Exactly! I commend your posting style. You're always reasonable and logical. Unfortunately the crying and sulking by the usual suspects have at times made the thread unbearable. I just sounded a little like Howard lol.
I would argue that with a more favorable pattern establishing itself things can easily change back to a very good look even as late as early next week. Despite the seasonal trend this is definitely a much different pattern taking over so expecting the same outcome may be the easy of waythinking but will probably end up wrong as we should have multiple legitimate threats through the end of the month with the usual caveats being applied especially for the cities and low lands.
Living and dying by each individual operational run has seemed to reach and all time low by some of our more seasoned posters. Paranoia at its finest.
Even if we end up not getting any meaningful snow it's really looking like we're in for a prolonged period of miserable early spring weather. Ensembles are all in solid agreement that indices are taking the first week in March. Could be very cold right into mid April.
I was at the game last Saturday against Penn St. and was surprised at the energy in the building for a noon start. It was definitely loud and I told my friend you can definitely feel a difference in the fan base. I thought the early start last night might cause a late arriving crowd but that wasn't the case. Glad to see the place rocking! Definitely reminds me of the environment in luring those Duke/UNC games.
I got 7-8 inches of snow on March 31st 2014. Highest elevations around the area got 9-10. Dynamic system turned heavy rain into heavy snow. ULL really cooled the 850's and the storm went to town. Heavy snow for about 8 consecutive hours. Continued to snow until around midnight but by then temps rose a couple degrees and system kind of snowed itself out as best dynamics moved out of the region. Westminster got 4 with some reports of 6 in the highest hills. Hanover PA got 4-6. Hampstead just 4 miles down the road got 4-6. Reisterstown 1-2. Basically need to be 800 feet to see the best snows. This would've been a 12-18 inch storm if it weren't for so late in the season. Now with this upcoming storm on February 12th we're desperately struggling to match the set up of a storm that occurred 6 weeks later just about in Early April. Still possible someone gets very lucky on Sunday!
It doesn't matter what next year will be! We just went through a snowless January at +10. A system came through last night with a narrow 30 mile swath and nobody even got an inch. There's no way next year can be worse. These little spats are cluttering the thread over speculation if not paranoia!!
Yes he was! In recent years he gets destroyed and bashed on here much to his own doing but there was a time years ago he was very good. In 2002 he kept insisting the cold and snow was coming and of course it never did but after that he had a good run and made some excellent seasonal forecasts. He had a good call on the flip to cold in late January 2007 and went warm the following winter which turned out accurate in 2008. I would say stubbornness in the 2011/2012 winter started his downhill spiral.
He really has destroyed his legacy. I really believe the falling out at AccuWeather put him on an extreme path. Part of it could be just getting a little whacky with age and burnt out from all the years. Does the guy ever get more than 4 hours sleep in a night? The other part of the explanation belongs in the political forum so I digress.
Still mostly snow here. This would've easily been 2-3 inches if we had a solid wall of precip. It just hasn't been that heavy, mostly light with some moderate burst.