Ian

yep and wow very cool to hear. thanks for sharing. glad to hear you are pursuing it at that level. will continue to have a lot of importance ahead.

yeah that could be cool. I sort of half pitched way back when JT started but was post Jason as editor etc. was looking at your website recently.. you guys should give us a data feed to integrate stuff. also started at umgc in Feb as writer/editor.. university system of maryland buddies.

It's been interesting to see how universal the feeling is. Pretty wild how the owner managed to crush the local love so well.

Friends, people I've never seen before: Good to see my password still works here. I think of many of you often... too bad the internet is so fractured these days. Anyway, in case you have not heard I wanted to share the news that Capital Weather has been freed from Bezos. After a year+ of planning, https://www.capitalweather.com/ re-launched as an independent entity at the end of May and we officially launched today. I'd be glad to hear any thoughts from folks around here since y'all are of course the type of folks we're looking to hook.

Did a pattern update post today with some thoughts from Wes and Judah Cohen plus Jason making my text make sense. https://wapo.st/3W2EU4j

yeah dca area bullseye is gonna happen in a marginal pattern with a marginal storm

well - figured I should say something more than it needs to be cold to snow lol. I dunno. I think it showing up early and strong is probably a sign it will try to 1) linger and/or 2) return. but not sure it's quite the be all it might be in some nino winters etc. we've had a recent tendency for -nao and east coast ridging in last few winters. not saying that's going to be the case long term here but the shifts in the nearer term on that front might be worth considering. a lot of it imo is Dec is tough now.. warming is a pain.

Keep it simple right? Feels like it's hard to get that ideal modeled pattern in a Nina around here. Still looks okay at some distance but verbatim it's mostly warm until mid-Dec on Euro ensembles for instance. Not great. We don't do cold December anymore.

part of it is we don't have much prolonged cold. unfortunately it needs to be cold to snow.

I dunno if this is behind paywall or not but we did a look at the classic look for a DC snowstorm before Jan 2016. That block location and movement is v sexy. The key characteristics of Washington’s biggest snowstorms - The Washington Post

when dt woofs no worries where the 50-50 is. yes

Modern Nina Dec with above avg snow in DC.

Calling for a KU 15+ days out to be the first... good ole Twitter.

rainstorm in the Trump era must be somethin'

Thanks! Think I'm quitting Twitter so maybe I'll remember to come here lol. Prob more a game of details like how/if suppression, how long it lasts etc. Background state shouldn't support it for a long time but they do roll once you get strong -NAO/-AO. Boxing Day has been #1 for a while so prepare for DC flurries. This is a great pattern advertised tho. I mean can't ask for a ton more at this range except maybe for a Nino instead of a nina.