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We cancelled winter before today’s snow

Ok, less dubious about BWI although they probably could have measured something if they went out at 5-6am. Drove to Elkridge for an errand on my way to work and very little snow there only 2-3 miles from my house, although again, probably had melting already. Driving south from Elkridge on the BW Parkway and almost the whole way was about what I had at my house…maybe 0.5-1”.

I’m glaring dubiously at the IAD and BWI measures…

December 11, 2023: 0.7”

Told everyone I thought we’d all get on the board this month

0.7” reported to LWX! Almost doubled winter 22-23 already!

Snow! Haven’t been out to measure, still snowing lightly. I’m shocked to see my temp down to 31.6. Woke up at 245 and it was still rain. 1.32” of rain.

Just in case any crazy person stays up to measure this. If something measurable falls, melts, then more measurable snow falls…you add those measurements together.

46 and falling. 0.82”

It’s all going to be about who can get a thump for 1-2 hours and then be awake to measure the moment it begins to slow down.

The thing is, this allegedly awful pattern is one with a lot of things going for it that we want! Undercutting STJ, Aleutian low, ridging in Canada. Yes, the continent is going to be lacking really arctic air, but some pretty minor tweaks makes the pattern still pretty workable. And only some modest tweaks turn it very good. My wag is that’s why we’re still getting the occasional fantasy range snow event or tease. It still isn’t December 2015. So maybe we wait until around new years, but it still doesn’t look like shit the blinds for the next 3 weeks.

Never a doubt!

Lamar has no touch on the deep throws

Not just this one. We’re preemptively cancelling until 29-30.

That was awful

Ravens look out of sorts

Euro not wavering. Chips fall time.

Back to fog. Epic fog winter.

Started as rain and temps seem far from freezing

The 10:1 maps are obviously ludicrous for this event, but I think we went all winter last year without seeing 4-6”+ on a 10:1 map inside 48 hours.

I agree with you in the sense it seems the transition is taking longer, although we’re seeing that transition start earlier than it was initially progged. This cankicking, as you’re terming it, seems based off of the euro now thinking that MJO will die in phase 7. Well, at one point it was killing it off in phase 3/4. Models always seem to underestimate MJO amplitude so I’m not sold on permanent phase 7 despite Eric Webb using 38 flame emojis. And phase 7 is actually good in Nino Januarys! Couple that with a tendency for more +PNA in the midrange plus the strat vortex disruptions and…we’ll see if it’s just shorts and tshirt weather from the 15th into new years.

I think the end of the EPS looks notably better than what that weekly plot shows.

Euro seems locked in