WxWatcher007

I’ll pay for this miracle for the next decade.

That’s winter of yore stuff here

Going from 0 in January to 6” in February won’t do much for me

I see that already when I drive from here to any town to my north, south, and east. The neighbors can pay for their own snow.

Looking forward to the drone-supercomputer partnership that allows me to pay for the weather in my backyard someday. A nice 3-6” layer of snow on my little acre Christmas morning will be well worth the $899.99.

Less than 4” in the Feb 2024 miracle? The difference between a HECS and BECS in 2020s SNE!

And that’s what fascinates me. There is this element of unpredictability that occurs on both a mesoscale and synoptic level that has an enormous impact on people and the environment. It’s the EF5 that destroys a house and spares another. It’s the snow/mix line that gives one part of town 6” of snow and a place a few miles away half that. It’s being 20 miles from the eye of a hurricane and watching it wobble as landfall approaches. It’s watching a window for a blizzard open and close. There is so much to consider.

Yeah—I think the point that I’ve tried to make around here, especially going back to my days living in the DC area, is that the models while extraordinarily powerful and useful have a limitation to their reliability. They’re tools, not prophets. They don’t make it snow and they don’t have the ability to take it away. I do think at some point the big dog threat became less likely, obviously, but I don’t view weather as “meant to be” regardless of the outcome. The best way that I can articulate this I think is with tropical. You have a hurricane. It’s clearly in an environment that’s favorable for explosive intensification. It’s intensifying. The observed conditions suggest that it could continue taking off—and some do while others don’t. The potential is real whether or not the ingredients come together at the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time. With this system, we all knew the potential was there. It just wasn’t realized. That doesn’t make the potential any less real to me. Hopefully that makes sense.

That’s incredible

lol I’m so jaded. My very first thought when reading this was “And it can go straight to hell just like its daddy”. All joking and emotion aside, I disagree here. I think the setup was as good as we could legitimately have, and while it turned out to fail, it was real at some point. That’s why I’m on the cusp of pulling the plug on it all. If we want anywhere close to normal, we can’t expect 1-2” events every ten days to two weeks to get us there. And assume February will just be fine. It’ll look nice and I won’t poo poo snow, but it’s objectively bad to have DC, Dallas, and maybe even Atlanta surpassing my seasonal total at any time, let alone in mid-January.

Yes. For the love of God let us get a setup we can’t possibly screw up.

I didn’t say don’t look. Just buyer beware. We literally just had an epic model collapse at medium range…including the Infallible Euro…on the very same threat.

Looking objectively it is a nice look and has trended stronger. That said, it’s on an island. At least with regard to its potency.

My meltdown will be complete by Sunday. I won’t make it that far.

It literally makes me sick. Don’t worry though, the models will make it up by being unanimously unwavering on the D10 cutter.

It’s unreal lol

It looked great. I loved the look too. Of course, our region wide blizzard turned into an epic region wide porking.

And will still record more frozen than us

You’ve lost the entire plot my friend. There literally is no such thing as a good thing anymore. Not here. Today. Call me when that nice shortwave has survived the journey in a meaningful form.

I’m doing all the things. Throwing my snow board into the neighbors yard, blocking any friends from DC, Atlanta, or the south that mentions the word “snow”. Reconnecting with my wife. It’s hard but necessary.

I’m getting my affairs in order before this threat officially goes to hell and I can cancel the rest of winter Sunday.

From that, to this. As our sinking ship fades into the night, I’m not too proud to make one last plea. Euro, Euro, Euro, Euro I’m begging of you Please don’t take my snow Euro, Euro, Euro, Euro Please don’t take it Just because you can We fell in love with your night run Of feet and feet for everyone With crashing temps Snow holes for none Now Scooter’s out And Ray is done You’ve turned our snow To clouds and sun You’ve porked us all Atlanta’s won Euro I dream about it in my sleep Awake, I read the thread and weep I’m praying For a little snow Euro The long range ghosts appear again My back is broken as a man Please let me go I’ve taken all I can Euro, Euro, Euro, Euro I’m begging of you Please don’t take my snow Euro, Euro, Euro, Euro Please have mercy Halt your fatal blow New England winters are a loss Regression’s here The rats are boss And I cannot endure this hell Euro I had to plead my case to you My winter hopes depend on you And whatever you decide to do Euro Euro, Euro, Euro, Euro I’m begging of you Please don’t take my snow Euro, Euro, Euro, Euro Please don’t take it Even though you can Euro Eurooooo…

Of all the patterns over the years, this is the worst by an order of magnitude. I’m being dead serious too. The precision it takes to smoke Dallas, Atlanta, the upper south, central Plains, Ohio Valley (Cincinnati), western NY, DC, most of Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic coast, and northern NJ (in December) while simultaneously porking virtually all of non elevated New England is truly extraordinary. I’m as optimistic in life as one can be, but a cleared eyed assessment of this situation cannot lead me to any other conclusion than this was our chance, and a rat is likely to prevail imby as a result of our increasingly apparent failure.

Gotta love winter in New England: more talk about climo snowfall of yore and white asbestos flakes from abandoned buildings falling across cold and dry landscapes than actual snow.

The world needs to see what the models have done to us.