vastateofmind Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 18 hours ago, Kay said: Just had the nicest walk. It's awesome out. Starry skies, crisp 31F and (aaaah) light winds Pics, @Kay, pics please! Here or in the Winter Pics thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 23 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Pics, @Kay, pics please! Here or in the Winter Pics thread! I've gotten into night time walks lately, and they're amazing. Sadly, night photography is...uh..not a current strength. Sooner or later I'll get out more in the daytime though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 4 hours ago, Kay said: Good size flock of mergansers on the river eta- may be filling up banter w random nature obs for the foreseeable 4 hours ago, WxUSAF said: Nice! Birded around the neighborhood this morning. Birds are definitely getting more active as spring approaches. Cool! Last weekend I came upon a pileated woodpecker. Didn't have my longer telephoto lens on me, but I was able to get to within several feet of him, standing on a tree stump looking up so it worked out (plus some cropping!). He paid me no mind and went about his business, I was able to observe him for some time and get a few shots. Here's one: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 4 hours ago, psuhoffman said: Now that's the look of a happy skier!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 2 hours ago, stormtracker said: I hate you. No you don’t. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Always in Zugzwang said: 3" of sleet, and if you take the GFS verbatim it would turn into a block of ice that night! I know several in here don't care for sleet or ice, but really that's all we're looking at here for this event in terms of wintry weather. It doesn't really look like we'll get any snow from this. Personally, in that case, I'd prefer a more "interesting" ice/sleet event over a dull, cold rain. But that's just me. THIS 100%! I'm an extreme weather weenie, NOT a sane normal human-being. I want the extremes. Give me a nice icing event over 30s and rain any day. We get more than enough of the latter. Five inches of ice accretion like during the Great Ice Storm of 1998 in Ontario would be quite interesting. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Always in Zugzwang said: Cool! Last weekend I came upon a pileated woodpecker. Didn't have my longer telephoto lens on me, but I was able to get to within several feet of him, standing on a tree stump looking up so it worked out (plus some cropping!). He paid me no mind and went about his business, I was able to observe him for some time and get a few shots. Here's one: Wow, great shot. They're usually so shy. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 pretty good day. I love the southwest 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: pretty good day. I love the southwest Ji would probably complain about the sun angle if he was there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 It may not have been February 14, 2015 but it was really cool to get a high end snow squall today. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 3 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said: It may not have been February 14, 2015 but it was really cool to get a high end snow squall today. Awesome! What a great video 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodhi Cove Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Oh hell yes! WTOP: Maryland joins states moving toward ending Daylight Saving Time WTOP: Maryland joins states moving toward ending Daylight Saving Time.https://wtop.com/maryland/2022/02/maryland-joins-states-moving-toward-ending-daylight-saving-times/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 27 minutes ago, Bodhi Cove said: Oh hell yes! WTOP: Maryland joins states moving toward ending Daylight Saving Time WTOP: Maryland joins states moving toward ending Daylight Saving Time.https://wtop.com/maryland/2022/02/maryland-joins-states-moving-toward-ending-daylight-saving-times/ That headline should read that Maryland may make DST permanent instead of ending it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Bodhi Cove said: Oh hell yes! WTOP: Maryland joins states moving toward ending Daylight Saving Time WTOP: Maryland joins states moving toward ending Daylight Saving Time.https://wtop.com/maryland/2022/02/maryland-joins-states-moving-toward-ending-daylight-saving-times/ 1 hour ago, nw baltimore wx said: That headline should read that Maryland may make DST permanent instead of ending it. Personally, I wouldn't mind if we now stay on one or the other (EST/DST) permanently. I suppose in the past it made some sense to "make the most use of" the extended daylight in summer, but that doesn't seem so much of an urgency now. I particularly dislike jumping ahead an hour, like probably most people. I remember when DST/EST used to be 6 months each: you'd set your clock ahead in April, and go back in October. At this point, EST is barely 4 months long. I might have a slight preference for standard time, if only because I think it's a bit silly to begin it in early March, plus even on standard time the evenings are still long in mid-summer. But the main thing is just remaining on one or the other. Hope they really do tie it to many other states doing the same, at least in the eastern time zone; it would be a nightmare if different places had EST part of the time still while others don't. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Unpopular opinion, but the time switch is pretty necessary, especially for places further north. