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February Banter 2021


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31 minutes ago, notvirga! said:

Historically we’ve stated most threads 2-3 days before an event. I get that models have not been able to pinpoint exact locations of heaviest precip but when you have 2 events in 4 days it makes threads easier to read.

Tradition needs to die. We have to try something. Not one event has trended better. Let’s try a different method. 

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Just spitballing here. But Would any of you mets like to do a zoom session, I know, I'm sick of zoom too, on the 101 of models. Then perhaps another session on the Mid-Atlantic climo? I admit, I'm a longtime lurker/poster, but have gotten lazy and just look at the pretty pictures you guys post. I'm a visual person. But I guess it would help to understand what I'm looking at to either discount what the model is saying or to trust it. Broadstrokes are fine. Maybe 30 minutes or so. 

 

Edit, then perhaps we can post the session on the site for reference. 

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4 minutes ago, adelphi_sky said:

Just spitballing here. But Would any of you mets like to do a zoom session, I know, I'm sick of zoom too, on the 101 of models. Then perhaps another session on the Mid-Atlantic climo? I admit, I'm a longtime lurker/poster, but have gotten lazy and just look at the pretty pictures you guys post. I'm a visual person. But I guess it would help to understand what I'm looking at to either discount what the model is saying or to trust it. Broadstrokes are fine. Maybe 30 minutes or so. 

 

Edit, then perhaps we can post the session on the site for reference. 

I was just sharing a similar sentiment about reading models in the other thread. I had suggested somebody making a YouTube video or something, lol It's a bit difficult to find this stuff just by searching the internet. I know I'm a person who needs to see the pictures (and in motion, in some cases) so it can make sense how things move and interact.

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21 minutes ago, Kleimax said:

Oklahoma can get a foot of snow, but we can’t. FFS

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you wanna know what is even crazier? If memphis actually can get 6+ inches from that.  I lived there from 1996 - 2009. It was EXCEEDINGLY hard to get real snow into Memphis. They were forever missing it in all directions but just a county or two. A foot of snow there with cold temps would be crippling. 

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2 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Some posters would be disappointed in March ‘93. 

Talk about a nightmare.  I lived in Calvert for that and we got 5 or so inches of wet snow followed by driving rain and a spike to 52 degrees.  Watching news coverage from N&W of the city was heart breaking.  It played a role in me picking NW suburbs when I locked into a long-term job based in DC.  I just didn't go quite far enough NW.

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30 minutes ago, Deck Pic said:

getting old sucks...pretty sure I just tore my rotator cuff throwing a snowball

Sorry to hear about the rotator cuff. It may limit some of your favorite nightly activities. 48 is young. I can still do it 4 or 5 times a day....... throwing snowballs that is

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We get the full gamut of precip types for next Tuesday in the LWX point forecast!  Everything but hail!  Now to be fair, at this point what else can you do, honestly?

 

Monday Night
A chance of snow before 1am, then snow, freezing rain, and sleet likely. Cloudy, with a low around 26. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tuesday
Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet. High near 34. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
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Two quick things for up this way:

1. The trees and pretty much everything else (chain link fences, sides of buildings, dogs who move too slow) are absolutely plastered in snow still. It is unbelievably gorgeous. Most of it fell here right around 32 degrees or just a hair under, and then it stayed crazy overcast today and temps held around 35 or under and everything is still plastered. I've rarely seen it quite this pretty up this way for this long. It looks like Vermont amongst the trees. 

2. On that note, trees and limbs are already bowing, at least one tree was down from the snow weight on my walk just now, and the temp isn't really going anywhere over the next 36 hours until the theoretical Saturday ice event. If it hangs on the trees like this until then and we actually get an ice event, there will be trees/limbs down and power line issues. 

Guessing even with cold temps tomorrow the sun will help head some of that off. 

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1 hour ago, dailylurker said:

If we're going to have boring a$$ freezing rain I hope it at least causes some destruction. What good is ice without crashing and booming. I hope people don't get hurt of course but I wouldn't mind some tree damage. Free firewood and I can charge to remove it. Let's face it. Most of us are here for extreme weather of any kind.

Indeed! I mean Bob Chill has been waiting for his foot of ice. For me an ice storm w/ at least one inch of ice accretion would be nice. Afterwards, hopefully we can score a legit areawide severe event and/or decent tropical event. :)

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6 minutes ago, George BM said:

Indeed! I mean Bob Chill has been waiting for his foot of ice. For me an ice storm w/ at least one inch of ice accretion would be nice. Afterwards, hopefully we can score a legit areawide severe event and/or decent tropical event. :)

Absolutely! I'll take destructive weather year round.

Glad the NAM came back around to the ice idea. Hopefully it's not some lame coating. I want to hear stuff smashing.

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