WxWatcher007

I don’t think it’s all sorted out yet but I think tiresome is definitely the summation of the moment. Even in what should be an excellent pattern regime it seems like we’re fighting uphill to get anything meaningful. Years of fighting uphill no matter the upper level depiction. I do think we can get some confluence changes in the coming days with the 6/7 deal to bring a light event back on the table but again, fighting uphill.

I will have canceled winter by then, but mentally it’d be hard for me to root for spring before March 1.

Congrats DCA That said, we’re not going to bat 1.000 in this pattern, we just have to hope for as many swings as possible and not whiff on the 50mph fastball in the center of the zone that is the 10-12th period.

Good lord y’all jumped on him like dog on a bone.

We cautiously optimistic, but we clear eyed too. Waiting and hoping.

Yeah, just being in the game to salvage is enough, dopamine drip aside.

I have to say it is pretty disheartening to see that sw get annihilated coming out of the Midwest. Downright nauseating. Maybe it gives a chance for a coastal to take over though and salvage something.

Welcome to New England!

1000% Whole different world for non wx weenies

I heard someone say today that it feels like spring is arriving early. Little do they know…

I’m with you 100% here. I’m absolutely exhausted with the shredder wiping out good shortwaves the last few years.

Well that’s one way to fail lol

DCA in summer ORH in winter?

If we can’t produce here we should just merge with the SE forum

Benchmark please but I’m not picky.

If you’re on the wrong side of those bands you risk getting some serious (subsidence) exhaust. Enough to put a weenie to sleep.

Nothing like the vibe in this place when there’s legit hope.

I was just going to say…you want something super low this far north you need it to be tropical or something becoming hybrid/post-tropical like Fiona. That 2018 blizzard was a thermonuclear winter bomb though with a 53mb drop in under 24 hours. I chased it in Ocean City, MD and it was epic.

Happy hour gonna happy hour. Just looking at the general setup on the ensembles, I’m cautiously optimistic. We can’t possibly fail here, right?

Waiting for the first person to come through with a complaint.

Yeah we are nitpicking @dendrite and I think the March aspect for ‘93 adds to its greatness as a storm, but I think the extent and intensity of the cold combined with the snows in the east make 1899 stand out as a broader scale event.

Great Blizzard/Cold Snap of 1899. I think it’s the greatest winter wx event in CONUS history. https://www.weather.gov/media/bro/research/pdf/Great_Arctic_Outbreak_1899.pdf

Kind of an aside but I was walking along the CT river today and I think I see the makings of an ice jam? The bridge was literally the dividing line between flowing water and ice. Doubt this all melts before the cold returns. I don’t recall many ice jams this far south, especially in recent years.

-5.6° at BDL (interestingly no below zero temps)…but only 6.9” of snow.

I think a Biblical storm would need to: 1) Be unequivocally a storm of record. Call it a Mt. Rushmore storm or whatever based on your climo. 2) Have a generational to unprecedented to level of impact. You have to adjust for societal & technological changes to a degree, but biblical impacts are still possible in storms. The Buffalo Christmas event while not an EC storm is a good example of something “biblical”. Unprecedented snowfall and wind combination in the historical record combined with catastrophic societal impacts. People literally freezing to death across the metropolitan area. Insane in any time period. It’s part of the reason why I’d call October 2011 a BECS level event in CT too. Unprecedented snowfall (for time of year) combined with catastrophic societal impacts through power grid failure.