HighStakes

I have to agree 100 percent with your viewpoint. Then throw in the constant doom and gloom narrative that dominates the tone in here really makes me care even less.

BWI: 23.5 DCA: 16.1 IAD: 24.7 RIC: 12.4 Tiebreaker SBY: 13.5

The whole situation really sucks. Coincidentally I just mentioned Jilly's to my father a few days ago. I haven't been there in a good while but I used to eat there at least once a week.

Nah. Not getting anything decent.

He's simply atrocious and now that were playing solid ball he's killing us. He's swing through 89 mph fastballs and has no chance to hit anything offspeed and now his defensive is slipping.

No kidding. Soon you'll be saying how is it December already.

Dave did some work at my house last year. I was very happy with his price and workmanship. Highly recommend him.

I love when they play on Thanksgiving. Perfect ending to the day as long as we win. I think this will make the 3rd time. First 2 Thanksgiving games we were home and won.

I always pass it on the way to Gettysburg. Such an odd location for such an establishment considering the only other attraction in littlestown is the McDonald's. Lol.

And then Dallas the following Thursday. Back to back Thursday games.

Early april 1990. I think it was actually April 3rd. Rain started mixing with snow late in the afternoon then flipped to all Snow. It was moderate to heavy at times. Snowed until the early morning hours. 2-3 inches total in Owings Mills. Pretty legitimate event for so late in the season and it was well forecasted.

Great example bringing up the Feb. 2006 storm. Tremendous deform band. This storm demonstrates how getting into the CCB band can be a serious game changer and produce big time totals. I got 16 in Reisterstown. There were a few other spotters close by that measured 18. I believe Randallstown got 20 and like you said Columbia was 20-22. The storm was really slow to get going. When the first flakes started to fall most areas where well above freezing. Snow was rather light for most of the afternoon and didnt really start accumulating nicely until early evening. Even then rates never really got any better than moderate. Local mets didnt pick up on the deform potential and during the 11 o'clock news they pretty much thought the storm would wind down by 2 or 3 a.m. with maybe a couple more inches to come. I remember being exhausted and fell a sleep around 12:30 a.m. We had around 6 maybe 7 on the ground at that time. I woke up roughly 3 hours later. When I looked out the window I was shocked. S++. Easily 2-3 inches per hour. 10-12 inches fell in the area in just a 4-5 hour period. The deform band took this otherwise run of the mill decent type snowstorm and made it truly awesome. Had it been colder following the storm we would all remember it more fondly. On the other side of the spectrum you have several storms where the deform band underachieved and kept what could've been great storms rather pedestrian. The 2 late Feb. storms in 2005 come to mind. Classic Miller A's that both should've been 6-12 areawide ended up under producing only barely hitting low end warning criteria in most spots.

GFS is a tiny bit more chilly than the Euro for next weeks temps. Lol.

You are on a roll today. Great job.

The cards are lining up for what will most likely be a typical winter for our region. It will snow, just not nearly as much as we want most likely. Stop acting like we live in Watertown NY.

The airmass in front is reason to pause the argument the first storm in a pattern change never works out. If we trying to get the cold to catch up to the precip that often fails especially in the southern part of our region. That is not the case with next weekends system. of course things may look different but as of now it's a decent if not really good look at some frozen accumulation.

The early March storm that year really crushed parts of PA.

That's an amazing run. The total snowfall for the season is pretty much what I thought. Thanks. I love looking at historical records like this.

Yup. I remember being up in York PA that January and there was 10-12 inches on the ground while I had about 3-4 in Reisterstown and about 6-7 in my current location.

There was a lot of ice even up here although I lived in reisterstown then. I think I was around 30. Probably broke 40 up here. The snow line ran more north/south with a lot of systems that year if memory serves. Being west helped some but not as much as usual unless you were more northwest.

93-94 was so close to having big totals. It's one thing to have so many mixed events with marginal cold or weak antecedent air masses but to have them in frigid conditions because the depth of the cold was so shallow has got to be a 1 in 200 year type winter.

Rains holds off until after game is over is not heavy even then.

This look would imply there could be some real arctic shots and even if a storm cuts it would be hard to scour and could be quite wintry before a flip to rain. Often with another cold blast right behind any departing storm.

Still warm at the surface but not awful. At least its something to keep interest and not 10 days away. in. Push the timing back 6 hours and cool the surface a bit then its doable. It certainly could beef up a bit. Probably a forum divider though.

Can't get over some if these totals. Awesome. Congrats. One thing is becoming clear, this is not last year or the year before. Good times ahead.