Scarlet Pimpernel

Thank you so much! And that picture you shared is awesome! Yes, as soul-crushing as this past year has been in many ways, getting out and realizing there is still beauty in the world helps. I've perhaps taken more photos in the last year than in any other year, to be honest. It's a hobby of mine to be sure, but with everything else going on now, it's also an escape where I look for things to photograph. Also has the added effect of helping me improve my technique and vision in that regard, too, LOL!

Uh, oh!! Channeling a combination of yours and @Bob Chill's expressions...it might be on like red horse schlong!!

Is this the system that the other day looked like a cutter followed by very cold? Or something else. I've only lightly followed anything outside today's event until now, really. But did notice potential interesting stuff around that time next weekend or so.

Right around 3" total to this point. As @WxUSAF said earlier, it's almost like sand! I posted a couple photos in the banter thread.

Regardless of how much snow anyone got, it was very pretty and quite peaceful. Here are a couple of photos I took today, all black-and-white (snow just somehow facilitates itself well to black/white!!)...

The maximum! Parallel to the surface! (ETA: ooops, originally wrote normal, instead of parallel, to the surface, LOL!)

Yeah, was just looking a that. Whatever it's worth, it shows ~2" in DC, with maybe 2-4" just north of there (MoCo/HoCo, etc.), and more heading toward the M/D line. This is a 24-h amount from 00Z tonight through 00Z tomorrow night.

It never is! But they gotta do what they gotta do, right?!

Seems your extra crew of hired guards was able to nab someone trying to jump early!

Hahaha...what timing on your part!!

Haha! @Bob Chill's kids would tower over me as well! My daughter is not even quite 5 feet tall and very slight (no real tall genes in our families, LOL!). Which is fine. She actually used to do ballet, for several years (Washington School of Ballet, associated with the Washington Ballet). But other obligations with school and other interests and such (plus an ankle injury at the time) kind of ended the ballet stuff a couple of years ago. She still got a hell of a lot out of it, and it was actually a lot of fun for her to participate in the company's Nutcracker a few times. A lot of work, but still fun! Last 12 months have been quite rough for sure, for everyone. But I try to be optimistic about how things will go and that we'll get out of this at some point not too overly long from now. The snow today is certainly like a balm! Especially compared to last year. I enjoy photography, sort of a hobby of mine...it's been awhile since I could get some nice snow-related photos around here!

Eyeballing maybe ~1.5" there about where I'm at (Chevy Chase, MD area). Light snow falling, clinging to everything right now with the calm wind. Very pretty! I will be going for a @Jebman Jebwalk soon, and get some photos!! By the way, nobody has mentioned much about the wind potential during this event, but looks like it could become pretty brisk?

Haha, I hear that. My daughter turned 17 in November and is a senior in HS this year, and I cannot believe how fast that time has gone! I swear it doesn't seem like that long ago that she was out in a snow suit during the Dec. 2009 storm, with snow up past her waist level! Not such a little kid anymore, hahaha! It's just too bad that with COVID, school has been remote this entire year so far (actually going back to March last school year). I am certainly not complaining about the remote stuff, as I totally get it...but it's just too bad this happens during one's senior year is all. But you make the best of things!

Don't forget to collect your 20% off coupon for next year!! New promo from the Reaper, I believe.

Interesting...GFS actually doesn't look too bad for Mon-Mon evening just going by the 3 plots you put up here.

LOL, well there goes that idea! I also saw your QPF amounts listed a short while ago (didn't see before I entered my comment)...not a good change there.

True...the trend is not a nice feeling. But being honest, the crazy, wacky amounts it was throwing out were not realistic. Perhaps it's converging to something more sensible? Well, that's the reasoning I'll cling to for now, haha! As you said, however, we should see the total precip (and snow) totals to get a better picture on the RGEM.

That's got to be the most bizarre looking closed contour around a low I've ever seen (992 off the coast)!!

I'm guessing this is how most of us felt about the 00Z NAM (inside, at least!)...

Not sure what you mean by improving slightly with each run? I thought the 12Z is when it first went crazy driving the dry slot much farther north than any other guidance, and seems even more so at 18Z. Not trying to be argumentative at all, but just curious what you meant. I'm interested too in the whole tracking the low along the convection rather than the coastal baroclinic zone.

That's awful! Glad you are OK, but what an asshat that guy was for the hit and run. Not to mention getting upset because you slowed down at a railroad crossing and were *gasp!* going the speed limit. Glad the damage to your vehicle might not be too horrible too.

All we need now is @showmethesnow and the homecoming of the triumvirate will be complete!

Hello Ian...welcome back! Omegherd, shneer!!

What the hell post was that one from?? ETA: The one where @Bob Chill returned yesterday afternoon?

Ohhh, looks freakin' tasty!!