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It'll be back on again within a couple model runs. Edit: Posts over the last day in the Nino thread in the General section are uncancelling for our region. Just have to wait a little longer than we'd like.

I'm irrationally annoyed by what the Canadian is showing for early next week. ~3" of precip over 48 hours from storm in which a northern stream vort drops down into the backside of a juicy southern stream vort and that stays pretty far off the coast. Stupid Pacific air...

Sounds about right. The nearest station that reported is right by South Run Rec Center and they reported 1.4". That also sounds like a good number prior to compaction and melting.

12/11: 1.25" - Calling it that since the closest trained spotter was at 1.4" and I log in 0.25" increments and didn't want to round up.

I honestly didn't measure here in Burke because by the time I woke up there had already been decent melting and compaction, but our cul-de-sac caved fully and was quite icy at about 7:00. Checked our Ring and you could just make out how our walkway caved at about 3:30 and then eventually melted. I was also shocked that the snow on cars and other surfaces was crusty and not just wet. I'm confident we had over 1" at the height of it. Crazy to think that we've bested last winter on December 11 with a post-deluge/post-front event. I guess that says more about last year than it does this year.

Went outside about 15 minutes ago and thought I saw some “unusually large raindrops” in our Christmas spotlight that I was hoping might be pasty flakes. Nope…just really large raindrops. 39 and raining decently here in Burke.

Pretty much bullseyes MBY. Said it before, but get me something to measure and then let it melt. I don't care - I just want to see something on the ground again. Ob: Definitely a decent lull in the precip, so the wife and I are headed out for a walk on the Liberty Bell Trail. Nice little jaunt and not many idiots will be out walking/running today.

Sarcasm is a poor substitute for wit…and I admit that my wit supply is quite low. Rainy and cool in Burke. Had that one burst of a downpour about an hour or so ago but it’s just a steady pitter patter right now. Had a late night at a Christmas party, so today is laaaaaaaazy…

Snowstorm bust?

Exactly. We all know that it’s less likely to rip snow for three hours and lay down 3” of mashed potatoes than it is to f*cking dump buckets and end as a few mangled flakes, but we’ve got vibes…and vibes are good right now. It’s been a f’ing dumpster fire for the last 12 months, so let’s enjoy the relatively unrealistic NAM until tomorrow’s runs slap us with some reality!

I’m in. All in. Let it melt within 3 hours…I don’t care. Let that sh*t rip.

You’re right. I guess if she cant appreciate less than 4-6”, then she doesn’t deserve happiness! Toughen up, kid!

Taking my 10-year-old to get her tonsils removed on Monday morning. Would love for her to wake up to some snow flying just to get her in the right mood!

The NAM at range is always so f’ing weenie. Gotta love it.

Good idea. Might have to pop on a hat if some sort! I only know about high school swimming from some of the kids on our team, but it does sound like a grind. I was shocked when I heard about the 8:30-9:00 meets. That’s brutal!

Can’t get too banged up tonight. I have to be up at 6 tomorrow to set up for a swim team fundraiser - Pancakes and Pajamas. Will be serving flapjacks in this (though I look far more busted than this young lady does):

And epic winter is a high bar, whether now or 100 years ago.

Bingo. This is good news and is indicative of Nino feeding moisture into southern energy. We’re going to win with that kind of juice at some point.

Nice… I just poured a Wegman’s cherry pomegranate seltzer with vodka and lime as my starter. It’s very much a summer drink, but it’s crazy good. Going to follow that with a BCBS into which I dropped half a Madagascar vanilla bean two days ago. Oh. Yeah.

The normal high at DCA today is 51. The record high is 74. Why lol?

I've never quite understood why someone would choose a public persona of a disingenuous asshole.

Agree with brooklyn. I think you run a risk if you try to view an individual event as indicative of a greater issue. I don't think any of us would take a cold powder storm in mid-December and draw sweeping conclusions about where we were going on a wider scale, so I don't think we can do that here. It's really nothing to do with borderline temps in our immediate region during prime climo - it's just that CONUS is warm and we're at the beginning of a pattern change in the middle of December. It's annoying, but I don't think we can draw any conclusions from it other than that it's part of the step down into more favorable climo and setup.

Yup. Too bad CONUS is full of warm air at the time, but it's great to see a storm coming out of the Gulf of Mexico and riding the coast.

Looks at the temps across North America. This isn't some borderline snow situation - it's in the 40s from coast to coast. There's just no cold for this to tap into.

100%. It would probably be annoying to "have to" track something like this at the beginning of February if we hadn't seen anything of note prior to that, but it's barely into December at this point. Let's track away!