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Josh Taylor rolled his testicles off the mound there in a wheelbarrow in the 7th. Rios started the inning, got one out and then walk, hit by pitch, walk bases loaded. Taylor comes in with that mess and only 1 out and gets out of it.

I’m usually not on the side of billionaires, but that revenue is what has given Cole Beasley $30 million in earnings, and is what is setting Josh Allen up for earning $40+ million per YEAR. Get the eff over yourselves, guys.

Toss farther than Josh Allens hail mary.

Josh chased Don too…

Is Josh down there?

Lol always been here. Just never had much to add. I guess I finally took the advice a few of you had been offering for several years that I should read more and post less. I mostly come here to follow Josh's exploits. But on the rare occasion might chime in with something no one really cares about or wants to hear. For old time sake. Anywho, hope all are well. Even Trixie.

Josh, how do you not have a top notch weather station in your backyard?

You have to make the trip to Superstar one spring. We love seeing Josh

Exercise plan? You mean @winterwx21? Or Bills QB Josh Allen, perhaps? Sorry, folks.

Joel gott is another you will love if you like Josh

Josh is excellent.

Try out Josh cab or pinot noir for red. Rose is also the best summer drink ever if you are man enough to not feel the toxic masculinity inside of you hating yourself for doing it lol

One of the places up here (Greenbear420) are having Live bands, Comedians and food trucks too. The 420 Party is BACK! April 20th, 4:20pm-Close Sale ALL DAY! For entertainment this year we’ll have Comics; Host Mike from Dexter, Ian Stuart King of Comedy, Dennis Fogg, James Thebrege & Josh Bilodeau! Live music by Jordan Kaulback, Tony Margaronis, and The Down East Dead! We’ve got lots of giveaways, and food on site brought to you by Trucking Good Food for all your munching needs!

Josh or anybody else... do you know how far along the leafout was for the May 1923 storm?

For us 'normal' weather weenies who look to April for the beginning of warmth and severe season, it's never good to see Josh start posting.

I'm surprised they're not allowing the option of being tested. Of course some states are banning vaccine passports completely, but for ones that will allow them most of the talk for big venues is that they'll give the option of providing a negative test. This with the Buffalo Bills doesn't seem fair at all because there are people that can't be vaccinated for medical reasons. It's ridiculous if they don't allow the negative test option. Terrible that people will be excluded. Talk about discrimination. Hopefully they will not go this far for the venues that I go to, Citi Field and Madison Square Garden. So far all indications are that they will continue to allow the negative test option for those venues. If that changes, I might be forced to get vaccinated. Although I am still considering vaccination anyway, despite all my talk here that I would be concerned about taking the tiny risk of vaccination causing some kind of reaction. I could get the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine and tell them they have to watch me for a half hour rather than the 15 minutes, since I have a history of bad allergic reactions. I might do this if it looks as if there's gonna be discrimination against non vaccinated people, but I am ok with large venues requiring vaccination as long as they also allow the negative test option. Let me also say that I find it pretty funny that Bills QB Josh Allen says he might not want a vaccine and doesn't believe in any kind of vaccine mandate, yet a vaccine mandate is going to be in place for Bills fans. I'm sure he's not too happy about this.

I've enjoyed reading more about historical chessmasters over the years, too -- but you'll likely laugh at the genesis of my interest. In freshman year of college, I lived next door in the dorm to a music major who played a wide variety of music, especially from stage musicals. I'm no great fan of musicals (and really dislike opera), but that year my dorm neighbor had one cast album on high rotation, and the repetition did its work on me. It was a then-new musical from lyricist Tim Rice and music from the two dudes from the pop group ABBA called "Chess" -- about a chess championship between American vs. Russian grandmasters, and the woman they BOTH fall in love with (of course). I realize this concept sounds like a yawner on paper, but I'm telling you -- Chess has some of the best rock, pop, classical and other styles of music therein that I've ever heard, on OR off the stage. Most folks are familiar with rap-ish pop song "One Night In Bangkok" from that era....but have no idea it serves as the Act 2 opener from Chess. Lots of productions done around the world over the years, but one of the best is a 2008 semi-staged concert version done with Idina Menzel and Josh Groban (trailer below). You can still catch an occasional rerun on PBS, and I can recommend the DVD as a enjoyable and worthwhile investment, too.

Great deep winter pictures Josh. Just shows how good Chicago has had it snow wise this month with the pictures that’s been coming out of there. Makes our winter wonderland look kinda weak. You decide where you’re going up north to yet?

Thanks we are trying to reel this one in. Especially Josh and myself! Miss you on the chat on FB man! Be well!

