IronTy

Sorry to hear you're drinking again.

Awesome. I was gonna put away the -20F sleeping bags for the year but with the latest GFS I feel we need to write it plain and accept that -30DFN is on the table. At 300Hrs...of course.

Thanks for the detailed synopsis.

I've been out of touch for a couple days now. Do we still have the storm after the storm and the polar vortex sweeping in at 240hrs?

We're 42yo and the dog is 1.5yrs old. He's the wimpiest of all of us. Been winter backpacking since I was a kid in 4-H and convinced my wife to go snowshoe backpacking after the blizzard of December-2009 in the Otter Creek Wilderness area in WV. This "glamping" tent is a 13ft diameter White Duck canvas bell tent. Normally for mountain climbing or backpacking where you have to move camp every day or course we'd use a small mountaineering tent. This tent has a stove jack and I run a small Russian Bear Stove inside which is basically just a small aluminum wood stove. So I need firewood for that, and also for the fire pit outside. Stove keeps the interior of the tent about 20 degrees above ambient depending on the wind. It's tedious to keep burning due to its small size and burns out about 2hrs after you fall asleep. But as long as you stay in the mummy bag then you're warm. Today ended up a beautiful day where it appears we got above freezing and no wind. Tomorrow looks to be near 50F and sunny but we have to pack up mid day and make the bittersweet journey back down to the coastal plain and the reality of every day life.

1F this morning but zero wind and it looks like a nice sunny day on tap. Wouldn't be surprised to see 30F this afternoon. I gotta leave the tent to take care of some business but am not really looking forward to it. Also need to cut some more firewood, we plowed through the pile I had last night.

No but we have been pretty cold. Tent is up and stove is going...says 6F outside now. Feels a lot nicer than last time and the wind isn't as bad. Still pretty gusty though.

6F with a -15F wind chill on Meadow Mountain. Leaving to go camping this weekend in about 1hr! Snow showers on the game cam but only a few inches on the ground. But Sunday it's supposed to be sunny and in the 40s, I'll probably be walking around camp with no shirt on.

Underwater volcanoes first formed in 1800.

I think the the next super nino will finally see the end of Joe. He won't be able to stomach the increase in world temps. I'm not sure he's yet to recover from the last super nino.

Things were looking so good for us up until about 1800.

Nah we're going camping on meadow mountain this weekend so I should get my snow hit. I told my wife this weekend that if she decides to divorce me at some point I'm going to move to Alta, Utah and that she better plan on paying me alimony for that.

We need a thread to quantify how bad this winter is. Sure we've relegated ourselves to getting zero snow, but what makes it the worst beyond that? A warm spring like 2012 might be seen as a good thing once weve given up the chances of snow. So is it 40deg and clouds/rain that makes it the worst ever? No snow and 70deg days aren't so bad. But no snow and 50deg cloudy days make me want to jump off the Annapolis bridge.

The last vestiges of our sanity. You'll track it too, don't kid yourself.

We could just use a code name for CC. Instead of climate change we could say Climate Differential, or Climate Rate of Change. Or maybe just Carbon Copy as a fill-in for CC.

It's almost true! Unfortunately I think I know how this story ends and it's not with snow angels or frosty type snowmen.

Lmao, is that scale in millimeters?

My house is jacked with 1.1". So sad that I'm actually jumping for joy at the possibility of 1" of snow.

Hooray to the Atlantic ocean, I guess?

If you cut your grass short enough even 1/4" of snow can seem like a lot.

Snow chance? Bwahaha....

Gawd I would love it if we get 2-3" of snow and DC gets nothing. Sorry, not sorry.

At least we aren't in this alone. CLIMATE CHANGE warnings aside, this does appear to be one of those crazy shitty winters that hopefully is one for the record books. https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-is-the-snow-new-york-city-shatters-50-year-record-for-snowless-winter-11674933503

Right over Calvert county, thank you very much.

It's worse than that. We're in this stupid middle period where it's too warm to snow but still too cold to enjoy the benefits of a proper subtropical climate. If this is it then fuck it, give me SE gulf coast weather with year round green live oaks, anoles and pythons. I want to see zebra longwings flying around. Instead we get the rare subfreezing lows that are just enough to spoil the party along with shitty 40 degree days.