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Door is open for some gusty showers this weekend. If it can't snow - let's go for severe!

Weather weenies sure know how to beat a dead horse

Let's perhaps get through the Torchember period and then we can look at setting something up if psu is back to not being as busy. There's no rush.

Family comes first. Doubt this will be enough to get a Zoom call going, anyway - especially since we haven't had our "get to know each other" call for the group. I'm guessing less folks would have been available on a weeknight as well. Hope the kid has a speedy recovery!

"When will they hoist warnings?" "I'm one county away from a warning...weather knows county boundaries"

We should have a contest for best virtual Zoom background

More likely is that we'll all have thrown our computers into the streets and the subforum will be a raging dumpster fire with Yoda wandering aimlessly around vacant streets and Ji rocking back and forth in the fetal position in a dark alley.

psu has been busy I believe. I was on the initial list of folks who sent emails to him - as long as you sent to the right address all should be well.

I mostly figured as much - my main point being is that you're not on here posting about how we are F'd because of La Nina and omg no snow - omg it can't snow anymore. You're just quietly resigned to it. Every last one of us is still peeking at the models every day even if we don't admit it

This is true on literally every internet website. It's the web - there's going to be more abrasive people and less abrasive people. Don't let things get to you so much and it will get way more tolerable. If you feel like you need to reply to everything - you're doing something wrong. Gotta take a breath and just let the world unfold. It'll be okay for all of us.

Let's just be honest - it could be July and it could be like this with the right combination of users and posts.

OT - but just a few friendly tips. I generally enjoy you as a poster - but you've gotta just chill a bit. There's a big difference between being in the crowd of "assuming it'll be a lower end winter - and being happily surprised if anything nice happens" and being an absolute deb at every opportunity. @mappy - just quietly sort of makes one comment and it's more of a "let's see what happens and it is what it is" Your posts tend to come across as much more of a "omg it really won't snow ever - we just need to throw in the towel because it's over and won't ever snow this winter" I know those aren't your exact words - and I know you're trying to learn about meteorology (as we all are from the pros on here) - but I'd lean towards the mappy approach. You can definitely absorb what the pros are teaching us without needing to necessarily have a response. I've seen you post questions like "well there has to be an explanation as to why it doesn't snow anymore" and similar. There's rarely a single, catch-all answer to things in this field and it sometimes feels like you're assuming it's all down to one thing. Post counts aren't everything. I think we all have been through phases of panic over no snow and angst. I get it. Moderation is the key. I was really, really similar to you back in the EasternUSWX days. Just remember that the weather is going to do whatever the weather is going to do. As much as we joke about things like the snow blower curse, or cursing things with radio shows - there's so much in this field that is still unknown. It is what it is.

No. An email list is being built for now.

I think @psuhoffman's idea to have a prelim style meeting. If we get a sense of who will be joining future meetings, we can weed out trolls if needed (putting faces to names). Bumping the thread again for visibility in case users missed it.

I'm waiting for instructions. I can setup if needed at any time.

Was yours via a telescope? That may have been a factor. Also mine was just my phone held up to eyepiece…so I may have been holding it at an improper angle

Didn't have time to setup anything fancy - and my telescope was poorly collimated. But here's mine!

A snow squally event could be fun - even with no accumulation locally.

Pre-December I'll take exciting weather even in the form of rain/wind. Any snow is bonus.

BWI: 11.2 DCA: 6.2 IAD: 16.8 RIC: 5.0 SBY: 2.0

That's what breakout rooms are for We can even set one up for @WxWatcher007 - virtual panic room!

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I may not be the map expert here...but it sure feels good when I confirm that my thoughts aren't just brain vomit

Graphically - from a design standpoint - it looks "more complete" to not have there be a sudden end to the contours. And in the map drawing software - they probably have to draw over a larger area and then take a zoom shot. The way that current news banners these days have been designed are that you can see behind them. It's just what it is. Short of putting a black box awkwardly over areas they don't want you to see - the assumption is just going to be that a PIT viewer does not see the FOX 5 DC affiliate. I'm sure the PIT market maps bleed into our market as well.

Why would a person from the PIT market even watch FOX DC? It's above/behind the map header. Would think that most would assume it's not applicable to the map.