Scarlet Pimpernel

Haha! Did it go to a recount?!

He's Bull-something, that's for sure!!

What is this "winter" you speak of? But seriously, yeah, coming out of hibernation now myself! Hope you are well, Millville!!

Vote early...vote often!!!

I used a 100-400mm lens at 400mm with a 1.4x adapter on my Canon, so that gave an effective 560mm focal length. Didn't rotate it or anything, that's how it was visible with the naked eye as well. That lens is a beast...like 3.5 pounds...but it's awesome! And thank goodness for image stabilization!

Not sure I can ever eat hotdogs again...

Hahaha! I was just thinking the same thing...that must be a record number of weenies received for a post. I chucked another one his way just to be sure!

Very nice! Interesting how yours has a "rotated" perspective from mine. Another interesting thing I noticed is how there is a nearly straight line where the penumbral shadow ended (where it gets very bright white at the edge).

Dragged myself out of bed a bit after 4AM for the partial lunar eclipse. A little later than I cared to, as the peak occurred a little before this photo I took. But still worked out!

-----(to infinity)PNA!!!!! (just to upstage CAPE there, hahaha!!). But could that actually work if we also have a -----(infinity)NAO??? The mind wonders!!

But you know there's a good chance the December thread could turn into...

I read that the WTF index is very unfavorable, too.

Cool, thanks for the info!! Unfortunately it's at the peak around 4AM, but I might try to drag myself out of bed to check it out anyhow. Hopefully will be cleared out mostly by then. I read that it's not "total", but still like 97%.

Don't forget the -PNA!!! That plays a role too!

Moon at dusk this evening...

Hello, Mrs. J!! Damn that looks good!! I'm getting hungry again and it's 10:30PM as I look at this hahaha! Is that a bad thing? How are you? Hope all is well...

Well, maybe one more!

Here are some I took over the past few weeks. Sending in 3 posts to avoid being too large...

Interesting...thanks for that information. I guess it makes sense that as you get ~6" snow there would be fewer accidents at least in part because people aren't daring to go out on the roads. Unlike for small events like that mini-clipper. Though it was frustrating at the time (and scary, but mostly due to some idiots thinking that you can drive normally on ice or spin their wheels hard if they're stuck or swerving!)...I certainly could see that a lot of focus and preparation was for the upcoming major storm.

Yeah I remember that all too well! Not that I minded the mini-clipper with an inch of snow as a sort of "appetizer" before the big storm. But the roads were awful, even main ones! I dropped my daughter off at her ballet class (Wash. School of Ballet, down near the Cathedral). No problems, but it had just started to snow on my return home. I then got a call that the class was ended early due to the road conditions. It took me an hour or more to get there from my place (normally took like 20 minutes). Wisconsin Avenue was an ice rink. Coming back home, it took literally 2 hours (!!!!) of white-knuckle driving in that mess. It was after 11PM by the time we got home, and that's after leaving the ballet school around 9. I was shocked at how apparently nothing was done to even the main roads before that...it's not like that light snow was unexpected. But of course by then, all the focus was on the big event later in the week, so it may have (literally?) flown under the radar.

So true! I was probably located on the western "edge" of the dry slot area here in southeastern MoCo, it lightened up for several hours that Saturday but never actually stopped snowing. Then in the afternoon we got crushed with the deformation bands. That was awesome! I got 24" from that storm, and not too far to my northwest there were 30"+ reports. So if that dry slot edge were just a bit farther east...oh hell, now I sound like Ji complaining about "only" 24" snow!

It was, indeed! I still think back on that and remember how exciting it was. Both in advance of and during the event. I recall the Saturday before the storm, sitting in a Starbucks in Rockville that was adjacent to a Barnes and Noble (sadly the bookstore is now gone from there!). I was on my phone looking online here at the latest discussions of the 12Z model suite that day. It's as if all models "clicked" to indicating a major event the following week. Details were up in the air of course at that time, but it was clear we'd be in for a high-impact winter storm. It was a weird feeling...like suddenly, "wow, OK, now we're in!" The entire next week was a waste at work, following all the details as it approached!! I remember your somewhat controversial avatar of the animated "guitar player" that you put up during that storm!!! Pretty funny! That was a guitar player, right?!?!

Haha!! Is that a rhetorical question??