Paleocene

Go birds 

6 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

While we wait for the next fail suite.  It's safe

 

 

Legendary, I am deceased

1 hour ago, IronTy said:

Strolling past with a bit of a side eye because I've been made fun of a thousand times over the years....but I'll assume you're legit...

Giant silkmoths are an indicator species.  They require uninterrupted forests in the case of some species like Lunas and regalis or imperialis..  There's a certain level of "wildness" you can hope to achieve when trying to hunt for cocoons or caterpillars of each species. If you have a healthy number of wild silkmoths then that means your local wild acreage is mature. 

There are few things in my life that give me such joy as thinking back to my childhood as I hunted for cocoons along the side of the expressway or local highways.  It taught me all about botany and conservation.   In the middle of winter, with snow on the ground, there's a really significant feeling of the wild as you hunt for cocoons under the sound of great horned owls and their mating calls.   You either get it or you don't.  

 

 

 

Respect, this post is nature woke AF. I usually think about wildness in terms of physically larger species, especially birds. But I personally need to learn more about our insect brethren. Is this post banter? Yes. Is this thread a disaster and clearly everyone is intoxicated? Yes. Do I take mirtazipine? Yes, agree with @mappy, it's a lifesaver and mental healthcare is healthcare. Go amwx mid atl

Those caterpillars are thicc

sick

4 hours ago, kgottwald said:

A LOT of clouds out there on what was supposed to be a sunny day - the models always miss that on the day after a substantial rainfall it will nearly always be cloudy in the afternoon.

Yeah, these cloudy days are starting to be a drag here. Looks like more of the same for the next week. I need to get to somewhere sunny!

37 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

What'd I do this time? Like what did I do wrong today?

I'll say this constructively: just post less. Post fewer posts. Then people's opinions of you will improve. It's fun to be part of the conversation but too many posts are overwhelming. give everyone their chance. If you see your own name multiple times on a single page of a thread often that is probably a bad sign.  I don't mind your posts but sometimes I think there are too many of them and this applies to some others as well.  I know very little about meteorology, and I've picked up some basic stuff, so I try to limit my posts.

Also, pet peeve, but please complete your gerunds. We ain't talkin' like we be livin' down in alabammy, this here is the mid-atlantic forum and it ain't lookin' like we need to be typin' like this!

2 hours ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

If you are a snow lover in the mid Atlantic how do you even maintain a semblance of happiness , there should be some psychological studies that look at developing coping mechanisms and maybe society can benefit from the way these folks have adapted , assuming they aren’t miserable 

Butting in; we do not maintain a semblance of happiness and we are all depressed. Our forum has been mostly a complete disaster since the "epic pattern" and "brutal cold" before christmas produced light flurries and high temps in the high 20s.  But then we get a KU every 7 years and we're ok. 0.0" for the year

Just now, Maestrobjwa said:

Even on there--that's just a regular cutter that run

Eh the primary (which cuts) dies in ohio then redevelops off southern NE

but why am i dissecting a 240 op run of the GEM

Alright, so we've got suppression train on the GFS, a monster cutter on GEM. So what will the euro do? split the difference? 

Still have another low hanging out down there at 180 hours, though?  

Edit: also suppressed

This thread needs bump. Euro has been spitting out some great D10 storms this year.

Euro still aggressive with the cold D8-10. But where's the juice?

4 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Needs to start moving up the coast a bit if we want anything out of it

yeah its squashed for quite a while but i think we still get blued

This may be one of the better <240 hour runs weve had so far this digital winter coming up!

Loving the position of the high at 200 hours

White rain in Silver Spring

The air outside this morning in my urban heat island eternal firestorm zone has that "almost snow" sense to it. Hoping y'all NW can at least see a few flakes while I rain. Godspeed. 39/29

3 minutes ago, osfan24 said:

Now we are out to February 6. Give it a few more days and we will be talking about mid-February.

Normally I disagree with your (or anyone's) pessimism but as we near february and we keep can-kicking past 240 I have to agree. I think I need to take a couple days off and see if we're still "in it" by the weekend. But I won't. 

For the memes

Just now, Solution Man said:

NICE

digital blue at happy hour! sick

Nam'd a bit on latest run. Flips to rain.

Just now, Steve25 said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that cold hasn't fully shown up on the other models recently, has it? 

Canadian ensemble also has a half decent cold push around that time frame. I don't know (not an expert) if any of teh other ensembles/ops go past 240?

meanwhile euro not bad with the front end thump mid week for northern forum:

If this map comes anywhere CLOSE to verifying and we don't get at least an inch of snow inside the beltway by feb 10th, I'm throwing in the towel. We've got the modeled cold finally

4 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

Not this time - maybe a pity T-1" for favored spots. 

worth noting that euro had the low about 100 miles south in central tennessee at 00z last night, for the same time next weds. headed towards GFS steeper cut solution but maybe we're getting better confluence/colder air