Jebman

You wanna see a total solar eclipse.

You cant go wrong in Texas.

No clouds.

Great eclipse viewing.

Great beer.

Excellent bbq and brisket.

Hell, you might even decide to STAY here, the bbq and brisket are so good!

On 3/14/2024 at 10:42 AM, DanTheMan said:

Finally got my snow fix this year, visited Langjökull glacier in Iceland over the weekend! 

That, is absolutely E-P-I-C !!

Okay. It's time to own up.

NWS Austin was correct about last night and I WAS DEAD BALLS WRONG!

The rain at 145am did not hate Austin, we got smacked by thunder, lightning and 35 mph winds as I ended up hunkering beneath a gas station canopy for 2 and a half hours because of my LEAKY car roof! Didnt even get to do delivery. I was so damn bored I was reduced to reading sci fi PDFs on my tablet because no wifi. I never even saw that coming! It came out of Mexico literally right out of nowhere! The radar said nada at 1230am.

I got demolished by rain that I declared was not coming. lmao

We got an inch of rain. I didnt get back til 5am lmao.

12 hours ago, dailylurker said:

Dude. Save every penny you can so you can travel to Mammoth and run around digging tunnels and smoking weed in 8 feet of snow. 

LMFAO times about 423 quadrillion!!!

All the rain is moving away. Rain hates Austin like ebola. We will get used to it, because La Nina will not spare. It probably won't rain again til 2036. Goodbye most plants. Goodbye most of us too. Been really nice knowing you all.

On 3/15/2024 at 7:32 AM, Ginx snewx said:

Sunday River dumping

I am so happy for Sunday River getting good snows!

20 hours ago, bwt3650 said:

Factual, unemotional and with an incredible understanding of this area’s micro-climate. I’ve learned so much from him and PF in the last 6 years of being up here regularly. Just need to get out and ski with them at some point.

The regular forums are fun, but I really enjoy coming in here when a break from the drama is needed and to get a little grounded from the roller coaster that winter in the north east is.


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I love reading J Spin too!

I got a deep belly laugh out of our weather today.

1. NWS fooked up today's forecast. No rain, nothing on radar. Some activity in N TX.

2. Austin is cursed. La Nina will destroy us this year. No rain. Extreme heat, record temps.

3. NWS continues in delusions as they are forecasting as much as FOUR fracking inches tonight! This is beginning to remind me of Evan Almighty lmao.

Austin NWS is a complete unmitigated JOKE.

MY EXPERT FORECAST for today and tonight. Light winds. Cloudy maybe a sprinkle. Highs in the 70s and slightly humid with 66 degree dews.

Tonight light winds. Cloudy with 20 percent chance of showers. Possibly an eighth of an inch of water.

14 hours ago, MidlothianWX said:

22" from this storm here in Boulder. I was living in Richmond during 09/10 and it really stung to see the insane snow totals just an hour or two north (although Jan 2016 helped a little). I think I can finally say I'm content ~15 years later now that I have experienced three 20"+ events in 5 years along with the all-time snowiest winter in Boulder. This is truly a sick hobby 

All that said, there is something magical about a good MA snowstorm. I miss it.

Mid- you should go to Palisades Tahoe and experience a major 8 foot Sierran Blizzard! Those storms mean serious serious bisnass!!!!!

The Austin NWS 'forecasters' never made it out of preschool. They kissed 8ss, sucked 8ss and gave billions of toe-curling orgasms. That's how they got 'promoted' to their missionary 'positions' at the Austin NWS office.

I know. They forecasted 80 percent rain Friday afternoon and night, March 15.

Guess what? Someone should have told them the front was gonna sag into the Gulf instead of hanging around Austin acting as the focus for showers. That's something the locals here know from 5 years old. You learn when your life depends on rainfall!!!!!!!!!!!! We dont sit in offices sucking our thumbs all day long. Hell, I work like a slave OUTSIDE in this weather!

