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Just took a productive walk. Somehow, there's still frozen water falling from the sky, but I could hear some pingers when it lightened up. It's sticking to grass and elevated surfaces better than I expected. Road/sidewalks are just wet.

Sticking aggressively to the roofs of cars and mulch here. Pretty light. Looks like the BR and Catoctin's are leaving the lowlands with scraps so far, but still nice to be reminded that it can in fact snow here.

Flaking just a few miles NW of dt Frederick. Success.

I missed this post. Still had remnants up there.

Today is one of many, many examples of how much better these temps feel when the sun is out. I have no interest in clouds and cold without snow. In other news, the top of Gambrill clearly had some snow yesterday morning. I did not expect that. Amazing how much of a difference an increase in 500 feet in elevation can do.

I agree, except the IPA part. I prefer to not have my beverages taste like bitter herbs (as you can tell I'm not much of a beer drinker, so don't take it personal).

lol, yea I think Heinicke had a good run, but he's just not the longterm answer. Too early to know about Howell, but it looks like he can throw the deep ball. I think he'll go into training camp as the #1, but they'll probably need to draft another QB for the sake of depth.

I actually thought you were a Ravens fan. They need to stop this carousel of QBs...pick someone and roll with it. Otherwise, they actually do have some talent on that squad.

I think Snyder is out. He'd be a moron to stay at this point. Timesharing with the Ravens has helped ease the pain, but until new ownership comes in and they can secure a new stadium, it might be rough sledding (like this Winter). The Wizards are more annoying because basketball is my favorite sport. It's preposterous how long it's been since they've won 50 games...literally, over 40 years. They just can't get things right...even with their primo arena location in the nation's capital.

Yea, I'm a 3 month season type. I really don't track much in March...it's kind of futile. I have a feeling we're gonna get on the snowboard at some point in February, but to say Winter has shown its hand already is an understatement.

I should use that philosophy with the Wizards and Commanders.

There's value in seeing if any type of wave is in sight. If there was no storm system, then it really doesn't matter what kind of look we have. I agree with the general thesis lately that a simple W-E gradient/overrunning pattern is probably what we need at this point...especially since we're in prime climo.

Oh I know, but if we're tracking blues this far out, it's only fair. I checked the GEFS as well and noticed it was the same look...for better or worse.

12z GFS for the next week system shifted about 500 miles to the WNW.

I got practically squat from that storm in Frederick, but it was entertaining driving down 270 the next day and seeing several inches in Cabin John. We did pretty solid with a couple other events that month, so in comparison to this Winter, last Winter even in Frederick feels like the Upper Midwest.

I didn't notice too much in the way of mosquitoes last Summer, so we might be due for that. The idea of warmer weather is beginning to sound kind of awesome, though.

I'm all in for that. I miss early January...it's certainly better than 40 with clouds and wind...unless it's gonna snow. That's the only exception I'm making going forward...until April, of course.

I'm chasing either sunshine or snow at this point. This latest weather pattern has been miserable, though I did pick a decent time to have a cold (first one in 3+ years and now on day 6). Feels like I haven't missed anything. Hopefully, we can get on the board Wednesday. If not, bring on the sun and mild until the next trackable event.

Sounds awesome tbh. Though GFS does look more ripe for snow chances starting in a week. This might just be one of those winters where we had to can-kick into prime climo to get frozen.

How are the spring training ensembles looking?

Which makes the bashing of models even more silly. Was just thinking about that this morning...how there's been a lack of digital blue which matches very well with ground truth.

I've been timesharing with the Ravens this year since the Commanders are, well...let's just say they're TBD (note, I was an early adopter rocking a Ravens hoodie back in '96). I thought Huntley played good enough overall. He's a bit like Heinike. Throws some ducks here and there, but his playmaking cancels some of that out. I also thought they ran the ball really well, which is why a QB sneak near the goal line was a suspect playcall. Otherwise, they had a chance to win away against a good team with an undrafted QB.

@psuhoffmanI don't have a degree in met, but I would imagine we probably want the Atlantic on our side. It's going to be more difficult by default to get snow if we're fighting off warmer ocean temps. Maybe that Nino will mix things up a bit and/or a busier Atlantic 'cane season. Otherwise, the idea that we'll need better timing of systems/Arctic air makes sense.

Late season snow is kinda nice as a lead-in to Spring. I'd be cool with that.

I vaguely remember that one being more of an overnight system while I was living in Bethesda, though I might have been at my gf's place in Arlington for that particular one. Here's the radar loop from it...looks pretty healthy: https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=60&interval=60&year=2006&month=2&day=10&hour=0&minute=0