Scarlet Pimpernel

Even though @WxWatcher007 is in retirement, I heard the Reaper still has his agents standing by the phones now to assist those in dire need...

Yeah, I think after the epic-looking pattern disappeared about a week ago, we definitely needed the Beethoven with the tear! That pretty well crushed everything.

LOL!!!! OK, c'mon now...I love Beethoven and he's still my favorite composer. Unfortunately, I was unable to find an image or a gif with him doing an eyeroll!! So I settled for the Austrian dude...but don't diss his music TOO much! (ETA: I await a lecture from @Maestrobjwa on the merits of Beethoven vs. Mozart and his harpsichord using ass!)

The Panic Room is still going?? Even when things are already done? C'mon!!!

Mozart says...to that 46 day ensemble control snow map:

Good points here, Bob. I'll say that despite wanting to be optimistic about the highly favorable "holy grail" looks that showed up for mid-February to mid-March is that once things got a bit more into range, there really were no storms popping up. I know one cannot take those silly snow maps at face value, but typically when we see an approaching good pattern, crazy stuff starts to appear on the horizon in the ops and ensembles. That happened maybe a couple of times, I think, but it was basically "blah" looking and even kind of warm. That's the other thing, I didn't see a consistent "trend" or whatever toward colder, at least near the surface. Despite some good 850-mb cold looks. I was thinking to myself several times how nice 850 looked but shook my head at the BL temps.

PSU...I totally agree with what you say here. It's sad...pathetic...aggravating...that warming has become a political football (hot potato, as it were??). For F's sake, you cannot argue the data, humanity's influence in the past century or whatever, etc. I don't care what one's views are, this is just simply the reality. One's political views honestly shouldn't matter for something like this. But sadly, this is the bullshit reality we live in, and one feels helpless to do much about it when those in power and who have influence on policy, sit there and piss into the wind. Whatever. Sorry if I got too political there, but it's more than that. Fact is, all too many people can be so damned selfish and have no concern or care for how their decisions or policies may affect the world around them. Apologies...done with that rant.

You could call it the Shohei Ohtani of amazing weather forecast calls!

Well, I'm not totally giving up on the winter but I'm definitely of the @Bob Chill Zen attitude right now. If we get something that looks fun, I'll check it out and great!! If not, don't much care at this point. And I don't think we're done, to be honest, but we'll see. With that, I'll post a couple of photos I got today. One is a tiny icicle I saw in a tree, gave it a silvery black and white look which I thought was cool. And a snowdrop flower, they are always one of the first to come up even before actual spring.

I know it's out there beyond la-la land but did anyone else notice the anafrontal snow the GFS tries to give us around March 2? It has shown up before around that time so this isn't exactly a one-off appearance of this. Not the most likely, yeah, but something, and I don't think we're done for the season yet.

I'll gladly have what the GFS is toking.

How about Mozart doing an eyeroll??? (couldn't find one with Beethoven!)... (ETA: It's widely known that Mozart, other than being a world-renowned composer, was an immense snow weenie in Austria at the time.)

It ate too many mints.

Instead of brining the roads, the TRUE snow weenie covers his lawn and driveway with a layer of ice cubes to ensure instant stickage!

On that planet, they shit the blinds every winter!

Yeah, pretty much on the same page as you. Let's just see how things shake out from now through mid-March (I'm talking after this event on Friday night). I'm not sold on "your" storm just yet (the one around the 24th, right?), though obviously there is a signal there. Too warm?? But we'll see, I haven't followed that much of late. And I'm not at all ruling out some decent event in March at some point.

Pretty sure at some point this will happen across the metro areas, with an area-wide 2-4" more or less expected. But interesting the watch actually extended east and south, even into northern MoCo and HoCo

Not a big fan of the "dual maximum" look, but whatever...that's yet to be resolved. I'm just glad to have a decent advisory-level event in the offing, and it now looks like it should stick around for a day and not torch on Saturday now.

Poor groundhog, always taking the heat! What about the Woolly Bears? They shoulder some of the blame!!

Got the same where I'm at in the Bethesda area from that St. Pat's 2014 storm! What an awesome event, and it was below freezing for like a day after. March 2014 itself was an amazing month for snow in this region!

Purple clouds and shrooms!

Semi off-topic, but is TT still down? It's been out apparently most of the afternoon.

You'll need digital blue pills for that...

This just has @ravensrule written all over it! Or my mind has been twisted. Probably both!

Ahhh, finally found your reply! I sent a quick note in the medium range thread, but thanks much for this explanation, makes sense. And again, apologies @WxUSAF if a couple of my comments got off-track from the normal medium-range discussion. ETA: At this point, this winter, I'm just hoping for a decent storm that's fun, whether it happens toward the end of this month or in March. Don't much care. I am in no way "HECS hunting" by now, but hell, a solid MECS kind of event that we can all follow for a week would be great. I don't think that's out of the question still before we're done.