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36 high 30 Low Solid blustery winter day

Obs threads only for me the rest of my career. No more model threads. That will delight many . Ji whines and most think it’s cute. Fact statements however are a different matter. That’s true nowdays in society in general. Don’t tread on wishes nor feelings. And my observations over 20 years of watching model worship are not empty. The resolution is scrap the pure math, Mother Nature is composed of more than that. With the incredible super computing it’s entirely possible to devise analog based forecasting instead of possibility examples. Simply put, use the trends from the past to predict what will most likely follow based on how it played out in the past. But the will to do that is absent because model projection cover all bases and then claim verification when one example turns out. Prediction is what is desired, not sampling examples. Also, good ole fashioned NOAA radio and even Euro don’t try to bite off more than they can chew. Pretty much 5 days and inside which is all that is realistically needed anyway. 7,10,20 day stuff amounts to nothing more than cartoons.

Mostly cover all bases flopping away from big coastal low and going to cutter again. It might be snow and 30 or rain and 50. We are not predicting which but give you examples of each. Whata science!!

Weekend washout and now a preposterous representation Tuesday night into Wednesday of a costal low suddenly showing up in a perfect location off mid Atlantic after being north of Pittsburg 6 hours earlier. When in the world will these models stop showing every possible outcome and begin to do forecasting?

Low on the coast for Saturday morning is now high in the same place instead in a six hour span. Just ridiculous.

It’s a very wet and non typical Nina so models can’t get things right except for cutters. Analogs from back on 12/24 showed the two week mild up with a cool/cold down two weeks later. That starts Thursday. Cold air is only thing that matters for DC, without it the placement and tracks of the lows mean zero and right now models cannot predict low pressure movements anyway.

If this belongs even anywhere it belongs in banter Ji II is not being sought.

Early afternoon thundersnow and 2”ph rates and one burst 1” in 12 minutes

Wrote that this would not be a traditional Nina like outcome in late September. Many comments over month of December have stated or confirmed same .

Around the 23rd I posted that 1/7 time frame would bring back the cold. Some coastal action portrayed also and within 7 model days, 3-5 still the best indicator, of event which matches analogs.

Jan 5th to 8th fits the two week oscillation pattern we are under so models showing storminess and/or cold will likely be right this time. Maybe we can even get a meandering low along the coast

Air temp dropped from 39 to 33 from 4:45 to 5:15

40 for a high but just 33 13” off the ground. Ground still frigid and should radiate out colder temps overnight than forecasted. The only exception is that one station that somehow doesn’t radiate out.

IAD two hours out of last 72 at or above 32

Who cares. It didn't snow Go get burped and changed

DCA at or above freezing 4 of the last 60 hours

30 for a high, 28 now. Rib roast is great

29 at 2pm slow grilling a standing rib roast

DCA set a record at 22 breaking 23 from 1989. IAD tied at 22 also from 1989 BWI tied 20 from 1880’s. Average daily at DCA of 15.75 is also a record for Christmas Eve

12 at 11pm since it went under 20 degrees my gas fired forced air system Is on for 15minutes and off for 15 and set at 70. How about you?

6pm 17F Wind chill no higher than single digits during daylight

Thanks and IAD may have broke or tied their 1989 record of 22 . Baltimore’s 20 from the 1880’s I don’t know

19 at 3pm with high of 20.

6 for a low and temp is same at 2pm as at 1pm, 16. Peak sustained wind chill this morning -13

It’s not winter rarity but we are in a 2 week oscillation pattern . Gets mild after this and then turns cold about 1/7 and that push looks like very cold air pouring down on us from PA/NY instead of rollover cold from Midwest