IronTy

Wow it's only 19F in Calvert now, guess I wasn't expecting it to get this cold.

JB says the MJO is correcting back to phase 8 and the NAO is going negative again and that the models are correcting to a colder look for the period leading up to Christmas.

My wife and I were leaving to go to dinner and the color was epic. One of the reddit sunsets I've seen. I pulled the ole "red sky at night, sailors delight" shtick and realized that sailors must be weenies too.

Holy South RAP. A couple more runs and there'll be snow in Charleston.

My weatherbug app seems more accurate for the ten day than just looking at the GFS. Don't know how they massage the data but you never see fantasy storms show up on the app vs. the actual model.

Cold Weather Advisory in Garrett county for -15F windchills. Wish I was there!

Surprised nobody has posted a map yet. Oops, guess I didn't look far enough back.

As a kid I used to tune into TWC at 20min after the hour every hour in winter because that's when they did the 7day forecast. Those were the halcyon days of weather forecasting.

They're actually in hanging planters on my front porch so they don't get any protection from wind and and they don't get any precip either. They're were from last year's petunias that just reseeded themselves over last winter, maybe they are some cold hardy variety or something.

Idk what's going on but my petunias are still alive and blooming. It's not like it's been anomalously warm or anything. We've had hard freezes obviously. Strange.

Wait, I thought I was supposed to break out my shorts for Christmas after yesterday's runs.

Apparently it was snowing up there earlier today. Rather heavy, I guess.

Allegheny plateau is to winter storms as Hispaniola is to hurricanes.

Toss this, not possible. I hear it only snows in the South anymore.

Lol

You rang?

Nice to see those 2" lollies show up on the 12K.

I sort of retired from my engineering job two years ago and decided to pick up weather in my free time last year. I'm an EE major and applied mathematics minor so I can hang with with the math but I was disappointed looking through the Atmospheric mechanics text book I bought since it was mostly fluid dynamics calculus, which I guess makes sense since the atmosphere is a fluid, duh, but all those dels and curls bummed me out. I just wanted to skip forward to the part about how noreasters form. As luck would have it they dragged me back in and now I'm doing engineering consulting for all these data center powerplants getting built so I have no time for weather. Maybe during my second attempt at retirement... Rest assured, I'm doing my part to help bring your electric bills back down.

If the F.H. Furr CEO was a true weenie he'd revoke their sponsorship over that map.

It's an internet forum after all, very few of these survive anymore so we should be happy for any traffic at this point. Gotta put up with the occasional dumbass poster like myself to get the good stuff.

If I remember from my NE snowstorm books DC tends to get the big storms just as the pattern is relaxing. Or maybe that was just before an AO goes positive, can't remember for sure.

I remember I did something like that on one of my first posts and I was severely admonished.

Looks like a SoMD jackpot, just as I had foreseen. Locking it in.

No.

Cold rain down here in Calvert - 37F. Gonna have to live vicariously through the spycam for snow. Looks like deep winter up there.