February Banter 2026

[MillvilleWx]

I want to take a moment and thank @katabatic for amazing hospitality and a truly fun trip out to Western MD and the Canaan Valley region, including a slide over into Davis, WV. 
 

That was such a fun day of friendship and loving every moment of winter. It was a truly deep winter day with temps in the upper teens to low 20’s with snow falling the entire day. Saw all of the intensities too from light flurries to heavy snow. The Arctic front capture is a moment I’ll never forget. That was absolutely wild. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen something like that. Likely since 2/14/15 up at college. Would do it again in a heart beat!! 
 

Thanks again @katabatic!! Now I have excuse to come up there since we never got a chance to eat at Englanders  

[katabatic]

17 minutes ago, MillvilleWx said:

I want to take a moment and thank @katabatic for amazing hospitality and a truly fun trip out to Western MD and the Canaan Valley region, including a slide over into Davis, WV. 
 

That was such a fun day of friendship and loving every moment of winter. It was a truly deep winter day with temps in the upper teens to low 20’s with snow falling the entire day. Saw all of the intensities too from light flurries to heavy snow. The Arctic front capture is a moment I’ll never forget. That was absolutely wild. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen something like that. Likely since 2/14/15 up at college. Would do it again in a heart beat!! 
 

Thanks again @katabatic!! Now I have excuse to come up there since we never got a chance to eat at Englanders  

At its core, this board does one thing: bring people together united by our love of weather who otherwise wouldn't know each other existed. You are a sterling (no pun intended) example of an awesome human being who happens to love weather. I had an amazing time staying up until 2 am talking about weather and appreciate your patience as I asked forty million questions about my passion, lake effect snow.  I am no met scientist and know my lane here and appreciate the fact you let me take a drive in yours. That intercept up at Keysers Ridge is on my short list of all time weather experiences. Heck, Justin Berk loved it and reposted a pic of us getting crushed! The mark of a good time is answering a single question: would you do it again? Hell yeah, times a thousand. My door is wide open for you any time, any day.

[Jebman]

25 minutes ago, katabatic said:

At its core, this board does one thing: bring people together united by our love of weather who otherwise wouldn't know each other existed. You are a sterling (no pun intended) example of an awesome human being who happens to love weather. I had an amazing time staying up until 2 am talking about weather and appreciate your patience as I asked forty million questions about my passion, lake effect snow.  I am no met scientist and know my lane here and appreciate the fact you let me take a drive in yours. That intercept up at Keysers Ridge is on my short list of all time weather experiences. Heck, Justin Berk loved it and reposted a pic of us getting crushed! The mark of a good time is answering a single question: would you do it again? Hell yeah, times a thousand. My door is wide open for you any time, any day.

This. I see tons of content every day I love.

[hosj III]

On 2/6/2026 at 6:23 AM, RevWarReenactor said:

You all are hilarious. But you just proved my point. The mocking, the gaslighting, the bullying, the gang up, you all think you are BETTER THAN ME. Or more broadly, better than "the weenies". This is most evident at needing a very clean model thread and going ape shit over someone daring to be upset for the entire purpose of the thread itself (lack of snow). This is arrogance for a hobby that has no right to have arrogant people in it. You all aren't doctors discussing brain surgery. 

 At the end of the day, what I said in my PM to CAPE is absolutely true. The end. 

 

As usual the "drama" in this board is always just a new poster getting absolutely dogpiled by veterans for (not unreasonably) assuming that if Ji can do something, they can too.

The moderaters here do a great job removing bad posters but until they start following the same rules they enforce on others they will find there's an unending stream to replace them.

Or just literally amend the forum rules to say "these apply to new posters only". I'm serious, would reduce temper tantrums from new members if they knew this was the case going in.

[RevWarReenactor]

5 hours ago, hosj III said:

As usual the "drama" in this board is always just a new poster getting absolutely dogpiled by veterans for (not unreasonably) assuming that if Ji can do something, they can too.

The moderaters here do a great job removing bad posters but until they start following the same rules they enforce on others they will find there's an unending stream to replace them.

Or just literally amend the forum rules to say "these apply to new posters only". I'm serious, would reduce temper tantrums from new members if they knew this was the case going in.

Yeah, people are clearly losing it at this point,  and my post was actually some of the best analysis on there. 

I said the 6z GFS showed after cold, we warm and rain. And thats our climo. As it turns out, Im likely right. That wasn't a "whine" @CAPE Its called REALITY. Posting accumulation maps for the 200 hr AI ABCDFG. That is fantasy.

My prediction, winter is over as far as storms go. We just came out of historic cold and have 16 degrees and sleet to show for it. As far as climo goes, that is apparently a great winter for us. 

This hobby is cooked. 

[mappy]

1 hour ago, RevWarReenactor said:

Yeah, people are clearly losing it at this point,  and my post was actually some of the best analysis on there. 

I said the 6z GFS showed after cold, we warm and rain. And thats our climo. As it turns out, Im likely right. That wasn't a "whine" @CAPE Its called REALITY. Posting accumulation maps for the 200 hr AI ABCDFG. That is fantasy.

My prediction, winter is over as far as storms go. We just came out of historic cold and have 16 degrees and sleet to show for it. As far as climo goes, that is apparently a great winter for us. 

This hobby is cooked. 

Then stop following the weather and posting here if it’s cooked. It will be warm enough soon for reenactments. 

[blizzardmeiser]

1 minute ago, mappy said:

Then stop following the weather and posting here if it’s cooked. It will be warm enough soon for reenactments. 

Neither rain nor snow nor sleet should stop these reenactments! 

[RevWarReenactor]

1 minute ago, blizzardmeiser said:

Neither rain nor snow nor sleet should stop these reenactments! 

They don't. I've been in reeanctments as cold as -5 degrees and have been to events with 18 inches of new snow. The more crazy the weather is the better the event. 

In early Dec we did the 250th of Knox's Noble train. That was 3 days out in temps in the low 20's and at night in the teens. You want to feel pain- try it. 

[RevWarReenactor]

BTW being cold sucks, but its way better than being warm. You can always put on more laayers or find a fire to sit by. If you are hot, there is nothing you can do but suffer.

[snowfan]

TOD for Rev in the 2025/2026 winter 7am on Sunday, Feb 8th

 

[RevWarReenactor]

3 minutes ago, snowfan said:

TOD for Rev in the 2025/2026 winter 7am on Sunday, Feb 8th

 

I think that photo is from the Battle of Monmouth. That is a very hot event indeed. Done that one. Was so delirious from heat I had to tap out.