GATECH

Flurries have commenced! It’s a Christmas Miracle!

We definitely overlapped, LOL! Nice! I may have been banned at highland tap after an unfortunate bachelor party (we went back to re-live our youth in 2005), things went sideways, we ended up at Cheetah 3, we somehow lost the bachelor. Love me some highlands. I have bunches of HS and GT friends still in the area, last of the family left years ago. Need to take my son to a football game sometime post COVID!

I don’t remember it verifying, but always a treat to be under reds instead of pinks!

@Always in Zugzwang Yep, grew up in Atlanta, went to Colorado to study Meteorology, but the school stunk, literally, U. Of N. Colorado in Greeley, if the winds blew from the east, we got the stench of the cattle feed lots, LOL. still have my laminated skew-T chart somewhere.Transferred to GT and studied International affairs, undergrad and Grad. Graduated grad school in 98, then moved up here. Loved my time at GT and growing up in the Atlanta area, but was ready for a change. Totally agree, if you know the cool places and little nieghborhoods, it’s lots of fun. Use to hang out a lot at that Bar/Restaurant at Piedmont park back then. That was Tuck, picture is from the end of the storm after 20in. He was standing and was just kinda stuck. Have a lab now, named ‘Thunder’ lol. He has never seen snow, can’t wait for that to happen!

In 2009/10, they weren’t fantasies though, LOL.

Happy Anniversary @mappy! Dec 19 was one of my favorite DC snowstorms, seen them all since 1998 when I moved to DC, something about a Blizzard just before Christmas was magical though! Plus I was hammered Blizzard eve at my work Christmas party, stumbling home as it was starting...and yes the snow was up to my Golden’s eyeballs that evening!

This was south of Alexandria for that storm...it can snow in November and stick, even to roads! Rates!

Hopefully! I would love to come in last! Though @WxWatcher007 has that locked up! Heading up your way to Deep Creek 2nd week of January to get my fix!

Congrats to those getting hammered...with snow at least. fun event and tracking even though the rain has commenced here in extreme eastern Fairfax county.

Snow fighting off the sleet under good rates here by Mt Vernon

Rain and sleet

Rain and sleet now that was fun while it lasted.

Nice flakes now, -sn

Let’s see what this incoming band has for us.

First flakes! Biggies, very sporadic! I counted 8 so far, lol

First radar returns entering PWC, where is @Jebman when we need him? anyone down there see anything yet?

It true! Do the models factor in our tears into qpf? Keeping in real, 32/24.

How it ends

I can’t believe I don’t know this, but where can I get current soundings? ...for DCA

31/24...come on snow gods, just give me ten minutes of fatties. For the love of 2020 just 10 minutes!

Ahh, you are into the Bargaining phase! I like it!

True just us South and Easters of 95. We will be ok and will enjoy your obs of SN+!

We are transitioning from Denial to Anger....

True! Lived in Atlanta for 15 years, lived through 3 close calls with tornados, like 2 houses over close. Here in DC area for 22, nada. Which is fine by me!

Nahh, I think most folks understand that us lowlanders need to blow off steam when we realize it’s not our storm, just part of the grieving process..I think the threads leading up to this have been good, except for the DT blow up with JI, but we all knew that would happen, LOL. Just part of the tradition here!