November Discobs 2025

[H2O]

39 here. One last leaf cleanup today and then setting a neighbors oak tree on fire. It’s still half full and I’ll be damned if I let it blow leaves over to my yard

[weatherCCB]

32 for the low

[Terpeast]

9 minutes ago, weatherCCB said:

32 for the low

Same in ashburn

[Herb@MAWS]

Sunday low imby/Columbia a toasty 34°. 

[midatlanticweather]

Got down to 30. It was super frosty morning!

 

[WEATHER53]

Freezing fog in  some locations.  30 for the low here 

[frd]

Another day of clouds here. The forecast was for mostly sunny. But, so far 90 % of this day has been mostly cloudy. A theme the last 10 months. 

[87storms]

10 minutes ago, frd said:

Another day of clouds here. The forecast was for mostly sunny. But, so far 90 % of this day has been mostly cloudy. A theme the last 10 months. 

Just got through a cloud spoke here from the typical GL low, but it's gotten sunny again.  The afternoon is looking prime:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=ne&band=02&length=12

OTOH, New York State is cloudy...because it usually is.  They're definitely on the wrong side of the Great Lakes with the exception of LES which would probably get played out after a while.

 

[Eskimo Joe]

Clouds seem to be the only thing preventing our afternoon highs from torching. 

[WVclimo]

Torching here.  Sunny and the temp has jumped to 59 after a morning low of 29.  West wind gusting to 30.

[LongRanger]

Something I'm not observing are humans on the Accuweather TV Channel. Lately whenever I've tuned in it's been just automated graphics, even during morning and evening prime time.

[IronTy]

3 minutes ago, LongRanger said:

Something I'm not observing are humans on the Accuweather TV Channel. Lately whenever I've tuned in it's been just automated graphics, even during morning and evening prime time.

Live weathercasters are pretty much obsolete at this point outside of extreme events which the news stations just cover anyway.   Everybody can look at their phone for decent real-time forecasts whenever and wherever they want nowadays.  

[Eskimo Joe]

32 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Live weathercasters are pretty much obsolete at this point outside of extreme events which the news stations just cover anyway.   Everybody can look at their phone for decent real-time forecasts whenever and wherever they want nowadays.  

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. 

Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

[LongRanger]

Is this a permanent change at the Accuweather channel, or did they give all their OCMs Thanksgiving Week off?

BTW, windiest day here in awhile. Helped me test my refurbished anemometer.

[DraydenWX]

Calm evening on the lower Potomac.

[SnowtoRain]

Nice day, 59.2 for the high

[Weather Will]

Story this week is a windy and cold Thanksgiving!  Perfect eating weather!

[wxdude64]

1 hour ago, Weather Will said:

Story this week is a windy and cold Thanksgiving!  Perfect eating weather!

Yep, my current NWS forecast is 39/21 for Thanksgiving Day.

[IronTy]

12 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. 

Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

That's clearly some sort of anomalous error and not representative of normal.  Most people I know IRL just use their apple weather app when they check the weather, they're not going to AccuWeather.com much less listening to the local news or looking at models.  I can't think of the last time any person has ever talked to me about the weather forecast they saw on TV.  

[mdhokie]

13 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. 

Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

As someone with way too much insight in how these crappy things work, can you click on the weather and bring up the larger notification panel? See what city it is forecasting for. If you are using a VPN or your ISP gives you an IP that is registered somewhere else, the geolocation stuff isn't smart enough to figure it out.

I also don't think EC is getting an inch of rain, but they really cover their bases with "up to". NWS has me .2-.5".

[The Dude]

1 hour ago, IronTy said:

That's clearly some sort of anomalous error and not representative of normal.  Most people I know IRL just use their apple weather app when they check the weather, they're not going to AccuWeather.com much less listening to the local news or looking at models.  I can't think of the last time any person has ever talked to me about the weather forecast they saw on TV.  

I see the same thing.  Most of my buddies simply rely on their weather app, and will be standing in the pouring rain with me insisting there is a zero percent chance of rain...

[Eskimo Joe]

5 hours ago, IronTy said:

That's clearly some sort of anomalous error and not representative of normal.  Most people I know IRL just use their apple weather app when they check the weather, they're not going to AccuWeather.com much less listening to the local news or looking at models.  I can't think of the last time any person has ever talked to me about the weather forecast they saw on TV.  

It happens more than you think. There is absolutely no QA/QC for weather apps. I would love to see something like American Meteorological Society or National Weather Association offer a "seal of approval" for apps that maintain things like updates, appropriate warning information, etc. Worse yet, certain apps like Operating System based platforms are largely not customizable and default to the organizational settings. All of these work to undermine the credibility of weather apps and unfairly degrade the ethos of the meteorological community.

[ravensrule]

16 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

It happens more than you think. There is absolutely no QA/QC for weather apps. I would love to see something like American Meteorological Society or National Weather Association offer a "seal of approval" for apps that maintain things like updates, appropriate warning information, etc. Worse yet, certain apps like Operating System based platforms are largely not customizable and default to the organizational settings. All of these work to undermine the credibility of weather apps and unfairly degrade the ethos of the meteorological community.

The only forecast i trust is @Ellinwood. 

[MillvilleWx]

50 minutes ago, ravensrule said:

The only forecast i trust is @Ellinwood. 

Jk....Ellinwood is amazing!

[WxUSAF]

59 minutes ago, ravensrule said:

The only forecast i trust is @Ellinwood. 

Gray mixy zone 4lyfe

[Eskimo Joe]

FYI

 

 

[Weather Will]

Beautiful afternoon to put up Christmas decorations!

[Eskimo Joe]

Hey western MD folks:

 

 

 

 

[RIC_WX]

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Hey western MD folks:

 

 

 

 

The data we want is at the top of Sideling hill, not the bottom

[Eskimo Joe]

24 minutes ago, RIC_WX said:

The data we want is at the top of Sideling hill, not the bottom

More stations will be coming to western Maryland. Personally, I hope to get a site atop Keyser's Ridge, Sideling Mountain, South Mountain, and Polish Mountain.