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Ha! I was just coming here to post this link... mostly because I'm pretty sure that's @J.Spin's family in the lead cover photo. Nice work J.

Magic Mountain is now the tallest ski area in the East. Well done Magic.

It is mind-boggling how long a lot of us posters have been on here and the forums that came before this one. Way back when the entire East Coast was covered in the same thread, ha.

Thanks for your service in Law Enforcement. If I wasn't so addicted to skiing, LE was what I wanted to go into as a kid. Tons of respect for you guys.

Yup, there are many instances for both political parties throwing their weight around when it comes to department heads and ideology. That’s why a lot of those moves no one can blame the current POTUS, everyone does it. The fun non-partisan stuff everyone can laugh at together is like reminiscing about the last time a POTUS held a press conference with hand drawn maps to prove a 3-day old tweet...South Park might have done that episode too.

What’s the difference again between the speed and gust on Davis stations? Is speed a 1-min average or 5-min average? Sustained 47mph, gusting 95mph seems like quite the spread. It’s huge damaging wind anyway, just curious what exactly are the specs for each ob?

It sucks that most normal people (or all other Presidents) would’ve just said, “since I was last briefed the models changed course to the East and Alabama won’t be impacted luckily.” End of story instead of doubling and tripling down to prove correctness...eventually ending with the local NWS taking the fall in an unsigned statement. But the reasoning for not being able to just admit that is going to be the study of Graduate level Psychology students.

Those look like they could be dropping some decent 1/2” rain amounts overnight in the deep interior.

You forgot portions of NNE too.

The reaction coming out from the weather community is awesome. Glad to see folks standing up for their own. Can’t believe it came to that for the poor folks at NWS Birmingham, as they were just trying to tell people Dorian would not be hitting them harder than expected. Anyway, should be an interesting 24 hours from Cape Cod to the Maritimes.

I just feel for our NWS members, but I’ve gathered we don’t see eye to eye on that. They try to prepare the public in an unfolding national emergency and they have to deal with the clown.

This is disturbing. How NOAA pushed their local office under the bus when they corrected the President that Alabama would not be hit harder than expected. I cant believe he is still whining like a little snowflake over this and making the head of the organization clarify it for him. He just cannot let things go. https://www.noaa.gov/news/statement-from-noaa “The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.”

C’mon there’s part of you that loves it .

I can’t even imagine a site 20 miles inland in New England recording 90mph wind. That’s like halfway between BOS and ORH. Gusts to 90mph is solid even on NNE Mtn tops...but in a suburban neighborhood, yikes.

Fukking amazing to live in Southern California type weather where every day you walk outside it’s an orgasm of sunshine and 78F.... but boring as hell for weather weenies.

I love big storms until I lose power. I get irrationally angry when we lose power ha. Two October’s ago we lost power for 3 days when that huge SE windstorm hit and we ended up just leaving to go visit my parents lol. No patience for power outages.

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that. The planet loves it's symmetry sometimes.

I mean this is the President of the United States... really think about that. Nothing about this is political (no beliefs or thoughts or policies involved) but what a clown show from the highest office to try and justify a tweet and not admit fault. Looks like a sharpie drawn outline from an old NHC forecast. The narcissism involved in going to such great lengths of holding a press conference and altered images to show what he meant is just on another level .

Yeah at least he adds some very valuable knowledge of the situation, but in the end it's just a thrill seeking type behavior. I can't talk, I've arranged my life around skiing powder which can be selfish in its own right. I do think social media has certainly added to more of this type of stuff though (like tornado chasing), or at least you never heard about it before... but disaster tourism is an odd thing that's on the increase (folks traveling to witness natural disasters and such). I'm all for doing whatever makes you tick though. We live one life, do whatever makes you enjoy it the most.

Its a straight drug for him at this point. I get it, and reading some of his stuff, he almost seems ok with it if one of these does claim his life at some point. There's nothing else he'd rather be doing. Sitting at home while a Cat 5 hits some island is just not a possibility for him. I have a deep respect for people like that, who realize this is what they want to do with their life and they are going to do it. I also get some of the other comments... I mean, if anyone needs to come rescue him or provide emergency care.... it's the same as someone going up MWN and needing to be rescued (when a lot of the public wonders why you put the rescuers at risk). Some people hike Everest, some chase the eyewalls of Cat 5 hurricanes, others chase tornadoes, some dive to the deepest depths of the ocean possible. They didn't need to be there but they wanted to and they don't need anyone's permission to do so. Josh obviously plans well for it, but one can see both sides of the argument.

Just saw a loop of all the NHC forecast cones throughout Dorians life span and it’s track... trying to figure out how to save it and post the loop here, but basically it shows we have a long way to go to predict where these storms are going with any confidence. Definitely shows why it’s called the “cone of uncertainty.” At the same time, the NHC does a phenomenal job but man throughout this storm’s life it’s had a wide variety of possible tracks shown by the models....from over Dominican Republic/Haiti towards Miami, to going north and then hitting Florida from due east and straight into the Gulf of Mexico, to recurving straight up the coast. Intensity forecasts were also sort of all over the place. Hurricanes are humbling. That made a Nor’Easter track look like easy forecasting.

Good surf this week for your beaches out ahead of the storm?

No but neither is my grandmother and she doesn’t need to be told twice that there’s such a thing as a Cat 5 lol. Each one is something he’s certain has never happened before . Just makes shit up all day long. But whatever works ha.

Looks like a Cat 5, possibly the fifth time President Trump has heard of one for the 1st time:

Some stoke... relaxed powder turns on a storm day through the Mansfield hardwoods.