Scarlet Pimpernel

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!)

Good discussion, thanks! Interesting how a +PNA/-NAO kinda looks like a pants tent shape! But that could be my mind going all RR here! Seriously though, we can hope the EPS evolution is more realistic. But it's clear how much uncertainty there is even among both sets of ensembles.

So true! And even the retired Reaper might have to reap himself! What's the world coming to? It's like the Lord High Executioner having to cut his own head off! From Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado"... (I'm a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta fan by the way!) And so we straight let out on bailA convict from the county jail,Whose head was nextOn some pretextCondemned to be mown off,And made him Headsman, for we said,"Who's next to be decapite'dCannot cut off another's headUntil he's cut his own off,His own off, his own off,Until he's cut his own off."And we are right, I think you'll say,To argue in this kind of way;And I am right,And you are right,And all is right — too-loo-ral-lay!

"I'm retired. But damn panicking weenies keep trying to suck me back in to take care of them. Get off my damn lawn and reap your own soul if you're that desperate!"

Diarrhea can be a serious issue for people your (our!) age!

Drop the chalupa!

The tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth would be enough to make even the Reaper blush!

Ha! That's great! And true, it's the weenie version of the real thing (though the real one was pretty weenieish in itself)! That still stands as my all-time favorite "minor" event around here. At least in part because of what it ushered in for the next 3-4 weeks. Here's a snow-encased tree after the snow ended and just as the winds were really picking up.

I'm a Miller B I'm a Miller B And I just can't ever snow on DC! (to the tune of the old Schoolhouse Rock song "I'm a Bill...")

This sounds surprisingly similar to what actually happened on Feb. 14, 2015! Strong cold front blasted through, a couple hours burst of snow that dropped a quick ~2" where I'm at...followed by strong winds and very cold!

Hey as one who has endured a litany of Cleveland sports agony, I endorse this sentiment! The drive, the fumble, the Jordan shot at the buzzer, two World Series losses in extra innings of game 7! But you do get the occasional bright spots (2016 NBA championship in an exciting game 7)!

Clever Reaper joke...I see what you did there!

Good points, Bob. And I'll agree with the part I bolded for sure, having grown up in Ohio. I know I've said this before but in northeast Ohio we'd get a number of solid area-wide events, like 4-8" or 6-12" kind of deals. Rarely more than a foot (I can recall a couple in my time there). Never 20"+. Now, that excludes lake effect snows of course, but those are more localized and you have to be in the right areas of NE Ohio to really get the full brunt. Or you could get a "bonus" of lake effect on top of the synoptic snow when the main storm was over and the winds shifted. When I came to this area, I never had experienced a synoptic scale 20" event. I've now seen about 4 of those in the two decades I've been here. And a few others of a foot or more. Likewise, I've seen more ice events here too than I recall in Ohio...the whole CAD setup we have is something you don't see there so much.