icon is. Just to the left of that, there's a "bell" icon, if you click on that you should be able to see a list of people who responded to you. If you click on any of them, it should take you directly to the comment in the thread it was made. Not sure how far back the list goes, but certainly enough to capture many of those notifications.

That was a great "little" event, which of course led into an amazing 2-week period of winter! I remember that being pronounced dead not long before it was going to occur, then about a couple of days out, it got resurrected! 6" cold powder where I was at in Silver Spring, MD at the time.

A couple of photos from the snow Tuesday night. Sorry this is a bit late, meant to post these sooner, but didn't have a chance to offload them from the camera and process them until the other day.

You sure that's not "northwest Baltimore" or "south Harrisburg" or even "far southeast Pittsburgh"???

There's actually not much anywhere, even in the jackpot zones. Like the whole thing is just...dry.

Whoa...that's early!