psuhoffman

Snowpack taking a beating. 42 with full sun. Down to about 6.5” on the north facing and 5” on the more south facing side of my yard. Hopefully it can make it 2 more days to reach a month straight. After that it can go. Served it’s purpose.

Hangin on

This happens every year about now as there suddenly isn’t as much interest in winter weather tracking.

My posts are public. He can read them. I didn’t direct ANYTHING at you. I know you are just moderating the forum policies. I have no issues with you. None zero zip.

It’s going to be warm. Hot. Mild. Spring is here. It’s over. But it might snow. Or not. And be chilly. But warm. Bugs. Muggy. Humidity. Ahhhh

The climod system had coop data. http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu

No one is questioning your authority to regulate the board. But people have the right to say they disagree with a policy. You don’t have to care or listen or give a single shit but not everyone is going to agree with every decision. Doesn’t matter you can set the rules however you want and enforce them and I’ve never questioned that or complained when you delete one of my posts. Totally legit.

Fair enough but here is my frustration with this...it’s NOT about that! My post was very clearly trying to point out this isn’t about the students. I’ve said several times that this is about the STAFF safety not the students. But everyone ignores that and goes back to arguing over what’s best for their kids!

Yea I never took well when my sister in law tried to tell me and my brother what topics we could and couldn’t discuss at the dinner table either. Maybe I don’t want to discuss it with random trolls I don’t know on some other forum. I know the people here. We have online relationships. Some I have relationships offline. I want to discuss things with THEM! If the powers that be decide we can’t so be it but don’t act like going somewhere else is a simple solution.

That’s fine the admins and mods have the right to run the board however they want. And I have the right to disagree and say so. You can delete my posts. I’ve had dozens of posts deleted for “political” reasons over the years and I’ve never once complained about it. It’s your right. I just don’t agree that we should ban topics that aren’t inherently political every time a political group decides to exploit that subject!

So if this is a “weather” only board why do we have a banter thread or one on bugs and gardens and beer? No one complains when we discuss lots of topics unrelated to weather. I understand “no politics” given the current climate but I’m annoyed that it feels like we are extending that to “anything that involves disagreement”. AGW isn’t political just because one party decides to pretend it’s not real for financial reasons! A virus isn’t political just because one political party decides to pretend it’s not that bad because they didn’t want to do anything about it. Our political parties have opinions on almost EVERYTHING. What if tomorrow one of the parties decides beer is bad and some of their sycophants start making angry posts when we discuss our drinks in here...will that suddenly make that off limits too? It’s annoying that we let that determine what we can discuss and label topics political when that aren’t political at all, unless your definition of political is “something a political party has an opinion on” in which case EVERYTHING is political! Why not ban the clowns who can’t have a conversation like an adult and get hostile v banking a while conversation. And if someone says something you disagree with and you don’t want to engage you can always just ignore it. I don’t get why we’re so sensitive to EVERYTHING anymore. On a larger scale in society ignoring each other will never improve this. We need more adult conversation and sharing of ideas not less.

It’s a virus. It’s not politics. Our political parties have opinions on EVERYTHING, even the weather BTW! Just because our parties have a stance on something doesn’t make it political. I promise you covid don’t care what your ideology is.

If it makes you feel any better I’ve had plenty of posts deleted by mods over the years for being “too political” and they were mostly liberal leaning. I just think everyone is too sensitive on both sides. Banning discussion is not the answer Imo. If someone can’t keep it clean and amicable then they can get banned. No reason people that can be adults and have a normal rational discussion and disagree/debate without being childish and nasty shouldnt be able too just because of trolls. We need more discourse not less imo.

@losetoa6 didn’t say anything wrong. He hasn’t been hostile to anyone. He didn’t insult anyone. You know...it’s a virus. It’s NOT political. Covid dont care what your ideology is. It’s only political so far as our two parties adopted a specific stance on the virus. But that can be true of ANYTHING! I’m tired of having topics eliminated from what we can discuss everytime the left or right decides to take a group ideological position on something. So as soon as either party decides to put something in their platform suddenly it’s off limits? F that and F them. That’s BS. Total garbage BS. We have to be able to discuss things that aren’t inherently political amicably and intelligently regardless of what some political party decides to say. It’s lazy to ban the whole topic v simply deleting posts that go to far and turn the discussion in a hostile way.

