Amorphous Iodine

What?  Threads were merged?  We need more threads not fewer.  At least three more banter threads.  Banters need to know how great it is to banter in the banter and not in the other threads.  It is like one port-a-potty at a rock festival.  If you have lots of porta potties everyone uses them.  If you have only one, people will piss everywhere.    Thread greed is good.  Snow greed is good.  Ice greed is good. 

Thread greed.  Is good?  Is not good?

Gimme another storm thread.

3 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

At this late stage in my weenieism, only 6-12" of ice will scratch the itch. Kinda like a cat 5 up the bay with a left turn at point lookout. I'm no spring chicken and time is running out on apocalyptic epicness to hit b4 I'm gone. I'd be honored at this point for winter wx to take me out. Heck, I had to come to grips with the same thing in the colorado backcountry and avalanches. You can mitigate but not remove the risk. So you either accept that every descent could be your last or dont make the first turn. I always said "this could be your final run of your life. Is it worth it?". The answer was always resounding F YEA! 

 

Ice greed

you greed

we all greed

for ice greed

2 hours ago, benjammin said:

I've seen video at much more moderate temperatures and it working but the water has to be boiling because it's closer to the evaporation point. 

I got a book that says water solidifies at 32 F.  I hypothesize it all depends upon how tall you are and strong your water-throwing arm is.  Paul Bunyan probably would need 30-ish F water or negative 1-2 C to get ice.  But what do I know about molecules, I’m just a halogen.

This afternoon on WTOP I heard forty-eight inches  in DC and north; thirty-six inches in the southern suburbs.

Snow greed is snoooooooow good.

Think twice about investing in new trees this spring.  I planted a slew of fruit trees(saplings) right before Brood XIX (or was it II?) emerged.  Them buggers loved depositing eggs under the bark of the saplings.

Tithonia (aka Mexican sunflower)  beat everything else in attracting butterflies for a couple months last year in Spotsylvania Co. for me.  Results may vary.

2 hours ago, StantonParkHoya said:

Why would anyone want a cold March?

To delay tree (apples, pear, peach) flowering.  The longer trees stay dormant the longer they can handle a hard freeze.   10 degrees F on April 1 after a warm March will eliminate any hope for fruit.  But the same 10 F after a cold March shouldn’t be a problem.

What about the 10-15 month runs?  They have to be better than 10-15d this winter.

All weekend storms are non-events.  In my 29 years in DC I think there was only one weekend storm that was bad enough for OPM to give us Feds a snow day.

43 minutes ago, PDIII said:

Yeah definitely.. not sure about how reliable this is.. but check out this link: 

 

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Maryland/Places/baltimore-snowfall-totals-snow-accumulation-averages.php

 

It says that average snowfall is greater in February than January..and we know that it gets spotty towards the end of February.  So I think it is safe to that we are heading in to our peak climo in the next couple of weeks

 

If climo valley temps (Jan.)precede peak climo snow (Feb.)....then are climo temps of any predictive value?  

Is the Winter over?

I am thankful for this forum.  Even though I can’t understand 80% of what’s written.

22 consecutive days of decreasing maximum sun angle here in Alexandria. It’s looking like we might tie the record for the most consecutive days for November.

When does the ground freeze solid?  Does the NWS or anyone model this?  I have some trees to plant and digging frozen ground requires too many spell points.  I’m only a 7th level half-elf Druid.  Thanks.

It’s looking like another great March!  Marches of 2011-2017 were mild enough to have my stone fruit (cherries plums, peach) trees and kiwi vines leaf-out and bloom - only to be hit with a late freeze that killed off all the flower buds.

Last year only one plum tree emerged from dormancy early enough to be effected by the last freeze/frost.  Everything else stayed dormant through all cold spats.