Scarlet Pimpernel

Ahhh yes, remember that more now. Didn’t know the post got up to 40+ weenies chucked his way! Hey you were just gaming the refs! No different than "campaigning" for an Oscar! Still a remarkable number of weenies!

Not quite! I added the "confused" emoticon, so now @Weather Will has officially hit for the cycle! I do think @WinterWxLuvr got the record a few months ago for the most weenies (like 25 or something!), but offhand I can't remember what his post was for that!!

March 32nd storm...book it, I'm all in for being fooled again!!!

Wow, I honestly didn't even know they were considering that at that level. I wonder if staying on standard time all year would have been better? Though really, when you look at places farther north (from what @MN Transplant said), I don't think a one or the other solution all the time would work well anyhow (standard or daylight time). So they can barely pass a budget at the (literal) 11th hour to avoid a government shutdown, but Congress will jump right on DST/EST!! Gotta love it. Well, they do say that the opposite of progress is Congress, eh?? LOL!!!

Wait...is this at the Federal level, or state of MD? I heard MD was considering going DST all year, if several other surrounding states did. Oh and yeah 2PM Euro would suck. But even worse, would be having to stay up even later for the 2AM one (00Z cycle)!!! Hell, by that point we'd be waiting earnestly for the next NAM run LOL!!!

Wow, and I thought it was a pain in the ass when I was at Purdue. Indiana doesn't do DST but they are in the eastern time zone which is the same as Ohio (where my home was at the time). So like part of the year, I'd be an hour behind everyone at home! But a 9:45AM sunrise in late December for the northern tier of states? That's just a bit much.

Oh my, Mrs. J!! That is horrible and so sorry to hear about your younger Miss J!! I truly hope she'll be fine and that it is nothing too overly serious. ETA: I didn't read farther down to see the results you mentioned. I hope the surgery goes well to remove the kidney stone!! Sending you all good thoughts...

Much respect on the cartography and GIS, especially since it seems to be something you prefer a lot more for a career! I find the different map projections, etc. to be pretty interesting, though I don't understand much at all in how to convert one to another or how exactly they represent the spatial aspects on the globe. My major and career has been in atmospheric science/meteorology, so I actually didn't mind the calc series I had to take, or differential equations, that sort of thing. That said, I probably don't remember at least a certain amount of it at this point in time, LOL!!

Recs for using HPs and RPN!!! Huzzah! I've had an old HP11-C (though had to replace it once with another one) that served me well through undergrad and grad school. Still have it now at work and use it upon occasion. I actually like RPN and the memory "stack" that those calculators have, can really come in handy.

Tucked and f'ed!! LOL!! Well, we get green snow for St. Paddy's day! A wee bit o'Irish weather!

Yeah, March 30, 2014. I remember that pretty well. It rained most of the time (cold rain), then in the mid-afternoon or so it changed to snow. Large flakes, almost like ice chunks. Got about an inch where I'm at. It did indeed cap off an amazing March. The cold powder you mentioned was Mar. 3, I got 5.3" then (temperatures were in like the mid 20s that afternoon!). Mar. 16-17 (St. Pat's snow!!), 8.0" where I am. Then on the 25th, 3.0", followed by that "surprise" inch on the 30th. Incredible for the month of March, in an incredible nearly wall-to-wall winter!

That's really cool! Yeah it's a great place, I go over there and walk around quite often. I bet it was an awesome place for your wedding; they have weddings or other events there essentially every weekend from spring through early fall.

Have to say, I've never had a photo "weenie" tagged before!!!

Well, OK...one more. Same Japanese maple I shared earlier, but with more snow coating the branches (Audubon nature center)

Couple more photos from today. Downy woodpecker (Audubon nature center) Wooded area at Audubon nature center (snow facilitates itself so well to black and white!)

Some photos...

LOL!! Oh yeah, right!! Hey, I need coffee! OK...closing my eyes. It's a white-out, my snow board got blown to the next neighborhood. I'd estimate 50-60MPH gusts now. That work??

Rain changed to sleet then snow around 8AM here in Chevy Chase/Bethesda. Coming down at a decent clip, sometimes with larger flakes. About 0.5" now, I'd estimate, covering the grass and cars. Some roads and walkways are covered a bit too. No real wind yet, though there was a burst of wind very early morning (around 5AM-ish). Eyballing the wind like @Bob Chill, I'd estimate 5-10 MPH. Went out to the Audubon nature center to get some photos, will try to upload some later. It was so peaceful there with snow falling, nobody else was around.

These refs suck!!

I couldn't attend PSU's zoom call...anyone have a bit of a summary of what came out of that, any assessment of things, etc.?

GFS isn't all that out of line or different, other than the kind of ridiculous 18Z run earlier. If you check 18Z yesterday through 00 tonight, you can see that. Sure, it's not like the 18Z, but it's still quite good overall.

I checked the ICON (sucks!!!) just to see earlier and it does indeed look better than it did in previous runs.

So, most of the precip (even if less) in the cold air?