HighStakes

Christmas 2002.

Snowing good now.

Been mixing here for almost an hour. Having trouble transitioning to all snow. I thought it would flip quicker once the mixing started. Almost all snow now as I type.

GFS has consistently been showing flurries and light snow lingering much of Thursday.

Temps are definitely colder than any model had us. May translate to a degree or two cooler tomorrow. We'll see.

Usually warms a bit when clouds move in.

Most models had us for a low of 39-40.

Need to focus on a running game.

That's rough but not as bad as Baltimorewxguy in Dundalk. He's probably as bad as DCA lol.

What also hurts you is that your on the East side of town.

I sit in a valley here at approximately 860-870ft. My parents live about 1.5 miles south of me on top of a ridge at roughly 1100ft. PSU lives directly behind me on the top of the Doug Hill ridge over 1000 ft. up literally a stones throw away. There's 1 more ridge about 1.5 miles north of my house that gets up as high as 1130ft. Sometimes in marginal ice situations my trees are just wet but I can look up on PSU' s ridge and see the trees are iced over.

That's not too bad for a valley. Much better than the Frederick valley. You are in a good spot.

Elevation?

Catoctins wow.

Aside from the marginal surface temps my other concern is this thing races through and we get a short period of snow after the changeover. We can overcome the surface with rates so hopefully it snows for 4-6 hour period. There is a solid consensus now that we get .75 of liquid or maybe even a bit more. I can see this going either way but things have trended better today.

Some horrific kicking in the NFL today.

Right. It's bad enough when a team sneaks in and wins their division with a 7-9 record. The NFC East winner could be only 6-10. That's ridiculous.

Not too shabby.

NFL probably should just have made where 8 teams from each conference make the playoffs this season with Covid. No one gets a bye. Not sure why they took so long to expand the playoffs in the first place with all the revenue at stake and their greedy nature.

I looking forward to tonight's game. Huge game for Buffalo on the national stage.

Huge games for us. Pretty much season on the line. Have to stop the run. Pressure is on both teams. Browns in a much more comfortable playoff position so they have room for error however this is a huge statement game for them if they're going to be taken seriously. Obviously caveats apply here, Lamar must protect the ball and have to find a way to get Brown the ball. Hopefully he can build on the game he had last week against Dallas. Also as always need to pressure Mayfield. Browns are confident so they'll come out with a lot of energy and intensity hopefully we can match it. Also we need Campbell to play well and be effective. He's still banged up and somewhat questionable. Should be a good game. I like our chances. If it's close we have Tucker.

One thing that has me a little confused is why the 850's arent crashing more during the deform band. Usually we kill it up here with ratios in a deform band so I would think we be more like 12-1 instead of 15/20-1.

If you're going to be this reasonable I don't think we have a place for you here.

It's not a hobby it's a mental sickness.

Still looks like a lot of snow here with some mixing in the middle of the storm.