PrinceFrederickWx

2 hours ago, CAPE said:

The Ravens certainly did everything they could to make it happen.

I agree, the Ravens should have played a better game. As WxWatcher said earlier ITT, you definitely don't want to leave it in the hands of the refs. Especially when you're up against the team the league likes with a ref known to be biased against the home team.

I mean I could write a whole essay about Chiefs/Mahomes favoritism from the league, but I don't have the time. It's like watching the Brady/New England stuff all over again.

18 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

For all the complaining you hear on social media, the NFL is probably stronger than ever. They’re going to do a gargantuan number in two weeks. 

https://apnews.com/article/nfl-playoffs-tv-ratings-bf435642324a34a69e6b258e033d249d#

The Chiefs are the current darlings of the NFL leadership; I’m sure Goodell’s quite happy they got this result.

16 minutes ago, mdhokie said:

Not gonna blame this one on the refs but NFL officiating is terrible for a sport that rakes in billions. Ravens got called for a defensive holding early in the game, which was a correct call but very minor hold. Later in the game there were multiple times ravens receivers were held and no call. 

I understand that they are told to "let them play" in the playoffs, but the uneven-ness of the calls is irritating. 

Yep, it’s not what the refs call, it’s what they don’t call. If you ever attend a game in person (as I often did years ago) it’s even crazier the stuff you’ll see that’s missed. 

38 minutes ago, Fozz said:

Yeah my opinion of her has gone down just a slight notch. I’m not a hater but I can’t help but wonder if this game was rigged.

Idk if I would call it flat-out rigged, but the NFL definitely wants certain outcomes. The Ravens are a small market and their super bowls draw low ratings, whereas with the Chiefs they’re guaranteed a huge ratings boost from Swifties. One of many reasons I stopped watching NFL years ago and only casually keep track.

I’ve had enough of Taylor Swift and Perfect Track Rainstorms.

78 here. Took the kids to the beach this afternoon, it was crowded. Happy winter! 

It drives me nuts when people say “we’re due for an 09/10 because the last seven years sucked.” Gambler’s Fallacy 

On 12/29/2023 at 8:44 PM, PrinceFrederickWx said:

It’s not just the lack of snow that bothers me, it’s also that lately we seem to be unable to get a significant wintry event outside of January. I haven’t had a WSW event in February since 2016 and in March since 2018. Most Feb/Mar now here have been a near-shutout.

Everyone says peak climo is until March 15, but increasingly it looks like it ends around January 31. So tbh, I’d like it even more if we really do score big this year in February or March. That would give me a lot more hope that winter isn’t being boxed in.

I was shocked to find out it's even worse for BWI; they haven't had a WSW in February or March since 2015!

If we can't score in February in this Nino, then idk what to say....

8 minutes ago, Kay said:

Has anyone directly told the El Nino that this is not okay

He’s watching the long range thread right now:

1 hour ago, wxdude64 said:

 

Just gonna throw my 0.02 in here. Not sure about NWS Sterling, but Blacksburg made a BIG push for CoCoRaHS folks and trained spotters to please send in snow reports, especially if using snowboards, sending emails out to folks. WHY would the Dept Of Highways suddenly be the 'source' for reports if that is the case? I've never seen a snowboard placed next to a road or highway, or seen a state truck stop and take a measurement, just saying. 

LWX used to be really engaged with spotters too. They’d send out mass E-mails to spotters, etc. Years ago they would often call me up or E-mail me directly asking for info, especially if Prince Frederick was being particularly impacted by some event. That seems to have changed recently, I never hear anything nowadays.

On 1/20/2024 at 9:38 PM, MillvilleWx said:

Hold up. That map has FDK at over 6” with that storm. What the hell am I missing? There is no damn way I got that much snow. The radar even indicated we missed the best banding. I call significant BS on that. Unless this is both storms combined…then it would be low-balling. I’m beyond confused right now 

I’m glad to see a pro met here disputing the map. You can do whatever you want with this info, as I believe you work for NWS?

There are a number of issues with that map, particularly with southern Maryland. You may have seen my complaint earlier ITT about how my spotter reports disappeared. I E-mailed LWX asking why.
 

The issue seems to be that this year they started using “Dept of Highways” measurements in the PNS reports, which are not accurate IMHO. They told me that because I live next to State Highway, we both came up as “Prince Frederick 1 S” so their software must have overwritten my reports. I was told not to worry though, that my reports are still in their system. I don’t believe that explanation, as my reports are not on this map, nor on LWX site. Furthermore, I sent my report in- twice- with a timestamp after State Highway, and yet it still is not there anywhere. They used the larger total from State Highway (2.5”) to make a 2” contour over Calvert.

I reported 1.4” while State Highway had 2.5” There is zero chance State Highway is correct- all I can think of is that State Highway measures snow depth. I have clear visibility of their entire site, there is definitely no snowboard, nor any open place for them to measure.

I also questioned the lack of spotter reports for Calvert, they told me I was the only spotter that sent in a report in Calvert. I have no idea if that’s accurate or not, but it seems odd. I always see multiple reports from Calvert with any storm.

So if you see any spots on that map whose totals seem odd, check and see if it was based on a “Dept. of Highways” measurement. I doubt I was the only one with this issue.

We live in a simulation and the programmers are currently rerunning 2013_winter.exe
 

-Back-to-back snow-on-snow minor events in January with a week of cold (you are currently here)

-Ravens defeat 49ers in Super Bowl

-February cartopper busts

-“Snowquester” lol

-Pity sun angle slush event in late March

For some reason my final spotter report from 9pm never showed up on LWX site. Just tried submitting again. Calvert seems to be missing all spotter reports so maybe it’s something glitched with their site.

1.4” final total. The night sky is pretty, standing out on the deck enjoying what little snow I have. 

That’s gotta be the widest gap ever between RIC and the other three airports.

Snowing again and NOW everything is starting to cave finally… right after the WWA expires lol

I'm thinking @Kmlwxhas this in the bag now, like dead-on-balls accurate. Just my guess.

I’m up to 1.2” now for the event. It’s only accumulating on the snowboard and some grassy areas, everything else is wet.

It's been snowing hard here but it can't accumulate, sitting right around 32. Maybe it can start to cave later in the afternoon like the previous storm if it's still going then.

6 minutes ago, JenkinsJinkies said:

The STJ says otherwise.

I don't care if I got 50 feet of rain in December; nationwide, the winners and losers in the snow dept. looks just like a Nina. 

This has basically been a La Nina winter (yet again) so I'm not surprised February looks like it will suck.

11 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Well this winter has sucked ass for SoMD so far. Greatest pattern since the stone age and I have maybe three slushy inches to show for it.  Bring on spring and moth season.  My mandevilla vine is growing gangbusters in my south facing window so there's that at least.  

 

SoMD is the new Richmond, it takes a million things to go right to snow here now, and even then, you can just expect your pity inch. January 2022 was probably the last big event we see in our lifetime. If you subtract that month out it's basically been a near-shutout in every event here since 2019. We're supposed to average 19" of snow but I haven't reached that since 2016.

The snow has resumed so here’s hoping I can get the rest of my inch at least. 

40 minutes ago, CAPE said:

The late south trend on guidance is going to bust. NS systems rarely work out here. The places that were progged to get the best lift over the last several days are are getting it. My wag is the forcing for this afternoon will be less expansive than guidance is depicting, and probably not as impressive as what is occurring over  N central MD now.

I'm not even sure the WWA is going to verify here, snow stopped and it's already melting. I last measured 0.6"