IronTy

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.

I gotta say, I'm not really paying attention to the models this year and it's been less stressful. Just using the ole weatherbug app has simplified my life.and generally been more accurate.

I'm not sure what happened to the WWA, went outside and if we got any precip I can't tell. I did discover that mice have found a way into the roof space in the cabin. Need to go out this morning and hunt for any missed openings around the perimeter.

We have a WWA overnight up here, will see what comes of it. Leaving back for Calvert tomorrow, traffic is gonna suck. 28F and overcast right now.

Moderate to occasionally heavy upslope here for the past few hours. I think we've gotten 2" or so but it's hard to tell because the wind is so strong it just blows it around. 19F right now.

About an inch overnight. Wind is relentless, 21F with wind-chill of 5F.

I believe it. I'm glad there aren't any leaves on the trees anymore.

Ah geez power going in and out now. I'm glad I had all the lines on my property run underground so it's not my fault.

Gale like winds on top of meadow mountain. 30F with occasional light snow right now. Wood stove going on blast.

We made the drive out to the cabin in Swanton this afternoon. Drove through heavy rain for several hours, it was a mess. 50F here now with misty rain but we're supposed to get well into the teens with snow showers by the end of the week. Hopefully my first flakes of the season in person.

When I was a sophomore (2000 I think) at college in Flint,MI the night before my Digitals 2 and Calculus 4 final exams we got 16" of snow. Whole college shut down and all the finals were canceled! I can't remember how they ultimately calculated our grades but we were all pretty stoked about it.

SoMD would be sweating the rain/snow line for the whole event. That's what I want to see, the big ones are always a stressful event down here.

That's clearly some sort of anomalous error and not representative of normal. Most people I know IRL just use their apple weather app when they check the weather, they're not going to AccuWeather.com much less listening to the local news or looking at models. I can't think of the last time any person has ever talked to me about the weather forecast they saw on TV.

I'll take my chances straddling the warm/cold boundary, that's where the action can be. 60F/sunny and 20F/sunny look the exact same through my window on Christmas day.

Live weathercasters are pretty much obsolete at this point outside of extreme events which the news stations just cover anyway. Everybody can look at their phone for decent real-time forecasts whenever and wherever they want nowadays.

Probably that and some confirmation bias on my part after reading that previous post.