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Looks like a wheat beer.

Do they not feed people on the other side of the river?

I think we're all surprised you can see anything at all. /rimshot

Unisys is awesome...it's where I learned a lot from back in the day.

I'd also add this: if you're new, you're going to hear alot about soundings from the models. I've found a snow sounding from an airport in Michigan to use as an example: Date: 48 hour Eta valid 18Z THU 17 NOV 11 Station: KMBS Latitude: 43.53 Longitude: -84.08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEV PRES HGHT TEMP DEWP RH DD WETB DIR SPD THETA THE-V THE-W THE-E W mb m C C % C C deg knt K K K K g/kg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 1000 144 SFC 995 187 0.9 -7.2 55 8.1 -1.9 270 16 274.5 274.8 271.5 280.7 2.23 2 950 551 -3.8 -8.6 69 4.8 -5.4 272 21 273.3 273.6 270.6 279.1 2.09 3 900 975 -8.1 -9.5 89 1.4 -8.5 273 22 273.2 273.5 270.5 278.9 2.06 4 850 1415 -12.2 -13.2 92 1.0 -12.4 282 23 273.4 273.7 269.9 278.0 1.63 5 800 1875 -15.7 -19.1 75 3.4 -16.4 283 24 274.4 274.5 269.5 277.4 1.05 6 750 2358 -18.8 -25.1 57 6.3 -19.8 290 27 276.2 276.3 270.0 278.2 0.66 7 700 2871 -20.0 -30.1 40 10.1 -21.4 281 34 280.3 280.4 272.2 281.7 0.45 8 650 3416 -23.9 -34.6 37 10.7 -25.1 280 36 281.9 282.0 272.8 282.9 0.31 9 600 3995 -27.7 -37.1 40 9.4 -28.6 281 36 284.0 284.1 273.9 284.9 0.26 10 550 4615 -31.8 -43.0 32 11.2 -32.6 282 38 286.3 286.3 275.0 286.8 0.16 11 500 5282 -35.7 -47.9 28 12.2 -36.4 282 41 289.5 289.5 276.6 289.8 0.10 12 450 6009 -38.5 -57.9 11 19.5 -39.1 282 44 294.9 294.9 279.1 295.0 0.03 13 400 6813 -41.4 -69.3 3 27.9 -42.0 283 48 301.2 301.2 281.8 301.2 0.01 14 350 7712 -44.7 -71.3 4 26.5 -45.2 285 54 308.4 308.4 284.7 308.4 0.01 15 300 8737 -46.8 -69.5 6 22.6 -47.3 284 58 319.3 319.3 288.5 319.4 0.01 16 250 9942 -47.4 276 60 335.6 17 200 11414 -48.1 268 66 356.6 18 150 13301 -49.3 265 52 385.1 19 100 15940 -50.7 255 44 429.8 TRP 0 If your sounding looks like that, I can almost guarantee what falls from the sky will be snow. Of course, there are nuances to reading this sounding like noticing if the column is significantly saturated that you'll learn with time. Text soundings can be found at this address: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/make.html Please, no matter whatever you've learned elsewhere, believe this(http://68.226.77.253/text/NAMSFC/NAM_KCUB.txt) is a sounding. That is what's called model extraction data. While it can give you some of the specifics you get in a sounding, it is NOT a sounding.

Since the winter forecasts are coming out...

You know I'm going to ask if you hit it.

Mark, y'all went to poogans?

If I knew you had a hot wife, I wouldn't have felt sorry for you getting snow screwed all those years!

We caught this in the surf down at Edisto in June:

At the peach bowl on new years eve: Down at Edisto in June:

Now thats funny dave.

ahem

We've gained a ton of new posters in the past year and trust me, it's awesome to see our community grow such as it has. This place, however, has a good deal of unwritten rules that sometimes is hard for new folks to understand. I know you're not trying to be a pain in the ass but there's a certain code around here that most of us old timers came up with and it should still apply. Here's several rules to make sure your posting experience is as positive as possible: 1. PLEASE do not ask about QPF in every model discussion. All of the major metro areas in NC/SC/GA will invariably always be covered. It may not be immediate but I believe we did a great job covering most areas during the last event. I left Tennessee and Alabama off that list because we just dont have the critical mass of posters there so the likelihood of immediate QPF numbers goes down. We will do our best to include everyone though, I promise. 2. PLEASE do not badger red taggers with IMBY questions. 3. Do not ever declare a bust when an event is just unfolding. You'll get burnt 99 times out of 100 and end up pissing people off. This is actually probably more important than the first two guidelines. 4. Please feel free to add as many obs as possible in the OBS thread, even if you're a lurker. You're almost always downstream of someone who wants to know what could be coming. 5. KEEP WHINING OUT OF EVENT DISCUSSION THREADS. That's what the banter thread is for. 6. Dont begrudge other people their events, even if they are less likely to get it than you climatologically speaking. That's what they do in the other regions and we dont do that here. Never have, never will. 7. You almost never know more about weather than a red tagger, unless it's Analog96. 8. PLEASE only add the coarse images from NCEP.