Eskimo Joe

Watch us have the right pattern but no jet this winter.

This is just a refreshing look compared to the last few years when you would have a 588 dm ridge over the east coast during the shortest days of the year.

Time sensitive, but you can see Bay Effect streamers from Delaware, Raritan, and Chesapeake Bays on the visible satellite.

Measured 24 in New Windsor at the fire department!

Don't look now, but the latest CFS keeps the NAO/AO slightly negative through mid to even late December.

The new CFS weeklies keep the NAO/AO slightly negative through mid December/late December now. o_0

Low of 29

Yup. I don't even want an icebox during that time, just climo with something falling on Christmas eve or Christmas day.

Down to 35 this morning.

All rain in Marriottsville

Not leaving for work until this comes through. Maybe my 7am COOP report will have snow???

Concrete poured for our Frostburg mesonet site. Hope we can get the tower up before it gets too cold out there.

Story of the upcoming winter probably.

Down to 44.

First flakes for Garrett County and maybe the western edge of Catoctin Mt possible. Elsewhere, highly doubt it.

Thanks. We got the tower up 10 minutes after the frontal passage. Stinks for today, but we'll be able to log the secondary front tomorrow!

Thanks. I was part of the core group that developed the project back in 2021. I can't wait to get more sites in the ground and have the data flowing in.

For the Mason-Dixon folks: It's official now, the Maryland mesonet is live. Today, the first of 75 towers was "stood up" in Clarksville, MD at a University of Maryland research farm. This was a project that started in April of 2021 and has accelerated from concept to design in a little over two years. The mesonet will serve several areas: public safety, operational meteorology, transportation, agriculture, and climate monitoring. Other goals of the network include K-12 science in the classroom, and energy management (wind/solar data). A couple of key points: The website is now live, you may get a security certificate warning from your web browser, but rest assured the site is safe. http://mesonet.umd.edu/index.html Website design and content will continue to emerge over the coming months as more data and visualizations are developed. The data from the Clarksville location is not visible on the website just yet. There will be a short quality control period before data is accepted and published online. Hopefully this will only be a few days to a week. Internal testing was better than expected, which is a good sign. All data from the mesonet will be available to the public. As stations are added they will appear on the site once the previously mentioned control period is concluded. The National Weather Service and Mid Atlantic River Forecast Center will receive the data via their MADIS ingestion portal. You can read more about that here: https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/ Land use agreements for nine other sites have been formalized. Site work will be conducted over the next two months to get these sites operational before the real meat of winter sets in. If we are lucky, we could have the first set of sites coming online every 10 - 14 calendar days. This is all contingent on weather. During the winter, the team will continue to scout new sites, sign new land use agreements, and develop a work plan for rapid deployment of technology into the field in CY 2024. This is a big deal for the state. Long recognized data gaps will be closed and actionable information will be readily available 24/7/365.

It's official now, the Maryland mesonet is live. Today, the first of 75 towers was "stood up" in Clarksville, MD at a University of Maryland research farm. This was a project that started in April of 2021 and has accelerated from concept to design in a little over two years. The mesonet will serve several areas: public safety, operational meteorology, transportation, agriculture, and climate monitoring. Other goals of the network include K-12 science in the classroom, and energy management (wind/solar data). A couple of key points: The website is now live, you may get a security certificate warning from your web browser, but rest assured the site is safe. http://mesonet.umd.edu/index.html Website design and content will continue to emerge over the coming months as more data and visualizations are developed. The data from the Clarksville location is not visible on the website just yet. There will be a short quality control period before data is accepted and published online. Hopefully this will only be a few days to a week. Internal testing was better than expected, which is a good sign. All data from the mesonet will be available to the public. As stations are added they will appear on the site once the previously mentioned control period is concluded. The National Weather Service and Mid Atlantic River Forecast Center will receive the data via their MADIS ingestion portal. You can read more about that here: https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/ Land use agreements for nine other sites have been formalized. Site work will be conducted over the next two months to get these sites operational before the real meat of winter sets in. If we are lucky, we could have the first set of sites coming online every 10 - 14 calendar days. This is all contingent on weather. During the winter, the team will continue to scout new sites, sign new land use agreements, and develop a work plan for rapid deployment of technology into the field in CY 2024. This is a big deal for the state. Long recognized data gaps will be closed and actionable information will be readily available 24/7/365.

I was finishing grad school at Millersville at the time. It was a wonderful event.

Do it. Give in to your snow weenie.

Maybe a midnight high for Monday, then we just start drifting colder?

Yea outside the period right around Christmas it was a dead rather winter.

Good stuff. Thanks for the insight.