IUsedToHateCold

Multiple La Nina’s cooling the globe in the past 10 years. They won’t keep up with AGW though. There will likely be a big melt like 2012 in the next five years and the bar will set even lower.

History likes to repeat itself. Anafrontal too warm followed by a storm that sags south? Sounds familiar.

The problem with freezing rain events like this is temps are always too high. Need them to sag into the mid 20s before you are going to see any meaningful ice. It just doesn’t happen. I’ll take my cold rain and I’ll like it

Haha, I’ve seen full blown arguments over the interpretation of model runs for 256 hours out here. Which to me is strictly worse than chasing a blizzard. At least blizzards are fun. Model runs always change anyways. That said, I’d personally never chase a blizzard. That would be time away from video games. Not happening.

1.5 inches. Beautiful snowy morning. Everything white

That's awesome news.

Coastal is throwing me a little hug. Moderate snow, road is finally all white (after 10 hours of snow lol). A little over an inch out there. Maybe I can steal enough to get to 2 inches.

The band of moderate snow is over the bay bridge. Oh so close, and yet oh so far

The storm appears to have pivoted and bands are rotating in. Too bad it’s all pixie dust

Light snow with about a pasty inch out there. 32 degrees

Not much on radar but back to light snow. Accumulating, even on roads. I might get an inch. 33 degrees

The pixie dust continues to accumulate on the grass and patio. Eyeballing somewhere between a quarter and half inch. 32 degrees.

The GFS had it sniffed out all along I think. It was pretty unwavering too. #KingGFS

Ripping fatties again. Grass/mulch/car tops whitening up. 33 degrees

33 and flurries. Next band looks to be moving in.

It looks kind of anemic on radar TBH. I think the coastal is already robbing it

Starting to stick to the grass. Coming down nicely. Temp down to 34

The deathband is real and it’s snowing pretty good. Accumulating on the mulch. 35 degrees. Need it to cool down

Snow. Huge flakes. 36/34. Not really sticking

First flakes 38/25. In the game much earlier than expected.

37/23. Sun peaked out for a bit earlier and now back to fill overcast.

Clouds. 30/24. Hugging that 6z NAM like a true weenie.

Yeah, I’m too old for Snapchat. Lol. But I do not doubt that its interface is horrible.

Somehow I doubt the modern models perform as poorly as the Eta (I wasn't tracking back then in 2000, but I lived in Asheville, NC and missed this storm as I was too far west). The long-range models seem to underdo the precip on the NW side of storms though, especially the GFS. Hence the hoping for the last few days that we'll get some NW movement of the snow totals. 2-4 inches is the forecast and seems reasonable, but I could easily see a world where I get nothing as the northern system transfers to the coastal before giving me anything and then the coastal misses me. I could just as easily see a world where I get 6-8" as the coastal wraps me in a nice band as it deepens and departs NE.

Does anybody else not understand Twitter at all? I ask because there is a lot of weather discussion there and I just can't get into it. I'm 39 and I build software for a living. I say this to mean that someone like me SHOULD understand Twitter. The interface, the threads, the entire system just flies straight over my head. I can't even find the post that Jay Kennedy made to Mike Trout. I keep having to hit "show more replies" to keep seeing more, but there is no way to view all of the replies at once. If I scroll down I keep getting more posts. It's confusing because I don't know if those posts were posted by the tweeter (it looks like they did?) or were posted AT the tweeter.