Stormfly

Everyone wants 02 but will get 16.

The woofers are all gone. Of course, it's nothing but treble!

We also recorded some bitter cold temps too!

Here's a blast from the past for you long time MD folks! I remember when he came on 13 back in '73. Can't believe next year will be 50 years service for him! RIP Jerry Turner and Al Sanders.

March 1980. March 01, 1980 we got 6" snow. March 08, 1980 it was in upper 70s and we had severe thunderstorms at dinner time. That was how March should be. And March 28-29, 1984. Robert Irsay took the Colts to Indianapolis that morning too. Superstorm '93 pummeled us hard here. Lowest all time barometer (966) and over 16" snow before the sleet bomb which was disappointing. Would have easily been in top 5 snow events if it stayed all snow. Most recently would be the March 02, 2018 wind event. Probably the most legit non tropical non thunderstorm widespread wind event in recent memory in this area.

Indeed it is! It was like that here this AM. I wish I checked earlier to see if the sun was poking through like that. Love the backlighted ice, looks like a crystal wonderland!

TEMPEST was iced up too! Thank goodness for the F3.5 300mm as that puppy is up there!

0.20" accretion here. Best (ice) event since December 2020 for us. No impact to travel, roadways remained wet.

Ugh!

29/27 ZR arrived.

I'll take that over 15F and rain for sure!

Conventional (CMYK) printing wouldn't work with black media.

Always loved the sound of the French Horn section!

Yep, pictures is difficult to play (properly) on Piano. I remember back in 1994 playing Bydlo on a friend's restored Steinway Parlor Grand (circa 1918) and it was challenging and fascinating at the same time! Now Beethoven's Rondo e capriccio op.129 more commonly called Rage Over A Lost Penny played like this is difficult! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk9ASyG6jag I did it but cheated. It was sequenced on a disklavier and then played back at proper tempo.

UNLESS it's occurring over fresh snow (changeover). Then it's a royal PIA to deal with.

Not terrible. Go outside and listen. The more trees and leaves on the ground nearby the better! The sound is mesmerizing.

BIG sleet pellets now! Sounds like small hail on the skylights!

I thought a bird flew by the window, looked outside and some of the biggest "flakes" falling down. Looks like ash from a big cardboard fire. Didn't last long, seeing smaller flakes mixing in. Brightened up noticeably as well.

Been flurrying here for the past hour. Below freezing, dark overcast. BIG change from yesterday's weather for sure.

Phone nerd junky here. I've owned every iphone, and many, many androids in the past decade and then some! Currently I have a Z Fold 3 and iPhone 13 Pro Max. I really want to get the S22 Ultra since I miss the s-pen and Note 20 Ultra I had. HOWEVER, there are serious concerns regarding battery life, display issues, blah blah blah. Typical Samsung early release shit. These devices are $$$ and getting something that's less than essentially perfect (at least as claimed) is frustrating to say the least. At least it's not on the scale of LG/Oppo/OnePlus, et-al. And Google Pixel, don't even get me started on those. Loved the days of rooting and jailbreaking but TBH now there are enough compromises and the countless hours spent either tethered to my Mac or using ADB and copying APKs and rom files to microSD and flashing, using ODIN...What a mess! Just want to use the damn phone LOL! I also have a lot of expensive photography gear and cameras are paramount! The best camera is the one you have with you. And with the shooters of the last few years getting progressively better, computational photography, etc. I'm toting my bag and gear around less and less. Still, cannot (yet) sidestep the immutable laws of physics when it comes to lenses and sensors so any claims that ANY phone camera approaches that of a high end SLR/medium format is just plain silly and unfounded. But any capture is better than none at all! The Z-Fold 3 with Radarscope is a chaser's wet dream. Of course with our typical Mid Atlantic weather, it feels more like a cat confined to a glass home with zero mice in sight!

Love Mussorgsky!

Wind of change. Hearing peepers at night is telling. Although we haven't heard squat so far. By May when the Gray Tree Frog invasion is well underway, we know the prep for 70 dews is just around the corner. But after an evening late spring thundershower, their chorus is so soothing! Later in the summer it changes as other nocturnal insects join in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVucupKIv64&

46/33, definitely cooled down fast.

I really hope nothingburgers aren't high in cholesterol!

Not gonna happen here because I have plenty of freshly ground chains, well tuned saws and generators ready. You know as everyone knows the best way to not get snow is own a snowblower!