SnowenOutThere

Just now, yoda said:

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings coming out quickly for the storms firing out west

Looks like a bit of rotation on those cells too. 

18 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Personally, as much a time-suck year-round club swimming could be, it was all worth it for the more "casual" summer swim season

Cannot wait for him to discover high school swim season, its honestly the highlight of both my school year and year in general. It combines the team building of summer with the competition of club and takes the best aspects of both. 

19 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

It's SO hard to believe that time trials are ALREADY here

My team had our first time trials last weekend and our second one is this weekend. You guys are just behind 

27 minutes ago, mattie g said:

Sure...we realize that. I'm not terribly concerned about the coaches who are walking around the pool barking at the kids to stop doing flips, leaning on the lane lines, and staying in their streamlines after the start. The air quality wasn't *that* bad yesterday afternoon such that simply being outside was a danger. Our concern is with the kids who are going hard in practice and breathing hard in the process, and our intent is to let the parents make the decision they feel is best for their kids. In the end, we cancelled anyway, as the coaches outvoted my co-rep and me on holding/not holding practice.

Now...with air quality like this morning there's no way we'd have made a decision to practice - optional or not. I wore an N95 in the city this morning because it was nasty as hell, and I wouldn't ask our coaches to be outside for three hours coaching in those conditions...let alone even suggest to parents that we'd practice in it!

Don't know about your pool but all of the 10 plus coaches in training (high school kids) are in the water for the whole practice they coach making sure the kids don't drown and yes the air quality was bad enough to be harmful for developing kids which I'm pretty sure still includes teens. I've only been going outside with a mask on since yesterday and before that I've gotten nasty headaches and congestion. I've also been tired but that may or may not be related to the smoke. Either way the right decision was definitely to cancel it. 

22 hours ago, mattie g said:

We're telling everyone practice is optional (which it kind of is every day ).

Our pool management company tends to the cautious side on this kind of stuff - I just hope they don't make an uninformed decision to close.

22 hours ago, H2O said:

We have an ice truck coming today so closing the pool would kinda suck.  Kids come first tho.  Closing for smoke at least is more valid than when our guards close for fake storms thats just airplanes taking off

Pool closed yesterday for afternoon practice thank god, didn't want to have to coach in that. You need to remember when making your decision that by making it "optional" it fill forces the coaches and kids that coach to show up. My morning outdoor actual swim practice didn't cancel today but elected to not go. 

52 minutes ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

Rabbit in my yard turns and asks, "what have you humans done to our sun?" 

Those damn underwater volcanoes are at it again!

22 hours ago, mattie g said:

We ended Tuesday's practice 25 minutes early, and yesterday's 15 minutes early.

Weak, its not even as cold as it was last year. 

2 hours ago, mattie g said:

Not looking for spoilers, but has anyone played Tears of the Kingdom yet?

I picked up a Switch a couple months ago and have been playing a lot of Breath of the Wild (when I can), but I'm purposely holding out on TotK until I've thoroughly explored that world and gone about as far as I feel I can. What a game!

I took the day off school last Friday to play through it and its been an amazing experience, it truly builds on every single mechanic of Botw and fixes almost all of its problems but please explore all of Botw before Totk because after starting Totk. Despite how good Botw is Totk makes it feel unfinished and like a first draft. Also I've played for like 30 hours and there is still so much more to do, the world feels so much more interconnected and alive. The story (at least how far I've gotten) also seems to be more in depth. So yes please play it. They even managed to make the sunsets and sunrises look even better than Botw. 

28 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Yep. I think we all need to come to terms with the reality here. And also be thankful that we old enough to remember Snowmageddon and got to witness some epic storms in our lifetimes (and to never complain when we get whatever amount of snow we can still get!)

Some of us weren’t old enough to experience such past storms, just another thing climate change takes away from the next generation. 

Definitely some good rotation.

Gfs with a fantasy tropical thing in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s almost the time of year for us to start tracking the tropics. 

This is the one 

High wind watch in effect

...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
SATURDAY EVENING...

* WHAT...West winds 25 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
  possible.

* WHERE...Portions of central and northern Maryland, The District
  of Columbia, and northern Virginia.

