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31/25 NW of Vienna.  

25 minutes ago, Wonderdog said:

That snow was about two weeks old, if I remember correctly. That doesn’t count as a white Christmas. But for you, I'll see what I can do. We are in an epic pattern after all so we got that going for us.

The snow on Christmas in 2009 was right at a week old.  We got nailed on 18 Dec - my birthday (or maybe the 19th - was a long duration event) by the first of the 3 big storms that winter season, with the other two being the back to back storms in Feb.  Was THE best welcome home present ever.  We'd only moved into our home a couple weeks before having just returned from nearly 3 years in Bangkok, which don't get much snow!  

3 hours ago, Rhino16 said:

Maybe shenanigans too… but it’s used more than kerfuffle and malarkey.

Those are right up there with catawampus - as it seems the models are all over the place these days; askew with our collective appetite for a BECS or HECS...   

32 and .38" so far...   If only.....     But that "only" is par for the course around here. 

3 hours ago, Lowershoresadness said:

can you pick up a package for me? Go to the Nana plaza. Ask for Matilda!  thanks

Many much more classy places to go than Nana.  At times it is off-limits to farong (foreigners) and can be a violent place when folks misbehave.  Lived not far from it for nearly 3 years.  

3 hours ago, stormtracker said:

It’s 10:49pm here in Thailand, I’m at a club and shooing my friend away because I’m in a f*cking corner watching the GFS come out. 

What’s wrong with us? 

Enjoy Thailand.  Lived there for nearly 3 years until 13 years ago.  Their hospitality is something we just don't get in the US.  We lived in Bangkok near Lumphini Park.  Worth the visit if you have time early in the morning or early evenings to see everyone out getting exercise.  You'll see throngs of people by the hundreds exercising together.  Enjoy the food too - we miss it there immensely.   Tried to PM you but your account is locked.    hehe.  

44 minutes ago, WinterFire said:

Hello happy hour GFS…

ETA obviously this is a day 10+ op run so the usual caveats apply. But it is nice to see how the pattern evolves, with the Dec 9/10 and 12-13 storms(?) blowing up off the coast and helping to drag in the cold air!

992 LP that appears to be trying to close off and go neg tilt (hard to tell on my smallish screen).  What's that saying some quote about LPs going negative before they pass eastern TN?  

CWG is on board...    https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/01/december-weather-outlook-dc-cold/    

Just dropped another degree to 18 with a dp of 15.  Didn't expect this.  AAA is going to be busy this morning with jump starts.

Down to 24F here with a dp of 12...  Just came in from outside - a tad nippy out there.  

28 here NW of Vienna...   

4 hours ago, Weather Will said:

I alway consider November 11 the period where we can start watching for snow….took 4 hours to travel from University of MD College Park to Greenbelt that day when surprise snowstorm hit….cars were abandoned all along my route home….thunder snow fell fast and furious.  One of the most memorable storms of my life so far…

Remember that storm well.  Lived in the purple area at the time.  Got 17".  Took my colleague and I seven hours to get home to Lorton from downtown DC.  Had to pull pine trees off the Mt. Vernon Pkwy by having 13 people pile into and on top of his Isuzu Trooper for weight.  Very memorable experience.  The thundersnow was intense.  

8 hours ago, psuhoffman said:

Who is interested in doing zoom chats again this winter when there are legit threats?   If there is enough interest I will set them up again.  

PSU, yes - very interested - with a suggestion.   The Zoom sessions you did before were great.  Nice balance of discussion and science.  Don't break what isn't broken, to include the threshold used before on when the threat warrants a discussion.  Believe many/most here would agree you have the expertise and respect on the forum to make the call.  

14 minutes ago, poolz1 said:

Some wild radar returns and and motions over the past 24 hours.  Radar looks like the sky is tearing apart over the eastern shore and DE right now.  

.91" since 7am this morning.  2.17" total so far.

Was just looking at the returns ivo Dover.  Quite a line slowly run NE to SW slowly migrating to the S.  Behind it are some really funky returns.  One of the scans almost looks like a golf course map.  

