Scarlet Pimpernel

Goooo Guardians!!!

I've been a snow lover my entire life. Probably born that way...or, perhaps I was dropped on my head as a baby and was messed up with wanting snow forever since!! Don't know why. I guess because as a child I would always like playing out in the snow, for hours...sledding, etc. That, and to me there's just something about snow falling that is beautiful and awesome. So I would follow the weather forecasts as a kid, especially in winter, which is also a good part of why I got "into" meteorology in the first place! I guess I wouldn't say that I "need" it, but I sure always hope for good snow anytime there's a chance!!

LOL! This reminds me that I actually learned to drive (with an instructor) on an automatic. But both my parents at the time were hard-core manual transmission only. So I learned driving a stick shift in their cars. Believe me, it's nerve-wracking trying to drive a stick when you're new at it...in your parent's car...while they're sitting next to you monitoring everything you do! Then you get "the look" if you kill the engine because you didn't do the clutch just right!! Took me a little while to get the hang of that. I actually did like driving manual for the bit of time I had access to a car with that, but it's been MANY years since I have.

CVS receipts, here we come!!!

Because it will only snow for 20 minutes before changing over??

Yup, just looking at that. Appears more for potential ice+snow combination, and the winds.

Yeah...12% grade plus ice equals...no thanks, not driving in that!!

Was that added to compared to earlier? Looks like a few more counties in the Watch now.

LOL!! Kinda like "I am Spartacus!"..."No, I am Spartacus!"...!!!

Thank you for this perspective. I don't want to get into stuff that might sound too "political"...but trying to make things better or safer, whether for the environment or for people in general, isn't always some effort to "make people feel safe from all things" or "turn us all into wimps who are too afraid." That kind of dismissive attitude smacks of something like, "Hell, I ate lead paint chips when I was a kid, and I turned out fine!"

Yeah, especially now that the ice potential is becoming more a threat, even in the metro areas. That, and wind. The temperature profiles once we get into the NAM range (and other meso models), as you say, will be quite useful. The overall synoptic setup is more or less settled it would seem.

Since we're tossing weenies around here, maybe you should say the "wurst"!!!

There are prescriptions to deal with that problem nowadays!!

Ensemble-sharpie-gate?

Going full RR here this morning!! That's 2 comments you made that he would blush at!! If he's capable of blushing.

But as long as the memes have legends, we're all good!!!

Uh-oh, now I know we're in trouble. @Bob Chill's talking about kicking bunnies! Next, @stormtracker will come in with kicking cute puppies!

Yup, which is why I looked at and showed the temps at that particular hour. Taken verbatim, we're probably sleeting or freezing rain. I didn't look at any soundings.

Could be, I'm not familiar with the ICON's tendencies overall. But I also know those depictions on TT at least, it doesn't distinguish between snow and anything else. So many times when it shows rain it could well be ice depending on the surface temps.

Whatever it's worth (yeah not much perhaps!!), the Icon shows "rain" at 105 around the DC metro but looking at its surface temperature it is below freezing DC and north. So sleet/ice then? Similarly at 108. Here's the 2-m temps at 105:

I believe that's true. If it's not showing snow, it will depict the precip as rain even if it's sleet/ice. Not sure if that's the algorithm used or if it doesn't distinguish freezing vs. frozen.

Reminds me of when I took calculus in high school. The teacher pounded into our brains to NEVER forget the "dx" in an integral and to NEVER forget to add the constant in the solution of an indefinite integral! He always said, before an exam, "remember...minus 1/2 point for every missed 'dx' and every missed '+ C' "!!!!

Yes! Otherwise it's..."dafuq am I lookin' at???"

I'm kind of the same. When someone posts a map with a ton of colors but no explanation of the scale!

It could just be a bad psychedelic dream from the '60s or '70s too!