CAPE Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 hour ago, SnowenOutThere said: Am I hearing a mid-winter lawn mowing to keep the grass as short as humanly possible More like getting the leaves out of plant beds and throwing some new mulch down. I have a lot of mulch areas lol. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 26 minutes ago, Terpeast said: Nice, you're doing great! Mine was free and breast, and like you I was a sprinter. 50/100m events were in my wheelhouse. Made it to state in my junior and senior years Now all this discussion about swimming is starting to get me motivated about it again! Not gonna dive into Masters or anything, but just to get things going a little bit more. I sit too much for work! What was your best times, curious to see the difference between your generation of swimmers and the current one. Also congrats, and you should at least try to get back into it! I made it to states in two relays last year but missed it due to an extremely unfortunately timed covid + pink eye combo. Praying that doesn't happen this year, even if it does I still have one more year. 20 minutes ago, 87storms said: My swimming skills are “boogie boarding” level, but I found mountain biking (or biking in general) to be a great complement to basketball bc both can be HIIT/cardio. The benefit of biking is that it’s generally low impact (aside from the gnarly stuff). Soccer thru elem and basketball from middle school on def increased the wear and tear on my back/knees/ankles as I’ve gotten older. I love biking to compliment swim, its a good contrast as its more focused on legs and being outside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 8 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: The look at the end of the ensembles is the loading pattern for all our big snowstorms. My guess is we start seeing some very snowy solutions in a few days when the period after starts coming into range. Can you please keep this banter out of our swimming thread, thanks 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 2 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said: What was your best times, curious to see the difference between your generation of swimmers and the current one. I think it has gotten a lot more competitive now than in my generation overall, but there was still decent competition in my age group. My 50m free was in the low-mid 24s and 50m breast was 32 something. I don't recall my 100m free time because it was a long-course pool and I wasn't used to that, so I had a bad race. But the 100y short course was low 49 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 13 hours ago, EHoffman said: John's been around since the Eastern days. Can confirm he is a true weenie. He's also a snake if that was the poster and staff member known as Earthlight. I'll save that story for the banter thread. 3 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 hour ago, Terpeast said: Swimming is great. Used to do it competitively. It just takes more time to drive to a pool, change into my suit, and do enough laps to get enough cardio benefit, and then change and drive back. But I’m definitely keeping that option open I know how to swim. lol, I'm black. No I don't. Let me not perpetuate that stereotype. I know about 5000 black people and at least 2 know how to swim. Doing it up. Anyway, we tracking in 7 days, or what? 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, TJ3 said: Jim Cantore not impressed at all with any staying power of mid February flip back to winter in the East. If at all. I have a twitter troll account. I bookmarked that and I'm lying in wait. 2 hours ago, CAPE said: Nice stretch of dry weather over the next week or so with temps near normal. I'll enjoy it and get some outside pre-Spring work done, and prepare for the deep winter period that will follow. I don't even know who you are anymore. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHoffman Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 12 minutes ago, stormtracker said: He's also a snake if that was the poster and staff member known as Earthlight. I'll save that story for the banter thread. Haha yeah I think that was him, no idea about him being a snake though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 19 minutes ago, stormtracker said: I know how to swim. lol, I'm black. No I don't. Let me not perpetuate that stereotype. I know about 5000 black people and at least 2 know how to swim. Doing it up. Anyway, we tracking in 7 days, or what? I always thought your profile picture was you. I was shocked that you're black lol 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 13 minutes ago, stormtracker said: I know how to swim. lol, I'm black. No I don't. Let me not perpetuate that stereotype. I know about 5000 black people and at least 2 know how to swim. Doing it up. Anyway, we tracking in 7 days, or what? One of the best swimmers on our team, Terrence, is black. Jamaican family...he's like a bobsledder. We'll be tracking in no time. The back of the pattern will be showing up in the next couple weeks, so gotta get started tracking soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Just now, dailylurker said: I always thought your profile picture was you. I was shocked that your black lol It's me. I have vitiligo. 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Just now, mattie g said: One of the best swimmers on our team, Terrence, is black. Jamaican family...like a bobsledder. We'll be tracking in no time. The back of the pattern will be showing up in the next couple weeks, so gotta get started tracking soon. Yeah. I have faith in our guys here. I really believe this time. I think we'll be tracking before the Super bowl tbh. I just wanna say the F word so bad. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 8 minutes ago, stormtracker said: I have a twitter troll account. I bookmarked that and I'm lying in wait. I don't even know who you are anymore. Need to dry the soggy soil out so it doesn't eat the snow from below. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 2 minutes ago, stormtracker said: It's me. I have vitiligo. I now know more about Beethoven than I ever thought!