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Looks like the Euro is starting to come around to the idea shown by the Dgex yesterday morning... If this verifies as a big precip maker, are we finally going to give a little credit to the Dgex for the being the first model to show it?

Didn't the GFS show it first?
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Don't you worry, we will get our 1.5" QPF of 35F rain while SuperJames/Franklin get there 6-10" and somehow PGV backends 3-5".  Hope is a good thing.

 

WSWs already up for DC for 18-24".... (just kidding)

 

I'll probably work in 2-4" on the front-end before going over to 33/rain like I did in Snowmageddon while the Mid-Atlantic gets another HECS.

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Ok, so now we have a legit threat of a storm. Is there realistically any way for this to trend colder?

 

It's more than 96hrs form starting, so I'd say, yes a lot of things can change between now and then.  No reason to give up yet.  

 

Just look how much warmer it has trended in the last 24 hours. Who's to say it doesn't windshield wipe the other way in the next 24 hours?

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Can't win if you don't play, odds don't always work out, just ask Vegas!

 

You also can't lose if you don't play.  The odds of winning either the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot are greater than 175 million to 1.

 

If you believe in the odds of winning the lottery, then you should never fly or drive. That because you are more likely to be killed in a plane crash, where the odds are 25 million to 1, and far more likely to die in a car crash, where the odds are only 5,000 to 1. Similarly you should start sleeping on the floor and taking showers. That's because the odds of being killed by falling out of bed are 2 million to 1, while the odds of drowning while taking a bath are 840,000 to 1. However, don't think you can improve your odds by avoiding cleanliness altogether. The odds of dying from a flesh-eating bacteria are only 1 million to 1.

 

Maybe you'll have better luck outside. Not! The odds of being killed by lightning are 2 million to 1, while being killed by a dog are 700,000 to 1. Bring your anti-venom kit, because you are even more likely to die from a snakebite or bee sting, where the odds are 100,000 to 1.

 

If these statistics have you feeling a little paranoid, cheer up! There are many happy occurrences that are more likely than winning the lottery. For example, the odds of becoming a movie star are only 1.5 million to 1, while the odds of getting a royal flush in a first hand of poker are just 649,740 to 1. Even better (guys!), the odds of dating a supermodel are a measly 88,000 to 1.

 

To put it all into perspective, consider this. Scientists have calculated that there is just a 300 to 1 chance that asteroid 2004 MN4 will strike the Earth on April 13, 2029. The asteroid is about a quarter mile (400 meters) wide. This is larger than the asteroid that carved out Meteor Crater in Arizona, and the one that flattened thousands of square miles of forest in Siberia in 1908.

 

http://useconomy.about.com/od/themarkets/a/What-Are-The-Odds-Of-Winning-The-Lottery.htm

 

To put it into our weather vernacular, the odds of Waycross getting a foot of snow are better than your chances of winning the jackpot.  :D

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You also can't lose if you don't play. The odds of winning either the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot are greater than 175 million to 1.

http://useconomy.about.com/od/themarkets/a/What-Are-The-Odds-Of-Winning-The-Lottery.htm

To put it into our weather vernacular, the odds of Waycross getting a foot of snow are better than your chances of winning the jackpot. :D

I know the odds, I still play when the jackpots get big just for fun. People who play every week probably have a problem. But just playing and having those "what if" conversations are fun, at least for me. $1-3 dollars every 6 months or so for entertainment value doesn't break the bank.
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I know the odds, I still play when the jackpots get big just for fun. People who play every week probably have a problem. But just playing and having those "what if" conversations are fun, at least for me. $1-3 dollars every 6 months or so for entertainment value doesn't break the bank.

 

You don't get to be a pharmacist without being able to do the math, so I knew you would be aware of the odds.  ;)   But, not everyone is.  I spend some time on the lottery in my quantitative literacy course each semester.  It's amazing how much the average person has not really thought about the money they throw at the lottery each year.

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Let's say you can spend $100 for a lottery ticket that will net you an infinite sum of money should you win. The expected value of such a bet is an infinite sum of dollars even though the probability of winning is infinitesimally small. Thus, the expected value of playing is greater than not playing - E(not playing) = $100. However, a normal risk averse person would not take this bet because our utility functions of wealth tend to look something like the below (square root function). It's also why we buy insurance, and do other things to avoid risk.

I think that's called the St. Petersburg Paradox.

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Ok, so now we have a legit threat of a storm. Is there realistically any way for this to trend colder?

 

There are signs to watch for.

 

1. Sudden drops in water temp in the NA

2. Huge hail in Japan.

3. A pool table dropping out of the sky

4. Multiple twisters destroying LA

5. A huge storm surge moving down the east coast

 

Hmm..  Now that I think about it, that might have been a movie.

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Ok, so now we have a legit threat of a storm. Is there realistically any way for this to trend colder?

Yeah it needs to wind the heck up and bomb pretty hard, like sub 995 or so off of VA/NC border hard, no slider or anything like that, it will be too warm...also an super close coastal hugger could prduce if it bombed just off of NVA, we would get some heavy backend snow. FWIW a handful of members from the 12z GFS with big dogs...this is my favorite. :snowing::weenie:

 

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Yeah it needs to wind the heck up and bomb pretty hard, like sub 995 or so off of VA/NC border hard, no slider or anything like that, it will be too warm...also an super close coastal hugger could prduce if it bombed just off of NVA, we would get some heavy backend snow. FWIW a handful of members from the 12z GFS with big dogs...this is my favorite. :snowing::weenie:

 

Don't show that... there could be small children around! #weatherporn

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Yeah it needs to wind the heck up and bomb pretty hard, like sub 995 or so off of VA/NC border hard, no slider or anything like that, it will be too warm...also an super close coastal hugger could prduce if it bombed just off of NVA, we would get some heavy backend snow. FWIW a handful of members from the 12z GFS with big dogs...this is my favorite. :snowing::weenie:

Yeah that looks nice. Good to know what to root for. I'd like to see the big L near the Lakes swap out for a big H, but that ain't gonna happen. We'll see, I guess.

Burns, I think I saw that movie! :)

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