Steve25

Anyone who says a Thanksgiving blizzard in a historically strong La Nina season isn't possible must have forgot that this is 2020, and literally anything psychotic can and will happen lmao

I feel where you're coming from. I used to be like the guys in here. For a long time, I would've been seriously bummed out by a winter with the outlook 2020/2021 has. I realized there are so many things I love about winter. The chilly weather, the shorter days, the bare trees, much less bugs and the Christmas season. I spend so much time outdoors during the winter, it's amazing! I absolutely love extreme cold and big snows too, but I've gotten to a point where I don't need that to enjoy winter. Just the fact that it's winter makes me happy. I'm especially trying to soak in every day of this winter because next Summer is the Cicada outbreak and I'm going to be a f***ing mess.

The good thing about having terrible expectations is that if anything remotely positive happens, it feels like a pleasant surprise. Overall though, I'm so glad I've changed. I used to get hung up on how cold and snowy the winter would be, and if it was looking like a bust, I'd be really disappointed. My hatred for Summer has changed that though. Any time of the year that's predominantly below 70 degrees is delightful to me, and I try to soak every day in. I love the bitter cold and snow and always will, but at this point it's icing on the cake of a season that I just adore. November-February(Sometimes October and March included)>>>>>>>>>>everything else!

I am not anywhere close to as advanced in meteorology knowledge as some of you, but I do have some obscure stats. BWI has not had an 8+ inch snow total month(December through March) in 4 consecutive winters. BWI has NEVER went 5 consecutive winters doing that. BWI has went 5 consecutive winters with no double digit snow months twice. Never 6 consecutive. So we can tie that this winter.

I've just been doing some little looks at things but it appears this winter will be entrenched in a La Nina pattern. From what I see in our history, we can still get cold weather during La Nina, but substantial snow is very hard to come by unless you just get the perfect ingredients, like in 93. Is that fairly accurate?

You LOVE to see it!

Temps start out in the low 20s verbatim for that storm. Good signs. Very intriguing!

Someone hasn't been paying much attention to this forum outside of the past 2 hours...

Thank you for the reality check. Still happy to see it trending in a colder direction. Love sub-freezing stretches.

Only one day gets above freezing from the 20th to the 25th on the GFS, and even that is barely above freezing. Good stuff!

Getting way too ahead of myself, but I'm also keeping in the back of my mind that if the Ravens win this week, they will be playing in Baltimore at 3 PM on Sunday the 19th, so being that were looking at some potential around that time, I'm extra glued to what might happen

Some big time cold behind the snow/ice/rain storm on the GFS. Stuck in the 20's for a few days!

I may stand in the minority, but I very much enjoy the cold as much as the snow, so if these are signals we're headed for much colder stretches, I'm here for it!

Wish I had the memory to remember what January/February of 2014 and 2015 were like. I gotta start writing things down so I have something to look back to when I forget! Last really cold stretch I remember I think was the very beginning of January 2018? I remember it being sub-freezing for like 10 consecutive days. All the water bodies near my area were frozen over. It was awesome!

I was wondering same thing!

In all seriousness EJ, if you're of the mindset that it's not worth discussing until it's 5 days out, you really should take Bob's advice and take a break until next week at least. I've done it, and it does help clear my head and then when I come back, there's fun stuff to discuss in a much closer range. We know there won't be anything wintry in the next 5 days, so maybe this is the perfect time. Also to the rest of you, thanks for driving into the long range with these intelligent breakdowns. I don't have the knowledge of you guys, but I pick up bits and pieces of information.

Anyone have content from that epic week in 2010? I could use it right about now lol

Credit to some of those models that get mocked like the CMC and NAM that I feel did a pretty nice job with this storm!

To be honest, as frustrating as it is to compare our 4-6 inches to the 8+ inches others are getting, I still would never call this storm a dissapointnent! For the majority of the week we were saying 1-3 inches was the best bet. Most of us made out better than that and had enough snow to shovel and go out and enjoy.

That's true, the desire to have what's so close to us is frustrating, but putting it in perspective, this was still a success for us and hopefully the start of a very fun pattern.

That might just be the most frustrating thing ever. You look at radar and see great rates right over you and then you look out the window to see flurries.

Man...I was feeling good about getting 4.5 inches out of this until I saw all of you up near 10. Are any of you near Baltimore? That would be the ultimate punch to the gut lol.

Looks like I'm coming in a loser from this evening stuff. I'm in Baltimore but I've got nothing but the occasional flurries. My total has stood at 4.5 inches. It's looked like the heavy bands have been on my doorstep for hours but just aren't getting here. Does anyone know the last official measurements at BWI?

Measuring about 4.5 inches in the grass, with an inch less on the pavement in Baltimore. Not sure if I should be expecting more accumulation throughout the day.

I'm north of Baltimore City and I'm still getting moderate snow with big flakes. I looked at radar a few hours ago and figured it was almost over. I must literally be right on the edge of the snow.