WxWatcher007

Obviously easier to do with no kids lol

Yeah—for the most part my wife knows if something big is happening I’m probably on the road. I pull the card more for tropical though. A few years ago when I chased Hurricane Laura I woke up one morning and just said “I’m going to Louisiana”. In 2022 though when Buffalo had its all time Christmas blizzard, I stayed home. I probably could’ve tried it but 1) she’s really become part of the Christmas traditions after years of work so I didn’t want to undo that and 2) it was the first Christmas after my dad passed. It was the right call, but part of me hates that I made it lol.

I don’t track hemispheric or regional winter wx patterns/signals like I do tropical, but I’m cautiously optimistic about December.

Not even really thinking about the holidays tbh. If we can get on the board in meaningful ways, that’s already a massive departure from recent December disasters. I just want to see productivity from a modeled pattern.

My favorite clipper of all time happened in DC some years ago where we just kept juicing on the models up through game time and had like 20° powder falling all day. The little clipper that did. I miss those.

Here’s the problem—just can’t quit it. Between Tip’s dopamine drips and the real housewives infighting the drama is too much to look away. Hoping we get a classic Richmond to Portland crusher this winter. The ones where 95% of us get something good are so rare these days.

It absolutely is. There’s no urgency really underlying the summer discussion. It’s filling time. Low stress. Mostly tongue in cheek. Because everyone (or like 95%) here loves snow and knows it can only happen in a short window, the anxiety is everywhere and helps drive the craziness. And I get it, but it’s crazy. lol

Temp dropped to 39 even here. Cold and dreary November day.

I genuinely enjoy winter, but I cannot express how awful it is when we’re failing around here or waiting for things to change. I mean this with all sincerity—it’s by far the dumbest time of the year in wx discussion. It’s low level torture reading these boards and idk how or why I subject myself to it daily. It’s not necessarily that anyone is stirring the pot, it’s that there are irreconcilable differences, unfounded panic, and delusional optimism. Everywhere. All the time.

A few more years of unrelenting failure will fix this attitude. Wolfman will be as hairless as Kev by the time regime change mercifully happens in the 2030s.

My God lol. I thought I had it bad.

Common theme in recent years

Are we sure about that, though? I’m not actually as convinced as I was last week that what we’re moving to is actually a solid snowstorm producing pattern in CT. Maybe a clipper or two, sure, but I can see suppression of anything significant with a trough that deep. Not trying to be a downer, I just don’t see the cold-(coastal) storm connection being a lock in the pattern.

I’d still rather get the rain.

This. Idk how this’ll shake out, but I know I’d rather see this model mayhem than them all converging on a Cleveland cutter.

Did that going into Buffalo two years ago for that epic LES event. It’s an experience.

Yeah—I don’t think you’ve changed. If it’s interesting you’re interested.

Congrats to all that got on the board today.

Yeah, this could go either way. This far out we’re just narrowing the envelope of possibilities. Our horrific half decade doesn’t factor into whether any discrete window this season produces. We definitely need a good cold source though, especially this time of year.

Minor accumulation all the way down to Norwalk.

Reached a minimum pressure of 986.1mb around 2am

Pressure here down to 987mb. Not a bad storm.

I’ll never forget my brother and I being outside as kids and playing football when I experienced thundersnow for the first time. A huge crack of thunder out of nowhere sent us running inside. Left the ball outside and everything lol.