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Wiseguy

I heard a couple of loud rumbles around 11 p.m. no evidence of any snow here either.

I-795 was opened in 1986 I believe. The same tear the Owings Mills mall opened.

You are the eternal optimist. I had relatives come in from Scranton over the weekend. No one can believe this snow hole on the east coast. The airports, cities and urban areas are one thing but for northern carroll to go snowless from jan. 8th through the entire month of February is unheard if not almost impossible. I've recorded at least 1 inch of snow in every March since I moved here in 2008. Every April has had at least a trace.

A couple days ago it was April 1982.

I miss those days and those teams too. They were the epitome of team ball. Sad story but glad for your mom to have that experience.

Me too. The game was called "gone in 54 seconds". I had season tickets from the early 90's until the new arena was built. I have walked out of Cole after many brutal and devastating losses but that was by far the worst. The terps dominated that game and then a total collapse. At least if you were a Ravens fan they won their first superbowl the next day. That wasn't rock bottom that season a couple weeks later they lost at home to Florida State. As it turned out that was the best thing that could've happened to the team. Jaun Dixon had a sit down with Gary. Gary's demeanor and coaching style changed and that propelled the team to beat duke in the rematch at Cameron a few weeks later and to make their first final 4. Then of course they blew a 22 point lead to duke in the national semifinals.

I saw some tulips coming up in northern Carroll County off of Deep Run Rd. One of the highest locations at 1100 elevation.

Maybe by you moving it will change everyone's luck. Congrats on your new property.

GFS has a high of 22 here on Friday. Euro has a high of 42 here on Friday. Nice.

This is the worst. Absolutely locked into a miserable unrelenting pattern. We've only had the tiniest of windows to score and they have all abrublty closed. It's not easy for a pattern to lock in for 90 days or an entire season but this one appears to have managed that. An off the charts positive AO and a persistent -PNA has buried us. We've barely sniffed any favorable MJO. The best we could do was get a weak -EPO occassionally. Even if the EPO was a stronger negative we probably would've only gotten colder not necessarily snowier although it couldn't have hurt. No point in even reiterating the lack of any semblance of real blocking. Those other crappy winters were tough but as far as I'm concerned this one is the worst. Still hoping for a miracle.

How can it be 10 years already. The years are flying by. If we could just experience that 12 day period one more time. This year sucks about as bad as can be but look how fortunate we've been over the last 10 years.

I saw one pop up next to driveway a couple weeks ago. First time I ever saw one here during winter.

Lol. I was just going to say you be drinking early today.

I figured something must have got messed up. I just went back and looked at BWI for that month and they have 10 recorded. Both storms underachieved somewhat but did manage to hit the low end warning criteria. We would all sign up for that week right now if we could.

You have almost a shut out in Feb. 05. There were 2 coastals during the last week of February about 4 days apart. Neither one gave you anything measurable?

I had just moved into my house here that week. We got 3-4 inches from a small band that developed in southern PA and enhanced as it moved south into our area. Probably the higher hills here helped to squeeze out every bit of liquid possible. Almost like our own version of upslope. This occurred late at night into the very early morning hours. LWX played catch up and they issued a WWA. By that time our snow was ending. They didn't think the band would weaken as it moved south so they put Baltimore County in the WWA. As it turned out the band would weaken. The band stayed strong for a few miles south of us. The 3 inch line made it to about Cape Horn Rd. Once you got south of the hampstead walmart accumulations were much lighter. Maybe only an inch or so. That abrupt drop off shows how the first ridge weakened the band south of here. By the time it got to Reisterstown it fizzled and there was only a dusting. The band actually regenerated a bit and parts of AA county got a decent coating.

I was think about this the other day. It seems like every month for the last several years are warmer than average except for March and April.

I have recorded 10 so far but I did not include 2 very minor coatings which probably would add another .07 or so.

It will happen again. The storm we had on March 20/21 2018 was pretty impressive. I'll take that anytime

Hopefully this years April paste bomb will make this winter less bad. Lol.

This raging +AO in my opinion has been the killer as far as snowfall. We can still get plenty cold with the AO on the wrong side but we need -AO if were going get the kind of snow storms were hoping for. Looking back winters like 1993/1994, 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 are fools gold. They're anomalies that defy the odds. Now were always thinking we can score like we did in those years from a favorable EPO with no other support from the other indices. Sure the occasional wave can work out but it's not supposed to occur as frequently as it did in 14 and 15 where almost everything broke perfectly

We're always looking for the fluke. Anything can happen. A true snow lover never gives up. Anyone who say they're not is full of it. Problem is we have no indices on our side. The EPO is our only shot because the Atlantic is not budging.

2008/2009 was my first winter here. It is rare to get under 20. I would still put us as a slight favorite to break 20. We can score late and even the worst winters yield something back in March. Today may be rock bottom as far as seeing a sustained flip. Things are looking bleak. Maybe things back off a bit in the next couple days and give us better hope of something between the 7th and 16th.

With the torch coming early next week and the disgusting look in the mid/long range February is almost guaranteed to be well above average. We'll probably be +15 on the month by Thursday. I could never see this coming 2 months ago. Aren't we technically in an El Nino? I have lived in northern Carroll County for 12 years and have yet to measure less than 20 inches for any given season with 2011/2012 being the worst right at 20.