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About Bob Chill

- Birthday July 15
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Four Letter Airport Code For Weather Obs (Such as KDCA)
Va48
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Gender
Male
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Location:
Penhook, VA
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Cat 5s up the chesapeake and a foot of ice
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Total hit and run. Filled in and mod snow took like 10 min then full foot on the gas for 90 min then rapid shutoff and mountains came back into full view. Man, what an awesome "personal" event. Wife is similar to me but not insane. She sat right by our biggest windows drinking coffee smiling start to finish. I need some warm days though. I have big time projects getting underway including a month behind the controls of an excavator and probably 100 tons of fill dirt to work with. Plan was to be done with this by 2/1 lol. Apparently frozen ground shuts down earthwork and dirt merchants
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Shut off like a switch. 1.8" yesterday and 1.8" today. 2 completely different experiences but hit 3.6" total. Blue sky is in the distance. Should be good photo ops here shortly. I'm not really that close to climo. 9.3" on the season and modern climo maps tag this elevated area with 13" around smith mtn. I still give this winter a B-B+ grade based mostly on the feels. Multiple cold events, plenty of snow cover days, and lots of fun tracking. If i can hit 13" it's an A-. Below norm DJF with multiple events it's not normal or average. It's pretty rare.
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After some solid un-luck yesterday, I managed to draw an inside straight. Might already have 2" new. I'll measure when it's done. Bust is unbusted
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Better than ANYTHING yesterday lol. I'll clear and inch on this round easy. Might be there already. 15-20:1 stuff. Man I love upper level action. Reminds me of my Colorado years
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Richmond Metro/Hampton Roads Area Discussion
Bob Chill replied to RIC Airport's topic in Mid Atlantic
Getting hit pretty good with mod high ratio snow with big dendrites. Half inch in under 30 mins so far. Hope it holds together for y'all. Heavier than anything i got yesterday lol. -
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Lt snow started up again. Not expecting much. Maybe .5" but radar looks OK and it cold AF so we'll see
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Exactly. I'll enjoy any and all. March snow is like last hour at the bar after a long night. Things are winding down and thinning out and right when you're ready to call it a night, someone starts buying rounds of shots for everyone and a super hot girl starts talking to you. This is why you never go home early
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Without fail, year after year, the period from March 15th to mid April annoys the heck out of me. Bipolar temps, a tendency for Grey skies, and plenty of mud just doesn't do it for me
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Lt snow filled back in. Might pull off 1.802 or something like that haha Mesos like my area for the ull in the AM. If I could somehow tack on 1.2 the bust goes back in the bra
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Obvious short range bust down here too. Snowed all day until about 3pm but I would be lying if I reported 2". About 1.8" everywhere I measured. Cold temps but no wind make it hard to find a juiced patch hahaha
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Yep, batteries.... made of gold apparently. Prices imploded this year. I wasnt originally going to build this part out this quick. We have generators and 12v solar but opportunity struck. I'm using EG4 server rack batteries and inverter. I have 2 1.2kw batteries now but the system is plug and play expandable to 16 batteries and 6 inverters. That would cost more than a car lol but I made sure I built something that can grow with ease and compatibility. I'm amazed I can run my big tools like planers and table saws when its sunny and never touch the battery power. Enough OT out of me lol. It's going to snow again. When I don't know but I'm 100% sure it will snow again within the next 12 months...
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Just shy of an inch. Of course rates picked up now after the pic lol. Cold dry snow. She's a beaut Clark
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Heisy pointed this out on the ops but the gefs shows it really clearly. 48hr h5 trends are 100% our friend. It's a flawed setup that is trending colder and more suppressed. Fits the personality of winter to a tee. We'll see if we can hit an inside straight. Beyond this even looks better every day