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 17 hours ago, psuhoffman said: pretty good day. I love the southwest I love that picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 5 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: That headline should read that Maryland may make DST permanent instead of ending it. That was tried in 73 or 74 can’t remember and it was an absolute disaster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 11 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said: That was tried in 73 or 74 can’t remember and it was an absolute disaster. Like when we tried to convert to the metric system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 1 hour ago, yoda said: @nj2va would not be pleased lol If we get a good storm, sure I’m all in. But (at least for Alexandria), I’m over the cold. I’m ready to start spring yard clean-up, grilling, and hanging out on the patio. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 13 minutes ago, losetoa6 said: I've been busy all day but just saw this. Yea that ns needs to dig further west for sure but I was comparing Gfs 18z to 0z and it's a significant change for the better overall. Hopefully a double hit incoming with Thursday/ Fri then the CAPE Verde storm lol Perhaps we actually get hit by a decent Cape Verde storm this year... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I usually find myself watching videos from NW Japan about this time every winter. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 18 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: Like when we tried to convert to the metric system. No like when car accidents skyrocketed, kids were heading off to the bus in pitch black and cold. On the western edge of time zones, the sun rise would be at/near/after 9 am depending upon latitude. When the idea was proposed in 1974, national polling said the idea was overwhelmingly popular. In one poll, the approval was 73% before they did it, but by March after the first winter the approval in the same poll was 19%. The reason for the giant shift was that nobody had actually experienced it realized how bad it actually would be. Some of us experienced this. Many have not. I suspect the support of dst comes from those without the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 27 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said: No like when car accidents skyrocketed, kids were heading off to the bus in pitch black and cold. On the western edge of time zones, the sun rise would be at/near/after 9 am depending upon latitude. When the idea was proposed in 1974, national polling said the idea was overwhelmingly popular. In one poll, the approval was 73% before they did it, but by March after the first winter the approval in the same poll was 19%. The reason for the giant shift was that nobody had actually experienced it realized how bad it actually would be. Some of us experienced this. Many have not. I suspect the support of dst comes from those without the experience. Yeah I've heard of that and experienced it to an extent. I grew up in northeast OH, maybe not the western edge of the eastern time zone, but definitely farther out than here on the East Coast. At the time I was growing up the time changes occurred in April/October as I mentioned above. Of course, "springing ahead" was always more physically difficult (still is!). It was also darker in the morning when going off to school, though lighter at the end of the day. I didn't mind DST when it was actually summer, it was kind of nice having light pretty late into the evening and the sun was higher anyhow at that time of year. But the "edges" of DST did kind of suck. That has been exacerbated by moving the start of DST to early-mid March and ending in early-mid November. I just never saw the point of expanding it that much, especially on the early end going into March. But I'm speaking from my experience in a location around this latitude and not the far northern states. I can understand what @MN Transplant was saying above, that higher latitudes would benefit more with a time change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 9 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said: Gets moderate/heavy snow to us. The H5 improvement was so good even I could tell it was Snowen I know you've taken some heat for newb things at times but I just want to say, I can tell you have a sense of humor and perspective about yourself that will serve you well in life (and the board but you know, life more important). 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Pretty hard to go outside today and then root for snow. I’m happy if it stays just like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 26 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said: Pretty hard to go outside today and then root for snow. I’m happy if it stays just like this. I can still root for snow. White rain/sleet can just go F off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazzo83 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 how do we feel about maybe not posting 600 hr snow maps? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Happy Twosday everyone! 2-2-22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris78 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Anyone else having issues with TT? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted February 22, 2022 Author Share Posted February 22, 2022 9 minutes ago, Chris78 said: Anyone else having issues with TT? The certificate for tropical tidbits just expired. Hopefully they'll get a new one at some point today. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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