January Banter 2026

[North Balti Zen]

29 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Yeah would suck to get a total of 2 inches of snow before the flip to sleet and then watch a storm hit south... Seriously though it is what it is and we'll have more chances. Don't need to doom and gloom yet. 

Could have been zero tho...it ended up being a memorable storm - sorry it didn't snow more for you for sure, I am just glad it wasn't a full zero situation for us.

[WxUSAF]

Just now, North Balti Zen said:

Could have been zero tho...it ended up being a memorable storm - sorry it didn't snow more for you for sure, I am just glad it wasn't a full zero situation for us.

3 metro airports are all at or above climo season to date, right? 

[North Balti Zen]

2 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

3 metro airports are all at or above climo season to date, right? 

Yeah, big picture, it's good news. In the moment, I totally get the frustration. The atmosphere is a fickle mistress when it comes to snow desires for sure...

[North Balti Zen]

True banter thought - whenever I read someone say a long range prog looks good and then says "hopefully we can avoid ______" - I think reflexively think, yeah, we won't avoid _______"...

 

See e.g. -

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Down the line western trough/-PNA showing up, if we hold the blocking and run that energy into the cold that’s built up I could see some major mid month storm like we saw with the last event. Hopefully we can avoid any ridge bridging in the east

My reflexive thought: gonna be a big ridge bridge fo' sho'...

[MN Transplant]

Wild day in Minnesota sports.  The GMs for the Twins and the Vikings got canned on the same day!

[Nomz]

I would hate to be in charge of forecasting this thing in central NC

[Kay]

All right, another random positive thought about this glaciated concrete snowpack...it is really...tidy. Well behaved. I'm not tracking anything inside. No mud, no melting snow globs, no puddles. Life on an ice planet. 

Birds and squirrels really busy today eating anything they can, which is mostly berries it seems. And seeds. I encourage everyone who has flower beds to not clean them all out in fall, to leave the seed heads standing for food. You will have visitors. Also future butterflies and moths are wintering under there. #TeamMess

[blizzardmeiser]

1 hour ago, Kay said:

All right, another random positive thought about this glaciated concrete snowpack...it is really...tidy. Well behaved. I'm not tracking anything inside. No mud, no melting snow globs, no puddles. Life on an ice planet. 

Birds and squirrels really busy today eating anything they can, which is mostly berries it seems. And seeds. I encourage everyone who has flower beds to not clean them all out in fall, to leave the seed heads standing for food. You will have visitors. Also future butterflies and moths are wintering under there. #TeamMess

We don’t cut the flower beds back until spring so that the birds and the critters can enjoy them. We also have multiple birdfeeders throughout the backyard.
It’s great for this time of year.

 

[peribonca]

Meanwhile in South Florida...
 

 

[snowfan]

Deep winter feel up here in state college this evening. Down to 10 and heading below 0. 

 

[aldie 22]

2 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

Wild day in Minnesota sports.  The GMs for the Twins and the Vikings got canned on the same day!

Hopefully we get Giannis

[T. August]

@WxUSAF @mappy a random normal non-weather person was talking about the past storm and mentioned how some parts of Harford County got 16”.

I hit the fastest “well actuallyyyy” in my entire life.

[WxUSAF]

3 minutes ago, T. August said:

@WxUSAF @mappy a random normal non-weather person was talking about the past storm and mentioned how some parts of Harford County got 16”.

I hit the fastest “well actuallyyyy” in my entire life.

This is the way