Kmlwx
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So the "claw" was kind of legit? Radar shows it a bit and it's not doing much here at the moment. Nice sleety base on the walkway and parts of the street, though.
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Just waking up - but I can hear a lot of pingers against my window here in Colesville, MD. Not sure what the ptype breakdown is here yet and haven't looked at road conditions.
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I'm very late - but yes!
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Would be nice if LWX would do some supplemental balloon launches tomorrow as well to assess the warm layer. It's a shame BWI/DCA don't have balloon launches as well (being closer to the fall line).
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I'm not sure I entirely agree with this - at least for MBY. I haven't ever hit (this year) those illusive 1-2 inch an hour rates (even for a short time). Even if the mix line comes in fast, this seems like it will be less "splotchy" and less spaced out than prior events. More precip in a shorter period of time than past events.
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Great map! What are your thoughts for how bad the icing threat will be to the south and east of 95?
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It's not relevant. Those ptype radars are notoriously bad and are just estimates (and often poor ones at that). If you want to get an accurate view - use radar and then look at mPING reports to see ground truth. Don't trust consumer weather apps or gimmicky radar apps.
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I was hoping you'd give me the "NEVER" answer. Now I feel too inner circle
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When will the watch be upgraded to a warning?
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I'm mostly taking the Bob Chill approach this year - so I hope this was not targeted at me. Cover my grass so I can't see the blades and I'm happy. Yes - a HECS is fun - but snow is fun. I've turned into more of a severe guy myself.
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They are pretty good about getting the 88Ds back up in a timely manner. They got the LWX radar back up a few days ahead of schedule when the bullgear failed.
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It's worth waiting for the 3km frames to be out. It will handle thermals better than the 12km run.
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There's many annoyances on this here weather forum - but posting banter and then straight up labeling it as such in the main thread defeats the purposes of having a banter thread. At least this time people agree on what a frame shows. Half the time one person says "it looks suppressed" and the other person says "looks way more amped"
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But to be honest - I think for most people who do it - it's almost their way of saying "If I put 'Banter' in my post I can break the rule!" When I start my career as a carjacker I'm going to scream CARJACKING whenever I steal one.
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Starting your post with "Banter:" in the main thread will 100% make me wonder if you've even looked in the thread listing.
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Gotta love it...
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Feb Long Range Discussion (Day 3 and beyond) - MERGED
Kmlwx replied to WinterWxLuvr's topic in Mid Atlantic
600 to 700 is to the left of the freezing line in that. -
@mappy wouldn't do this unless I made a map and committed major mapping no-nos. I'd omit a legend/color scale, put incorrect data on it, put a city or two in the wrong place and use the worst projection possible. Then she might do this.
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Also...does anybody else here get irrationally frustrated when their non-weather friends/coworkers insist that it is "hailing" outside in winter? And when corrected they are emphatic that no...they are correct and that ice balls are hail?
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This is a totally unrelated question to anything - does LWX "filter" spotter reports or "blacklist" people if they submit too many sketchy reports? I know spotters get the Basics I training - but with the huge influx in local spotters thanks to CWG and overall interest in weather from social media - if they see that a certain spotter is reporting improper things like funnel clouds when it's scud, wrong snowfall totals (inflated or way too low) - do they eventually just stop using that spotter's data?
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When will LWX issue watches? I don't make my plans based on the weather - I make them based on watch issuance time.
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DC area drivers suck - But tell me this - would you rather have DC drivers in a minor to moderate blanket of snow - or DC drivers in a covering of sleet and a glaze of ZR (slop). I'll take the snow...and of course even then it would suck. Hell...throw 3 melting snowflakes onto somebody's windshield on 270 and you'll end up with the entire road being closed for 3+ hours.
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Feb Long Range Discussion (Day 3 and beyond) - MERGED
Kmlwx replied to WinterWxLuvr's topic in Mid Atlantic
I was way too lazy to do this. Also - just realized that @stormtracker - came in after I posted and said his idea of slop is different than mine. Oops.