Now these fools are forecasting rain early this morning, 90 percent. They are gonna FAIL. These dumb FOOLS actually BELIEVE its going to RAIN today, March 16!!!!! Heck, I got one hell of a BRIDGE to sell ya!

1. Austin 'forecasters' can't forecast the weather. The only time they can is in summer when its always clear, 101 degrees, partly cloudy and humid. A clock is also correct twice a day.

2. They are so bad and so full of FAIL that AI can't even help them. These people are far worse at their 'jobs', than some "bartenders" on Bar Rescue!!!

3. There is NO mechanism in the atmosphere that can possibly move that front north to Austin by this morning. 'Forecasters' STILL insist we have a 90 percent chance of rain today, Saturday. This is what happens when 'forecasters' CHEAT their way up into the ranks, while kissing serious ass all along the way.

4 Austin is a very dry climate. We know we wont get rain. Even the Nino didnt help us. Now we have a strong Nina developing. Now there's NO WAY IN HELL we get rain. Texas will end up goin the way of the Maya. Nina means we are hot as the very bowels of Hell and extremely dry. We tend to get Ninas in threes, so let's see, we get meaningful rains about 2035.

Austin NWS needs to get their fooking act together, change that dumb8ss forecast, to cloudy, 10 percent chance of a passing sprinkle. Rain totals should average about 0.0000000000000001 of an inch. Winds will become easterly about 10 mph. High temps today will be about 70. Dews should be about 60.

I am the Weather Expert. NWS sure isn't. Oh, we have some showers forming to my southwest. Too bad that is sliding east.

Steady snow is falling at Mammoth and at Palisades again!

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village

https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams#tab=palisades

Wow Charles Town hit 77 today! This is getting ridiculous! THATS ALMOST 30 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL!!!!

3 hours ago, CAPE said:

High of 77. Currently 75 at 530. No UHI here. Amazing. March is the new May?

It is. We hit 84 today with a humid dewpoint of 70. Our LOW was 71! Southeast winds are well established off the Gulf. Normal high is 69, our dewpoint is higher lmao. We are starting to get this on the regular. Leafout is 90 percent and the lawn is a jungle and the mower is broken. That shiny new fiery base state is setting the calendars forward by two months. What will August be like?

OK folks, I deleted my post, I was so happy about Winter Park's snow stake I forgot this is the long range thread. Sorry. You can find the post in Discussion Obs.

Winter Park is getting totally annihilated right now, 9 inches and piling right up. They might get 2 to 4 feet. They have literally piled up one inch as I was watching their snow stake! They might be at 3 inches an hour! The frackin' 10 is getting covered up by snow already!!!!!!

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!

https://www.winterparkresort.com/the-mountain/mountain-cams

That puppy is up to ELEVEN INCHES, and pouring heavy heavy snow!!

There's only one thing everyone here needs to know.

I, Jebman, am YOUR one stop shop for all things and places SNOW! I specialize in the Sierran/Cascadian Cordillera, but right now The Front Range is THE PLACE TO BE for deep snows!

ALEET! ALEET! Winter Park! YOUR SNOW STAKE IS GONNA GET BURIED BY TORRENTIAL OROGRAPHIC SNOWS before daybreak! Look, I KNOW they clear that snow stake at 4pm sharp every afternoon, but this storm aint gonna wait for that! It's takin' NO PRISONERS! They might end up with five feet of freshies!

They have THIRTEEN INCHES as of  352am Central Time!!!! That snow is just TORRENTIAL!!!!!

10 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

lmao mid 70s again today with filtered sunshine

We hit 83 degrees with 70 dewpoints. I was out working in this. That brand new shiny base state is bringing in spring a month early. We hit 91 in late Feb. We already have 90 percent leafout. That is early for us.

The Front Range is getting DEMOLISHED now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They might get four feet plus!!!!!!!

https://www.winterparkresort.com/the-mountain/mountain-cams

I might need to travel west about 30 miles or so but at least I don't need to trek halfway across the country.

3 minutes ago, J.Spin said:

It looks like totals topped out around 30 inches, so not quite 4 feet, but there’s a lot of liquid equivalent in the snow and it definitely delivered in that regard – great skiing and riding!

