February Banter 2026

[SomeguyfromTakomaPark]

It's over folks!  Lets get those 50s 60s 70s

[ravensrule]

4 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

It's over folks!  Lets get those 50s 60s 70s

Hell no. We have plenty of time after March 15th to do that. 

[TSSN+]

1 hour ago, stormtracker said:

If you mean by being right, you were 100% wrong, then yes. 
 

Good post.  

Randy going full tilt I love it haha 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

59 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

It's over folks!  Lets get those 50s 60s 70s

Dewpoints in July, you mean???  (especially 60s and 70s+!!!)  It'll be here all too soon enough, don't you worry! 

[87storms]

I’m ready for spring, but it sure does look like there’s gonna be more chances of snow into March.

[RickinBaltimore]

I mean, I loved the extra day off today, but for this? Really?

[SomeguyfromTakomaPark]

1 hour ago, ravensrule said:

Hell no. We have plenty of time after March 15th to do that. 

I'm personally done, I'll punt all the sloppy 1-4 inch events.  If we get a chance at something bigger I'd take it.

[SomeguyfromTakomaPark]

Man everyone got hammered up and down the coast, philly area got 10-20, delaware 10-20, NJ and NYC basically 15-30, SNE 10-30+

This was basically identical to boxing day for our area, watching a massive miller B blizzard miss us by an ass hair. 

 

 

[09-10 analogy]

This arguably was a February 1978 redo. That's prolly already been noted, but whatever. I'm ready for thunderstorm season. The screwjobs are more idiosyncratic and less deflating.

[Bob Chill]

[MN Transplant]

44 minutes ago, 09-10 analogy said:

This arguably was a February 1978 redo. That's prolly already been noted, but whatever. I'm ready for thunderstorm season. The screwjobs are more idiosyncratic and less deflating.

And we'll be the ones dragging down the NESIS (or equivalent) scale again.

[Maestrobjwa]

Someone else in the house had the 6:30 news on healined by the snow...I was just starting to feel a little better too dang it. This miss ruined the whole dang day. All time Nina fail--next time anybody asks why I complain about ninas I'll just say February 2026. We (Baltimore) are the only ones between NC and Boston that haven't gotten a foot in 11 years and nobody should blame us for complaining from now until the next one.

Baaa snowbug. 

P.S. No one else is in the Panic Room. If there's nobody there there's no catharsis, lol

[Mrs.J]

Tonight’s dinner. Potato and pepper spinach hash with poached eggs. Had some veg that needed to be used. 

[clueless]

Done for the winter.  

[pazzo83]

lol DCA will likely finish with below normal snowfall.

[adelphi_sky]

One of these years we're going to get a two-footer. Followed by a 1 footer. I sense it in the force. 

[adelphi_sky]

4 hours ago, Mrs.J said:

Tonight’s dinner. Potato and pepper spinach hash with poached eggs. Had some veg that needed to be used. 

That looks good! Awesome skills!

[Kay]

3 minutes ago, AlexD1990 said:

It was definitely something special to experience. I remember people trying to tell me(as i was trying to warn them) that there was no way we would get another storm that big so soon after the 1st one.... I can remember working at the grocery store the morning of the 2nd one, which started as rain down here, and you could ,literally see the changeover line to snow begin at one end of the parking lot and sweep across it towards the building. When it hit the building, the windows literally shook from the force of the wind! We closed immediately, and I was the lucky one to announce to a grocery store full of already storm weary shoppers, trying to pick out what they could from shelves bare and not restocked from the first storm(our warehouse was in PA and buried from storm 1...we had almost nothing on the shelves to begin with) that we were "closing....right now". It almost started a riot, lol. We didn't do anything for a week after storm 2. Truly once in a lifetime, although i hope the kids get to see something remotely like it.

That is a dramatic tale. Glad no one died in a stampede!  I had the same experience with people disbelieving. Times like that you get into weather chats with so many people lol. I'll probably never forget a random moment, standing in line at a 7-11 briefly talking to a dude who was in town from CO (and clearly very proud of his snow climo) who confidently told me how it was going to be nbd. He wouldn't believe me.

I agree, once in a lifetime. For my location anyway, and my tastes, no winter has been better.

 

[kristia]

Walter is resting after the emotional devastation of waking up yesterday and discovering—once again—that someone had the audacity to replace his grass with snow overnight.

[AlexD1990]

14 minutes ago, Kay said:

That is a dramatic tale. Glad no one died in a stampede!  I had the same experience with people disbelieving. Times like that you get into weather chats with so many people lol. I'll probably never forget a random moment, standing in line at a 7-11 briefly talking to a dude who was in town from CO (and clearly very proud of his snow climo) who confidently told me how it was going to be nbd. He wouldn't believe me.

I agree, once in a lifetime. For my location anyway, and my tastes, no winter has been better.

 

i can still rememembr the NWS snowfall maps, which were still a bit of a novelty at the time, running out of colors for the snowfall ranges. they kept having to add colors to the legend.

 

My roommate angrily demanded I should "Ctrl-Alt-Delete-Snow" because everyone was convinced i was conjuring it up(as they are at my current workplace...I've been banned from posting any more weather updates other that 65 and sunny...lol)

[psuhoffman]

23 hours ago, RevWarReenactor said:

I mean, if you consider tracking 1-2 slushy inches while NJ gets a historic blizzard a "win".

Go for it.

As it turns out though, I was right. As per usual. 

 

Every coop around you reported 6-8".  Some parts of the DC metro got 5-7" of snow.  Did EVERYONE win no.  But stop it.  

[SnowenOutThere]

6 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

Every coop around you reported 6-8".  Some parts of the DC metro got 5-7" of snow.  Did EVERYONE win no.  But stop it.  

Quick question but did the Norlun trough ever do its thing? Seemed like most of the snow I got (probably 4-5 inches fell from the air but 3.2 OTG) was during the hours of 4-6pm with the FGEN from the coastal. 

[psuhoffman]

20 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Quick question but did the Norlun trough ever do its thing? Seemed like most of the snow I got (probably 4-5 inches fell from the air but 3.2 OTG) was during the hours of 4-6pm with the FGEN from the coastal. 

The IVT and the FGEN kind of overlapped for a time.  There was definitely an impact because if you look at the obs there is a zone of 6-7" reports in a an area that lines up with about where the IVT was surrounded by generally 2-4" outside that area (except for up here with got to 5-6" purely from the Parrs Ridge effect) then totals went up again once to the eastern part of MD closer to the developing coastal.  Some of the guidance over did it, I don't think the 2"/hr rates some guidance had ever developed, maybe because for a time the IVT was actually split into multiple bands instead of one consolidated one.