vastateofmind

9 minutes ago, Warm Nose said:

Kinda surprised by this one, but I guess it's needed:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC
826 AM EST Thu Jan 18 2024

DCZ001-MDZ013-014-016-018-503-
/O.NEW.KLWX.WW.Y.0009.240119T0900Z-240120T0000Z/
Georgetown, including M street
826 AM EST Thu Jan 18 2024

…COLD RAIN ADVISORY UNTIL 11 AM EST
FRIDAY...
…COLD RAIN ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 11 AM EST
FRIDAY...

* WHAT… Cold rain expected for the duration of the event. Total rain accumulations of two-tenths of an inch. 

* WHERE… Georgetown.

* WHEN...until 11 AM EST Friday.
  
* IMPACTS...Travel will be very wet in the affected area. Frustration levels might also peak when observing frozen precipitation in adjacent areas.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Use caution while viewing forecasted winter weather and storm observations.

Slow down, walk outside and look up to verify the precipitation is in fact rain and not frozen.

&&

$$

 

15.3 / 5 currently...with a gorgeous, cotton candy sunrise.

3 minutes ago, Miss Pixee said:

Sometimes meltdowns are beautiful. I love me some icicles.

Same! At 30 degrees right now, and while the snow cover is (mostly) holding, those areas exposed to sun most of today have taken a big hit...turning into those gross, icy puddles in spots.   

3 hours ago, 09-10 analogy said:

Bit envious of all those who got down to single digits, but that's price I pay for living inside the Beltway. Nearest WB station to me got down to 13. (I really need to get my own someday.) Went out for a quick morning stroll, however, and my body prolly thinks any such difference is academic. 

Really is invigorating though. 

"Up to" 29 currently with a bit of melting going on. FWIW, after soliciting some guidance on this sub, I'm getting my first "big boy" wx station, an Ambient WS-2902D, within the next several weeks. Next issue will be to figure out where exactly to mount it and/or set it up...

12 hours ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

Yeah this is becoming the meme of the winter on this subforum, up there with amped/Randytastic, Carbondale/Short Pump, and my personal favorite, Jebman telling off some dude from SNE (I think that was 2015).

Forgot about Short Pump. Probably cuz my area has been Short Pump-ed so many times in recent years, that we've gradually become the new Short Pump...   

8.1 IMBY just now. Had to do a triple take, don't remember seeing it that low here in quite awhile.

18 minutes ago, GATECH said:

Nice sunset alert!

TY for noticing that -- agree 100%. Seems like we often get gorgeous sunsets the day (or so) after a winter storm in this area. And I love that.

42 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

<shudders>.  Yes.   The only good thing in that movie was the junkyard fight.   I remember going to the drive in (yes, again, I'm old af) with my dad.  And even as a 9 year old, I knew something was just off.  It was like nobody's heart was in it anymore.  And the stupid director, Richard Lester, who used to direct slapstick comedy fucked it up.   The beginning title sequence was just pure shit and as I grew up, it got worse and worse.  It was traumatic for me.  

Apparently the latter Superman movies are bad as the latter 1990s Batman movies...as soon as Tim Burton relinquished directorial reins after the first two Batman movies, it was a very fast and ugly ride downhill thereafter.   

30 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Guys

 

Yep, I've only ever seen the first two 80s Superman movies...and this clip cements my resolve never to see the 3rd/4th movies. This is beyond cringe.

9 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Muriel fucked me over. DC govt on time. I’m currently sitting at my desk in anger. I put my Windows profile pic back up after HR told me to take it down.  

How hard is it to get unemployment?  I’m asking for a friend. 

You should be sitting there in anger...I'm sure you can do your job working remotely from home, no prob, like most of us here. On a related note, that Windows profile pic is pretty tame compared to some of your other shared content online, so I wouldn't worry too much about it...   

9 minutes ago, jayyy said:

Unreal. Another 1-3 feet expected in and around buffalo. Nothing like getting 6 feet of snow in 5 days.

I still love snow. I just can't imagine, as a man of a certain age now who has diminished shoveling capability, having to deal with THAT kind of snow. Dear Lord...  

2 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

Yep it is. The work from home was working for so many and then they got blindsided. He is an animator and his set up at home had worked for over 3 years. We have topped out our internet and he is hard wired in. He had to return back his equipment with this change, and we went out and got a new monitor for his laptop to run through. And a convertor hub to run everything through his laptop. He too said he is more productive at home and had more time to work not due to having to commute 270. They lost a lot of people due to early retirement or just finding work from home companies. He is begrudgingly doing it for now. 

