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Why do my kids have a 2hr delay??

I don’t want to go too far down this rabbit hole, but I think our current 7 year winter suckage is a combo of background warming, natural cycles that are unfavorable, and bad luck. We’ve had troughs favoring the west in winter for years now, but up until winter 16-17 it was the opposite with a seemingly permanent ridge out west. Remember the “ridiculously resilient ridge” out west? Sucked for them but we loved it. That cycle flipped HARD. I think that switch will flip again at some point to favor a trough in the east in winter, but background warming will probably mean it’s not as productive as it would have been in the previous cycle.

Over 2” at my neighbor’s PWS which runs low in windy conditions. Some others nearby are almost 3”.

Lot of standing water in the road as I drove home. Also lots in farm fields.

That’s the best GEFS look I’ve seen yet. Longitudinally extended trough from 50/50 west to north of the Great Lakes with a strong -NAO is classic.

Meanwhile the GGEM has a modest hit. Best solution it’s had yet I think.

It’s closer at H5 to 6z vs 0z. Just doesn’t dig as much.

I think we consider cutters well-modeled because we don’t usually give 2 shits if the track goes over Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, or Minneapolis. It’s all (usually) the same outcome for us. The changes to the Chicago snow forecast I think shows that they are subject to the same wiggles that mean life and death to our snow totals.

I got 3 evaluations for repairs to my gutters over the holidays. Would have been nice if 2 of the 3 could actually send price estimates so I could have had the repairs done before our 5th heavy rain event in the last month…

I think Anne Arundel did the early dismissal first and I get it for them with the coastal flood issues. The other MD counties though are mostly follow the leader.

I guess if we can’t get a snow day, we’ll become California and close for heavy rain and wind.

JB winter forecast verified!!

It’s not the same at all. Cuts up the spine of the Apps

Somebody tell Mother Nature that we’re supposed to get a shit ton more snow than the OH valley in strong Nino winters.

This is pretty gorgeous. Closest to the 50/50 region GEFS has put the TPV.

Been saying this for years. And doesn’t help when local media Mets use similar descriptors/adjectives to talk about normal (or even above normal!) temperatures.

GFS is damn close to a real big dog.

Might be more Stillers fans than ravens fans

Lol so much rain on the camera lens it’s like watching a game underwater

Hopefully this includes us

With pouring rain

That’s triggering after this week

All rain now

Column temps were good enough for 4 hours. Just couldn’t get any precip rates here.

12z GFS with snow chances the next 2 weeks