WxWatcher007

Simple is good. Let’s bring back overrunning events too lol

Kev and Berg holding hands and whispering “cold and dry, cold and dry” to each other in a corner as inneedsnow closes in.

Happy Thanksgiving, friends!

Absolute heartbreakah that it’s happening during a holiday weekend. Otherwise, I’d be in Watertown right now.

38.9/37 .24” of rain so far. Actually pretty enjoyable lol.

He’s not going to lock anything in until he’s measuring meaningful snow in his backyard and I don’t blame him. I’m cautiously optimistic but no amount of model dopamine is enough to erase the years of great looks at 500mb that failed to produce for one reason or another. Yeah we don’t know what’ll happen, but good can turn bad as much as bad can turn good. At any rate—happy Thanksgiving all!

Humor during the lean times was the rationale for The Panic Room. We should at least be able to have fun.

It’s beyond spectacular when all cylinders are firing.

Heartbreaker that I can’t be there lol

Yep. Winters have been rough but tropical has been big time (for chasing + Isaias).

2013-14 (DC) is my favorite season and 2012-13 (CT) had the Great Blizzard of 2013. So I'm paying terribly for that four year heater a decade ago.

Almost a third of my life lol 2023-24: 24.7" 2022-23: 13.7" 2021-22: 28.8" 2020-21: 44.4" (A normal season!) 2019-20: 15.6" 2018-19: 30.0" (Well below normal but I'm coming from DC lol) 2017-18: 12.5" (DC) 2016-17: 5.6" (DC) 2015-16: 28.5" (DC) (Well above normal) 2014-15: 27.3" (DC) (Epic comeback/Divorced winter)

I don’t see it being downgraded in postseason reanalysis.

The vibe in here is much different from yesterday. In a good way.

Obviously easier to do with no kids lol

Yeah—for the most part my wife knows if something big is happening I’m probably on the road. I pull the card more for tropical though. A few years ago when I chased Hurricane Laura I woke up one morning and just said “I’m going to Louisiana”. In 2022 though when Buffalo had its all time Christmas blizzard, I stayed home. I probably could’ve tried it but 1) she’s really become part of the Christmas traditions after years of work so I didn’t want to undo that and 2) it was the first Christmas after my dad passed. It was the right call, but part of me hates that I made it lol.

I don’t track hemispheric or regional winter wx patterns/signals like I do tropical, but I’m cautiously optimistic about December.

Not even really thinking about the holidays tbh. If we can get on the board in meaningful ways, that’s already a massive departure from recent December disasters. I just want to see productivity from a modeled pattern.

My favorite clipper of all time happened in DC some years ago where we just kept juicing on the models up through game time and had like 20° powder falling all day. The little clipper that did. I miss those.

Here’s the problem—just can’t quit it. Between Tip’s dopamine drips and the real housewives infighting the drama is too much to look away. Hoping we get a classic Richmond to Portland crusher this winter. The ones where 95% of us get something good are so rare these days.

It absolutely is. There’s no urgency really underlying the summer discussion. It’s filling time. Low stress. Mostly tongue in cheek. Because everyone (or like 95%) here loves snow and knows it can only happen in a short window, the anxiety is everywhere and helps drive the craziness. And I get it, but it’s crazy. lol

Temp dropped to 39 even here. Cold and dreary November day.

I genuinely enjoy winter, but I cannot express how awful it is when we’re failing around here or waiting for things to change. I mean this with all sincerity—it’s by far the dumbest time of the year in wx discussion. It’s low level torture reading these boards and idk how or why I subject myself to it daily. It’s not necessarily that anyone is stirring the pot, it’s that there are irreconcilable differences, unfounded panic, and delusional optimism. Everywhere. All the time.