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It doesn't even look like it's gonna be cold tomorrow.

Choppy weather most of the day here, but finished in premium fashion. Was kinda mild leaving the gym around 630.

The last storm was a disaster here, but I'm still kinda impressed at how much even snow mounds from the plows have melted. The recent mild temps (albeit not really a torch) and rain has done a number on them.

We actually did decent precip-wise in Frederick on Sunday...the problem was it was mostly rain, whereas most of our true busts are expected to be snow, but just lack any significant precip. Not having a strong high to the north really messed up the first part of that storm imo.

Alright Catoctin cloud factory, I'd like to see some prolonged sun today, please. Places further south and east get more snow and less clouds. I'm bitter. Though it does look like some breaks in the clouds to the west incoming.

Shooting hoops on my lunch break and getting a bike ride in after work was a nice consolation prize to getting roughly one inch of accumulating snow from a nor’easter. And I agree re weekend temps. I’m down for a snowstorm, but I don’t need one. Edit: Thought I was in banter. Oops.

I believe it. It’s definitely a subjective, imby sport. Some storms hit me different than others. I might need to get a dog to drag my ass out into the cold more often lol. This winter hasn’t clicked for me because it’s just not what I’ve been craving. I wanted a fresh powder snowstorm to go hiking in, not crunchy stuff (the shoes you recommended seem cool, though) and with all the cold I didn’t get that, which is kinda lame. I know it’s all about making the most of what you can’t control, but that’s what I wanted lol. Winter isn’t done yet, so we’ll see. Otherwise, I have been getting out to shoot hoops and bike at times even in the cold (aside from the Siberia pattern we had for a few weeks).

I’m glad it’s unusual lol. Hard pass on another one any time soon. I want a 4-6”+ snowstorm that doesn’t require monitoring the correlation coefficient radar.

This might be because you were chasing the storms this winter that missed us lol. 2009/10 is the gold standard for epic stretches imo. As far as wall to wall winters, 2013-15 were top shelf. Too many missed opps so far this winter for me to grade it any higher than a B…and imby it’s probably a B-. The frozen lakes were the big show. 2022 was better here.

Don’t tell Frederick…it’ll start activating its snow shield.

I’m ready for spring, but it sure does look like there’s gonna be more chances of snow into March.

Melted really quick here, too. Wanted to drive up to the Watershed, but Hamburg Road was closed. Maybe a tree down, or still slick. I could literally see the difference between my place and 800’, which is 5 minutes up the road. Prob a couple inches there and I imagine several inches at the top of the mountain. One of these days we’ll time the southern stream and a high pressure to the north properly.

The Frederick snow shield is simply too powerful.

Actually, one thing I will kvetch about is that l still need a moderate event for the snowfall contest, so now I may have to invest in one more storm.

Yiddish…or quasi Yiddish. Fun word.