CAPE Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 I drank a ho hum 120 for HH. Picked this up today from Founders: The 2021 Barrel-Aged Series will kick-off with Panther Cub, a robust porter in March 2021. Panther Cub (9.2% ABV) is aged in the finest bourbon barrels available along with a kiss of maple syrup and vanilla extract. The aroma of maple and vanilla combine with a surprisingly deep character to make this rare creature one to gaze upon fondly. For Friday HH! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 8 minutes ago, CAPE said: I drank a ho hum 120 for HH. Picked this up today from Founders: The 2021 Barrel-Aged Series will kick-off with Panther Cub, a robust porter in March 2021. Panther Cub (9.2% ABV) is aged in the finest bourbon barrels available along with a kiss of maple syrup and vanilla extract. The aroma of maple and vanilla combine with a surprisingly deep character to make this rare creature one to gaze upon fondly. For Friday HH! That sounds incredible...share a pour pic when the time comes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 18 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Okay, LOVE the label on this one and would buy it on that basis alone....first, because I had, like, 500 Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars as a kid...second, because I'm a huge Speed Racer fan. I just went down into the basement and dug this out. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said: I just went down into the basement and dug this out. Snake and Mongoose 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 26 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said: I just went down into the basement and dug this out. This is so cool! A co-worker gifted me a Hot Wheels "Mach 5" from Speed Racer over a decade ago, which I treasured...kept sitting out on my desk full-time at work (along with a few Star Trek models, but that's another obsession for another discussion). Lost my Hot Wheels Mach 5 when our work building caught fire and was destroyed in 2011. I'm still sad about that little car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: This is so cool! A co-worker gifted me a Hot Wheels "Mach 5" from Speed Racer over a decade ago, which I treasured...kept sitting out on my desk full-time at work (along with a few Star Trek models, but that's another obsession for another discussion). Lost my Hot Wheels Mach 5 when our work building caught fire and was destroyed in 2011. I'm still sad about that little car! Kenzy is mad about the loss of the car too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 14 hours ago, H2O said: Soon we will be looking for fantasy Derecho maps. 10:1 ratios Deratios 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 It’s a little sad that I’m on a different device reading the Jan 96 thread and I’m liking posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolsheds Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 10 hours ago, losetoa6 said: Go Speed Go ... Loved that cartoon Good Ole' Captain Chesapeake and channel 45. My mother claimed that I made her call the station when Speed Racer went off the air. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CAPE Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Mondy the sea monster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I was obsessed with Speed Racer. Loved the Mammoth car episodes lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolsheds Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 55 minutes ago, CAPE said: I was obsessed with Speed Racer. Loved the Mammoth car episodes lol. I have those on DVD. Love the old pre anime animation 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice-Regent Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 11 minutes ago, mappy said: I'm ready for the 60s/70s being advertised next week. screw snow, bring warmth and spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 No discussion with Captain Chesapeake would be complete without mentioning Gilligan's Island! Nice little gem here: Can't believe only one of the original cast is alive today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 2 hours ago, CAPE said: I was obsessed with Speed Racer. Loved the Mammoth car episodes lol. As a kid I used to build ramps (e.g., "cliffs") in my backyard and then attempt to go airborne from them on my Big Wheel...right before "taking flight," I'd mash the "buttons" in the center of my "steering wheel," and attempt to make that metallic/clanging launch sound from the cartoon that the Mach 5 made when Speed made the car launch/jump. Good times. And my parents couldn't figure out why I was going through Big Wheels like water. 1 hour ago, toolsheds said: I have those on DVD. Love the old pre anime animation I have a few of the classic Speed Racer eps on DVD, too -- still love 'em. Honestly, I'm also a tremendous fan of the Wachowskis' Speed Racer movie adaptation from 2008...many fans didn't like it and critics despised it, but I feel its casting is spot-on and that they captured the frenetic, ADD-fueled spirit of the anime source. I regret not seeing it on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 11 hours ago, SnowenOutThere said: Looking back at how truly insane February 2010 was it makes me so sad that I was just a bit to young to remember it. Then for 2016 I had pneumonia and don't really even remember the storm itself. Then once I started to slightly understand how snow storms happen we stopped getting them. That really sucks that you didn't get to enjoy any of our big HECSs this past decade. Just curious, I assume you're still in high school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Tomorrow anniversary of the March 2013 Bust. Forecast for 8 to 10 inches downtown and up to 15 in suburbs, but DC never accumulated. Massive non accumulating flakes for about an hour, and then rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 1 hour ago, George BM said: That really sucks that you didn't get to enjoy any of our big HECSs this past decade. Just curious, I assume you're still in high school? Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 28 minutes ago, real said: Tomorrow anniversary of the March 2013 Bust. Forecast for 8 to 10 inches downtown and up to 15 in suburbs, but DC never accumulated. Massive non accumulating flakes for about an hour, and then rain. lol facebook has been reminding me all week of it. gosh was i such a stupid person back then sharing sooooooo many snowfall maps. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDstorm Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 The great bust of March 4-6 2001. This is a great account of this event from ORH_wxman from the SNE forum. I was just getting into weather at that time, but it was a true heart-breaker. There's a lot of "stories" behind it. First off, almost all guidance was going for a monster Mid-Atlantic HECS about 96-108 hours out. Back then the time range beyond 96h meant very little...but models actually did have it further out than that. Only a few model went further. The UKMET, ECMWF and the MRF (the extension of the AVN which is now the GFS all in one package) all called for it. By the time we got to 84 hours out, all models showed it still...basically 2-4 feet for DC-NYC with Boston getting fringed....except the old ETA-x....the old ETA went to 60 hours, but the "ETA-x" was the ETA to 84h which eventually became the NAM (run under the ETA) to 84 hours but is now run under the WRF and not the ETA anymore...ETA has been retired from operational use, only used in the SREF now. That run of the ETA-x had the storm much further north and crushing New England while limiting the snow in the Mid-Atlantic. I believe this was Friday at 12z. Nobody took it seriously as it was the ETA extended beyond its already 60h limit. The next run at 00z Friday night, the ETA-x showed it again, but the other models held serve....the ECMWF didn't run at 00z back then...only at 12z, so its solution was non-existent. It was the best model back then too like recent years. We were now at 72h out or closer. The 12z runs came out on Saturday morning and they shifted north, limiting the snow for DC (probably from 2-3 feet to about 1-2 feet), but from Wilmington DE northward it was still monstrous except the UKMET shifted slightly north of that, to Philly and northward. A little side note. The AVN had performed absolutely brilliantly in the other big east coast storm on December 30, 2000 and also on the December 3, 2000 North Carolina/Virginia bust. The ETA hadbeen way too bullish and far west in both events while the AVN schooled it. So a lot of attention and credence was being given the AVN. That was a big factor in the forecast IMHO. After those Saturday morning runs at 12z (while the ETA showed a huge hit north again at 48-60h now in the operational run)...the forecast was still for a monster M.A. hit. The 12z ECMWF wouldn't come out until around 8pm that evening. It used to come around at that time back then. As 8pm rolled around, the ECMWF all of the sudden jumped way north and agreed with the ETA solution. But most forecasters disregarded it as it had been pretty steadfast before (maybe a burp run?) and the AVN was holding really steady and it had done so well on East Coast storms that winter. By Saturday night, the GGEM started to go north, the AVN held serve once again (having been the model of choice all winter), the ETA went north again taking Philly and nearly NYC out of the huge snow and hammering New England/Boston with a storm like Feb 1978. UKMET I don't recall what happened, but I know the forecast stuck close to the AVN. Again there was no 00z ECMWF run back then. Only 12z. By 12z Sunday morning just 24h before the event, the AVN once again gave a monster hit to the mid-atlantic except it shifted a bit north...it was mostly Philly northward. The ETA gave New England a huge HECS again, the GGEM finally went well north...and so did the UKMET. The ECMWF would have to wait until 8pm as usual. Most forecaster were trusting the AVN because it had served them well that winter after the obscene ETA busts and the AVN had nailed two major east coast storms. When 8pm came in, the writing was on the wall if there was any doubt left. It was way north and took Philly and possibly even NYC out fo the big snows, though NYC was still on the line. The forecasts started being revived when the 00z AVN came in late that Sunday night and it finally jumped north, but still not far enough....it still gave big snows to Philly (but not historic totals) and historic totals to NYC. I think this is when most operational forecasters knew something was terribly wrong. You have to remember it was so hard to trust any model that winter and the AVN was the best until that point. That was the first storm that I recall Dave Tolleris (whether you like him or not) came up with the old "EE rule"...when the ETA and ECMWF (both start with "E") agree, you don't go against them. I was lurking on ne.weather back then. When the EC came north to agree with the ETA back on Saturday, he said the M.A. was cooked and got a lot of crap for it on the boards as you can imagine. That's just my personal recollection of all of that storm. I don't claim for all of it to be 100% accurate, but I usually remember things very vividly, so I think at least most of it is right. There was a lot of controversy and talk amongst the weather people both on ne.weather and the NWS back then. It ended up being a huge interior New England and NY State HECS. Even the models at the last second kind of busted at Boston...only getting 10" while they were forecasted for double that...but the suburbs got all the snow. Very incredible storm both from a forecasting standpoint and also as a student observer back then when I first learning a lot of the intricacies of forecasting and models. 