Fozz

Snowing heavily this morning

If you're located in Truth or Consequences, then isn't your average high already in the 60s by now? That should be warm enough for outdoor work.

Final total – 2"

Awful. To be so bitterly cold and never see snow Even putting aside all their politics, I'd rather live in the tropics than in Beijing. The Siberian high makes their winters so boring and miserable.

It's getting heavier around here. Best rates all morning.

1.8" A nice little event.

Same here. Flurries/light snow at 41 degrees.

And it's a relatively recent thing too. Before the mid 2010s, they never used to do this. They would just give their forecast, tell the public how to prepare for whatever is coming, and that was it. Normies back then had no idea what the GFS or NAM or ECMWF were, and honestly it is better that way.

Yeah but does it even count that far out?

Wasn't this just a cartopper the other day? Feels like it suddenly snuck up on us In any case, lock it up please! Looks just about perfect.

Honestly I'm rooting for that pattern to dominate March.

The GFS is showing snow in Texas during the weekend that I'll be there. I hope it happens.

If other guidance were looking that good for Garrett/Tucker county, I'd seriously consider a trip. But it has to be significant to be worth it to me.

Felt very nice today and I’ll gladly take this over being fringed with cartoppers.

It was a moderate storm for most of this region. Better for the interior northeast.

Might as well share this again. My favorites in order (IMBY only): 1) Feb 10, 2010 – Around 20" on top of everything that fell 4 days earlier. It had the most incredible blizzard conditions I've ever seen IMBY. Other HECS didn't quite feel like a true blizzard, but that one did. 2) Jan 2016 – 27" with snow all night and throughout the following day. Also had daytime blizzard conditions and everything unfolded just about perfectly. 3) PDII 2003 – The first HECS I can clearly remember. Total was probably 26-28" but I'm not exactly sure. That one really kept me hooked on this hobby, and it finished off what was already an amazing winter. 4/5) Feb 6, 2010 – 25" 4/5) Dec 2009 – 19". It was my first HECS since 2003, so it was a very big deal and I couldn't believe it was happening in December. Made me confident that the whole winter had a lot more to come. Storms I chased: Feb 2013, MLK 2022, and October 2011.

^^^There it is

It is our formative experiences with big storms that will always be the most cherished, even if bigger storms happen after we grow up. I wasn't around but people (including @usedtobe) told me that PDI had heavier rates than any other storm they've ever experienced.

I was there in January 2021 and made a few trips to Wildcat. They had a few decent storms that month.

I think the Presidents Day weekend is looking like a favorable window for something major or historic. And I say all of that because I’ll be in Texas that weekend.

The weekend system has me very interested. Some of us badly need it

Can this keep trending south enough that Richmond and Salisbury get the ice?

January 2014 and January 2016 were by far the best two of the past decade. This month was probably similar to January 2019 in terms of sensible wx in Baltimore.

I was watching a documentary on the history of Earth, and I got a little sad when they talked about Snowball Earth coming to an end.

GFS shows something for Feb 9.