Scarlet Pimpernel

I notice you do have some food in there amongst the beer. Good idea! Unless you just placed that there for effect!! (ETA: Laughing Cow cheese wedges...good stuff! Same for the cheese tortellini!!)

Do you need some time alone with that map?

People's mood swings are crazy in here, it gets unreadable anytime something looks slightly less favorable compared to the previous day ("OMG, no digital snow yet, aren't we supposed to be going into this so-called great pattern by next week???"). It honestly makes it difficult to sift through with all the panic and other trolling BS.

Yup...20.0" where I'm at not all that far away (Silver Spring, just over the DC line). Amazing storm, and it was extra-special because it had been years since we last got a true HECS here. It started Friday night (Dec. 18), like late evening, around 9-10PM, and accumulated rapidly. I had 9" on the ground by Saturday morning (19th), and then 20" by the time it ended. My daughter had just turned 6 in November of that year, and I have a photo of her on that Saturday in her pink winter coat with the snow up to her waist!

Oy Gevalt! I don't check in here for a couple of days (was out of town), and sure as shit, this board turns to shit! We should have ensemble members predict the mood swings of this board, it's so highly predictable! Thanks to those with more level heads and less overt emotions for keeping some reality in here.

Happy (belated) anniversary to you, @mappy!!! And hard to believe that Dec. 19 storm is now 14 (!!!) years ago! Then again, cannot quite grasp that my daughter just turned 20 on Nov. 1! I know this is "out of season," but here's a rose for you for your anniversary, if I may! I rendered everything but the rose bud in black and white.

"Your majesty, you look like the piss ass (boy)!"...

Yeah I saw the subsequent evolution...I know, it's way out there!...there's actually a primary way far to the west, in western KY/TN with secondary development (?) in the Carolinas, probably too far inland. Sorry, I shouldn't be getting into those kinds of details at this point for that, but long and the short, I like seeing these "potentials" popping up more rather than guaranteed rainstorms.

Yeah, for sure! Maybe it's "not the strongest" but depending on how it evolves and with a quasi 50/50 there to hold it around long enough? At least something interesting to look at for once.

But last winter WAS cold (though not really snowy)... ... ... ... ...for all of 48 hours just around Christmas. Seriously though, yeah, we had that highly amplified pattern in December with the blast of Arctic cold and then it warmed right back up and we never recovered. My family in northeast Ohio got a few inches of snow and a flash freeze with gusty winds in that pre-Christmas outbreak. I visited them over New Year's weekend and by then it was getting into the 60s there (on one day, at least). I seriously contemplated sitting out on the deck or on the front porch one evening, it was so warm.

Fixed your post a bit...you don't need the "qualifier", we're crazy enough without that!!!

Such language in this forum!! I'm shocked! LOL!! But seriously, that's amazing going into February if that pans out!

Oh, my!!! That gives flashbacks to @H2O's Vienna wieners in spaghetti-o's jell-o!!!

The mood swings on this site sometimes...I swear!!

Hey there, Bob...good to see you! A 4-8" snow? I think I've seen olde-tyme black and white photos of those, in some ancient history text! You know, the kind that has a caption such as, "President Teddy Roosevelt frolics in a Washington Snowe-Storme, challenging the attending press to a snowball fight. 'I say BULLY to this snow, the cold air is good for the sinuses!', the President reportedly said." But seriously, you're totally right and I agree about that. A solid event of 4-8" from some weaker but decent wave moving west-east is the best chance at this time of year, rather than a wrapped-up system.

Honestly, while the internet is a great thing for the most part, it's all too easy to nitpick any statement, slice and dice it, and turn it against you if anyone so chooses. I know that's a very cynical thing to say, but all too often I see comments or out of context comments used to tear people down. Just look at what happens in the sports world, for instance, anytime some athlete says one small thing (I'm not talking blatantly offensive or whatever, but just one small thing). People love to build up heroes and then knock them down sometimes. It's really sad.

Got this neat shot the other evening of a crescent moon just as an airplane was going by...

If the Panic room were run by Hannibal Lecter: "A jumping weenie once tried to escape me. I ate his liver with some fava beans, and a nice chianti!"

Is that @WxWatcher007's, the Reaper's, tropical retirement spot???

No problem...totally see why you refer to things that way (one problem with official winter crossing a year!!). I had forgotten Pinatubo was the year before El Chichon blew.

Volcanic eruption being one of the theories?? I believe El Chichon erupted in the fall of 1992 as I recall. (Unless you're referring to the winter of 1991-92?)

Don't Ninos typically favor blocking in the 2nd half of winter, at some point? Not sure how correct that is or how prevalent, but that's my understanding such as it is.

Looks like a smiling pirate with an eye patch. Arrrr, matey, here's your blocking and your southern stream...now get to work on finding some snow!

I do have to say, Beethoven doesn't look happy with a party hat on. Like he's thinking, "Get this f**ing thing off my head now, or someone's going to pay!" (but he'd say it in German, of course!)

Well, just remember in France, they don't call it a Quarter Pounder...it's a "Royale with Cheese"!!!