* WHEN...From Saturday afternoon through Saturday evening.

* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down trees and power
  lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be
  difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The strongest winds are most likely late
  Saturday afternoon through mid Saturday evening.

High wind watch in effect for the metros 

40 minutes ago, Ji said:

Look at all of that red 

2 hours ago, mattie g said:

Our team struggles to even get enough kids to fill lanes and relays

I am always open to being bribed over to another team if the price is right.

55 minutes ago, mattie g said:

For our pool, there was a lot of "we do things this way because that's the way it's always been done." The Board turned over almost completely last year, so I give them a little leeway in trying to shift the mindset of how to effectively run the place, but I still feel like there's an unwillingness to make attempts to change

My team is pretty similar, there has always been a way things are done which often has lead to issues. Hopefully the board makes some good changes this year that make the whole process more transparent. 

1 minute ago, stormy said:

To repeatedly make proclamations about how warm it is and insinuate we may never return to the way it used to be is demoralizing to many

50 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Maybe not using terms like "alarming" and "worrying" when it comes to the snow trends

Climate change and its effects should be "alarming and "worrying", it should also be somewhat demoralizing that we are permanently changing our climate for the worse and some people don't even believe it on a weather forum. 

4 minutes ago, stormy said:

An interesting chart showing D.C. winter snowfall anomalies back to 1949. This reveals that the most consistent below normal stretch of winters occurred in the early to mid 1950's

Something about the graph seems off because according to https://www.weather.gov/media/lwx/climate/dcasnow.pdf the 1950s had several below average years but also a winter with 18 inches of snow (53-54) yet there is no positive spike on the chart, it also says that the average for the chart is 11.6 but Im not sure where they got that number from or if stayed consistent on the graph as time passed.

12 minutes ago, Ji said:

not for Loudoun....it trended too far east and we only got 4 instead of 14

Just days before it happened it looked like a non event for everyone, just because you didn't get jackpotted doesnt mean it didn't trend positively. 

1 minute ago, Ji said:

awful runs...havent seen a good trend for us in years

We had the January 3rd storm that trended in our favor last year

CMC barely has any energy off the east coast. 

6 minutes ago, Stormfly said:

UniFi.  That video is from a 5 year old G3 bullet cam.
I started out with UniFi video server using my own hardware (Dell dual Xeon box running Ubuntu server 12 at the time).  Loved the "roll your own" ability as one could start with a simple pc running linux or Windows and scale up to whatever they needed, etc.  Then Protect came out, loved its interface and ability to scrub through a time line in real time on mobile.  But Protect wasn't BYO and required Ubiquiti hardware either a Cloud Key+ gen 2 or their dream machine pro device which had limited hardware.  Later they released a multi drive NVR which is what I currently run.  Cameras are expensive compared to others but require no NVR license fees or subscriptions.  And of course the recordings are on premise. I run all home runs back to the rack in the basement with direct burial rated CAT6A 23awg pure copper conductor shielded ethernet.  Some call it overkill but being that I've had lightning peel the bark off a southern pine less than 20 feet from my shop building and the cameras never even missed a frame says something!

I do like the smart capabilities of the G4 line and upcoming G5 line too.  The Ai bullet can record license plates if that capability is needed.  Recently on G4 and up they've added smoke/CO alerts so if the mic picks up the telltale sound of a smoke or CO alarm it can send a push notification which is nice as the fire alarm in my shop is local only and sometimes when I charge flooded tractor batteries and a cell or two goes crazy and sets the alarm off I get it on my phone which is nice.

My PTZ is an Amcrest 4MP 12X optical 25X hybrid zoom.  I have it set up to record to folder on my QNAP 8 bay NAS with a 7 day rollover.  I use it mainly to watch weather systems roll in, check for hotspots at our bonfire and pits and it has caught Amazon drivers cutting through the grass countless times too!

This post is somehow more confusing to me than Chuck's posts.

It’s snowing outside near Reston. 

2 minutes ago, yoda said:

Well.. 12z CMC at 240 has the same general idea... so I guess?

The big ones are sniffed out early as they say 

Just now, psuhoffman said:

Why give up now lol 

Because now I’ll need to stay up an extra hour to watch the Euro cave to a rainstorm.