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Today was spectacular. I'm a cold guy but could get used to more of this. Trail had spring weekend type traffic on it. I'll be happy with whatever going forward.

61 was my high today, but more impressively it's still 50 at 8:25pm.

MA long range thread is getting spicy...we need snow soon, and bad...

Sorry, I wasn't able to post the images he was referring to above.

A big MU update: Regarding the Monday night-Tuesday system, there is still an immense amount of uncertainty regarding its track and intensity. Much depends on the interaction between the two disturbances highlighted below. The closer together they are, the stronger the system.. (2/4) The upper-level pattern across North America will also be a major player. A ridge axis over the Intermountain West (GFS model - 1st image) would allow the system to "dig" farther south & deepen, while a subtle trough (ECMWF model - 2nd image) would promote a weaker system.. (3/4) Regardless of the ultimate outcome, surface temps will be above freezing and very marginal for snow across northern MD, southeastern PA, and the Lower Susquehanna Valley. In order for rain to change over to snow and accumulate, precipitation will need to fall heavily.. 4/4) The storm is still about 4 days away, so I won't be able to finesse the details until Monday. For now, I still favor an outcome with no accumulating snow south of the PA Turnpike. Don't pay attention to forecast snowfall maps until Sunday. They're bound to fail.

53 in Maytown at 12:40pm.

Time to get back into some James Spann again...

Central PA - "Home of the Bad Boys" club.

The band of clouds currently over the Lower Susquehanna Valley will push east of the region by midday. In its wake, a south-to-southwesterly breeze & PM sunshine will boost highs into the upper 50s (east) to mid 60s (west). The record high of 61F at @millersvilleu could be tied!

MU predicting a high temp of around 65 for you today...

Elliott not backing down from his "no snow" this upcoming week stance: model solutions of the storm's track and intensity will continue to change, and in some cases drastically, from run-to-run. Using large-scale pattern recognition, interior New England has the best chance for accumulating snow. I'll have a full update tomorrow!

This would be an absolute bonus if we saw measurable snow. Not into the pattern that supports snow yet.

Next Tuesday continues to get more and more interesting...I'm still keeping expectations in check.

I edited my post just to show how incredibly historic last year was. They are still over 500" below last year's seasonal total.

His last video was from Monday - that was after the weekend storm that dropped 49". They just got an additional 48" since he made that video. With the 100" this month, Mammoth Lakes is now only 237" behind last year's pace. They're at 186" YTD - same time last year they were at 423"

'ya think? LOL

"life in the eastern sierra"

I'll just add on here that since February 1st, the town of Mammoth Lakes has received exactly 100" of snow as of 6:00AM Pacific time. It is snowing currently.

30 this morning in Maytown - dropped to 28 last evening prior to midnight but 30 is the lowest for the day. Intrigued by the guidance for the early week storm.

Following...

Yes! That's an easy one to misunderstand. Then again...Mrs. Training says that I'm terrible with lyrics. I told her that when I was a kid, I thought that Rod Stewart was singing about "Cow Shit" instead of "Passion".

England Dan and John Ford Coley had a song in the 70s "Really Love To See You Tonight" - the start of the chorus is "I'm not talking about movin' in" but I swore for years they were singing "I'm not talking about the linens" LOL

Since @Bubbler86 likes to reference Ralph lately...another of Ralphie's favorite "instructions" is to "keep expectations in check" which applies here...

Saw this and broke out into song... ...and now I have a bunch of familiar faces looking in my office wondering what in the hell is wrong with Mike.

Well stated...