IronTy

Yeah he called it discontinuous retrogression. I have no idea what that involves.

I'm not going to get my hopes up and believe in a Miller-anything until it shows up on the HRRR.

Saw that just now. On one hand I'm glad I won't be here but on the other hand I would like to see some snow whipped around at 65mph.

What a clown.

And just like that - a strong wind and we're up to 50F. No more ice. In fact I've opened the windows tonight to cool the cabin off and get some humidity in here.

We were going to drive to do a hike on Meadow n mountain trail as the trailhead is less than a mile from our property but quickly realized we were not going to make it down even the gravel drive without sliding out. So we changed plans and just did a loop on the property. Lots of frozen mist and rime ice sort of stuff all over everything. Doesn't really come across on the cell phone camera. Everything was very lush and green even if frozen.

28F with light rain here. It's gonna be solid sheets of ice everywhere in no time.

JB was honking about this earlier on a WB post. Hopefully it comes to fruition.

I was watching today's JB Atmospheric avenger video and he clued me in on the WPC's historical map site so I'm going back through all the storms that year and looking at surface features. Those big storms all just appeared over the Texas Gulf Coast, tracked over the LA coast and up the seaboard. Seems like a life age since we've seen one of those.

Good for you! We leave on Sunday to head back SE so we will miss out on next week's snow. Will be back again in late January so hopefully we can get a chance to snowshoe then. There are maybe about 25 acres on the northern slope of the property that was decimated during that bad ice storm and is now almost a monoculture of regenerating sweet birch. Our plan is to donate the entire property to the Nature Conservancy when we pass so I am working to negotiate with them as part of the deal to have them cut those down and replace them all with red spruce to help establish a viable population in this area. Luckily most all the large Hemlocks at lower elevation were spared the axe and the ice so they are doing well. No signs of Adelgids, hopefully the cold is a contributing factor.

I hope so! Technically our property is just inside the western most vertex of the warning which is probably why I keep getting phone alerts. Hopefully it's more sleet/rain here. You can still see damage from a severe ice storm during the 1990s up on the higher elevations here.

Looks like an Ice Storm Warning was just issued here. Still saying 0.25" up to 0.4" of ice in spots. Gross.

We're in the Ecuadorian cloud forest up here. Still a WSW for up to a quarter inch of ice. Currently 50F though quite windy.

I'm getting a bit nervous as I didn't bring the battery for my chainsaw on this trip. I could foresee having to cut my way out.

WSW hoisted for up here in Bittinger. Up to 0.4" ice and 1" of sleet apparently.

Man I don't know how the settlers lived in the mountains back in the day. Out at the cabin it's like constant gale winds at 3k feet. Also socked in with clouds. Looks like we might have a freezing rain storm on Friday, we'll see. I did have this tiny bear rooting around two nights ago. Based on the pic I don't think it was much taller than my knees.

If him and JB ever shook hands it would be like a matter/antimatter annihilation.

I just treat any Twitter personality as though they're trying to sell me a used car. At the end of the day they're just whoring out for views, whatever it takes.

Did he even make it 12hrs?

There are three things in life we can count on. Death, Taxes, and for JB to sniff out a snowstorm when all the models are showing torch (or anything else, for that matter).

JB says it's discontinuous retrogression and 1985 is the analog. I have no idea if that's good or bad for us.

Heck, even in December 2009 after we got 29'" of snow after the first blizzard, within a week it was a melted foggy mess and there was no snow for Christmas. I've just come to expect crap winter weather for Christmas in these parts. I even spent money to build a mountain cabin retreat with the hopes of my first white Christmas in 20yrs. Maybe next year...I'm planning on cruising around the logging roads on my '69 Honda Trail 90 next week. One Christmas not that long ago my wife and I were backpack camping at 4k ft in Dolly sods....in t-shirts. The mid Atlantic just sucks for Christmas. Might as well embrace it and buy a hot tub. Counterpoint, two Christmases ago we were camping up on our mountain property and it was -23F in the tent and the windchill was 40 below. But still no snow.

Should have known we were in trouble when JB got all cocky and made his Sistine Chapel post yesterday.

It shows the NE MD snowhole so this one might be on to something and actually verify. I'd hit it.

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