God bless him...and anyone else...who has to endure the 270 commute. I can barely handle that road on weekends, returning to the DMV from occasional trips to points north, let alone on a regular weekeday. It just gets worse and worse...   

1 hour ago, DDweatherman said:

Moderate snow and 23 right now, beautiful scene folks

THIS. ALL of the snow is still sticking to the trees, wires, etc. and this is the part that I enjoy the most...and which tends to melt or fall off the day after a snowstorm. Not so much today, and it's just wonderful.

44 minutes ago, Benjamn3 said:

About 4 inches at the back barn. 27 and the wind picking up. What a cool little storm. Our 4 month old filly’s first snow. 

So, I should ask in banter, but....how does a four-month old horse respond to its first snow? I'll bet that would be kinda fun to watch...   

Oh, and currently, up to 31 here. Bit of melting on pavements, but all other surfaces seem to be holding the snow.

24 minutes ago, Mrs.J said:

This just happened at my husband's office. After this time last year saying you can choose your path of working. Told them that "we work better when we are together" without giving any stats, which ticked my husband off. He mainly works with people in the Austin, TX and Montreal office so literally goes in now to sit behind his computer and have meetings that he could be doing at home. He is required now to be in 3 days a week and two of them are Tuesday's and Wednesday's as those are "meeting" days. He is not going in today he decided. Said if they have a beef he can tell them he will just take a PTO day and not work at all. He is logged in now a half hour earlier than if he would have went in. Also he has a MX5 so that was not getting put on the roads today. 

15 minutes ago, osfan24 said:

It's very frustrating. I get that some jobs are such that you are more productive in an office setting, but most office jobs are not that way. For me, personally, I am for more productive at home than I was in the office. I don't have people constantly stopping by to talk about nothing, we don't schedule meetings unless they are actually needed, and I'm just far happier overall which makes me more productive.

16 minutes ago, mattie g said:

This kind of stuff is infuriating. I know of too many people in the same situation and there's never a truly legitimate reason given for wanting people in the office. A lot has to do with these companies that invested in commercial real estate and their fear that their investments will go south if people continue to work remotely, but they'd rather just say "We work better when we're all in close quarters with one another" or some nonsense.

I'm moving to a new project this month - this one is fully remote without any physical office to report to. I'm moving from another government organization that used to require us to be in the office five days a week prior to COVID, but now we're hybrid with loosely required two days of in-office per week (and that has been ticking up a little in the last six months). Really looking forward to knowing I'll never be asked to be in the office for some random meeting or something, and that I can pick and choose days to go work from my company office. Since my wife is a freelance editor, she's also at home and often just needs me out of her hair during the day.

We are required to be "in the office" two days per pay period now, essentially one day per week (what most do). The days I go into work, I am almost always the only person in my building, or perhaps one of out 2-3 others in the building...which, pre-COVID, used to house 40-50 staffers and three classrooms of up to 30 students. It's utterly ridiculous. Mine is a gov't training organization, and we made Herculean strides to convert probably 90-95% of the training to online over the past three years. In-person training is no longer a necessity, at least not for most courses/topics.

Our HR folks conducted surveys over the past two years, with the wide majority of employees (probably over 70%) preferring to stick to fully remote work. Our org president's decided otherwise, and his justification when we started this current routine about a year ago was that it promotes "teamwork and camaraderie." I can assure you neither of those things are happening with only one or two others in my building on the days I report to campus (folks with whom I do not even work on my team)...and I hear confirmation of the same from others who report on the other days of the week. Again...utterly ridiculous.

3 hours ago, Deck Pic said:

Ended up becoming sleet/snow pellets.  ETA: There's an ever so slight warm nose at 875mb.  I don't see it affecting people when there are good rates.  If you go to Precip Depiction/Correlation Coefficient you can see the mix line just into DC

Final Ob of night

28/27, -SN/IP, 4"

Currently 29, with generally 4" around the house. Definitely looks compacted in some areas, and front pavements and driveway are just wet in spots...given how good we were ripping around 1-2 a.m. before I crashed, looks like we also got also got a slug of that sleet or ZR here.

1 minute ago, Terpeast said:

Calling it an inch

Nothing better than deck pics during a snow event...    Holding at 29 with -S

5 minutes ago, GATECH said:

Nice light snow, temp 28.8, smoking a pork butt today…

MAN, I wish I were a (closer) neighbor of yours....the smells must be amazing wafting out of your backyard.    Currently 29, and back to light snow. Perfect winter day for NoVA.

