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Lol though It's ironic to state this here, since practically the entire reason most are here in the winter is to see if the water will be wet or frozen.
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That is jogging away at such a drastic rate that if it keeps up it could wrap around the globe in the remaining runs between now and Thursday and end up nailing us after all.
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lol
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Maybe a met, or just someone with a better memory than me can chime in, but if memory serves, over the last twenty years, quite a few of our more memorable storms have been on our radar a week out, then were almost entirely lost, only to show up again with a vengeance a few days later. And I don't say this as someone rooting for a storm to happen. Normally I definitely would, but I'm supposed to be travelling Thursday.
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lol. We're already wrapping up the fun "we're all snow bros! I love you man!" phase and into the much more tense "it's early, but not too early to worry" phase.
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You would say that.
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I think that right now we're still trying to see if we'll like the movie based on the trailers, looking forward to opening night.
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You guys ever check out the Twitter (X) handle @lockingitin ? They post screenshots of the most extreme model runs, presumably as a joke, given that the handle is named LOCKITIN (all caps)
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This is why sometimes ignorance is bliss. 99% of everyone watching this snow is enjoying it, but we can't quite enjoy it because we're thinking about Thursday and Saturday. What the hell are we doing lol. We want it to snow, it's freaking snowing, but we're not happy because it will rain in the future, *even though it is snowing on top of snow as we speak.* And I totally relate. If it was supposed to be cold the rest of the week with flurries Thursday and more snow Saturday, this would be more enjoyable.
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Out at lunch at school it hadn't started yet, and I said I hope it's not missing us. My friend, with no evidence, said 'Nah, we're gonna get crushed' and I wanted to believe it. We got nothing. Back in those pre-internet days I think it was days later that I heard one of the other News 12 rub salt in the wound, saying that Atlantic City got 18" and Montauk got a foot. So close. Back then we had very vague memories of '78, and awesome memories of '83, which came on like a wall at 12:45 PM.
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Back then it seemed like clippers were all we had. The sense was that anything big coming up the coast was preordained to be a heartbreaker snow to rain, if not outright rain for those of us near the coast. But if you could get in that narrow target zone of the clipper you were in business. Small business, but still business. And whereas today, a storm taking the traditional clipper path seems to frequently be a bad setup for us, where it's always marginal, back then I don't recall that being a problem (maybe because generally it was colder?) Then you'd get a nice enhancement etc action once in a while that would turn the 2-4 into the beloved 3-6 (6-12 in the 80s was fantasyland except for the few famous storms.) Edit: one more thing. The biggest nod to how great the 2000-2018 period was is that we don't refer storms as the "Blizzard of '78", "Blizzard of '83", etc. as if we be hearty sea captains. We had so many storms during that time that that kind of went away.
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1-5? 2-6? 1-6? Is this not a first for these sorts of ranges? 1-6 is awfully close to 0-6. I get that may be the best we can do, but, if I may be scientific for a moment, that looks weird man.
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You guys familiar with Metallica's 'Enter Sandman', which Mariano Rivera used to enter to, because he put the game to sleep? Well we have 'Enter Snowman', who seems to do the same for snowstorms. I'm working on lyrics.
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I don't think that tells the whole story though. What these boards definitely provide is that anyone who follows closely here will almost *never* be surprised by a weather event. You can see them up to a mile away, or 360 hours, to be exact. Sure, they often don't materialize, but I never see a non-layman on here calling anything a certainty outside 72 hours. When they do materialize though, it's a thing of beauty. When that L appears out of nowhere off the NC coast within a few hours of when a model predicted it 120 hours prior, that's pretty cool. But if that same storm travels 25 W of where it was predicted to go, some will complain that everything s*cks. It reminds of the Louis CK bit where there's a guy on a plane who just learned about the miracle of in-flight internet, and when it goes down he starts complaining as if it was a birthright.
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LibertyBell you have some awesome responses sometimes. They remind me of Kramer from Seinfeld. Apolitical, above the fray of the heated debate, the first thing that comes to your mind is: "you guys are really doing parrots an injustice here." lol that's great.
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Amazing. Due north of me. I love these events that are a line of pure snow from well into Canada, allllll the way south, hundreds and hundreds of miles, right down to.... 6 miles north of me, where it becomes rain.
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This seems underdone.
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Back then the local weather would've been the original basic white techie all caps font on a dark blue / purple background, except of course in the case of a WSW when you'd get the beautiful warning tone, the red screen, and the scroll. Man this evokes A Christmas Story like memories for me.
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source?
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I think that's the case for the northern half of Suffolk, but I feel like the southern half behaves pretty much the same for the length of the island. @NorthShoreWxcould definitely weigh in on this.
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we're doing it wrong
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Right, but didn't you say that you're 4'2"?
