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That line looks tasty for dt Frederick. Let’s see if it holds.

Got antsy and biked little Bennett after work. Trail was in pretty good shape. Saw a few others out there. Chilly…yes…but sunny.

would have been cool to hike gambrill during this...or biking greenbrier.  seems like that streamer has been parked between hagerstown and gambrill for the last hour or so.

extremely healthy snow shower in progress here.  putting down a coating.

3 hours ago, losetoa6 said:

I put all my Carhartt work clothes away . I'll be outside tomorrow all day . Definitely will need to bring it back out da closet 

I thought winter was a wrap, too. Had to get my jacket back from the closet. Mother Nature tossed a serious curveball.

today's weather is anti-ideal.  had a couple of good snow/graupel showers here yesterday.

as long as it's sunny i can deal with a couple days of this.

i don't think i had the 2600, but did have the 7800.  i used to rock the apple iie back in the day.  that was a fun system...so many games.

speaking of which, i miss playing arkanoid at the cap center.  if you know, you know.

3 hours ago, H2O said:

 

I dunno. I get told plenty by a couple friends that post here that anything pre 1975 is the same as 1675. 

sounds like playing intellivision growing up is the cut off, which means i made the cut.  only by a few years, though.

42 minutes ago, mattie g said:

Yup! I've been doing general PM and scrum master work for quite a few years now, though in my current project of 30+ people, we've broken down into five teams and I've assigned scrum masters for each one. Now I, as the PM, just have them run their scrums and I get to watch from afar.

Good to hear that you stepped into the role! The people I chose as scrum masters deserved the chance to show that they can run the show - they're people that us senior folks on the team have identified as having leadership potential, and on our team it's a good way to help them grow. If you stepped in and are getting it done, then it speaks well of you!

thanks, yea this contract is nuts.  we have 3 teams, but probably around the same number of people total (around 30-35 if i had to guess).  one of the SM's left and so they added me as SM until they figure things out.  problem is we now only have 1 ba on a team that could easily have 2-3 ba's and also have to balance the new PI planning in 2 weeks.  we're short-staffed with devs as well. 

I actually don't mind the SM role so far, though.  the scrum ceremonies I can get used to, but not a fan of the fact that I also have to run multiple help desk calls along with other non-agile related tasks.

i'd like to report that i still have my final four picks and 6/8 elite eight's.  the rest has been a shitshow, but holding onto my late picks...for now.

2 hours ago, mattie g said:

My main issue is that it's windy when we don't want it to be and it's not windy when we want it to be. Definitely skews the perception.

it's been kind of annoyingly breezy during the nicer days we've had.  i'm still trying to figure out if it's a frederick, east side of the catoctin's thing, or it's just been that way (some of those la nina years like 2013-15 had that consistent breeze situation going on).

in other news, i've had to step in as a scrum master (which I think you said you do) and ran my first sprint planning yesterday.  that was tricky given that i had about a week and a half to transition/learn what i'm doing to run it properly.

Also, i can honestly say i don't need snow at this point.  if it happens, cool, but those 60 degree days were pretty amazing.

Pretty aggressive downpour moved through here. No lightning, though. Still 1 or 2 more rounds to go it looks like. On the plus side, free car wash.

Strong start to “met” spring with mild weather today and madness beginning. Baseball incoming as well. Not too happy about my Oakland As trading away again but looks like they’ve got some prospects in return.

On 3/16/2022 at 1:02 PM, George BM said:

There actually is a non-zero chance of some convection on Saturday. Models such as the NAM show at least a couple hundred J/kg of CAPE w/ decent shear. Perhaps a few lightning strikes and/or enhanced wind gusts? (General/MRGL type activity)

I’m all in.

i'm craving a thunderstorm.

1 hour ago, mappy said:

It’s a good skill to have, being good at math. My kid loves math, which scares me because, well…I’m terrible at it. My late father studied astrophysics in his days before being drafted to Vietnam. He loved it all, eventually became a software engineer. He’d be thrilled to see my kid enjoying math lol

Thank you! GIS is a lot more than just making a pretty map. There’s the cartography side of things and having an eye for detail/balance, etc. but the data analysis involved in GIS is fun. Using data and other spatial information to solve problems and then show them in a visually appealing way is satisfying. I’m thrilled with my path, even if I didn’t end up in meteorology as I otherwise had planned.

I took intro to astrophysics which was one of the hardest classes I’ve ever taken. Straight up weed out class lol. I ended up dropping it because I’m pretty sure I should have taken the physics sequence first (which was another grinder of courses). That stuff is interesting, though. My first job was on a cassini contract at Goddard. A lot of that team had phd’s…just a little bit above my pay grade lol.

If anyone here hasn’t viewed Saturn through a telescope, I advise it. It literally looks fake, but the fact that it’s not makes it awesome.

19 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

Y’all talking about Calculus brought back memories. After taking Cal I, II, and III and making pretty easy A’s in all three, I hit Advanced Calculus with a professor who once worked at NASA and only gave a midterm and a final. Those were our only grades. Furthermore, both exams were exclusively proofs of the theorems that we had used along the way in the earlier calc courses. I think he did something like prove 6 of 8. I can’t remember. I managed to escape with a B. 
 

But by far the most challenging math course I had was abstract algebra. I would never want to do that again.

I didn’t take abstract algebra, but always thought it could be cool. I did take number theory in undergrad which had its wtf am I doing moments. And yea, once you get into the upper level classes it was a lot of proofs esp advanced calc. The Real analysis class I took helped prep for that.

4 hours ago, Roger Ramjet said:

The math is why I switched from Meteorology to Environmental Science. I started out as a Meteorological Major at Lyndon State College for three or four semesters back in 1992.

I was kind of the opposite. Got my bs in math from umd which didn’t offer an undergrad in met. I actually had thought about transferring (including Lyndon state), but figured I could always consider grad down the line (and ended up in IT lol). As much I consider met as a career, I think it’s probably best as a hobby for me.

27 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Sure as heck hope it's wrong. Because wouldn't La nina conditions persisting into summer pretty much squash chances for a niño? (And I don't wanna think about nina round 3, smh)

Nino or nina, we’re due for a blizzard.

I would like not to repeat the several weeks of mostly overcast or light rain in May several years ago. I don’t remember the year, but I don’t want it. I don’t need the 80s yet, but I’m good closing the winter tracking until next year’s El Niño. Another sneaky plus of warmer weather is lighter loads in the washer/dryer.

i did notice some of the increase in snow totals that others have mentioned yesterday.  my place probably had 3" realistically (maybe more with a snowboard), but just up the road in gambrill was in the 4-5" range.  pretty good finish to the winter.

6 hours ago, nj2va said:

I use the tapatalk app - way easier to upload photos than on the site.

thx, i never used that.  i saw that some people take screenshots of their photos and then crop.  i tested it out and it didn't reduce the size that much.  seems like tapatalk would be a better route.

another thing that's interesting about the dc data is that the standard deviation is 11" lol.  i'm math/stats rusty on the terms and confidence intervals, etc. (so feel free to correct me if i'm wrong), but in general you can expect about a 68% chance that the totals for a season will lie between 6" and 28", give or take.  that's a lot of variability from season to season.

how do people upload photos here?  i've only tried from my iphone and the size limit gets me every time.  i know imgur was mentioned, but i'm curious if people are just using a compression app?  for vids, i'm assuming youtube is probably ideal.