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Had some breezy showers a couple hours ago. Currently 57. Enjoying a bit of respite on this (apparently) Wind Advisory Eve.

51 right now, light to no winds. Not a bad afternoon to be outside.

1 hour ago, Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Well, I'm not totally giving up on the winter but I'm definitely of the @Bob Chill Zen attitude right now.  If we get something that looks fun, I'll check it out and great!!  If not, don't much care at this point.  And I don't think we're done, to be honest, but we'll see.

With that, I'll post a couple of photos I got today.  One is a tiny icicle I saw in a tree, gave it a silvery black and white look which I thought was cool.  And a snowdrop flower, they are always one of the first to come up even before actual spring.

Great pics! When we were heading out for the dog-walk this morning, I noticed that there were some tiny purple flowers (don't know what they're called, not crocuses, smaller than that) along our front walk...and a crap-ton of tree buds blown down on our driveway. Whether we want it to be or not...early spring processes/workflows are kicking in.

Probably the last gasp of winter in these lowlands for this season, taken at 2:30 a.m. this morning when we had our "peak" of accumulation. Hoping that @nj2va has some winter redemption pics to post here from his latest western MD trek this weekend, to wind down this seasonal thread in good form.   

23 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Yeah, this was the cherry on top of this dogshit sundae of a winter. 

I feel you...I really do. A decade or so ago, when we would have a bust like we did last night, I was a bear to be around. And would bitch on here, too. But I just can't get that emo about it anymore...and my butt-hurtness about missing out on a storm isn't going to change climo for my location, which (let's face it) just doesn't get that much snow anymore. I'm grateful for our solid week of January winter a few weeks back...two low impact snowstorms within a week. And now, having already heard the spring peepers last week...I'm ready for spring.

37 and now we have flurries with intermittent sun. Glad I stayed up half the night to see our slushy .2" on the grass before it all melted at sun-up.

Enough of this...onto spring. Hopefully the severe thread opens soon.

33/29, between .1"-2" on grassy surfaces now but the back edge is coming in fast. Enjoy the rest of it, you late nite trackers.

34/26, moderate snow for about 30 min now, but only just started sticking to grass, mulch and cars. Think we'll be lucky to get to .25" to .5" -- but hey, snow TV.

9 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

I’d been putting off The Wire for some reason, but ripping through it now. Almost done with Season 3.

Favorite character has to be Ziggy’s duck.

Yeah, we tore through six seasons on less than a month. One of my favorite characters on any TV show comes from The Wire: Omar Little. Michael K. Williams is one of the best...and gone too soon. 

42 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

Boo. I’m staying up for my hour of snow. Radar looks ok to the west.

Been up watching The Wire for the past few hours, so not a total waste.

The Wire will be your saving grace tonight...one of the best TV shows ever. 

6 minutes ago, WVsnowlover said:

Well I tried to stay positive on this one bit the writings on the wall now. Snow is light now and back edge isn't far off. Eyeballing about 1.5". Oh well still absolutely beautiful out there. Love the night shots on this Android. Goodnight all!

NightSight mode on the Google Pixel is the absolute best. 

39/22. And flakes have been falling for past 15 or so minutes

4 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Just got to Deep Creek. 30.8/17. 
 

Lets go! 

Figured y'all would head out there. Hope you get some "snow-piled-halfway-up-the-sliding-doors" pics again.   

1 hour ago, Solution Man said:

Headed to Sixty Vines for dinner, then Macallan 15 by the fire

SV = good food, good wine, great choice....and I like your follow-up plan. I only have Evan Williams 1783 on hand...but I think I'll pour a couple fingers of that between 10 and midnight, and see how long my old ass can stay up beyond that to catch some pics of the incoming snow.

Just now, EHoffman said:

I don't even care about accums now, if I don't see thundersnow this storm is a bust

Saw that mentioned in a wx disco two days ago. I haven't experienced it here in well over a decade, but here's hoping.

7 minutes ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

I'm at 38F, and there's a good amount of precip moving in from the West. Is any of that snow? 

Yeah, current radar is mildly interesting...cold front/clipper moving through? Our Amazon Echo/Alexa speakers (about as accurate as DT) started spouting off within the past hour or two that there was "precipitation" due within the next hour or two. Don't think any of us "lowlanders" see anything, but appears that you north-of-DC folks might see...something. Don't know what form that falls in, though.

Just now, stormtracker said:

Found it

 

Okay, that's legit gold. And not too far off the mark.

21 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Can’t wait for 2nd and 3rd call…

 

A number of mommies from the "Real Housewives" Lamebook group for our subdivision SWEAR by DT's "phenomenal" forecasting skills on his odioius WxRisk site, and recommend to all of the other neighborhood mommies fretting about FCPS calls to delay and/or close schools, to follow DT because of his "good track record." 

Next door neighbor gave us this stunning waxed-bulb amaryllis for Christmas. One stalk exploded with four blooms a couple weeks ago...this final stalk is in all its glory right now. Thinking of peeling the wax off the bulb and placing in a pot as it goes dormant. What a gorgeous flower...rivals any lily I've seen.

24/18. Very little frost.

1 hour ago, yoda said:

Anybody else see the new preview for the movie Twisters coming in July?  Looks meh

The original Twister movie is cringey in a good way, and I simply never tire of watching it....probably because it had such a good cast, that redeemed the dumbed-down, melodramatic story stuffed with iffy CGI SFX. The carved-up soda-can propellers attached to the "sensors" stuffed into "Dorothy" which then "light up" the finale twister are just...priceless. 

Based on all advance reports I've read about the standalone storyline for this summer's sequel, I'm reasonably sure it will be far more cringey...and NOT in a good way. But I'll watch it for free on a streamer at some point for "franchise closure" -- just as I watched the subpar Pacific Rim: Uprising sequel a couple years ago, which (similarly) doesn't compare to the original 2013 Pacific Rim movie directed by the incomparable Guillermo Del Toro.

Also...R.I.P. Bill Paxton...can't imagine a Twister movie without him. "Game over, man."   

So, just read Season 3 of FX's The Bear is due in June/July timeframe. Time for a catch-up re-binge of the first two seasons.

Down to 37. For past 10 or so minutes, vacillated between moderate snow one minute, then back to rain the next. Mostly light snow now with back edge a few miles to my west and coming in hot...or, uhh, cold.

38 with a few raggedy pity flakes mixing in now.

9 hours ago, Scraff said:

Anyone wanting a fun Super Bowl, this has been a great one. What more could you want!?

Someone to knock Kelce on his arse the way he slammed Reid, and ZERO cuts for reaction shots from his girlfriend.

So. For those of you who don't want to partake in this crap SuperBowl matchup (I mean, halftime with Usher and JUST Usher is the only redeeming factor, but then again, we may not be able to rule out an appearance by She-Who-Has-ZERO-Talent-And-Dates-A-Kelce) -- we watched "Suncoast" on Hulu last night, with Nico Parker, Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson. It was quite good. Definitely a movie with a different and very sad vibe...I liken it to "Nomadland" which (I think?), was released on Hulu about this time last year. Highly recommended. Nico Parker is a young lady of significant and unique talent...and I think we'll be seeing her do great things in the years to come. (Those of you who have watched "The Last of Us" on HBO Max will quickly recognize her all-too-brief appearance on that show.)