IronTy

Not sure I'd say it's easier to be a pessimist around here so much as it's just more accurate given our location...assuming the goal is snow as you say. But I do agree that incessant bellyaching isn't really contributing much and its probably just best to find a new hobby.

I think this board is a microcosm of human behavior. Some people tend toward optimism, some toward pessimism. I posit there are few areas where this is more blatant than the weather. It's something that nobody can do a damn thing about and really unmasks our inherent biases. I tend toward "defensive pessimism". Eternal optimists annoy the fock out of me. But it's like an introvert vs an extrovert. Neither is inherently wrong or bad. And let's face it, the pessimists have gotten it right for a while now.

Looks like everybody and their uncle used that phrase. Must've all been closet weather weenies.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Ugh here I am. After last year a significantly more humbled version of myself. So yeah, I'm ready for winter. Looking at the data and most importantly the SSTs, there's no way we fail like we did last winter. Maybe we find some other way to fail but I'm so much more enthusiastic about this winter than I was last year. Fwiw.....

Cost is measured in snow on the ground! Basically it's free!

Oh, so validated. I feel it.

Lmao, I just got home from vacation. Was expecting at least 10" of snow on the ground. Instead I got 50F+ and sunny and my viburnums are about to break into song. Sorry @WesternFringe, there's always next year. Even a 4th grader coulda figured out that we weren't getting any snow this march. I guess there's always the hope for a late April snowstorm? Cows could come home on their own too.

Tupac once rapped about Hail Mary. It didn't turn out so well for him.

We're really digging deep for some snow. It ain't gonna happen.

Who actually thinks we're gonna get a storm at this point? Life moves on, it ain't happening.

They must be sasanquas. It's normal for them to bloom in late fall or early winter. The flowers are kinda lame compared to japonicas though.

What!? Ours never bloom that ?early/late? Are they sasanquas? We have a couple of those and they typically bloom in late fall or early winter but that's typical for sasanqua. But japonikas (in my pic) don't normally bloom until early spring.

Camellias have started to bloom. This beats even 2012 as the earliest date in the 17yrs I've had them.

Man the intense sunshine is awesome for my depression. Who gives a fuck about snow? I'm pumped for spring.

Last January I woke up and it was pouring rain and like 40F out. 8hrs later I had over a foot of snow on the ground. It's possible.

Well winter came and went. Lasted 15mins or so.

Wow heavy snow in Huntingtown. Apparently it can still happen.

I actually thought klwx was down or something when I looked at the radar because there was nothing. Nope, just another winter fail.

Idk, I'm not very impressed at the radar right now. Nice clear sunrise though

And here I thought I was on to something novel. The hot setup would be to get a few mounted on your roof that rotated automatically as they ran to create an equal snowfield all around your house so that no matter what window you looked out of you'd see a couple feet of snow on the ground.

Lmao of course somebody built a homemade one. I wouldn't worry about cold....build one big enough and "it'll make its own cold air". Weenie rule #14.

Fuckin A!!! Look what I just found online! You can have a HECS every weekend! https://backyardsnowstorm.com/

Boston ain't your kind of town....personally I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee.