January Banter 2026

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

12 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

18z EURO is FOLKS territory

 

Sorry should have put this here in Banter!!  My bad...

That Euro run was insane and a thing of beauty!

[SnowenOutThere]

1 minute ago, mappy said:

Well ok then 

I dunno just sucks to put in over an hour on a post to watch it get buried to the previous page when its a full breakdown of our storm.

[Amped]

We need to make a model called the FOLKS.

[Kay]

4 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Ngl pisses me off to delete enough posts to move my whole synopsis to the bottom of the previous page! I understand you guys gotta do it but cmon. 

It might have gotten "buried" anyway bc the thread is moving fast, generally, and especially at that moment. I would post it again at a quieter time (if there is one? lol) or maybe start a thread. The analyses are great! The mods can't keep track of that type of thing tho, they have more than enough of god's work to do.

[SnowenOutThere]

2 minutes ago, Kay said:

It might have gotten "buried" anyway bc the thread is moving fast, generally, and especially at that moment. I would post it again at a quieter time (if there is one? lol) or maybe start a thread. The analyses are great! The mods can't keep track of that type of thing tho, they have more than enough of god's work to do.

I know, just sucks. 

[mappy]

Just now, SnowenOutThere said:

I know, just sucks. 

Friend, it wasn’t on purpose. Just cleaning. I can bump it if that would help?

[Kay]

Just now, SnowenOutThere said:

I know, just sucks. 

I hear ya about the labors. I would start a thread. Seriously. People have done that before with detailed write-ups. I get that could feel like too much but it's an option, and would keep what you did from being missed. 

[Paleocene]

Anyone else sort of in disbelief that we're really tracking this thing? It's been literally 10 years since we've had anything of this magnitude. I am struggling to comprehend the scale of it, lol.

Kudos to @NorthArlington101 and @CAPE and many others who were honking about this post jan-15th window, with multiple possible threats.

Awkwardly cropped this photo to avoid self doxxing via several means but here's me and my oldest (then 2, now-12 year old) the day after the 2016 storm. He's climbing a mountain I made from unburying one car which was parked on the street. That pile was taller than me and I'm not short. Needless to say, he's hyped up for this potential storm, because he doesn't remember 2016. 

hope we all get jackpotted

[SnowenOutThere]

6 minutes ago, mappy said:

Friend, it wasn’t on purpose. Just cleaning. I can bump it if that would help?

Just saw what you did. Thanks! In the future I'll try to post it during the off run (I guess either 5-6 or 7-10ish) but I was rushing to try to get it out before the 18z Euro messed with it (and I wanted to get food). 

5 minutes ago, Kay said:

I hear ya about the labors. I would start a thread. Seriously. People have done that before with detailed write-ups. I get that could feel like too much but it's an option, and would keep what you did from being missed. 

See I'd be a lot more partial to that if I was a met otherwise I'm just another poster here. Though I suppose an argument could be made for starting a separate storm banter thread and storm mode thread in the future if it holds together. 

[Paleocene]

4 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Just saw what you did. Thanks! In the future I'll try to post it during the off run (I guess either 5-6 or 7-10ish) but I was rushing to try to get it out before the 18z Euro messed with it (and I wanted to get food). 

See I'd be a lot more partial to that if I was a met otherwise I'm just another poster here. Though I suppose an argument could be made for starting a separate storm banter thread and storm mode thread in the future if it holds together. 

I think in the future, when this thing gets serious (Friday???), we need a serious met/contributor thread, and then an anything goes thread.  Otherwise the storm thread is useless. Mods can discriminate who's in the serious thread (for example, I should not be in it). @stormtracker@mappy just tagging you here to see what you think about that. as you know this page is a place where people go for actual info during what will likely become a weather emergency around here. IMO what this board offers is really valuable in the age of facebook/x/tiktok/etc weather junk.

I value your contributions @SnowenOutThere. It's frustrating for me when my memes end up at the bottom of pages, so I can't imagine how it feels when actual effort-laden posts fall to that cliff. The storm thread was nuts for HH, i was offline from like 445-6pm and missed 4 pages lol

[H2O]

Convos will be made to have a much tighter model thread and a separate banter one for people to post stuff like "GIMME!" and "KEEP COMING NORTH"

[stormtracker]

Look, at some people we really are going to have to tighten up the storm thread.   I'm calling myself out too, because I'm not exactly posting strictly to the rules (and the mods know they can  (and have) mod me because I can be just as bad as anybody else.  I know excitement gets to us, so I've been a lil more liberal with moderating.  Mainly because I'm a trash moderator.   So at some point (prob tomm) we are gonna have to buckle down.

[mappy]

12 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Just saw what you did. Thanks! In the future I'll try to post it during the off run (I guess either 5-6 or 7-10ish) but I was rushing to try to get it out before the 18z Euro messed with it (and I wanted to get food). 

See I'd be a lot more partial to that if I was a met otherwise I'm just another poster here. Though I suppose an argument could be made for starting a separate storm banter thread and storm mode thread in the future if it holds together. 

No problem. Also, I support you making a thread to share those posts. Plus it would be fun to see how models changed over the course of tracking. Many would support you.

[nj2va]

57 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

Reviving this concept... think @yoda and @nj2va said they were interested? I'm in Penn Quarter for work but could meet anywhere in DC/Arlington zone. Open to suggestions, wonder if we want a separate thread.

Yep, I’m in. I work in Arlington but easy to metro into the city if want something there or stay along orange line in Arlington if easier. 

[snowfan]

26 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

I know, just sucks. 

When you see things like what ravens just posted in the storm thread, you see what the mods are dealing with absent just flat out permabanning posters.

[Interstate]

I just found this... We need to update this map

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1s0m_oAkLy169xBTMWO-BPxShxouBHQiM&ll=39.53877722621472%2C-76.21615005678494&z=10

 

[snowfan]

1 minute ago, Interstate said:

I just found this... We need to update this map

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1s0m_oAkLy169xBTMWO-BPxShxouBHQiM&ll=39.53877722621472%2C-76.21615005678494&z=10

 

Ugh…..there’s still a pin for winterwxlvr. Hope that dude is out there somewhere.

[nw baltimore wx]

Maryland Mesonet episode is on Outdoors Maryland right now.  I know it's a repeat, but very cool!

[stormtracker]

14 minutes ago, snowfan said:

Ugh…..there’s still a pin for winterwxlvr. Hope that dude is out there somewhere.

Yeah, that was my guy...hope nothing happened

[AlexD1990]

1 hour ago, CAPE said:

Surface to 850 gets bit above freezing briefly for SE MD and S DE. Don't want the low any further NW though- flow off the ocean is a NO. IDFC what happens down in central S VA lol.

 please God no. I don't see why we cant just have a storm that hits everyone for once. no losers, only winners. please....

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

Got to smell the sleet to get the goods

Yeah, but the amped trend can stop right now, thanks.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

35 minutes ago, Interstate said:

I just found this... We need to update this map

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1s0m_oAkLy169xBTMWO-BPxShxouBHQiM&ll=39.53877722621472%2C-76.21615005678494&z=10

 

Never knew I was the closest in proximity to @Ji out of anyone on the board...neat.

[pazzo83]

43 minutes ago, Interstate said:

I just found this... We need to update this map

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1s0m_oAkLy169xBTMWO-BPxShxouBHQiM&ll=39.53877722621472%2C-76.21615005678494&z=10

 

need to update mine

[dukeblue219]

Barring major changes in the next day or so (let's just say) it'd be silly to hold onto plans for Amtrak DC to NYC on Saturday through Monday right? I have a good feel for DC in a foot of snow but not sure how crippling it would be in NYC or to Amtrak....

[Interstate]

1 minute ago, pazzo83 said:

need to update mine

I think @mappy started it 

[pazzo83]

you can really tell how hilly north Arlington and upper NW DC are with that map.

[aldie 22]

2 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Never knew I was the closest in proximity to @Ji out of anyone on the board...neat.

To my point for years that Ji doesn't know where he lives his pin is in the wrong place lol. I know where he lives because he moved into my neighborhood when i still lived in Leesburg...we were literally next door neighbors for a few years. Both him and AviationDave we all lived in the same development

[caviman2201]

Time for storm mode in the main thread... gettin' spicy in there

[Maestrobjwa]

2 hours ago, Scarlet Pimpernel said:

I don't want Ji representing any part of my subconscious!!!!!

For all who love snow...he does! Whether we like it or not, lolol

[nj2va]

Looks like we’ve reached the storm phase where we’re both worried about suppression AND amped.

[AlexD1990]

8 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Never knew I was the closest in proximity to @Ji out of anyone on the board...neat.

my deepest condolences.