North Balti Zen Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 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. - Quote 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'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago Wild day in Minnesota sports. The GMs for the Twins and the Vikings got canned on the same day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomz Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago I would hate to be in charge of forecasting this thing in central NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardmeiser Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peribonca Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Meanwhile in South Florida... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Deep winter feel up here in state college this evening. Down to 10 and heading below 0. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. August Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago @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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 1 hour ago, peribonca said: Meanwhile in South Florida... They are hyping a microscopic spec of blue on the Nam 3km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve25 Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peribonca Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago Be careful if you’re near the “Chesapiake Bay” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 14 minutes ago, WxUSAF said: Be careful if you’re near the “Chesapiake Bay” Oops! Have been watching this and am interested to see what significant blowout conditions might look like with all this ice (piers in my pics are not my own ha). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 17 minutes ago, Kay said: Oops! Have been watching this and am interested to see what significant blowout conditions might look like with all this ice (piers in my pics are not my own ha). I was hoping for the freezing spay that crusts everything in ice like Subzero from Mortal Kombat. Edit: They did put out a warning for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago Live vicariously. Time sensitive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 7 minutes ago, CAPE said: Live vicariously. Time sensitive No kidding! They get demolished so much! I need to learn Japanese! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago I am so upset, my heart will always be in the DMV. I spent 54 years up there!! WE should be getting that bomb cyclone snow, NOT fooking north carolina! I am so upset I damn near almost spilled an extra large cup of hot coffee right on my keyboard. Damn that was close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago @CAPE https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47781378/ravens-hire-bears-declan-doyle-oc-sources-say 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Drove around today and the snow banks and piles make it look like we just got 20 inches. The snowpack will harden and stick around for the rest of the winter. I’m certainly not gonna complain about this winter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 8 minutes ago, Terpeast said: Drove around today and the snow banks and piles make it look like we just got 20 inches. The snowpack will harden and stick around for the rest of the winter. I’m certainly not gonna complain about this winter. I don't think I've ever seen a 6.5" snowfall slow a city to a crawl for an entire week like this...The combination of snow compacted by a ton of sleet that fell in the teens...followed by a week of arctic temperatures in the 20s and below is not one we've seen in probably decades--if ever! (Anybody know of another time it happened like this?) I mean an absolute glacier of a snowpack...wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 34 minutes ago, Terpeast said: Drove around today and the snow banks and piles make it look like we just got 20 inches. The snowpack will harden and stick around for the rest of the winter. I’m certainly not gonna complain about this winter. I'm about to head to MD early this coming week and so I'll have a chance to see this glacier for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 27 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said: I don't think I've ever seen a 6.5" snowfall slow a city to a crawl for an entire week like this...The combination of snow compacted by a ton of sleet that fell in the teens...followed by a week of arctic temperatures in the 20s and below is not one we've seen in probably decades--if ever! (Anybody know of another time it happened like this?) I mean an absolute glacier of a snowpack...wow! Do you remember February 2007? It had a very similar situation to this. I was a lot younger but I remember around 5" of snow/sleet compacted and it was very hard to shovel, and the ground became a slippery sheet of ice, and was also followed by a long stretch of cold. As I recall, it basically had the impact of a 10-15" snowstorm. This latest one seemed a bit bigger but similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve25 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago One cold period that I rarely see brought up, likely because it was dry, is the end of December 2017 into January 2018. It dropped below freezing in the evening on December 26th, and didn’t rise above freezing until the afternoon on January 8th. 12/13 consecutive days of freezing or below. There were also several days in that stretch that barely got to 20 degrees. This current stretch will likely end up being about 9/10 days consecutively sub freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatherNature Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago I would hate to be in Raleigh, and going through this week with all the potential, and get dry slotted tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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