1 hour ago, H2O said:

That is a hell of a recall

Remember that one too.  Think it was Kate.  Moved here in Aug 1985 from Ohio and had a couple that brought rain and some power outages to the DELMARVA.  

45 here NW of Vienna.  Feels great outside.  

21 minutes ago, nj2va said:

0.7” on the day….agree with CAPE - feels tropical outside.

Indeed - soupy outside.  76F/74dp here.  Just came in from working outside on our daughter's car.  Wasn't bad when we started but, had to roll it into the ac in the garage.  

20 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Is radarscope running backwards on my phone or are all the storms all of a sudden coming from the north?

Indeed - inbound precip is heading SE.  Check out the returns over NJ.  One level of precip is heading NE and another layer in the same general area is headed West.  

A whopping .02" so far today....   

3 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Electric is nice and easy - quiet and lightweight but you're limited by the design which is for a standard 15A circuit breaker so there's only so much they can do.  I've used my little Honda generator to use it in more remote locations but really gasoline is better for serious work.  We mostly have tulip poplar to split around here after storms.  Randomly the county came by and cut down a while bunch of trees by the sides of the road early this year so I went out with my chainsaw and muck truck and got all my firewood this winter for free.  The tulip trees are randomly easy to split, even huge logs.  

 

I'll get a gasoline one for the mountain property though.   

Poplar spits easy, but is a very soft wood.  It burns hot, but burns fast too.  I have a good supply of black locust from several downed trees on our property.  Locust is classified as a very hard wood on the scale.  About the only think harder we have domestically is pear and osage orange.  Tried to split osage orange long ago with my dad's splitter - don't ever try it.  The twisted grain makes it nearly impossible to split.  Locust burns great - has the highest heat content of any wood in N. America.  Splits great too - is why the old timers used locust for split rail fences.  And, it won't rot if left unspilt on it's side until you get around to splitting it.  

Electric log splitters are ok for small stuff, but they have significant limitations compared to gas.  Built my log splitter nearly 40 years ago for my senior project in engineering school.  Splits wood in both directions with a sliding double wedge to avoid the unproductive return cycle on most hydraulic splitters.  Have 25 tons of force on the out stroke and 17 in the return stroke.  It will work 4 men to death trying to keep up with it.  The axle is off a B-52 APU and the main I-beam is galvanized steel from an electric sub-station (don't ask how I got those components).  Still runs great after nearly 40 years.  

What a spectacular day!  Currently 70/61dp.  Trimmed our yard for 2 hours, cut the grass for another hour, then installed a new tranny mount in my 91 Silverado with the garage door open and AC turned off.  Sheer bliss!  

9 minutes ago, yoda said:

I wonder if that doesn't weaken some by the time it gets here

Yea - suspect you're right.  The cells out around Elkins and Clarksburg looked pretty active 30 mins ago and the lightening strikes were pretty strong, but the last several frames make it look like they are losing their punch. 

1.78"  so far today.    Based on Sterling Radar returns from the line ivo of Winchester, there's more inbound.  

Got a very quick 1.66" here NW of Vienna.  Lawyer's road is closed in two places near our home - typical when we get rain ivo 1.50"/hr or more.  Local family lost a son in a flash flood about 10 years ago a few hundred yard from our home.  Same culvert is overrun by water with people still driving through.  FFCO FD swift water rescue was disputed about 30 mins ago for a white water rescue on Lawyers Rd.  

Hunter Mill Rd is a zoo with traffic lights out in multiple locations flashing red 4-way.  People don't know how to negotiate an intersection with 4way flashing red lights...  sigh. 

49 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Sitting on a tractor is not the same as us peasants cutting the grass.   

Just messing with you.

haha - yea, I hear ya.  Cut my previous yard for years with a push mower and mowed yards for pocket change when I was a teenager - know what you mean.  I mow 1-1/2 acres now.  Mowed it with my ole 1962 Gravely walk behind for a while, but it can't compete with a diesel Kubota and 60 inch deck with a cup holder.