I am very, very happy for you! Get out there and ENJOY THAT SNOW! I WANNA SEE YOU CATCH SOME AIR! Stay safe!

9 hours ago, snownut said:

 

Full winter continues here in the PNW today but I think this will be the peak depth for the season? A break in the storms and nice warmer drier pattern is setting up here.

Wife is in flight to Aldie to work on the summer wedding plans and the VA weather looks very spring-like! 

From my shift this morning.   Nov photo is the day I got my part-time job at Mt Bachelor.  The roof snow slide is just to the roof edge today.  Spring boarding and skiing will be outstanding the next 2-1/2 months.  Parking lot snow bank walls are at 20’ high or more. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GORGEOUS PICS! I am soooooooooooooooo Jealous! All that snow! I would be blissfully digging snow for months and months and months! I would pay the plow operators hundreds of IPAs to push feet of snow where I dug so I can re-enjoy digging!

I am, very crazy about digging the snow. I never get enough snow. Not even in a place like Hoth. Not ever.

4 hours ago, psuhoffman said:

And may I suggest for those that NEED a snow fix...start chasing.  My ski hobby helps a lot.   For the last few weeks I have been way less worried about the day to day ups and downs of our snow chances here partly because I have been focused on what might happen up in northern New England.  Same earlier in the season when I was focused on out west and not worried about the fact our pattern here was going to shit.  You don't have to ski... set aside time for one or two trips to a snowy area each year and focus on that instead of it snowing here.  Just a suggestion, it helps me, but everyone is different.  

Palisades Tahoe just got demolished by 8 plus feet of snow! Mammoth got over 3 feet. Both are good ski destinations. Try Alta, Utah too.

3 hours ago, psuhoffman said:

Damn 

Poor Jay Peak. They could use 61 inches of fresh snow.

I don't even want to think about this upcoming summer. You guys could get roasted by some 108 days with 73 dews. I could get helled to death with 109 degrees with 79 dews numerous times. It is becoming common to lose rose bushes every summer.

Better watch out NY, DC, OBX, FL and Miami and the entire Gulf Coast. We have very high ocean temps now even in the deep winter. High ocean temps plus La Nina = You better look out coastal cities. Lots of tropical weather systems, some extreme hurricane cases. Insurance premiums are gonna be broadsiding many.

Also some extreme rain cases. Hard to pin down where, but those are on the increase.

Okay. Got it. From now on I will use the PSU Metric in my calculations for upcoming winters. Wow man you are already sussing the changes out. This is going on my KBE board and on Science Weather.

11 hours ago, Roger Smith said:

Based on experience with Aug 2017 (seen at Baker City, OR), plan for massive traffic congestion in immediate aftermath of eclipse to about 6-9 hrs past then, millions of people are likely to stream into viewing zone and as they can go to best viewing spots, the better your view, the worse the traffic will be. It took us all day to get from Baker City to Pendleton on I-84, and traffic was still heavy at midnight in Seattle ... we drove all the way home to BC after making the eclipse a last day of a ten-day road trip. I wasn't totally surprised by volume of traffic but it was probably even worse than I had expected. Gas up before the eclipse because every gas station you can see on return trip will be swarmed, not to mention disrupting your slow progress to get off route into gas station. 

If you have any flexibility in view location at last minute, take it, nothing worse than being under overcast sky, when 100 miles away it's clear. (that wasn't a problem in 2017, the entire western third of the country was cloud-free and we were looking at good forecasts a week in advance). 

Prepare to be surprised by how quickly it gets dark at the final stage, it goes from twilight to near darkness in about ten seconds. It's safe to look directly at the final stage (I would say within 1 or 2 minutes of full contact) as 99% of sunlight is then blocked out. You'll probably see "Bailey's beads" and diamond ring effect. As sun is near peak activity, you'll see a larger and more varied corona than we saw in 2017 near solar min. 

It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO nice to live right in the path of totality of this puppy. No trafficking for me!