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We will accept our downsloping snow shower in Frederick and we will like it.

Award winning photos tbh

This storm is important for the well-being of Northern MD inhabitants. Precip output gives redeveloping off the coast vibes, but enough to keep interested.

It’s like a mini version of Colorado’s two winters per season. Data nerd recommendation…a relative stacked bar (or line) chart based on the past 20 years with the separations based on the different deviations from average temps on that date.

The Friday system is moisture starved and the Sunday one is basically a cold front with most of the energy further north: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=us&pkg=z500_vort&runtime=2025120918&fh=114 I guess we can find a way into a light snow event from both systems, but the real snow producers are when we get some southern stream influence which has been really hard to come by in these neck of the woods.

Got a bike ride in after work partly to test my tolerance for these temps and it was actually kinda refreshing until halfway thru when I could barely feel my fingers. I even took a hand warmer with me. I probably could use warmer gloves, but yea, it's cold outside and this was probably below my threshold.

Sun has started poppin' out here. I dig it.

That sucks, I'm gonna really miss these frigid temps and occasional cartoppers. But actually I'll be out west during that time, so it probably will end up snowing here.

The late week clippers have the weekend rule going for them. I completely disregarded that when downplaying their impacts. I’m much more bullish on this now.

Now that’s fun: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=us&pkg=uv250&runtime=2025120818&fh=354 This is Sunday: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=us&pkg=uv250&runtime=2025120818&fh=138

Chasing snow might be the only option left. At least until the nor’easter at the end of the gfs run.

Definitely not something worth investing a lot of time into. If it snows, great.

Meanwhile, it doesn't look that bad so far on the 18z.

Not really seeing the boom with the upcoming weekend thing. Just doesn't have that southern stream influence that the Friday and today's system has. Kinda seems Miller B'ish. On the plus side, it's only Monday.

Luckily for the snow starved region, the Wizards winning percentage is probably higher than the CMC at this range.