Bubbler86

Abner Doubleday invented both baseball and global warming.

We have actually had a couple daffodils come up already and then freeze but not ready to give up on winter yet. Most of next week is pretty much a punt at this point but still 3-4 weeks of decent climo left. It seems like a good chance MDT will set one or two daily high records between Mon and Thur. On the point of whether the weather is warmer now that in the past the record high for Wednesday is 74 in 1890.

I just stopped over there and the discussion is about plants and flowering too early. LOL. I saw a long post from the war reenactor at the top but it was too long for me to want to read it right now.

Good thing it is real snow otherwise we might not count it (LOL). If you need help with snow maps let me know! The most interesting, in a sad way, about the Euro is that it does not go below freezing in the LSV for a full week starting this coming Sunday.

Funny...the Euro muted Sun, Tue and Wed to only 50's with possibly some upper 40's but now suggests 70's is a real possibility in the southern part of the LSV on Monday.

I only poke into Banter once in a while. Maybe I saw it but a lot of stuff in banter is just people trying to engage others into posts that lead to fights so I sometimes shut it out.

Is that someone posting in the MA? I had not noticed him.

Thank you Jackie Chiles

LOL, no doubt. But the fake snow discussion has always been a fun one for me as it has come and gone on here (and other boards) for decades now so I always jump at a chance to speak to it. LOL

I have always fallen on the fake side of it because I based my thought on precip being formed through interaction of pressures and rising air vs. cold air blowing over a warm lake and it dropping off the after effect on the other side. I consider LEK a phenomenon vs. an actual precipitation event though I fully understand both sides of the argument.

Hope you get some fake snow.

M y long range Polar Vortex in the news was not good enough I guess? :-)

It was one of the more cold looks I have seen in a while but we are going to need something like that to get Feb BN after the first 5-6 days end up average 30-40 AN.

We are going to be so far AN in February by this time next Thursday that will take an arctic plunge to make the month end BN. Lows in the 50's early next week. Yuck.

Yes I should have specified Harrisburg and South.

I think we can hit 60 3 days next week with Tue making a run for 70.

Good chart. So they need to get over 10 to not live in recent infamy. 10 or less is probably historic to me using that chart as a guide. Based on the 60s convo from earlier I would be willing to take the 1960's out and say the real average is all the other years when considering all years.

LOL. Not sure animatronic should be considered AI but the Country Bear Jamboree is paying close attention to these developments. Edit-I found the born into a world of terabytes a funny comment. Sounds like someone who just went shopping at Staples and saw the word on the computer he was considering purchasing.

Just need one big hitter to save the winter. 2/3 of it is gone but climo at MDT is what...35" or so....a 1-2 foot system would keep us away from a historically bad winter.

Yesterdays Gorilla in the Gulf scenario has been pushed back 36 hours but still in play...now into next weekend.

12Z Euro just sees the NS Wave pass through and does not develop much as to a coastal. Upslope snows in far Western PA and West Virginia seem impressive.

And I guess that happens but how often does it happen when there is also only a 10-15 degree difference between the US/Canadian border and Phoenix Arizona at the same time?

On the subject of our convo this Am and how this winter has been "not as cold", check out the 0Z Euro predicted surface temps for the CONUS this weekend during the daytime. Its not cold anywhere nor is it hot anywhere. Usually there are some extremes somewhere but it is actually just blah throughout the whole country. Usually Florida, South Texas or the normally warmer areas east of California are hot at any given point but none are this weekend. Maybe not so rare but found it interesting. It's 51 in Richmond, 61 in Jacksonville, 64 in Dallas, and 62 in Phoenix.