Stormfly

Damn sleet woke me up from my power nap! Looks like the mixing in started here around 1900. Can confirm on CCTV and TEMPEST registering rain. It was nice while it lasted. A bit over 2". 24/24

Grabbed this a min ago... Nice rate, small flakes. Whatever it hits, it stays. Zero melting. 24/22

Inspector shows 42dBZ and dark blue. That's some seriously heavy snow!

Hot tubs are great in the winter. Until it's time to get out. And if it's windy that is a bummer too.

First flakes arrived @Jarrettsville! And they are lazy looking drifting around in the breeze.

I use precipitation depiction mode on radar scope pro. Green rain, blue snow, red ice. Speaking of colors how many old timers here remember the Maryland National Bank building downtown? The letters MN were done in neon and could display blue for cooler, red for hotter, and yellow whenever it was going to change.

Lowest at my station was 966mb, 03/13/1993. Probably a record that's not gonna fall in our lifetimes.

21/13 overcast. Waiting for the worms, er. snow to come!

9/-1

The smallmouths are suing for treble damages!

13/0

Yes, first clip was from 2004 LOL. Hence potato quality.

Must be a hell of a storm coming tomorrow. Already lost power for 4 seconds here! Incident start 15:01:16 Incident end 15:01:20

Haha that would be a contra bass!

Anyone have a spare traffic cone handy?

Underwater pyroclastic explosion?

I play organ. Not much use on a steamship of the time. Today, however we have keyboards. Heck I even can plug my iPad into a PA and fire up my Moog 15! I'm sure the Covid cruises could use a bit of cheering up. Particularly Norwegian Gem, she left St Martin yesterday and is supposed to arrive in NYC on Jan 18th. Looking at those WWIII maps I'd say they have a LOT of weather to get through. Hopefully nothing like Norwegian Dawn on April 16, 2005. Open bar or not it's tough even to those of us with years of seasoned sea legs.

I'm well balanced, I have a chip on both shoulders and the glass is always fool.

Thanks for this informative post and taking the time to explain this. I leave at it this, I'll take what we get! At least it's a storm, it breaks up the monotony of boring weather!

Wouldn't it be grand if these models and current forecast busted big time? That is, tides change, the swing goes the other way and we get a blockbuster snowstorm? I know, wishful thinking, but a funny thought nonetheless!

We had a couple bouts with 80F this past summer. My criteria for running AC is 70F. Yeah I know I'm a cheap bastard! But mid 80s and 90s. And much higher than that. Well working in engine rooms it's expected. But for comfort there's nothing like low 40 DPs in the summer! As for sleet, I'd have to say March 14, 1993 was probably the worst here. About 16" of snow and then hours of HEAVY sleet! I guess it could be worse like in 94 where we had a good 8-10" of snowpack and it rained for a day and turned sharply colder. Not only you could walk on it driving on it was possible! Might as well been solid ice. Both were extremely dangerous to do on any kind of incline because you were definitely sliding around. Falling down on it sucks too because it's like 30 grit sand paper. It was laughable watching the animals try to do their thing. Fortunately the ZR en masse missed us this way. But further south (Anne Arundel) everyone got treated to the 60Hz chorus and blue light specials in the sky. For those wondering what that means here's a video.

Especially when you have to get rid of it!

Highest I've experienced personally was 87F. If you had to do much more than walk in those conditions it feels like it would kill you. Seriously. Coming outside from a cool airconditioned space everything on you immediately gets wet. Skin feels clammy. It's beyond disgusting.

That's catastrophic. Especially if there is following winds. I'll take thundersleet for a thousand, Alex.

Good thing those rarely verify!