psuhoffman

Sometimes when you’re walking down the street and you see something off…it’s better to just keep walking.

Yup that went exactly how I expected.

Yes, the specific ridge I’m on is Dug Hill. I’m at about 1050 ft just north of Manchester and south of the PA line. I’m about a mile from the highest point on Parrs Ridge and the highest point in MD east of the Appalachian Trail.

Ok but then factor in the fact your avg snow on blacktop is likely only 60% of your actual avg into you’re expectations. He has been in the same screw zone as Maestro and other parts of northeast Md. And I’m very familiar with his location, he is in a horrible local screw zone within the larger screw zone.

Pattern looks promising for March. I’d like to see some blocking but boundary waves can be dynamic in march and that look should put the boundary near us. Not going to waste more time though until it’s inside range. But the warmup might only be a temporary relaxation not a permanent breakdown.

Thank god we don’t measure snow on the street! Seriously though of all your snow pessimism angles we’ve discussed this is the one I get the least. It’s very very normal for places on the coastal plane in warm micro climate locations as we’ve discussed, to have way less snow on roads. Even up here if I measured snow on my street my avg snowfall would be like 25” instead of 40”. You act like snow that doesn’t stick in roads doesn’t count.

You’re thinking of March 2017

It would take something dynamic. But most March events do. March 2014 and 2015 was an extreme anomaly. Usually we need to get bombed with a perfect track or upper level pass.

There was a story where a neighbor picked up his kid who was friends with Snyders and said “thanks Dan” and he corrected him with “it’s Mr Snyder”. I know that’s stupid but…who does that?

We got some snow from that. Not sure how DC did but it was a general 2-4” across MD.

Right now I’m just steamed some town 8 miles northeast of me reported 5 and I only have 4.5! I think I’m gonna stew over that all day!!!! seriously though I don’t dislike these minor events. Even up here they make up the majority of my snowfalls. But it’s not what I like to track. Like @Bob Chill said, the payoff on tracking some meso scale 50 mile wide band of snow from long range is awful. You can’t pin these small scale local events down at any range. It was pure luck it ended up over me. What wasn’t pure luck was that I got 4-5” instead of 1-3” because of my elevation. I can max out these little things. But Imo it’s a waste of time to track them from distance. I start paying attention when they get inside 24 hours. Big synoptic events I’ll track at range. Both because you have a slightly better chance of pinning them down at range and the payoff is bigger. But even up here I know on average I only get a couple 8”+ storms a year. I don’t get mad when they don’t happen. I’m not complaining over small snows. Just not interested in spending hours a day tracking them.

~4.5” on the board. 26/23. Light snow still falling.

Steady light snow continues. 28/24.

It’s tricky because the games have outgrown most traditional winter sports venues in terms of infrastructure requirements. Lake placid NY for instance could never host by todays standards. But there aren’t that many major cities like Salt Lake that combine the close proximity to winter venues and the necessary infrastructure. Combine the corruption and often crazy cost and most probably don’t want to bother.

Sorry. Had it back in December. Sucks. Good luck with recovery.

Getting pretty optimal snow growth too. I would guess pretty high ratios here based on the look of the dendrites.

Been stuck between bands mostly. But I’m getting the typical help from being on the ridge. A couple degrees colder and a little bit of upslope precip enhancement goes a long way in marginal events. Probably why looking at coop records around here I didn’t see any total shutouts years up here. Even in a horrible year this area eeks out several minor events this way.

30/24

I suspect these type events are becoming more frequent due to warning. Anytime we’re on the warm side of any boundary temps skyrocket. Thankfully it does still get cold though on the other side of the boundary. Snowing pretty good. Solid coating. 31/22

37/21

I didn’t make it up this weekend. 7 year old is sick. Curious what the snow conditions were today? Did they recover from the rain/freeze?

Calm down. We have numerous out of region contributors which we are cordial with but we know they are posting in good faith and making positive contributions. Couple things… just in case you are legit. We’ve had a rash of trolls over the years who come in here and take on a few different characteristics. And you sort of (maybe accidentally) exhibited some of them. 1. you’re out of your region 2. You’re not posting the right content in the right threads. 3. You started off with a bunch of “winters over” posts in a snowstorm thread. 4. you then posted a JB tweet. His cred is about as good as Judas in here. You came off as a troll. If that was inadvertent sorry but then you do need to do better. Pay attention to what thread you’re in. Post long range stuff in the long range thread. Maybe don’t start you’re very first interaction as an outsider guests in another region with a bunch of deb stuff. Maybe introduce yourself. Just some suggestions if you are in fact posting in good faith and not a troll

Damn I just got my popcorn ready. Oh well back to tracking snow. 41/23

I was being sarcastic as well.

Ok this has nothing to do with anything but why does the eps not start running for like 30 mins AFTER the op finishes at 6/18z? Every other system the ensembles run immediately after the op and the Gfs they begin before its even done. Just curious what they do during those 30 mins? Coffee break?