Scarlet Pimpernel

Yeah, we can call it "Cutters! Cutters Everywhere!"

Streaming high clouds from this afternoon...

We need @WxWatcher007 to come out with that Bat Signal picture that he uses for @Mrs.J...only in this case, put @Bob Chill's icon on there!!

Agree, it was a great film on many levels, with fantastic acting! I have a copy of it and have seen it several times over the years.

I don't know...the moose may like that!!

Apparently this is what the latest ECMWF looked like:

Looks like I need to watch "Breaking Away" again...

So...essentially just like 1996 then!! That'll never get old. Or will it??? (***No dead equines were harmed by this comment!)

Well, in keeping with @yoda, who started this thread..."Snow or snow not! There is no try!"

Hahaha! Well, "best pattern since '96" might surpass "transient" as the most over-used word/phrase for this winter!!

Haha! Give 'em the Ray Guy treatment!! That person who complains might be (ahem)JI(ahem)!! (ETA: and to keep up with the alliteration, you can refer to those who complain as "Nattering nabobs of negativism!!")

Lovely alliteration there, intentional or not (picture perfect pacific pattern)!! At any rate, good discussion of how we can get decent moderate events, if one is not so hung up on HECS chasing.

When it became apparent that there was something very possible around that time in Jan. 2016, I vaguely recall some discussion that for whatever reason those middle 2 weeks (or there about) of January had a relative lack of good snow events.

Well, that may be true about the last week or so of December, climatologically. But then again, people said kinda the same thing about the 3rd week of January, that we never get any good snows around that time. Then there was some kind of event...oh...sometime about Jan. 22-23, 2016 I seem to recall?? I'm just joking with you, of course, for fun! Not saying a Jan. 2016 redux should be expected or will occur (but we'd take that!), but maybe we can crack through the dearth of WSW snows the last week of December!

Very true, and thanks for pointing this out. It's definitely one of the better setups we've had in some time it seems (though I won't say "since '96" or any other particular year, hahaha!). It will be complicated, the interaction of the various waves during that period, and not necessarily "ideal" (whatever that might be). So yeah, hopefully we'll come out of that time frame with at least one decent snow and avoid the incredible bad luck of getting shut out!

FYP! (for the record, I just cannot bring myself to eat the stuff!)

Well, I don't think anyone here is seriously comparing stuff to '96...mostly commenting on DT's "best pattern since '96" remark, and mostly mocking it, from what I've read in here. At any rate...yes...cannot argue with how active it looks post-Christmas, that's for sure! And the pattern up-top might be at least somewhat conducive for something good in that time frame (even if the Pac is "meh"). Let's hope so!

Shouldn't it be "Yo!!"??

Cool! Our time there at GT may have even overlapped it appears (completed my Ph.D. in 1999, was in the area from 1994-2001). I think I know that bar/restaurant you're referring to right on Piedmont Park, but offhand cannot recall the name. Probably changed hands since then anyhow. I used to live close to that shopping plaza near the corner of Monroe and 8th St., some interesting places there at the time. Also liked the Virginia Highlands area. I haven't been back in many years (too long, I should visit again!), but still have a couple of friends I'm in touch with regularly. We used to get some damn fine martinis over at the Highland Tap (in the VA Highlands area)!

Great screen-capture of that! I saved a bunch of stuff from all those storms that winter, mostly model data. Cute dog, by the way! Hard to tell if he's playing, or lying there comfortably thinking "now *this* makes a nice bed!!" BTW, was curious and meaning to ask when you were at GA Tech (going by your name here!)? I went to grad school there, long ago last century in the late '90s, and continued living in the Atlanta area afterward until 2001 when I moved up this way. Really liked Atlanta for the most part, to be honest! I've told people that it's not exactly what one would call a "tourist town", but if you live there, you know the places to go! Ran the Peachtree a few times, too (could never do that again now, haha!)...nice to have it finish practically right in my back yard when I was living near Piedmont Park! Alas, all my fine Peachtree T-shirts are now gone, having worn out some time ago! Might still have one of those long-sleeve ones from the GT 5K run around campus that they had every November.

Happy Anniversary to you, @mappy!!

It's like a tradition around here!!

Shhhhh! Don't tell the ENSO that, might jinx it!!

In general, I think this is the case. At risk of over-analyzing something that's still a week out (but I'll do so anyhow, haha!)...note that at 06Z today there was more energy hanging back, which resulted in the surface reflection still coming up toward us just after the strong cold front passed. It's not quite "as good" at 12Z as the low zips on to the north, but there's apparently a ton of lift along the front and (if you take verbatim), still gives a decent burst of snow. Reminiscent of Feb. 14, 2015 as others have said, though perhaps on a more dramatic scale if this pans out as shown. Regardless, that's one hella cold front breezing through!

FYP!! But seriously, that would be quite nice if it happens! At this point, I'll be glad to even have a nice, crisp Christmas rather than being in the 50s or raining or whatever, for a change. At least a little fresh wintry feel even if there's not much snow.