Eskimo Joe

Heat and wind overperform here. It's about all we're good at.

Torching into the mid 50s.

Poor everyone east of I-81.

It's 52 degrees at the Thurmont mesonet site, but 31 at Clarksville. What a temperatures inversion.

Additional sites will be: Germantown, Gaithersburg, Chevy Chase, and Laytonsville. While these stations are more compact in size, and therefore able to fit in more urban locations, the limiting factors are: available land partners, cell reception, and open sky for accurate wind measurements and solar charging of batteries.

One of only two Cat 5. NESIS storms. Bonus points if you can name the other one without looking it up.

Some local weather news. Montgomery County, as part of a locally funded initiative, will be purchasing some additional mesonet stations. These tripod/compact stations will focus on urban areas to better understand risk from heavy precipitation events and urban heat islands. The plan is to have a density of 6 to 8 miles per station. Equipment has been purchased, with the goal of deploying them this year. All data will be public on the mesonet website once the stations come online. A big day for @wxmeddler

Week of Jan 20th. If we don't have something plausible within 5 days of that, then it's probably game over for even hitting climo snowfall. It's going to be feast or famine during the upcoming favorable window.

JB is a clown. No one should take him seriously anymore.

Agreed. Ji is just being Ji.

Please no

This. We won with this setup in December 2013.

Who wishes for warm weather in winter?

Would be happy even with a few solid advisory level events even.

It's a La Nina pattern. That shouldn't be a surprise.