Scarlet Pimpernel

Speaking of flowers, here's a snowdrop from the other day. Early spring blooms!

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This says exactly what I was thinking. This isn't totally a choice of doing something if you personally feel safe, a virus is a completely different animal. It won't only affect you if you choose to participate in some activity, that also could potentially impact others. I totally get wanting to "move on" in some manner. As I said, we all want to get back to some kind of "normalcy" and where case counts and transmissions (including the several variants) are way down and mitigated. I don't think any of us...regardless of views...really *wants* to wear a mask everywhere and not be able to do certain things. As for vaccine availability, if I heard correctly it should essentially be generally available for all (i.e., not just certain groups or ages) by mid-late May? And the amount that's available is increasing rapidly as well. Definitely good things!

Absolutely. Sorry if what I said came off as a bit disrespectful as well. I just found a couple of the other comments to be off-putting (not yours, but others).

LOL! Yeah, this pretty well says it I think. Agree. I hesitated responding earlier as I didn't want to get too much into the controversial/political territory. But felt the need to say a little something because I found a few of the other remarks to be belittling and a bit insulting.

Thank you for this! I honestly get tired of all the calls to just open stuff up, it's time now, etc. I don't even think it's necessarily so much "being scared" as it is being cautious. Honestly, everyone would like to get back to some semblance of normal but as @WxUSAF mentioned earlier, this is no time to spike the ball. Many of the experts (such as Dr. Fauci) have cautioned that while the vaccine is ramping up, that doesn't mean we should just abandon current distancing/masking protocols or start opening everything up in full. At least not yet. I'd rather be overly cautious with this than not. The other issue is that "making your own decision" doesn't only affect you, it potentially affects everyone around you as well. The nature of an airborne virus.

"After further review, the call on the field stands. No pin for you!"

Shortest. Radio Show. Ever!

Especially Dr. No...errr, Evil! "Those weenies are expecting snow in late March! And they'll stay up until 2:00 AM daylight time now to check!!"

If the I-25 corridor there through Denver were like I-95 here, the equivalent of @psuhoffman's location would be about where Sterling is. And we might be hearing concerns about suppression or fringing!

Was going to say either that or their version of Short Pump!!

A couple degrees warmer where I'm at in the northwestern 'burbs of DC, but otherwise pretty similar!

Another nice thing about this? Mostly clear days and dry (well other than very late week perhaps)!!! Not dreary rain/drizzle for days on end. I will admit, if an actual snow possibility shows up the following week, I'd be in for that and follow it. But for now, damn, 60s and sun will feel really good!

I did a detailed look at the soundings and they show a warm nose at H7 near the I-95 corridor. We get sleet. CAD is pretty stout though. Total beatdown for the I-81 and northern crew.

Yeah, it is a little amusing. Like you, I don't really see a high probability of actually getting snow. Well, beyond something like a bit of white rain or a few mangled flakes, that wouldn't surprise me. But at the same time, I'm definitely intrigued here and something to keep a watch on. I know there are several who are "done" with winter by now or who don't care for March snows in general because they don't hang around for long. Personally, I'd love it if we could get a good event in later March, to be honest! It wouldn't bother me that it would disappear within a couple of days after.

So do the models!

Hahaha, true! The extra hour of daylight took it away from us!

The "Daylight Savings Day" storm???

I'd have to think that's a 30 year mean, the same type they always update at the end of each decade (e.g., 1971-2000, 1981-2010, 1991-2020, ...). But would be nice to confirm that. The other thing is they mention the average from a century ago, which I don't necessarily think is a very fair comparison; the measuring location I believe had been somewhere in northwest DC (near Georgetown??) for some time before the current DCA location. Though wouldn't be surprised if the average in northwest DC has dropped too. And holy cow, it just hit me that the early 1990s are now three decades ago!!

That must have been the same clipper-type storm that I remember we got in Ohio on March 8, 1984. Largest accumulation I ever saw from a clipper, we got 8" and it was in the teens that day. That was a great couple of weeks in the area. After a mostly very mild February, it turned much cold near the end of the month through March, then we got hammered by a big storm Feb 27-29, 1984 (16" snow!), followed by that clipper on Mar. 8. The record lows for the following couple of days (Mar. 9 and 10, 1984...including -5 on the 9th) still stand.

Small world... Serious here...no joke, but I knew Jason Garrett long ago. He went to my high school in the Cleveland, OH area (University School). He was a year ahead of me. His younger brother was in my grade and also played football.

That negative image of him looks like he has vampire teeth!

Haha! I actually vaguely recall some about the 1972 Olympics and Mark Spitz's amazing run of gold medals (I was like 6 at the time!). My older brother had this bean bag fish, and after those Olympics he took a black magic marker and drew a big mustache on it. He dubbed it "Mark Fish" (in honor of Spitz)!!

Oh I hear you and know exactly what you're saying. Overall I agree, too. I was just trying to say I try to hold out hope most years come March, but that honestly, this year there really is no indication that there's much of anything "going on." Is there even much real chance on the 1000 ft. mountains or 50 miles northwest, at this point this year? So saying "screw it, we're (probably) done" in my opinion isn't exactly an outlandish statement. For at least 90%+ of us, it's not exactly looking like much of a realistic chance looking into the medium range indications right now.

Just wait until daylight time kicks in on March 14!!