pasnownut

Wow.....already. While I prefer December snow to set the mood, Meteoroligically, our region will take the first 2 weeks of March any day over Dec for the atmospheric ease for it to snow. Stats likely prove that as well. We’ve had how many December blizzards/nor’easters? yeah this storm sucked, but please not already guys. Just go outside and punt your blow up Santa. You’ll feel much better.

Shipp U.

Yeah, as Mag alluded to earlier, if we had even a decent HP anchored in NE we'd have been seeing a notably whiter event, and like Trainer said, generous qpf would have made this a good one. Meso's were suggesting more frozen, and while the snow part didnt work (which it usually doesn't in situs like this), we do tend to hold the cold a little better than modeled and that to seems to be the case. We were close to a good one, but it looks like we now have a boring period coming up thru Christmas as the red n blues on the 500's say take some time off and see you after Christmas, as the pattern looks to start trending more favorable around the 26th and beyond.

oh i forgot....33 here in Etown

Little bit of ice accrestion here in ETown. Nada at home, but i really was never in part 2 so its all good. What shame this couldnt be snow, but it's mid december, and looks like 80N is snow/ice and maybe back to some snow. Oh well...onto the next one.

Radar just west of you appears to have snow on your doorstep. Hope you cool enough to see it.

I think us LSV counties are out in this one. Mesos say just north of us were where the action would/could be. I’m at 33 here which is below what I thought it would be by now but still not enough for any fun here. Enjoy northern crew.

32-33 with better returns n some mashed flakes mixed in

Bolded part matches mesos nicely and like I said this am. 80 north is jackpot

Yeah evening runs look quite icy for some. My guess they dont want egg on their face for not calling out early on. Special weather statement is the easiest best way out for ultra short term forecast statement. This was part of my point the other day. While situs like current Dont have to mean big snows, they often can over perform with cold holding vs model outputs. For me winter weather is any sort is a win in December.

Couple raindrops w part 2. 35 deg.

FWIW Gfs was seeming to “Bring it back” early on as well. More ridging out ahead of it. Not sure it ends up being anything but it came across my mind when seeing it. edit-and just seeing what Bob posted about it being frozen is also a worry as ridging is the likely reason for seeing it pop but the byproduct is scouring our precious cold in advance. Just not a winning setup verbatim

light snowflakes falling...#mood snow

You're ahead of me by 1.899"

WRF/NAM's look rather similar so it may be a little bit of snow/ice before we change over. 2001kx and Voyager look to be in the fun zone.

I edited my bolded part after you got to it, as i changed snow to frozen, as that is the delineation that i was meaning to highlight

I've tried hard to forget, but thought it was 15 or 16. I do remember the temp though... 76

member that time a couple years ago.................. skorts for everyone..... thank goodness we will have plenty of liquids for hydration....

unfortunaely dp's are up so not much help there. Yeah, we need good rates to score frozen down here. Heh...just looked at the nooner NAM's and tippy top of Lanco flirts w/ frozen for round 2 through the whole next round. If you look at snow panels (and understand the flaws within) - one can see the wet/frozen lines - and thats what i use them for in situ's like this.

and to add to above, it was largely a rainer on GFS well into the weekend. If we can mute warmup a bit more, looks like a shot at white christmas for parts of I 80 and N. Here is the hot panel i'm concerned about.

boy i wish i was north of 80 tonight. Looks like a nice little event for them.

I'v always found it intriguing, how micro climates still exist within general regions (ie peidmont). While in general Trainers mindset of being burnt more than not is true for most everyone in the forum, like you stated someone still cashes in while others largely sit on sidelines...thats my point. In fairness to Trainer, it was always a light qpf event for part 1, but if you look in the MA forum, many are on the snow board this morning (best forcing was slated a little south of, so its understandable.

I cant argue w/ your fizzle part whatsoever. Mountains are like snow eatin monsters for us piedmont folk (in situ's like current one). In my mind there was enough forcing to get this done, but DP's were rather low and helped to gobble up what QPF was in them there snow clouds after the mountains got done w/ them. Forcing is there w/ round 2, so hang onto your thermals as long as you can, and take pics....cause south and east of 80-81, your gonna lose it fast. N and W of there, you may be fine, and actually build a little snow pack. Enjoy.

it would be funny to see us get our 1-2 by round 2 overdelivering. Snowing S and W of us right now so maybe we can score before we lose thermals.

Yeah you could see that part1 fizzled out in the last few model runs. With no good HP to the north to help squeeze out whatever WAA precip was headed here, it was smart to temper expectations. With Cashtown cashin in like usual, its not to say that this was a total bust, as he is SE of the mtns just like us....he just lives where it likes to snow. Good for you bud. Will be interesting to see if this weekends opportunity comes back on the models, as they've lost it (middle range normalcy??). Guess we'll find out in a couple days. Still feels like normal Dec. around here, and we're talkin about threats. All good by me. Just hoping next weeks warmup gets muted as the PAC seems to want to flood the conus with warmish air around Santa time.