EastCoast NPZ

I don't think you can count on Deep Creek having snow either.

And that's the problem for the consumer. I don't want to start buying Christmas decor before Halloween; however, if you wait you may not get what you need. Case in point, last year I found a cool snowflake projector at Lowe's. So I bought one and took it home to set it up in the dark to see if I actually liked it. If I did, I was going to buy another for the other side of the house. Mind you, this was just before Thanksgiving. Turned out that I liked the projector, but it took me a couple days to get back to Lowe's since I lived 25 minutes away at the time. When I went back the day before Thanksgiving to get a second projector, they were sold out. Couldn't even get it online. The associate helped for 30 minutes trying to locate one. Ultimately, we found one at Woodstock, which was about 50 minutes drive from my house. I called and purchased immediately and drove there to pick it up. I don't think most consumers want to start purchasing holiday items 2 months, or more, in advance. However, we're being conditioned that we must quickly buy any items we want because it may very well not be there when you want it. Stores do not restock any items that sell out, I assume for fear of having to mark anything down post-holiday. I get it. But it's fucking frustrating and depressing going into stores in mid December to find empty shelves and BBQ grills and patio furniture taking over the Christmas section.

Loos like another meh event for us. Stuck in the dead zone between rains to the east and west.

It was terrible for nearly everyone. We got saved with a 12" wet snow to rain storm that would no-doubt be a complete rainstorm today.

98?? What happened in 98?

Did the airports exceed last year's futility markers with the anafrontal event a couple weeks ago?

Is there any chance any of this precip this week is snow at Cannan? I'd like to take advantage of the kids being off school and take them tubing/sledding. But the NWS site doesn't seem to give their forecast; I'm (hoping) it's giving a forecast closer to the local office. Because that forecast looks too warm.

It's when the blinds (or coffin) get shut, for good.

That's true. For some reason we have always been more likely to pop a warm spell around the holidays. I remember a Christmas Eve in either 81 or 82 as a kid playing ball outside shorts and shirtless and sweating like crazy. But, now it seems to becoming consistent and easy to pop 60s without any remarkable pattern in-place.

It seems that it cannot get cold enough here for snow, unless there is some arctic front driving through with 30mph NW winds. And that cannot happen with an approaching storm system, or during; only after. When I went snowless in the contest, I was only partially joking. Like 25%. At this point, I get just as excited to track rain. Try living out here in the SV desert for a summer and you'll see why.

And 65F Christmases.

.2 in the bucket overnight. Hope that's a good start for this rain event. 55F yesterday, but it felt warmer than that. At least not as warm as the 60F we clocked on Christmas Eve. We truly do have a NC climate here now.

I hope so. I sure would love for this to be accurate for out here and not underperform as the last two events did.

It remains snowless, another Christmas in shorts and t-shirts, and another Cowboys debacle late season collapse. About as bad a Christmas Eve as can be. But, hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas.

Happy Birthday!

Listen, we get it. February is usually our snowiest month, especially in a Nino. But it shouldn't be the only month.

1/3 of MET winter is gone and I don't have even a dusting to show for it. Add to that this location received 5" the last 2 years combined. I know what that normal already is.

Life in the Fringed Zone.

And dry.

We need our 3" rain storm. And more than one of them.

I feel shocked, Cotton.

I dont know. But I'd trust CMC - as in Christian McCaffrey- for a weather simulation over the CMC.

That's because it's the CMC. Lol.

Lots of cold in Mexico. The southern stream system should be able to tap into that.

Just like last week, another underperformer out here. Forecasted 2 - 3 got me 1.31". I forgot how much I disliked these coastal systems where we get 1/2 the precip of the rest of you.