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 

[Kay]

21 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

Hopefully we get Giannis

So did you live in a bunch of places in Minnesota before you lived in a bunch of places in Virginia?

[Amped]

1 hour ago, peribonca said:

Meanwhile in South Florida...
 

 

They are hyping a microscopic spec of blue on the Nam 3km

[Steve25]

6 hours ago, North Balti Zen said:

Also, again, not for nothing, but thank the snow weenies gods we cashed in as much as we did last weekend at the start of this pattern. If we had indeed missed out on that only to watch the next several storms bury the outer banks this place would be rightfully apoplectic.  We tend to miss the first storm in a favorable pattern so gonna take a glass half full view that I am glad we hit what we did.

The aftermath of that storm has been quite a thing to behold. We don't tend to get area-wide glaciers of snowcover. This is one for the memorybooks...

That storm broke my 10 year streak of no snowfalls over 5 inches IMBY. And yes, that’s pure snow, I’m not counting the sleet for that. Got about 7 inches of snow and then 3/4 inches of sleet. So for that, I am thankful! 
 

Still having trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that I went 10 years without experiencing a 6+ inch snowfall. 

[peribonca]

4 minutes ago, Amped said:

They are hyping a microscopic spec of blue on the Nam 3km

For South Florida even modeled snow is crazy.

[WxUSAF]

Be careful if you’re near the “Chesapiake Bay”