2 hours ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Fcps for once (maybe first time ever???) made a good decision: Fairfax County Public Schools announced that the school district will be reverting to its former policy for snow days for the 2023-24 school year. This decision means there will be no virtual learning days when school is closed due to inclement weather.

Unpopular opinion, and I beg to differ on your assessment of a "good" decision on the part of FCPS (which rarely makes any "good" decisions, unless it's an issue that makes the school board look good from a "feel good" standpoint). Those of us who have been "adulting" for awhile, and specifically, working in federal government have had to telework on "snow days" for well over a decade (or more) now...and snow days during the COVID emergency were absolutely no exception.

I see zero reason why FCPS students nor students from any school district shouldn't do virtual learning on snow days...and were my two sons still in the FCPS system (which they were able to escape in the early 2010s, thank God) I would have no problem holding their feet to the fire to virtually learn on a snow day.

Yes, I know that FCPS and all school districts "builds days" into the calendar, but on this side of the COVID lockdowns/pandemic, why? Virtual learning may not always be ideal or optimal, but it can be done much easier on a single day basis (in the case of a snow day). The federal government has proven this for four years now, and the school districts for the most part have somewhat proven this in that same timeframe.

So, yeah -- I feel FCPS made a bone-headed decision in this case. But they nearly always have in the couple decades I had to deal with that school district as a parent and as a PTA/PTSA president at two schools, and frankly, I'm not surprised.

1 hour ago, Bob Chill said:

The relax is quite different than a pac jet type of pattern. That's happened so much recently that a "relax" is becoming synonymous with "continental Pac invasion" lol. 

When cold retreats next week, flow will be slow and cold will mostly just decay and not be "replaced". What brings cold back on the ens is a very efficient way to go from warm/blah to a single front then cold enuff. Cold continental air from central Canada pushes down into the conus SE over the lakes into the east. Ens guidance unanimously agrees that the Epo and/or pna ridges remain favorable. Potentially for weeks. In this type of setup a -AO regime delivers the goods because of favorable ridge axis offsetting lack of a NAO block when the AO displaces the TPV to hudson bay or south. The look reminds me of Feb/Mar 2003. 

Eta: I left out transient 50/50s would be the key piece for a big storm with the advertised look going into early Feb. We'll see about the NAO. So far it doesn't look to reload quickly 

16 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

Home from CT. Moco death band setting up early it appears. Getting the hazy look with light snow now. Awesome. 

So, I sort of captured that nice "hazy" look of snow in the streetlights at 3:20-ish this morning when the first light round came through, which Bob alludes to in his quote here...love to watch snow falling at any time, but especially at night.   

1 minute ago, Scraff said:

Very light snow just picked up on the Elkridge/Columbia line. Should be an awesome afternoon as I wait for for NAMing jackpot. 

Yes, @Scraff...but what beers do you have your fridge stuffed with, in order to cope with the NAM jackpot?? Inquring minds want to know...   

6 minutes ago, H2O said:

Yeah it just actually started "snowing" here.  Very light still but flake size got bigger.

Fell asleep on couch last night, woke up at 3:20am...light snow! And it was beautiful. For most of the daylight hours thus far...light snow! I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw snow falling within a 24 hr period.

Currently 29, the early AM snow is holding on, and snow intensity picking up over pst 30 min. Tentative congrats to those of you in the northern half of the District progged to get ~3" -- God knows y'all deserve it after years of screw jobs.

1 minute ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Sweet mercy...the Cowboys find a way to let their fans down year...after year...after year...for now 29 years. Like how do you do that for this long? Lol I mean 3 straight 12-5 seasons...and the inevitable choke still happens! I almost feel bad for third fans (almost, lol) Oof

Please. Us Dolphins say..."HOLD MY BEER."   

1 minute ago, arlwx12 said:

WaPo got it wrong.

Found the game on 106.7 FM.

WaPo gets a LOT wrong.

4 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

Anyone ready to keep the fire burning with the GFS? Or are we due for a shit run with 2” totals only DC and south? 

As one who's suffered in the SE FfxCo lowlands with mere "fattie" snow flurries for about 15 min earlier this afternoon...I'll take a shit run of 2" over the next 48 hours.    Although the warnings issued forth from LWX are definitely encouraging for tonight and the next day or two, as well as the end of the week.