I wasn’t advocating a policy position I was opining about the effects on the State numbers. I was ready to go back. Twice. Made no stink at all. Then they delayed. Nothing to do with me. I’m simply stating the reasons. Whether you agree or disagree. Wrt the survey parents had input. They had to let us know who would be coming back. And in my one class of 32 it was 4 students. I’m not claiming that is normal across the state. This is specific to my district! I will push back on the assertion the guidelines aren’t important. This is personal but let me say I don’t take offense at what anyone says. I totally understand the hardship schools being closed has caused. I do! Also I’m one of the lucky ones that got a vaccination early in the process (luck of the draw) so this isn’t about me. I feel 100% comfortable going back. But it will be another 1-2 months before all the staff get vaccinated. Covid isn’t “highly” dangerous to the students but it is to the staff! There most definitely HAVE been numerous cases of educators contracting and dying of covid from exposure at schools. 3 teachers just died last month in Cobb County and there might be a lawsuit due to accusations the district didn’t follow guidelines and didn’t take immediate measures to stop the outbreak that exposed them to covid and cost them their lives. I admit I had a falling out with my Union over this. They continued to try to spin their campaign around student safety. I found that insulting. It wasn’t entirely true but it also devalued my life. I’m not going to lie about it. The evidence suggests this wasn’t that dangerous to the students. But it was to me! I have crohns, asthma and early stages of diabetes. My doctor was VERY adamant I not allow myself to be exposed. I tend not to argue with my doctor since I can assume they know WAY more about what’s best for my health then I do. And it was a risk for many of my colleagues. That should be a good enough reason. I shouldn’t have to lie and say it’s about the kids. My life matters to me and my children. If my school wasn’t able to do what the CDC says was necessary to protect me from being exposed why should I risk my life for a job that I’ve dedicated almost 2 decades too selflessly for way less pay then I could make in the private sector! I often give up evenings and weekends. I teach out of love and passion. But I also love my family and I have a responsibility to them. I have 2 young children. I can’t afford to take chances with my life! All that said I’m ready to go back. I feel safe now. I will be back in my administrative capacity either way. But still there are some basic safety guidelines they are still struggling to meet and not all teachers are vaccinated yet and many have health conditions. I won’t begrudge them for requiring the district protect them by following the state guidelines for safely opening.

I wonder how much of that is due to the fact one of our largest districts has financial issues AND structural problems that make returning harder. We keep having to push back the restart dates partially due to delays in making our facilities compliant with state CDC guidelines. There are some things other districts had already done anyways like air filters that we can’t even do now because most of our buildings lack a functioning central air system. That makes it more complicated. In many cases we don’t have the spaces to accommodate the class restrictions. Our “mess” of a situation was ill equipped to handle this situation. Many of our facilities are barely functional under normal circumstances. ETA: another part is lack of demand. My students were polled on returning and only a handful intended to return to the building. Then right after that survey suddenly the district delayed again. Likely didn’t feel the need to rush and spend crazy $ we don’t have if only like 5% even wanted to come back.

Cant remember a year where we had so many marginal boundary temp storms and every degree and 100 feet elevation mattered as much as it did this year. Very odd. The upper level pattern was perfect so places like Catoctin and the peaks of Parrs Ridge that had just enough elevation to overcome the general lack of low level cold did great compared to everyone else, even compared to the typical climo differences.

Storms plural? The only March storm, singular, that I know of that dropped those kinda of numbers over a widespread portion of this area was 1958 and even that storm the 20”+ zone was confined to the higher elevation NW 1/3 of this sub. The Ashe Wed storm in 62 I guess you could argue was close with the SW 1/3 experiencing those type numbers. But if we look at the last 50 years some of the March storms the last 10 years have been the best.

I’m ready for it to melt

State of the snowpack address. 2/24/21 Soggy, battered, weakened, but still despite the efforts of the evil sun empire it perseveres for a 25th day.

It was 44 when I left an hour ago. In Baltimore for vaccine shot. Snow was holding on ok. It’s compacting but it’s so thick not melting easy.

I’m starting to think that spot in central southern VT might be the best location for snow. It always gets more snow, I think because it’s downwind of the enhanced moisture stream from lake Ontario. But it’s more widespread than further north where the snow is mostly all upslope and confided to the immediate peaks. Plus southern VT gets into coastals way more. It also warms up in spring a lot faster then further north. If I had a spot to pick that might be it.

39* 40' 43" N 76* 53' 53" W

It’s a pretty good spot. It’s not just about elevation but also about proximity to other features. I could be at 1035 feet in a valley and get way less snow. But this area has several advantages. It’s the first significant ridge you hit going west from the Atlantic. So with storms that have any easterly or southerly (rare but today showed it can happen) wind component the upslope is pretty good. Coastals that track close enough crush this area. It’s far enough east not to miss coastals but far enough west not to be rain with a hugger track. Far enough south to get mid atlantic storms but just far enough north to get in on miller b’s. Far enough east of the Allegheny front to not suffer too much on a SW wind either. Clippers often redevelop just in time to get this area pretty good. It’s kind of perfectly located to take advantage of a lot then add in it’s the highest elevation around and that’s why it’s an extreme local snow maximum. If you added another 1400 in elevation without affecting the surrounding terrain that would translate to about 4-5 degrees and more upslope so you could likely tack on another 1-3” to most every event and the avg might be about 55” v 40”.

Around 35. Avg is around 40