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Good luck on the retirement landing search @vastateofmind keep us posted as I am just a few years out from doing the same. Emerald Isle would be first choice but looking along the coast, depending on where kids permanently land.

Well, if we can't do snow, just give me some weather.

So it would seem. Warm up next week. After that, I am fine with spring like temps. I am not a March and April snow fan and if we cannot get it in January, thinking the days of us getting it in late March and early April are also behind us, at least in my lifetime and in our current climate trajectory. Tough enough to clean blinds without shitting them, but yeah, I know the joke from the main thread. Hoping for some thunderstorms this year, those too, seem to be a thing of the past, at least in the volume we used to get around here.

Thanks again for keeping this thread and hope alive @RIC Airport i had a feeling about this one from the start. I hardly ever remember a clipper type scenario working out for Central VA. Thought for sure the TV Mets would have learned their lesson. Jim Duncan, a snow weenie himself, used to always ignore the models on clippers saying it’s just not how we get our snow. i am almost ready to mulch and fire up the grill. If 2/29 works out, I will be thrilled but once the calendar turns to March, well, I am past it at that point. Maybe we will actually have a severe season this year and the thread momentum will continue.

Never is. Tried to remain quiet as to not be a Deb but shoot, we rarely score on clippers in the best scenarios.

Only 2 years old in Dogfish years.

"If it weren't for bad luck, we'd have no luck at all ♪ Gloom, despair and agony on me♪"

A chase to Emerald Isle? I do like it down there. Yep, plenty of time for the inevitable northern trend but let's leave Tidewater and Currituck in there so we can all enjoy.

Yeah, I figured when I login and check in the morning and RIC Airport has not posted, it's not a good sign. I have now reached a scary tipping point where I am almost rooting for our futility to continue and wallow in freakish misery (name the movie) so it can be worn as a red badge of courage in the main thread.

Right where you want it this far out. We know what happens when we are in the bullseye this far out, DC gets jackpotted, applying the same non-scientific weenie logic to this, as we want NC in that zone before the inevitable jogging trend to the north.

That’s my building dead center JC1, where I work, I should say. It’s funny how the area shuts down with an inch of snow where we went to school with it on the roads sometimes. It had to be completely covered back then.

Wow! Is it sad I had to google to convert centimeters to inches? Yes, yes it is.

Well, I was 8 but do remember this storm... Pic 1 is the old Richmond/Petersburg Turnpike Toll Plaza. When commuting to VCU I had toll tickets that you could buy from the bank to go through here. I would get off at Belvedere. Thankfully, this toll booth went the way of the dodo. Pic 2 is Broad Street near MCV (now VCU Medical Center) looking down before that road heads up to Church Hill. Pic 3 is Broad and Pic 4 appears to be East Grace Street. Pic 5 is Broad looking at the MCV Main Hospital Building Pic 6 is also Broad Street between Belvedere and 6th Street Pic 7 is the toughest for me to identify but figure it's most likely Broad looking west, just from down the hill near Shockoe Valley but could easily be Grace or Main, scratch that, gotta be Broad with the street lights, Main never had them like that and don't think Grace did.

It should be mandatory for anybody in the "main" thread complaining about their lack of snow or how this winter has sucked, to spend a few minutes here. It will give them a bit of perspective and allow them to appreciate what they have received. And if one of them says, move north or Richmond should not get snow blah, blah, blah, I will hit them with a sock full of nickels.

Those were the days.

Snow flurry downtown. I think I'll wet my pants

Uh, not sure what past few years your are talking about. Our >1 streak is still in tact and now over two years.

Ouch

Just a little bit of pingers and snow as we walked the pug in Tuckahoe. I would be happy with an inch at this point, just to remind us what it looks like.

The greedy money grab that the NFL and NBC are pulling on a playoff game wants me to go full Clint Eastwood on them. Then NBC with their coverage on the Today show trumpeting the match up of the Chiefs and Dolphins like it was THE game. Throw in some Tay Tay references and I was ready to throw a brick through the TV. Keep it up NFL, you will have a lot less fans going forward.

Thank you @RIC Airport for the breakdown. Plenty of time for change, for the better or worse. Do you think we could see significant change based on the storm later today or do the models seem to have that sniffed out and accounted for fairly well?

They are celebrating the GFS in the main thread, looks a bit dicey for us on that run with mixing and low snow totals. Don't get me wrong, I will take 3-4" over anything with what have had as of late but here them bellyaching all day about suppression when they know it always shifts in their favor annoys the living crap out of me.

Virginia actually does have a Green Bay but we also have a Cuckoo as well. I was in Glen Allen from 2004 to 2013 then to Goochland in Manakin now in Tuckahoe, so yeah, always need to measure our temps and snow as it never matches the airport although, and I credit our forum leader for this one, they have gotten better after changes a few years back with regards to measuring snow, although, none to measure so that helps their accuracy.

I will be surprised if we get "vodka cold" but even if it modifies a bit and we have snow on the ground? Might be the coldest stretch run in a while.

I dunno, seems we never verify on the cold side like that, now if it showed 70's in January, I would say book it. My experience is that it always modifies, if it is forecasting single digits for RVA, it's probably more like mid to upper teens. Now, out there in Hokie Bird Land, you might be single digits for sure.