RDM

Nice graphics and well written. 2 is a lot of freezing rain. You may want to add the decimal points in the 2, 4 and 6 for clarity.

Seems the warm nose is even more pronounced that last night. Would appreciate an explanation from a red tagger or one of our more experienced members how the warm nose at 700 (or 750 - wherever it is) can be so shallow, but project so far out with the uppers and surface remaining cold - especially the surface. Is this a physics thing with fluid dynamics or what?

Thanks for the imagine. Amazing how the clouds explode over eastern TX. What a flow.

Been working outside all day at home. The front went through a while ago with a burst of wind from near dead calm conditions. The gust was clearly cooler than the ambient air it was replacing.. How much I don't know - but it was a pretty cool experience we don't get much around here..

Will never forget the sleetfest on VD 2007. It poured sleet all night until morning, and shut down the DMA. My family and I departed IAD the morning of the 14th to move to Bangkok. It was rough getting a taxi big enough to carry us from Tysons to IAD, which was closed until late morning. Our flight to Narita on UA was the first flight that took off after IAD opened the first runway. There were thousands of people in the terminal, which overflowed with people standing outside. Was beyond chaotic.

Yup - agree on NYC doing a great job. They don't mess around much with the small (2-4") stuff, but when needed their mobilization is impressive. My wife and I have an apt on the Upper West Side right on Broadway and their organization is impressive - with an army of garbage trucks (as you said). It makes so much sense dunno why more cities don't use the garbage trucks. They are heavy and have good traction etc.

Now THAT was funny. Just about spit out my beer. Great post.... and likely very accurate. Not sure who that 300 dude is but he needs to read more and post less - as in never.

Noticed that and thank you for trying to preserve integrity. Much appreciated.

Think we all would - especially with the continued divergence between the various models, with the potential for some major busts. Would take the sleet shown by the GFS any day on top of 10+ compared to 4-6.

Yes - many of the folks trying to join the Pbp bandwagon need to read more and post less. Let Randy do it thing. All it does is clutter things up...

Yea - was laughing out loud at that. Wish a couple of the particular newbies would let Randy do the pbp without messing things up and read more/post less, and learn. They aren't catching on to even the strongest hints.

NWS expanded the WSW more. Already one of the larger scale WSWs we've seen for a long time. And there's a lot more to come.

Full tank of gas, no stops and almost no traffic after the Lincoln Tunnel helped. NYC had a period of moderate snow Sat morning - the leftovers of what came through the WMA. Hope our MA crew can get something from the next round to take the edge off. Folks are getting desperate. Radar seems to be further NW than forecast. (or maybe that's just me hopecasting...)

Not THAT fast, but traffic was moving along at a good clip...

Just drove home from NYC. It's 33 and light sleet here atm. It's nice to drive I-95 with hardly anyone on the road. 3-1/2 hours from upper west side in NYC to Vienna. Not bad...

.89" here. A nice soaker, which we needed. Only wish it was white... Just 10 degree cooler with some upper level cold... sigh.

Reading that made me imagine it was Tim Conway saying it and Harvey Korman trying to keep a straight face - which was futile. Thanks for the laugh.

Jebman - looking good out west. Wish they'd ship some of that white stuff to the MA. If you have never skied the Alps before, you gotta give it a try. In Zermatt you can ski 2x the max vertical available in N. America in one run! Nearly 18K of vertical in two runs from the top to bottom. Yea, the snow is generally better out west (wrt to quality of the powder). The amount of vertical and steepness of terrain in the Alps is worth the trip.

The banter in the Jan Med/LR thread this morning (and much of the last few days/weeks) is too much. Wish people would move it here to Banter where it belongs. It's no wonder why so many red taggers and the more established members of the forum have absconded the last few years. We've seen the flood of banter in the LR before during times when there's not much to track and run-to-run hope-casting drives the dialogue; it's getting old (despite the best efforts from the more established members to normalize expectations). Been on this forum since nearly day one and was a long timer on Eastern before going back to the late 90's. The influx of banter in the Med/LR has always been a challenge, but it's much worse in recent years (as others have commented about on why they no longer post much). Maybe that's the result of the explosion of social media where the trend today is to type and send before thinking. There's so many posts that people unleash in a knee-jerk reaction that should be considered for a while and then deleted; as some have commented about doing themselves (for those who exercise good self-moderation, hats off!) Again, the focus is on the smut in the LR page. Many of the newer posters need to either post their banter here or read more and post less in the LR page. We all want snow, but the other junk is getting old.

Well said H2O - couldn't agree more. Merry Christmas to you and yours too.

14.0 Not bad for Dec.

Had to look up AWOS - understand better now. Found this site in the process - some may find it informative. https://airplaneacademy.com/the-difference-between-atis-awos-and-asos/

Amazing game - bottom of the 17th now.

Thanks for chiming in Jebman. That storm was a doozy! Think we saw you walking on Jeff Davis Hwy before we migrated off it and over to I-95 (haha - joking!) I was 25 att and did a lot more walking back then too. The ridicule in the media afterwards was intense. There were a lot of pro mets on TV who had to endure some tough questioning from public authorities (DOT, school administrations, first responders etc.) This was in the pre-Internet and pre-cell phone era when email and social media was not really a "thing" yet. (Some people were connected or had early versions of cellular technology, but not many). So most of the banter in the aftermath was in the news and newspapers. That storm had significant influence on how DOT planned for events thereafter. Wish Wes would jump in with his recollection of that event. From a meteorological perspective, it was a real fluke.