mattie g

No shit, man. It's awesome. Planning an early happy hour with the neighborhood crew at our house. Figure the snow will likely be over by then and will roll out the solo stove to hang out!

It's the worst. Just one reason to love living on a cul-de-sac in a relatively small neighborhood - plows only come by well after everything else has been scraped.

We just tend to do well with this kind of thing. This is just *the* perfect winter day!

Beautiful fluffy dendrites now. So awesome.

It beefed up again...

Expecting a HECS every time there's a favorable Nino seems a bit of a stretch, but I guess it's go big or go home. Small flakes and very light snow in Burke right now.

Nice to see that banding/blobbing/building directly to the west of me. Fun little storm!

The 3km is really close with that streamer, as well!

I just want a long-tracker that we can *all* feel comfortable watching unfold. 8", 12", 15", whatever...we need to strike this hot Nino iron and make the most of it in prime climo!

Same...2.5" here in Burke. I was pretty surprised to see that much new accumulation when I measured at 7:00, but I won't complain We're perilously on the southern edge of the current radar returns and what the meso guidance shows happening through the day,, but hopefully we can hold on!

Greens in my corner of Burke are not resulting in any precip on the ground.

I often recall a comment you made years ago about how we always end well because we backbuild as storms pull away. I feel like it’s just one of those things we do here, and it’s almost always an extra couple hours of unexpected snowfall, even if generally light.

My Dad texted me earlier and said that there could be a Norlun trough that would drop 2-3”/hr rates along the Jersey Shore (that’s where they live most of the year, but they’re in Florida right now) I responded with “have you seen the latest HRRRDRRR, old man?!”

I'm fine with it. I heard we torch for the rest of the winter, so let the kids enjoy it while they can! 32F with clouds in Burke. Wunderground is trying to tell me there's a snow shower right now.

I'm not seeing less QPF than 12z. It's not too different, but it is a bit more according to TT.

Might as well get Ellinwood to paint you in the pale grey right now.

It's already been established that 28F in 2024 is more marginal than 28F was in 1974, so just accept it and move on.

It's delivering huge bumps of copium to all on this board right now, and not one of us is going to turn it down. The question is whether the GFS brings news that the NAM's goods were laced with fentanyl or if it was pure.

Exactly. I think we get too hung up on the details of long-range looks during a very specific period when we should take all guidance across time as a general guide. As always, the look for any week from any model run could hit perfectly, but that doesn't mean that the model was necessarily "right" since it's likely the look it gave was different on a previous or subsequent run.

It was 10F in my corner of Burke when I checked at about 8:00 this morning, so I think it's fair to assume it may have dipped *just* below that.

I want to extrapolate the f*ck out of a perfect vort pass.

Extrapolated NAM leading the way!

I thought the 12z was a bit more consolidated around the Lakes and actually dug some more. I might be wrong, but if that had gone out about 6-12 more hours it may have looked halfway decent.

If National recorded 4.1" then I may have to up my own total.

This kind of stuff is infuriating. I know of too many people in the same situation and there's never a truly legitimate reason given for wanting people in the office. A lot has to do with these companies that invested in commercial real estate and their fear that their investments will go south if people continue to work remotely, but they'd rather just say "We work better when we're all in close quarters with one another" or some nonsense. I'm moving to a new project this month - this one is fully remote without any physical office to report to. I'm moving from another government organization that used to require us to be in the office five days a week prior to COVID, but now we're hybrid with loosely required two days of in-office per week (and that has been ticking up a little in the last six months). Really looking forward to knowing I'll never be asked to be in the office for some random meeting or something, and that I can pick and choose days to go work from my company office. Since my wife is a freelance editor, she's also at home and often just needs me out of her hair during the day.