Yep, we got a 0.4" of sugar here on 0.03" liquid. Gave a glitter to the snowpack. Josh's snowfall chart: wet snow or slushy snow (mild out) dense snow (mild out, similar to wet snow but no melting of any kind on pavement) sandy or sugary snow (cold but low ratio snow due to small flakes) powder (my favorite if I had to pick. usually 12-14:1 ratio) fluff (15-20:1 ratio snow) air fluff (20+ : 1 ratio snow)

Winding down here, with 0.8" as the total. LSR seems pretty low, as the snow is very sugary as Josh would say. Kind of a disappointment, but still a nice little refresher and always nice to see it snow during the daytime.

U know its a sh*t winter when Josh is even remotely close to bitchin about it. Slowly wearin you down. If this next wave performs anything like the gfs is showing that will give northern Wisconsin there big snow leaving pretty much metro Detroit as only area this far north in the region without a respectable snowstorm. Maybe Toronto but havent really paid much attention to canada as most dont lol. As frustrating as its been, its even worse that the northeast might get its 3rd foot plus storm in a winter where it looked promising the midwest would have a possible historic winter and east coast not much. Just goes to show winter outlooks are useless.

Gaylord had about 8” on the ground when we went through there Saturday, just north of there the snow really gets thin to the point that Indian River had maybe 3”. South of Gaylord to just north of West Branch had the deepest snow pack as of this weekend but I’m assuming that will change after we get some cold air and the lake effect gets going. Parts of the UP north of M28 are starting to get a decent snow pack finally, I know my cousins place north of Paradise had about 16-18” on the ground Sunday. Might want to consider heading that way Josh, the falls are awesome during the winter!

There are and will always be people who DO "pay attention to that" and other things going on and do not always model hug (there are/were multiple lows swirling around those directly associated with this storm, including a weak one that rolled off the coast of the Carolinas). My own personal analogy to trying to nail down a Miller B is somehow creating an algorithm that can determine where an Olympic long-jumper will land at the end of a jump, once they start their run, and finally launch themselves off the ground. There are all sorts of parameters associated with that process and the use of statistics, although helping to narrow the possibilities, still introduces errors that really can't be helped due to other factors that can impact result (the runner and their vitals, the track type and conditions, the air conditions, etc). You can ballpark it but that is about all. Sometimes "common sense" needs to be used. When one storm weakens and starts to die out just as another one starts to form some distance away, and you are located somewhere between them, then that equals "dry slot" (an area of little or no precipitation). In other words, you are now "between 2 systems". There really is nothing more "complex" or "meteo" about that. I do agree that climate change is impacting these models in terms of an assumption that they are including some type of typical "climo" data (i.e., based on some past "x" years of weather conditions to determine what is "more likely to happen" in a particular case). There will always be a "freak" set of circumstances that will be outliers but I think other factors, like climate cycles, are also hard to nail down to include in that "climo" data, and might or might not be used in a model. For example, the current PHL all-time record low of -11F (2/4/34) since record-keeping began back in 1870 here, hasn't been matched again (yet). And so far, since 1994, the city still hasn't registered a temp below 0. The heat island (often mentioned by Paul) is real. The city's defacto building height restrictions were breached in the mid-80s and the skyscraper construction since has created a dense masonry/metal/glass heat sink. This area's proximity to a HUGE body of (relatively warm) water means an increased possibility of large precipitation events, any time of the year. It's that simple. Whether it is a noreaster in the winter or a hurricane in the summer. I have taken note a couple decades ago when the Carolinas were plagued with ice storms. That phenomena gradually moved north including this area - notably 1994 when we started getting an increase in ice storms. It was sortof the canary in the coal mine (1996 aside). That also corresponded with the year with the last below 0 temp in the city proper as well. The ocean SSTs have warmed further north over time and that large body of water off the coast has a major say in what happens here. Thankfully I'm retired so I don't have to deal with trying to drive in this. It'll be enough of a PITA to clear off my SUV. And regarding chasing, I expect you missed back when this place was called "Eastern Weather" and the Admins (including Randy), along with a bunch of others who frequent the MA Forum, chased a Tug Hill Plateau lake effect monstrosity and "live blogged it", complete with pics. I'm not sure whether that got archived on the site somewhere with the name change of this site, but it was fascinating to follow. I know there are chasers at AmWx (notably chasing hurricanes - e.g., Josh) and Wentzadelphia does appear to try to chase winter storms and BBasil chases severe for photos. I always appreciate the contributions of many who post here. This place has as variety of weather lovers who either enjoy a specific type or all types of weather situations - whether winter-related and/or severe and/or tropical. Much of what goes on here involves a lot teasing and "banter", and there will always be trolling (as with any web discussion forum and mods usually take care of it). In general, this particular sub-group is pretty laid back compared to the others. But I think people will eventually move on to the next event and I expect that most here are "adults", so "parenting" (when not a mod) probably isn't called for.

I dont think it matters who starts a thread. I honestly had no issue with brian d starting a thread to mix it up since SE MI needed something to shake things up but so much for that idea. Just one of those winters. And lol @ josh who said earlier today winters only half over. Its 75% over. Cant count on snow in march, maybe the first week.