Santa Claus

i am not vegan but when i need to entertain them i make a good vegan chili. 2 large spanish onions chopped garlic to taste--i use up to a full bulb 2 red bell peppers 1 orange bell pepper 1 yellow bell pepper 2 poblano peppers 5 jalapeno peppers 1 large can dark red kidney beans 1 large can light red kidney beans 1 can each of navy, pinto, black, small red, cannellini, and roman beans 1 can of sweet corn 3-4 cans whole peeled tomatoes, roughly 105 oz. chili powder 1/3 cup, cayenne powder 2 tbsp, paprika 2 tbsp, cumin 1 tbsp, crushed red pepper 2 tbsp, salt to taste. all seasonings to taste but those are my suggestions. sautee, in olive oil, in order: onions, garlic, peppers. core the bell peppers, personally i leave the poblanos and jalapenos and chop them whole, and throw in the seeds and the pith. the pith is the white flesh inside the pepper holding the seeds and contains the vast amount of the spicy capsaicin. throwing in the pith ensures the weakest member of the dinner party dies, thus making the pack stronger. once everything is sauteed and a bit soft and there's lots of liquid, stir in spices one at a time. then throw in the beans, corn, and then tomatoes w/juice ofc, and bring it back to a simmer for at least a few hours but ideally like 6+. serve on basmati rice and/or with jalapeno cornbread. that one gets rave reviews even amongst meat eaters, with meat, it's award-winning.

ticks: nature's second-worst animal. after watching my boss go through Lyme i became a militant tick-checker. everyone should if you have a chance to be exposed. given the progression of weather around here i assume the tick problem is just going to get more extreme every year.

today, a much-needed soaking rain which will wake up all sorts of noxious weeds and awful biting insects filled with disease. nature is healing.

someone's gotta pick up the torch when all the snow weenies go into hibernation. i'll be live streaming from the roof of my house during every Slight SPC day, looking for tornadoes a la Jeff Pietrowski

i am going to do so much shitposting this summer

i really like this one! and it has a little bit of a "default Windows desktop photo" vibe to it.

is there a place people use to find who is stormchasing something like this?

the ideal summer weather is 3 straight months of constant hail 24 hours a day

i lied and i came back because i have nowhere else to go also i just want to say rclab, you are an incredibly pleasant person.

i'll see you guys next week it looks like nothing exciting is happening for a bit

counterpoint do you really want him to post

i ate half a jar of Costco organic sauerkraut for dinner and two hours later i was farting so aggressively that my cat started hissing and clawing at me this post is half cry for help, half endorsement of sauerkraut. absolutely delicious.

this is one of those statements i don't really have any evidence for but just *feel* is correct

snowpack annihilation in progress. very nice day outside.

he died doing what he loved.

i would like the mods to 5-post me. i will take it as a challenge, not a punishment. it will be incumbent on me not to waste posts making dumb jokes or talking about food. i'll have to learn how to read hodographs and soundings and actually do something with my life. right now what i do is, someone posts a sounding with incomprehensible squiggles, and says something dramatic like "this is the most severe TOR signature i've ever seen for Central Jersey," and i lean back from my computer and say "my god" and do this but i actually have no idea what's happening because i can barely read and write english let alone understand meteorology. i'm basically a huge dumbass but i love hanging out with you guys so thanks for not banning me yet. yet

how's her ankle? sorry if i am confusing you for another poster but i thought your wife was the one who slipped down the steps.

biggly yuge flakes in New Brunswick, some of the biggest and greatest flakes, everyone is saying it 33/29

walking through the unusual snow-ice-snow layers outside makes me think i'm walking through a bowl of french onion soup i really need to lose some weight

freezing rain in Piscataway.

not gonna lie boys, i live for the snow thump. yes yes we are all super enthusiasts who enjoy 2 inch rainstorms, 24 inch snowstorms, and probably a few of you are legally insane and enjoy those days in the winter where it just blows 40 mph of 0% humidity freezer burn air onto your face the entire day. but more than anything i love that one hour of atmospheric puke. is it snow? here's 3"/hr. is it lightning? it's falling all around you for the next 15 minutes. gimme gimme that sweet convection.

the sentiment is right, the reality is difficult.

yeah it's kind of neat as a novelty but the weather in front of us could be insane if it's even 50% of worst case. like i said earlier about borderline temps, we could thread the needle in either direction with these upcoming events.

going to need to rely on observations and nowcasting the next several days to navigate the rapidly changing p-types, borderline temps, and waves of precip. Monday looks like an opportunity to do stuff, if you want to do stuff. Tuesday looks bad.

models are shifting the Thursday-Saturday event back northward. science says eggs are good for you this week.