2005-2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolsheds Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 2 hours ago, vastateofmind said: I have a few of the classic Speed Racer eps on DVD, too -- still love 'em. Honestly, I'm also a tremendous fan of the Wachowskis' Speed Racer movie adaptation from 2008...many fans didn't like it and critics despised it, but I feel its casting is spot-on and that they captured the frenetic, ADD-fueled spirit of the anime source. I regret not seeing it on the big screen. I really liked it too...They did a great job with that movie! My son has the lego mach 5 playset from the movie too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Rando question.... NPS always releases their cherry blossom peak bloom forecast and it’s the official one. Anyone understand why CWG then does the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 20 minutes ago, snowfan said: Rando question.... NPS always releases their cherry blossom peak bloom forecast and it’s the official one. Anyone understand why CWG then does the same thing? So the CWG can then criticize NPS and boast how smart they are. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 So being an artist I like to have an organized work space. When we moved to our current home 11 years ago it was my opportunity to have a studio finally. Well I got a table that worked but had to settle for hodge podge storage solutions. I finally decided to do something for myself and revamped my studio. Liked the table top but not the legs. So ordered new metal legs and it looks like a different table. Also got low profile storage units that hides all my supplies. Artists are all different and some need chaos around them to work. Being a perfectionist I am an Artist that needs order. I have finally achieved that. And with my studio down in the game room it all works together. Just need to find a chair now. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 (Ok, now it's in the right thread lol.) Friday, 3pm. Must be Happy Hour. Oooh this is good. Really good. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 starting my friday off by dealing with stupid insurance. the worst. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 38 minutes ago, Mrs.J said: So being an artist I like to have an organized work space. When we moved to our current home 11 years ago it was my opportunity to have a studio finally. Well I got a table that worked but had to settle for hodge podge storage solutions. I finally decided to do something for myself and revamped my studio. Liked the table top but not the legs. So ordered new metal legs and it looks like a different table. Also got low profile storage units that hides all my supplies. Artists are all different and some need chaos around them to work. Being a perfectionist I am an Artist that needs order. I have finally achieved that. And with my studio down in the game room it all works together. Just need to find a chair now. I love the combined "comfort" and utility of your workspace, @Mrs.J...along with the upgrades you've shared here. I hope it's working out well for you. Our Son #1 moved out two years ago, about a year after he graduated from college and decided to go into Army Officer Candidate School (go figure) -- which provided us the chance to have our first dedicated guest room in our small-ish home. Son #2 graduated in December 2019, lived/teleworked with us during most of 2020 and just moved out to Arlington about a month ago -- and Son #2's vacant bedroom provided me the first opportunity EVER to have my own dedicated home office, which couldn't be more timely as I'll likely be teleworking 90% or more of the time for the last few years of my career. I'm on Cloud 9. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baltimorewx Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 1 minute ago, CAPE said: (Ok, now it's in the right thread lol.) Friday, 3pm. Must be Happy Hour. Oooh this is good. Really good. Nice. Looks like a good one...I have a boozy bomb waiting to drink from fourscore in PA...a peanut butter marshmallow brownie imperial at 15%....waiting for a special occasion...thinking 1st day of March Madness tournament 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 13 minutes ago, CAPE said: (Ok, now it's in the right thread lol.) Friday, 3pm. Must be Happy Hour. Oooh this is good. Really good. LOL. Dude, tell me ALL ABOUT posting in the wrong thread this week. That looks awesome. I'm refraining from early happy-hour-ing, as Mrs. VA and I are headed to the shooting range in an hour or two, and THEN rewarding ourselves post-shooting with a stop at Fair Winds Brewing Company in Lorton, VA. I think I can hold out until then...and I'll post "live draft" pics as we can -- Fair Winds ALWAYS has a great on-draft selection. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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