mattie g

Give me snow maps for the follow-up event!

It would be really annoying to flip for a little bit, but I think this run would be just that - a super quick flip before temps crash as the CCB cranks. Same panel for me has me at 33F at the surface, so I might *just* be snow, but either way that flip would be frustrating but not make too terribly much difference in the end.

OK...so is that what I'm seeing happen on the Canadian?

Canadian and GFS are miles different at 500 at 126. Absolutely zero confluence in the NE on the CFS. Can;t really tell, but it looks like that energy that moves into 50/50 on the GFS just gets sucked into the vort in the Rockies on the CFS.

Them crazy Ninas...

My 9-year-old knows what the words are, but she wouldn't think of saying them. My 5-year-old will likely be dropping F bombs within the next couple years.

Agreed. Part of this "effort" for me is just enjoying the art of the possible. Turning that into the "art of the not likely " is a bummer, even though I get it from a scientific and discussion standpoint. Maybe I just need to put psu on Ignore.

We get more big snowstorms than most areas of the country, but that doesn't mean people should expect them.

I may have heard my parents curse once as I was growing up, and I'll never forget it! My mom told me that she was was "tired of this shit" when I was acting up about something when I was probably like 10 years old. That's just stuck with me, so I don't think my kids have ever heard me curse. Wife might drop an "ass" or "damnit" from time to time, but otherwise you don't hear much colorful language in our house! On another note...tension is rising in the long-range thread. Even if he's making a valid point, you gotta love psu coming in and pushing some folks closer to the ledge.

I'm not upset with either the mean or the cluster of Lows right here.

Luvr is all about ensuring that there's precip around. Likes the idea of thump and dryslot and all that. It helps that he's much farther west and can withstand that kind of track better than most.

When is our next 70F day?

My thoughts are that folks in Maryland are weak AF.

33 and raining here in Burke. Hope this nastiness gets out of here sooner rather than later.

We need that phase to happen and kill off the primary that gets up into f'ing Wisconsin. Wouldn't hurt for that west Coast ridge to get farther east. What I say means nothing, so might as well go for it!

Only if precip arrives after the temp drops.

Hope everyone gets as much cold rain as they can handle!

Tertiary roads are wet with brine now. They also brined up the neighborhood road going to the local grade schools. That isn't a bad idea, to be honest. That road is all hills.

Cool…this was in South Jersey and sounds really familiar. Drenching rain followed by a true flash freeze and a couple inches of snow on top. Wild stuff.

I was kind of annoyed by all the excitement about that squall because I got like 0.5” if I was lucky!

Not sure if it was the same system, but I remember an event in the 80s that was a decent rain that preceded a cold front, but as the front came through it dropped a few inches of squall-ish snow. Temps plummeted and things froze over rock-solid. It was pretty cool because we were able to play ice hockey on the huge frozen puddle (like 50 yards x 50 yards) near the creek in the park around the corner from my house.

Sorry…but you’re not going to convince me that DCA is a fair representation of the weather that takes place generally outside of downtown DC and the immediate urban-ish areas of Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax Counties.

DCA is a joke.

And not only that, but the timeframe of interest leads right into Christmas. Even a small glacier that would cause Santa to slip off my roof and bust his ACL would be cause for celebration.