January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread

[SJonesWX]

39 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

This is for entertainment value only....fun to look at even if divorced from reality:

36" here, 47" at Rays house, and 50+" in S Wey. seems legit

[weatherwiz]

Euro starting to load in on weathermodels  

[40/70 Benchmark]

6 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

36" here, 47" at Rays house, and 50+" in S Wey. seems legit

Porked again.

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, weatherwiz said:

Euro starting to load in on weathermodels  

Good quote in there to be had with a bit of elbow grease....

[jbenedet]

I know, I know it’s just the CMC

But.

it looks a lot like the trending in the respected EPS…

Same behavior…

very similar look

 

Look less at the SLP and more at the long wave features….

 

 

[WeatherGeek2025]

3 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

I know, I know it’s just the CMC

But.

it looks a lot like the trending in the respected EPS…

Same behavior…

very similar look

 

Look less at the SLP and more at the long wave features….

 

 

ultimately in my opinion the actual storm will either be gfs solution or even south. that's my hunch 

[ineedsnow]

1 minute ago, WeatherGeek2025 said:

ultimately in my opinion the actual storm will either be gfs solution or even south. that's my hunch 

shocking since you live in NYC 

[WeatherGeek2025]

1 minute ago, ineedsnow said:

shocking since you live in NYC 

no i mean dc to boston 12-24 no sleet

[The 4 Seasons]

16 minutes ago, WeatherGeek2025 said:

no i mean dc to boston 12-24 no sleet

can always go up

[WeatherGeek2025]

3 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

can always go up

i hope we get 36 inches for 36 hours

[TheSnowman]

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Now thats biblical. 

I’ll be at the Grammys.  OF COURSE.  So I’ll miss that too.  

[WeatherGeek2025]

5 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

can always go up

i think this will happen but with another 20-30% more qpf

[TheSnowman]

Found a shot of when I did a weather segment in New Haven, CT with TV Met Joe Fury.  You kids have fun with this one.  I’m ready for the porking.  

[tiger_deF]

2 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

Found a shot of when I did a weather segment in New Haven, CT with TV Met Joe Fury.  You kids have fun with this one.  I’m ready for the porking.  

I can't believe I never realized that meteorologists were in front of a green screen, and didn't just somehow have the actual weather map visual behind them... somehow I always had the idea that they were seeing what they were pointing to in the background. I'm shook

[Layman]

6 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

I’ll be at the Grammys.  OF COURSE.  So I’ll miss that too.  

Man, if I had a nickel every time this happened...

[wokeupthisam]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Roof collapse thread time 

To save words, can always go with a depiction...

[The 4 Seasons]

3 minutes ago, tiger_deF said:

I can't believe I never realized that meteorologists were in front of a green screen, and didn't just somehow have the actual weather map visual behind them... somehow I always had the idea that they were seeing what they were pointing to in the background. I'm shook

you can't be serious

[weathafella]

1 minute ago, The 4 Seasons said:

you can't be serious

I’m surmising he wasn’t..

[The 4 Seasons]

2 minutes ago, weathafella said:

I’m surmising he wasn’t..

lol, i was like 50/50 on it, thats why i asked, that wasn't rhetorical. But it didn't come off as a joke, so hard to tell. 

[tiger_deF]

54 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

you can't be serious

Unfortunately it wasn't a joke. I was aware that it wasn't projected behind them - since otherwise it would project on the presenter - but I had never imagined the visual of someone just standing in front of an entirely blank green canvas whilst pointing and describing things. Especially since it seems so precise that I surmised there must be some kind of visual. 

Well there's a reason that I'm not a meteorologist despite my love of everything weather related. Here to learn from the best (and occasionally get hyped!)

[The 4 Seasons]

4 minutes ago, tiger_deF said:

Unfortunately it wasn't a joke. I was aware that it wasn't projected behind them - since otherwise it would project on the presenter - but I had never imagined the visual of someone just standing in front of an entirely blank green canvas whilst pointing and describing things. Especially since it seems so precise that I surmised there must be some kind of visual. 

Well there's a reason that I'm not a meteorologist despite my love of everything weather related. Here to learn from the best (and occasionally get hyped!)

ha- its all good are you young?

They do have a visual- its off to the sides, left and right or just below the forward facing camera

[CTWeatherFreak]

1 hour ago, wokeupthisam said:

To save words, can always go with a depiction...

Looks like a lego city

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, TheSnowman said:

Found a shot of when I did a weather segment in New Haven, CT with TV Met Joe Fury.  You kids have fun with this one.  I’m ready for the porking.  

[HoarfrostHubb]

24 minutes ago, tiger_deF said:

Unfortunately it wasn't a joke. I was aware that it wasn't projected behind them - since otherwise it would project on the presenter - but I had never imagined the visual of someone just standing in front of an entirely blank green canvas whilst pointing and describing things. Especially since it seems so precise that I surmised there must be some kind of visual. 

Well there's a reason that I'm not a meteorologist despite my love of everything weather related. Here to learn from the best (and occasionally get hyped!)

On occasion (much less common now) a met will wear just the wrong shade of ... green? and they become transparent... that was more in the 1980s/1990s