Scarlet Pimpernel

I'm not so sure I totally agree, but I do understand what you're saying. I lived for several years in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of DC, and DCA itself wasn't the most representative for snow and even temps on many occasions even there. I'd argue the National Arboretum (in DC Northeast) was a better match to what I experienced near Constitution Ave. and 9th St. NE and then around H St. NE...the two areas I lived while in that neighborhood. When I moved more northwest to Silver Spring and then to Bethesda...still in and around the Beltway...DCA was even farther off. I'd say I get more a cross between DCA and BWI, sort of. But I don't think DCA itself is representative of the entire area within the Beltway. There are many times I've seen snowfall reports from locations within the District itself that were notably more than what the DCA airport recorded, and not all those places were necessarily in far DC Northwest either (which is elevated).

That just has nasty, raw (and rainy, at least near metro areas) day written all over it.

Or watching TV and suddenly hearing that "emergency" tone with the crawler at the bottom showing school and other closures...sitting there on the edge waiting to see that your school was listed! Yeah, old enough to remember that! And listening to the radio stations that gave that information too! (ETA: And I'm reminded of something a friend told me years ago when I was an undergrad at Purdue. He started there a year before me, and on this brutally cold day was listening to see if the university was shut down...apparently the person on the radio station got tired of listing EVERYTHING in the state of Indiana and eventually said "Oh, hell with it! Everything in the state of Indiana is closed. Except for Purdue University, you have normal classes today!" Needless to say, nobody was happy having to trek out in bitter cold and wind to their classes at 7:30AM.)

You need to set that to music. I kind of envision it to the tune of "Twelve Days of Christmas".

Evidently a very strong one?

Gonna need a bigger pair of pants for that!

Uh oh...Bob Chill got a couple of weenie tags chucked at him for this comment. Now we know sh*t's goin' down!!!

That is wonderful!!! You have every reason to be proud. I felt the same when my daughter would take part in the Nutcracker this time of year. Lots of work (for her AND the parents!), but it was actually fun and in some ways I miss doing all that.

@mappy, how did mini-map's dance recital go the other day?? Hope all went well and that you had fun!

Hell at this point it's like a glorified occluded front passage!

LOL! Fair enough, was just curious. Like I said it just reminded me of seeing cars come by from places like Ashtabula or Chardon Ohio after a lake effect snow, as if they came from another world!

Totally agree. I'm not going to get worked up over this event later next week. My focus is more on mid-month and beyond, and hopefully this advertised pattern that looks awesome gets us something by the end of the month. By the way, clskinsfan...off the wall question that I have been meaning to ask. I've always liked your icon photo of the car with the mound of snow on the roof! Where did you get that or what's it from? It kind of reminds me of being in northeast Ohio, when I'd see all these people from the main snowbelt areas driving by with a similar mound of snow on their cars. Almost as if they were showing off!!

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw those 850mb temps and the overall setup. It's an interesting evolution of a storm, to be sure (if it plays out that way), but for anyone outside the western and north-central parts of the forum, you cannot realistically expect to see much (if any?) accumulating snow. I'm speaking from the metro DC area, just north of the Beltway, so one's mileage may vary. There is zero decent cold air leading into it. But...that said...I think if it works out many of us can at least maybe see some flakes after it goes by. Again, this is the correct attitude I think. Sure a fluke would be nice but for much of the sub forum that's looking like a cold rain and maybe (??) some bit of snow either right at the start and/or at the end. I think it's just "too early" in the season with no real cold already in place. If it were farther along in the season, might be a different story. I'm kind of a lot more interested in what happens after this system, when we might actually have some real cold to deal with and other factors in our favor.

The pants, they be a-tentin'!!!

Emeril Lagasse says hello! Kick it up a notch, too!!

We'll have to hyphenate it, a'la the famous "Washington-Jefferson storm."

And give the wedding location in lat/lon map coordinates?

Well, if that occurs, we will have to refer to it as the @mappy storm (look at the valid time on that map)!

You mean ABSCOND, I believe?

Welcome to the MA forum! We have many... uhhh... characters here that you will get to know. And I am being diplomatic! Then again I am not one to talk haha! Sounds like you will fit in. It's just too bad you joined the year after the Reaper, @WxWatcher007, retired and closed the Panic Room. That was a fun place to vent despair and for depressed weenies to find a safe place to jump and take their weenie souls to the great beyond! @Ji had an annual reservation in the penthouse suite there. But seriously, this is a good group here with some highly knowledgeable people. We all have learned to just laugh at our tendency for failure on snowstorms and try not to take ourselves too seriously! But the discussions are always informative and entertaining.

Hanukkah Harry approves! (Oy veh!!)

Reaper turning into a weenie?? Whaaaaaaat??? (and at Target, no less?) Which begs the question: When the Reaper gets despondent and decides to jump, what happens?? Is that almost like a Catch-22?? How does one interpret that? Does @Ji reap the Reaper? It would be almost a full circle kind of thing! But this would never happen, it's all hypothetical. Isn't it?

Seems as if the main long range thread may have gone a few universes below normal!

Bah, humbug! You may take the day, but be here all the earlier the next morning! (which is Boxing Day, and we don't talk about that in these parts!)