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    December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas

    in New England

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    11 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

    if anything mild and nice weather is a very positive outlook.  snow/cold freaks enjoy the negative side of life and outcomes. people conflate the weather they want as the only acceptable banter and weather talk, and will do anything to control the narrative in that sense.  it sucks when certain people want to silence others, honestly.

    I would counter that while mild weather is nice, and definitely can be enjoyable, it’s not as interesting, especially in the winter.

    The places on earth that are both inhabitable and can experience snow is exceedingly small compared to places where weather can be mild and/or warm. Plus the current climate trends are pushing towards less cold and snowy weather. The conditions required for snow to fall are much more complex to forecast, especially for the areas on the fringes like ourselves.

    No one wants anyone silenced, it’s just the difference of walking by someone on the street and preferring they say “good day” rather than “**** you”.

     

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    December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas

    in New England

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    19 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

    feel free to point out where i'm wrong. thanks <3

    Factually you’re not wrong.

    However, it’s quite clear that the context of your posts is to ruffle some feathers of the winter weather lovers.

    Sure, none of us can wish the weather we want into existence but thanks to Bing Crosby, Norman Rockwell, and the Little Ice Age some people feel comfort and nostalgic about a “White Christmas”, especially considering how shitty life has been for some the last couple of years.

    I live near Narragansett Bay so my chances of snow on the ground or it snowing on Christmas are less likely than @Typhoon Tipgeting his point across in three sentences or less, so it’s really no sweat off my back to see it being a low probability of it being snowy around the holidays.

    Your 850mb anomaly map wrapped with a heart instead of a bow was more meant to antagonize the board than factualize the forecast. Feel free to point out I’m wrong <3

     

     

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    December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas

    in New England

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    1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

    Probably not a good idea to buy anything on any ensembles 10 plus days out, the way they’ve been changing every day. 

    True.  Just inserting some debate to the "it ain't gonna snow the next 3 weeks" discussion.  Hard to tell if that's going to actually happen if you can't get any semblance of an actual weather pattern that might make sense past 10 days.

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    December 2021 Obs/Disco...Dreaming of a White-Weenie Xmas

    in New England

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    I wouldn't buy anything I'm seeing on the GFS ensembles after 12/10.  Look at the northern hemisphere views and everything just stops moving after 12/10, like an entire hemispheric "block".  It seems unusual and I don't think that's actually going to happen - unless it's some sort of common artifact of being the end of the ensemble run.

    Just something that stuck out to me - even on the 500 mb map...

    November 28-29 Storm Threat

    in New England

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    2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

    There was was just never support for 18-24"...no need to delve any deeper than that.

    We will be lucky to get 2-4” if this thing gets it’s act together, with maybe a little more in the higher elevations or where good dynamics setup. And that’s a big IF…

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    Winter 2021-2022

    in New England

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    1 hour ago, It&#x27;s Always Sunny said:

    This is what happens when The Weather Channel (and the media in general) refers to the Polar Vortex so loosely; it creates misconception. They have everyone looking up at 10mb when at 500mb and below is what actually produces most of the time.

    But Polar Vortex sounds cool, and makes any boring winter forecast more exciting!

    November Discussion

    in New England

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    2 hours ago, weathafella said:

    Bristol stool sample-how’s that?

    Personally I vote for Billerica Stool Chart but that’s just me. Let’s leave the Bristol’s of the world out of the fecal judgement business.

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    Winter 2021-2022

    in New England

    Posted

    6 hours ago, snowman19 said:

    The metric by which all ENSO events are measured by are the actual SSTs, which are about to drop in the next few weeks and in a big way. It’s peaking, yes and it’s done in the subsurface. However, declaring it “dead” as JB did is asinine. Dead Nina’s don’t continue to have SST drops. When the surface starts warming, then it’s dead 

     

    Friday, November 12, 2021 Severe Potential

    in New England

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, BombsAway1288 said:

    3 overlapping tornado warnings right over Providence. :o

    That's something you don't see everyday around here

    I'm in Providence.  Heavy rain, lots of lightning and thunder, no hail or signs of a tornado.  Strongest stuff has now moved east.  Looks like Attelboro and Barrington are getting the worst of this at the moment.

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    Met Fall 2021 Banter.

    in New England

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    1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

    My MiL still does this thing where she saves every single CC receipt and twice a month sits down with the laptop, logs into the bank website, and compares every single receipt to the bank ledger. I asked her if she has ever found any discrepancies in like 35 years of this shit and the answer was no. It's not clear how she would even recover her 37 cents from that gas station where she bought a soda and they rang it up wrong. 

    She was really shocked to learn that no one under the age of 50 does this (as far as I know). I would be shocked if anyone younger than 30 had ever even contemplated doing this. Most young people today run their finances from Apple Wallet with autopay enabled.

     

    No one does this any more because of debit cards. In the past when you balanced your checkbook people were paying for everything in cash, and then you kept track of the checks you sent out each month for bills, minus your cash withdrawals. People weren’t tracking every cup of coffee they paid cash for.

    I haven’t written a check in four months, all my debits and credits are electronic/ACH transactions. Plus there are temporary holds, reposts for restaurant transactions, etc. Just doesn’t make sense anymore to spend that amount of time on it, especially when I can view it all from my banks website.

     

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