January 24-26: Miracle or Mirage JV/Banter Thread!

[WxUSAF]

3 minutes ago, H2O said:

In increments?  

Sometimes!!

[MacChump]

Just now, Scraff said:

 I’m a pilot for Northwest Airlines

well if you're hiring lemme know

[mattie g]

1 hour ago, H2O said:

Done.  I can finally do my Ric Flair impersonation with flabby moobs and leathery skin.  And instead of WOOOOO I'll be saying OWWWWWWW My back!

Pretty sure I have at a few years on you, so I'll use my superior flexibility and youthful reflexes to dutifully represent the sleet haters...

[mattie g]

1 hour ago, aldie 22 said:

I just let myself get a bit bummed that it has turned into a 6-10" storm at best but whatever

Someone gets it...

[baltosquid]

3 minutes ago, MacChump said:

what exactly do you do?

Vibes

[SnowenOutThere]

Sorry to derail the thread but NWS cut back their expected ice totals a bit 

[TSSN+]

4 minutes ago, MacChump said:

like, professionally?

Professional alcoholic 

[MacChump]

for once there was no snark in my comment, legitimately curious if he was brewery hopping professionally or simply at an amateur level...either way looks like fun

[mattie g]

41 minutes ago, Demeter said:

I lived in southern nj, near Philly, before 2010. I will assume it was the 2007 sleetfest that people talk about, but that is exactly what happened there. It was like cement for days and days afterwards. I’ve never seen anything like it. Truly wild stuff. 

I grew up in the close Philly suburbs of South Jersey! Pretty sure psu did, as well.

But I moved here in 1997, so I've got some years on you. lol

[Scraff]

11 minutes ago, MacChump said:

well if you're hiring lemme know

Unfortunately I’m not. One man beer selling show. Doing it for 10 years now after 25 in the high tech sales world. 

[paulythegun]

9 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Sorry to derail the thread but NWS cut back their expected ice totals a bit 

Capital Weather Gang just did the exact opposite. 

https://bsky.app/profile/capitalweather.bsky.social/post/3md4fnulpvc24

 

[Scraff]

9 minutes ago, TSSN+ said:

Professional alcoholic 

I’m working here dude. There goes your free case of beer. 

[Demeter]

9 minutes ago, mattie g said:

I grew up in the close Philly suburbs of South Jersey! Pretty sure psu did, as well.

But I moved here in 1997, so I've got some years on you. lol

I actually grew up near Chicago, in NW Indiana until I was 27 and moved to NJ for 8 years. The climo difference between these 3 places is wild work lol. 

[TSSN+]

Just got home from work. Ready to fire up GR Earth and track this thing 

[LeesburgWx]

Which one of you fools are in the Starbucks in Purcellville looking at Tropical Tidbits and digital blue right now?

[mattie g]

2 minutes ago, LeesburgWx said:

Which one of you fools are in the Starbucks in Purcellville looking at Tropical Tidbits and digital blue right now?

Are you talking about yourself?

[LeesburgWx]

3 minutes ago, mattie g said:

Are you talking about yourself?

Lmao no, someone was looking at models in there. I couldn’t ask if they are on here because I had to leave for an appointment coming up

[snowfan]

Please do not forget to be telework ready on Monday to support the mission. 

[SBYWeather]

I decided since we are only going to get a brief front end thump then sleet then plain rain here on the eastern shore I am heading up to Blue Knob in Pa to ride out this storm and do some skiing! I already had a place there Wed-Sun so decided to just head up tomm am and spend the week. Hoping for 12"+ on the mountain!

[Kay]

9 minutes ago, snowfan said:

Please do not forget to be telework ready on Monday to support the mission. 

I'm not-working ready on Monday 

...to support the mission, of course

[Paleocene]

Me, riding the sleet line at 1pm Sunday

[MacChump]

45 minutes ago, Scraff said:

Unfortunately I’m not. One man beer selling show. Doing it for 10 years now after 25 in the high tech sales world. 

nice, congrats lol

[SnowenOutThere]

1 hour ago, SnowenOutThere said:

I’ll make a video hopefully tonight. I’ll steal one of the lecture halls and use some chalk. 

@Maestrobjwa@bncho Anything that you all want to know in particular? 

[bncho]

Just now, SnowenOutThere said:

@Maestrobjwa@bncho Anything that you all want to know in particular? 

OMG thank you for asking. One of big things I know very little about is frontogenesis in general. An explanation of that would be AMAZING!

[SnowenOutThere]

2 minutes ago, bncho said:

OMG thank you for asking. One of big things I know very little about is frontogenesis in general. An explanation of that would be AMAZING!

Oh I got NO IDEA how FGEN works. Notice how all my good posts are in the 3-5days before a storm range as synoptics is what I know. Though from my video I hope you can apply some of it over to FGEN.

[bncho]

5 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Oh I got NO IDEA how FGEN works. Notice how all my good posts are in the 3-5days before a storm range as synoptics is what I know. Though from my video I hope you can apply some of it over to FGEN.

Well then, in that case, it would be great if you could explain to me vorticities and how they interact and what we would want for a Winter Storm vs nothing and each little piece affects things downstream

[Maestrobjwa]

12 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

@Maestrobjwa@bncho Anything that you all want to know in particular? 

Hey thanks for doing this! Well, the biggest thing is those H5 vorticity maps you guys always share when there's a storm, and what a phase looks like. I never quite know what I'm looking at as it looks like spaghetti sauce to me, lol

[clskinsfan]

Livin on the edge

[NorthArlington101]

2 hours ago, NorthArlington101 said:

I said I’d be good but I lied. Still sweating the NAMs. If the NAM can get me back to 5” I’ll be okay 

I'm not yet okay

[SnowenOutThere]

17 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Hey thanks for doing this! Well, the biggest thing is those H5 vorticity maps you guys always share when there's a storm, and what a phase looks like. I never quite know what I'm looking at as it looks like spaghetti sauce to me, lol

Alright sounds good! I’ll go over the weather unit I look as part of my class last fall. Before that though I’m watching the princess bride