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 16 minutes ago, Terpeast said: I think it has gotten a lot more competitive now than in my generation overall, but there was still decent competition in my age group. My 50m free was in the low-mid 24s and 50m breast was 32 something. I don't recall my 100m free time because it was a long-course pool and I wasn't used to that, so I had a bad race. But the 100y short course was low 49 I'd assume our 50 frees are relatively similar then and your breastroke is a good bit faster than mine, I do take you in 100 free with a mid 47 to your 49. Either way those times aren't that far off what you'd expect today, the 100 freestyle is by far the biggest difference with the state cut being a 48.4 now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 2 minutes ago, stormtracker said: Yeah. I have faith in our guys here. I really believe this time. I think we'll be tracking before the Super bowl tbh. I just wanna say the F word so bad. I'm hoping we'll have lots of F-words (of the good variety!) and Jaws music, and maybe declaring things as being "randytastic" (a'la the 2016 blizzard)!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 16 minutes ago, EHoffman said: Haha yeah I think that was him, no idea about him being a snake though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooklynwx99 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 NAM shows full coupling of the strat and tropo mid-month associated with a final significant warming, which would provide a more stable blocking pattern 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 49 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said: I'd assume our 50 frees are relatively similar then and your breastroke is a good bit faster than mine, I do take you in 100 free with a mid 47 to your 49. Either way those times aren't that far off what you'd expect today, the 100 freestyle is by far the biggest difference with the state cut being a 48.4 now. Why did my breaststroke get deleted?. Michael Phelps can vouch for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siberian-Snowcover-Myth Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 3 hours ago, Shad said: are we kicking the can to the 18th + now ? The can will be kicked to March. By then the daffodils will love the rain and 45degree temperatures. 1 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 This has been a great year for beautiful long-range model lies! In all seriousness, I hope we see some consistency and things hold. Once we started kicking the can, it seems to have stuck! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 hour ago, stormtracker said: Yeah. I have faith in our guys here. I really believe this time. I think we'll be tracking before the Super bowl tbh. I just wanna say the F word so bad. Fail? There, I said it for you. No need to wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooklynwx99 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 just a beautiful retrograding -NAO here alongside split flow and a roaring STJ. trough is in the east by the 13th, as well. no can kick in sight 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 3 minutes ago, brooklynwx99 said: just a beautiful retrograding -NAO here alongside split flow and a roaring STJ. trough is in the east by the 13th, as well. no can kick in sight The Canadian has been more bullish on the idea of a strong west based -NAO. Maybe the better models will get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpeast Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 4 minutes ago, brooklynwx99 said: just a beautiful retrograding -NAO here alongside split flow and a roaring STJ. trough is in the east by the 13th, as well. no can kick in sight Look at that 50/50 with an incoming STJ wave. Canada no longer torched, should be cold enough to snow from NC north 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 3 minutes ago, brooklynwx99 said: just a beautiful retrograding -NAO here alongside split flow and a roaring STJ. trough is in the east by the 13th, as well. no can kick in sight I don't know about "the can" but there are some people who need a kick. Seriously, yes we've been through a lot, I get it, and yea of course ideally we would all love for this to have set in sooner and not to have to wait for the back 1/3 of winter....but we are staring the best pattern we've had since 2010 in the face, its finally almost here...and now some are deciding its the time to go uber deb and fill the thread with emotional venting and freak outs. If this fails I will be there with ya full scorched Earth but seriously were about to enter our best chance at a truly significant snowy period in over 8 years, lets chill out and see how this shakes out. Some of us aren't going to make it at this rate. 7 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frd Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Just now, CAPE said: The Canadian has been more bullish on the idea of a strong west based -NAO. Maybe the better models will get there. The CMC is always more bullish on HL blocking in general it seems. In both domains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 GEFS has a better track for the 12-13th, looks like it’s to the south on the mean but with a lot of scatter. But dat airmass tho… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Just now, psuhoffman said: I don't know about "the can" but there are some people who need a kick. Seriously, yes we've been through a lot, I get it, and yea of course ideally we would all love for this to have set in sooner and not to have to wait for the back 1/3 of winter....but we are staring the best pattern we've had since 2010 in the face, its finally almost here...and now some are deciding its the time to go uber deb and fill the thread with emotional venting and freak outs. If this fails I will be there with ya full scorched Earth but seriously were about to enter our best chance at a truly significant snowy period in over 8 years, lets chill out and see how this shakes out. Some of us aren't going to make it at this rate. We already lost Ralph apparently, after his panic posting over a 'can kick' based on one model cycle. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frd Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 minute ago, psuhoffman said: If this fails I will be there with ya full scorched Earth but seriously were about to enter our best chance at a truly significant snowy period in over 8 years, lets chill out and see how this shakes out. Some of us aren't going to make it at this rate. You need to visit other forums in the East and conduct therapy, because if you think its a bummer here at times other forums are even worse. I totally get it though. Its been a very long time for some areas. I understand the frustration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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