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^Dear lord…what month is it!?

49 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Anyone seen Mappy lately? I feel like she hasn't been on the board all winter. 

She told me she’s out as of an incident in late January 

I am once again asking meteorologists in the media to stop normalizing above  normal temperatures 

12 minutes ago, GaWx said:

Absolutely. He’s done this in the past in giving early hints about a warm winter forecast only to backtrack by trying to find a reason to go colder or at least sow doubt about warmth. When was the last time he went warm throughout the E 1/3 of the US and stuck with it? I can’t even recall anything resembling that. His cold bias for the E US is awful.

I’d bet my retirement that 95-96 will be one of his top analogs

Apparently I had sleet this morning 

Low of 21

My son says he saw flurries in Columbia/Ellicott city. I could not confirm.

Colton Cowser walk off!

1 hour ago, DDweatherman said:

Great discussion above, the PDO seems to really be more a driving factor than it has been before. The “base state” comments really have merit given the Pacific just spoiling our chances more than once at a big dog pattern with staying power. I need to do more digging into the QBO to see if that has some pertinence since our longer term telecomms seem to be the bigger factor. Things like the MJO seem to mean a fair bit less than they used to. 

also on a side note, why so much effort to move posts from thread to thread? This is a free forum and it’s volunteer work to be a mod. I salute the dedication, but seems like there are more important things in life than moving posts from thread to thread. There’s no weather going on currently. 

 Because as in the past, this area of discussion quickly takes over every single active thread. I’ve seen it before across 4 threads simultaneously and it’s exhausting to have that everywhere and not fair to people who don’t want to read it. 

19 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

Looks like i picked the wrong week to not check the LR thread daily 

I literally move a bunch of posts and the conversation just continues anyway 

8 minutes ago, asalt1 said:

Mods must still be asleep...

Believe it or not I have other things going on in my life

Other thread!

Lightning and thunder in Columbia! Big long rolling thunder.

1 minute ago, AmericanWxFreak said:

That lightning was wildly bright for daytime. 

Didn’t see lightning just heard thunder 

Thunder in Columbia!

Need an eye roll reaction symbol

22 minutes ago, Ji said:

What physically needs to happen for it to go positive? Like what will flip it?

Posting in the proper thread

4 minutes ago, mattie g said:

March is an awful month in which to have a birthday.

I don't mind the weather in August, but it's a bit of a grind as swim season ends and we're waiting for school to start. For me, the first couple weeks of September is truly awful since we usually get hot, but the pool is closed.

Usually we manage to get 1 nice cold front in August and it’s glorious. So awful when it goes back to HHH after that. 

March and August are reliably the worst 2 weather months in our area. 

5 minutes ago, mattie g said:

6 degrees below normal at Dulles is chilly...and it was chilly region-wide outside the typical UHI areas.

I feel that it's disingenuous to use obs at DCA and BWI as examples to disprove the notion of a day or period being cold.

I would call it seasonable chilly if I had to put adjectives on it. But I don’t consider a general 0-5F below normal morning in February to be remarkably cold. 

If you can that’d be great

Wrong thread everyone!

Daffodils in my yard are close 

CWG: “quite a chilly morning around the DC area”

-1F BN at BWI

normal or slightly above at DCA?

IAD did get to 22