February Banter 2026

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

5 minutes ago, snowfan said:

Never fails. Live look at the discussion thread.

 

Yup.  The f'ing doom posting is ridiculous.  "Oh no, it's not a HECS, that means it's guaranteed to be nothing!!!  And it's trending toward the not-so-great 12Z Euro run!!  OMG!!!"  Jesus. H. Christ!

[RevWarReenactor]

22 minutes ago, Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Yup.  The f'ing doom posting is ridiculous.  "Oh no, it's not a HECS, that means it's guaranteed to be nothing!!!  And it's trending toward the not-so-great 12Z Euro run!!  OMG!!!"  Jesus. H. Christ!

Yet 90% of the time, the people who say the models are full of crap and that we aren't getting a storm, end up being correct.

And all the rest of the post are actually the garbage. 

[RDM]

19 hours ago, Jebman said:

All I can say folks, is that this is one hell of a snowy, windy as hell BEAST of a BAAAAAAAAAAD blizzard. This thing is straight outta Compton. High winds, heavy snow, hell you can't even see anything half the time from that milkshake froth!

THIS, IS NO TIME FOR A JEBWALK.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

Oh my - the view from the cam is currently amazing.  Full bore dumping ongoing.  

[87storms]

1 hour ago, RevWarReenactor said:

Yet 90% of the time, the people who say the models are full of crap and that we aren't getting a storm, end up being correct.

And all the rest of the post are actually the garbage. 

Yea, but that’s why the confusion matrix exists.  In machine learning, having a 90% accuracy is fruitless if you’re missing all the true positives (leading to 0% precision and 0% recall). Likewise, if you say it’s gonna snow all the time, you’ll catch all the true positives (snowstorms), but even though your recall will be 100%, your accuracy and precision will be 10%.  F1 score is a key metric in weather forecast scoring, I would imagine.

[Paleocene]

lol @bncho

10 minutes ago, bncho said:

Also, where the hell are you seeing a -PNA?

 

putting this here instead of the mess of a thread we are currently having. 

i asked GPT to draw a +PNA and even it got it right (sort of.. minus the bi-directional jet stream, the states of Neorgia and South South Carolina, and new Newfoundland East)

 

[Paleocene]

Awww did my Harrisburg joke get removed? Too bad. But I shouldn't muck up the LR thread with geographical insults.

[Wxtrix]

the pancake supper crowd at church tonight was all hyped up for another big snowstorm. sigh.

[wxdude64]

Anybody having issues with youtube in last 30 minutes?

[Amped]

4 minutes ago, wxdude64 said:

Anybody having issues with youtube in last 30 minutes?

No working fine here

[wxdude64]

4 minutes ago, Amped said:

No working fine here

Appears to be back in business. Apparently, they had a 15 minute 'oopsie'

[Interstate]

I can’t tell which thread is banter and which is the long range discussion.