Scarlet Pimpernel

For a lot of us, there won't be anything to be washed away!!

I was just going to say...so, could one argue that the GFS is actually a step toward the ECMWF camp, but just farther south with the trough?

Yup! And the 2nd Movement is a veritable timpanist's dream! Actually I like the entire symphony (of course!). I had the good fortune to see it performed live in Atlanta by the ASO years ago when Yoel Levi was conductor and music director. And the Atlanta choir was quite good.

Don't forget...before you all get too excited, I'm on deck!

Honestly, I was a bit confused if @Heisy meant the ICON was all alone, or the GFS!

Yeah, but we always come back just to see the discussion despite that. Pick the nuggets of good information from all the other shit flinging that goes on!

Sadly, we don't have the DGEX anymore!

Yeah I saw all that in the main long range thread! PSU does have some good points, he always does, and he's very thorough. I like his detailed posts to be honest. But I will admit at times it gets too much on the "well, this can go wrong, that can go wrong, we don't want it to evolve how it's showing now..." Caveats are great, but sometimes you end up just looking at the worst case scenarios.

You can probably find it, but there's this recording some time back of a narrator (sounding very professorial) with classical music in the background, going into all the uses of the word "fuck". He starts off by saying something like "Of all the words in the English language, perhaps the most versatile is the word 'fuck'". He then goes on to use it as every part of speech ("It can be use as a noun, as in 'you worthless fuck'", etc.). Pretty amusing!

Of course! Sometimes you just have to laugh at that, when it's blurted out suddenly! You were probably thinking the exact same thing that she said!!

Always a good sign, I normally take that as an indication that the models didn't totally suck for us the previous night! Whenever I see the last post (or several posts) in the discussion thread is by him...I know it's a rant about how everything sucks!! LOL!!! Kinda like Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren's quote: "I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

@mappy, that's awful and I'm sure quite scary! Definitely would freak me out to have that happen suddenly in the dark. Glad you are OK. The car's condition obviously is secondary to how you and mini-map are! (Oh, and by the way, did your little mini-map actually use the "f" word???!!!)

Mmmmm, sushi!!

Well for what it's worth looking closely, there's a hint of a trough extending northwest through the Lakes area. Probably the effect of various other solutions.

Exactly! If we can get a blustery 3-6" powder and some truly cold air that goes through Christmas weekend, that's a HUGE win in my book. Like I said earlier, everyone was all ga-ga (understandably) over the GFS showing an Arctic front blasting through with a brief period of decent snow the other day. Point being that (most!) everyone would have been all for that even with just a couple inches of snow. Now some other things are coming into perhaps better focus with the evolution here, in a good way for us. Let's hope that continues. I'd really only be disappointed if we get almost nothing and then a blast of dry cold. But we don't have to get a HECS either (I'd take it, to be sure!). Right...and very good point. We've seen different solutions from the GFS and Euro today, though overall the same general setup. And all of those outcomes drop some decent snow here while it's more than plenty cold. Can't complain at that. Having some good leeway is a huge plus, let's hope that's real in the end.

We pray to Jobu. Just don't steal his rum!!

It really was a surprise too! I remember it was raining, then looked out the window not long after and these fat flakes were coming down! It ended a short time later but like I said, still pretty cool.

I was living in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in DC at the time. I do remember that early morning wet snow Christmas morning, like rain changed to snow for a time I think. We didn't get a lot other than to whiten the grass a bit, but it was pretty cool for awhile!

Yup...both the GFS and Euro would be a white Christmas with a very wintry feel. If that were to occur, it would be the only "truly" wintry Christmas that I can recall since I moved to this area (in 2001). You could say we technically had a white Christmas in 2009 with the leftover snow pack from that Dec. 18-19 storm. But even then, it was being washed away right on Christmas with rain. And it beats the hell out of 65-70 and humid.

If my eggnog is spiked well enough, I'll be able to look out my window and see deep winter conditions and track the next one, regardless of what the actual weather is!

Regardless of the precise snow amounts shown, fact is we all would stand to get at least a halfway decent amount or more in time for Christmas. The other day everyone was all excited about that Arctic front blast that was showing up, even as it gave far less snow than this depicts now today. I'm glad it's showing more of a potential for a coastal storm at this point instead of a frontal passage. (ETA: Looking at the temps, it would be like cold powder for everyone too)