Scarlet Pimpernel

Well, I was trying in vain to make it sound "healthy!" But a milkshake with alcohol works too!!! LOL!!

It's just another type of energy drink, really...that happens to have an alcohol content!!

So true. A sh*tty winter in many ways, and a very tense year in general certainly didn't help things I'm sure!

I mean, right?? Dogs and cats, living together...mass hysteria!!

That jello spaghettio thing definitely needs to be banned!! And that other drink with the beans and broth...ugh! As for the meme, I just looked up various Star Wars meme generators!

Hell, I think even @nw baltimore wx and @Scraff would have a hard time finding a beer that would compliment that "dish"!!

Oh no...you did NOT just go there! I blame @H2O for starting that last year!! Paging @Mrs.J, you are badly needed!

Weren't those the two major political parties of the day?

The more things change...

We didn't use models at that time. We only looked at the baro in what was then the equivalent of southeast Canada to determine the forecasts. Wait...I don't think barometers existed yet. Damn, there goes that theory!

I don't know about that, but I'd be willing to bet Ji canceled winter by that point! Was it possible to get NAM'd back then?

Is that a CWG forecast? All you need is the boom/bust potential and you're good to go!

So I guess the indications are that sometime from mid-May into June we can expect a HECS??? (Historical East-coast Cicada Swarm, that is! Or will it be more like a BECS??)

Haha! Yeah I think I missed that photo...definitely a "crazy" look there! Actually it's kind of scary. Your cat looks almost exactly like my brother and sister-in-law's cat (Zippy) from years ago! Zippy was almost overly friendly, she was all over you for attention. We used to joke when I'd visit that it would be like a spa weekend for Zippy, with an extra set of hands to pet her! LOL!

It took a...MIRACLE (for him to survive)!!

Definitely up for some good food posts! We need @WxWatcher007's bat signal. And crazy ass cats...though to the cats, we're probably the ones who are crazy!

Politics, politics, politics, politics...Mel Brooks style!

That look could be interesting. If that inter-mountain ridge were less broad and/or a little farther west to allow the downstream trough to dig more, perhaps that could lead to something? I honestly haven't looked at the ensembles (EPS or GEFS), so not sure what those indicate for that first weekend of March.

I'd love one more good shot at a nice event for March, myself! But I cannot blame some of the calls for "just end it and bring on spring!" either. Let's face it, many were disappointed (myself included) by some real underperformers, and I think last week really put the nail into that. Also, honestly, there really doesn't seem to be much of a threat on the horizon. If there were, that might be different. But I just don't see much chance out there in the overall pattern. Won't stop me from keeping an eye out, but it's not like some Marches before where we knew we'd have opportunities.

I agree..there have been some really good March storms in the past 10 years that I've experienced while here. I wasn't in this area in 1993, but was in northeast Ohio on the "western edge" of the Storm of the Century. We got nearly a foot of powder and it was in the teens with blizzard warnings for that one in eastern Ohio. Anyhow, beyond that, 2014 stands as the best year for March events with 2015 a close 2nd. The biggest of all of those was 8" on St. Patrick's Day 2014...which complimented a 5.3" event earlier that month and another 3" on March 25 (2nd year in a row we got decent snow here on my birthday!). And we even got about an inch or so on the 30th that year to close things out. I liked the March 2015 event, 6.5" with temperatures falling through the mid 20s all day. And it stuck around for a couple of days or so. Then of course we had the sleet event in 2017 and the "equinox storm" in 2018 that dropped 5" where I am. I don't know whether we can pull off a good event this year but I haven't paid much attention to the longer range to be honest. I'd love a shot at one final good event, as this year has been disappointing in and near the DC area at least; too many underperformers. I might not care so much about anything in March, except the event last week was really a bust here; even the models (NAM, in particular) that showed warm air entering the mid-levels were at least giving a couple or few inches of snow before a flip to sleet. I didn't see so much as a single snow flake. It was sleet right from the start and not even anything much to write home about at that (1" sleet total), and the event was over by noon. I know many here don't care for March snows because they don't stick around for long. But personally that doesn't bother me. If we could score a 6" or so event where we have one nice, snowy day and it hangs around for a day or so before warming up again, that would be awesome.

Unfortunately, seems all we get is a triple facepalm!!

Haha! Reminds me of the old generic products years ago, packaged in white with black lettering. You'd get things labeled like "Beer" and such. I even as a joke got someone a generic postcard...and yup, it was all white with the word "Postcard" written on it!!

Oh, I mistakenly thought that was a garnish!

I don't know, but PSU might be fringed. Then end up with some serious cicada banding only to have more than everyone else!

I was here for the Brood X emergence in 2004. It was interesting, actually...maybe a bit annoying an noisy, but at the same time kind of cool to be honest. That May was very warm and I think they actually emerged and then disappeared more quickly, peaking around Memorial Day weekend. They definitely got all over the place. I recall playing in a softball game out in Virginia in the league I play on, having to practically swat the damned things away while in the outfield! Here's a photo I got at the time (very low res digital camera back then, LOL!), of a cicada emerging from its shell. I always found it neat how they come out white with black "eyebrows", before they dry and harden into the normal black color with the clear-orange wings.