Eskimo Joe

It's a shame you have to change majors. You're clearly dedicated to this craft and you would have made one heck of an operational meteorologist.

New York has the ability to sample the atmosphere using Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology. They get a vertical profile of the atmosphere every 10 minutes: https://www.nysmesonet.org/networks/profiler#stid=prof_alba While this technology is amazing and extremely valuable, it's incredibly costly to maintain. It would wonderful to have a few of these in Maryland but I don't see that happening for years, if at all. We still have 70 stations to install and then transition to sustainment.

I remember that storm vividly. I was living in Philly and got a NOAA Weather Radio for Christmas from my dad (). I remember with each forecast update it got better and better. From "partly cloudy" to "mostly cloudy" to "cloudy with a 40% chance of snow". Then the Regional Weather Roundup (RWR) started reporting snow at Baltimore, Lancaster, and Wilmington. What an epic boom that was.

Warm Decembers just seem to be the norm anymore. Do you suppose it's the oceans taking so long to cool off? It seems like the seasons have shifted by a month. April is the new March, etc.

Low of 34 on the hill in Reisterstown, but our Clarksville mesonet site dipped to 26. The 12z RAOB from IAD indicates a bit of an inversion.

If you mean surface observations, yes. These are surface stations. We don't have profiles like New York.

I misinterpreted a map a few pages ago, asked a legit question, and was trolled for it. It's become a joke at my expense now.

Merry Christmas, more mesonet sites are online! Our entire network runs on 5 min obs. Thank you @wxmeddler and everyone else on the team for all of their work. You can also view data on our website: https://mesonet.umd.edu/ PS, for any NOAA or Synoptic users, the IDs for each site are at the end of the URL below. If you want soil data, check out the link on the website above. More sites dropping in during 2024. Clarksville: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=001MD Frostburg: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=002MD Keedysville: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=003MD Easton: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=004MD Ridgely: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=005MD

New normal unfortunately. People are starting to come to grips with it. Our snow climo is going to be like Charlotte, NC in a few years.

Yup. No dry airmass or temp issues. It just snowed.

+3 along I-95...cold rain

Awesome. Thanks for the explanation. My wheelhouse is mesoscale meteorology (hence the mesonet). Trying to learn the long range stuff.

What is the advantage to a slightly -PNA with a -NAO?

Really hope we don't have to wait until February for snow.

Thank you. They were honking about low natural gas futures back in autumn and calling for a wall-to-wall torch this winter. I wonder if they're worried about having egg on their face.

I'm not trying to be a deb here, can you explain to me why the 540 line is so far north during what should be the coldest time of the year in North America? That doesn't seem like a great setup for snow down here.

Anyone with paid access have eyes on the EPS?

This is good to see. I need to remind myself to never look at an OP run beyond HR 120.

Yea unless I'm missing something it looked like hot garbage.

A tradition like no other. We're all sick and it's glorious.

Good. Don't ever change. We'll have snow free winters soon enough in these parts, let's enjoy what we can while we have it.

Yes that's definitely my site. It's odd to not see the data from 12/17 to 12/20 on there. I checked my view and it's on there.

Oh thank goodness. I honestly thought you were rooting for that scenario.

My post was specific to my COOP site, RSTM2.

That would be torturous. Even worse, it would skew the yearly snowfall data and make people think the winter was somehow justified.