January Banter 2025

[Interstate]

Remember when we were laughing when the Models had snow along the Gulf Coast... I guess we are not laughing any more.

[adelphi_sky]

Snow TV on Baton Rouge and New Orleans traffic cams. No snow plows. Roads are just ski lanes. How rare is this event? And moisture is just streaming from the gulf. 

[WVclimo]

1 hour ago, TSSN+ said:

Wild to see this 

Wow !  Heavy snow with air pressure above 30.60”

[StormyClearweather]

We're going to see more and more of this: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/media/local-meteorologists-allen-media-weather-channel/index.html

 

I just hope NWS/NOAA isn't next. 

[MillvilleWx]

Well, ended up getting the tooth extraction yesterday afternoon and so far so good on the pain front. Just the standard post surgery pain. Ice and ibuprofen my bff’s. Resting. I’ll be back to normal soon enough. It did end up being a fractured tooth below the gum line that helped cause an infection. Got the tooth out and cleaned out the infection. On antibiotics for 7 days to clear it out completely from my system. 
 

Side note, nitrous oxide is some damn good stuff. Between that really good numbing, I felt asbsolutely nothing during the surgery. Probably the most relaxed I’ve been in over a month. Incredible. 

[adelphi_sky]

40 minutes ago, MillvilleWx said:

Well, ended up getting the tooth extraction yesterday afternoon and so far so good on the pain front. Just the standard post surgery pain. Ice and ibuprofen my bff’s. Resting. I’ll be back to normal soon enough. It did end up being a fractured tooth below the gum line that helped cause an infection. Got the tooth out and cleaned out the infection. On antibiotics for 7 days to clear it out completely from my system. 
 

Side note, nitrous oxide is some damn good stuff. Between that really good numbing, I felt asbsolutely nothing during the surgery. Probably the most relaxed I’ve been in over a month. Incredible. 

Hope you don't get dry socket. I had my wisdom teeth pulled. And they are stingy on the pain meds after the opioid epidemic. I too asked to be knocked out. Who wants to be awake and hear your tooth being ripped out of your mouth? 

[clskinsfan]

Pretty decent storm for OC tonight. I would chase but I have had my fill for a while. 

[wxdude64]

2 hours ago, MillvilleWx said:

Well, ended up getting the tooth extraction yesterday afternoon and so far so good on the pain front. Just the standard post surgery pain. Ice and ibuprofen my bff’s. Resting. I’ll be back to normal soon enough. It did end up being a fractured tooth below the gum line that helped cause an infection. Got the tooth out and cleaned out the infection. On antibiotics for 7 days to clear it out completely from my system. 
 

Side note, nitrous oxide is some damn good stuff. Between that really good numbing, I felt asbsolutely nothing during the surgery. Probably the most relaxed I’ve been in over a month. Incredible. 

Wishing you a full recovery dude!

[AdamHLG]

Test. Sorry for the gibberish on my posts last few days. I was on Tapatalk Pro and needed to delete that app and go back to Tapatalk. It had bad bugs.

I hated being that guy. I traced down the problem. Sorry.

[psuhoffman]

@HighStakes the Walmart 4 miles SE of us only got 3"!  Westminster looked like even less...crazy sharp gradient just to our south and east...there was a noticeable difference as soon as you got south of town just a couple miles away from us.  We got really lucky, we were pretty much on the edge of where that fgen banding set up.  In the end the NW trend almost got us up here too!  

[HighStakes]

7 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

@HighStakes the Walmart 4 miles SE of us only got 3"!  Westminster looked like even less...crazy sharp gradient just to our south and east...there was a noticeable difference as soon as you got south of town just a couple miles away from us.  We got really lucky, we were pretty much on the edge of where that fgen banding set up.  In the end the NW trend almost got us up here too!  

I know! It's crazy isn't it. I noticed when I dropped my daughter off at the High School this morning. It appeared like a solid 5-6 in town but just down the hill at MVHS it was more like 4. 

[psuhoffman]

7 minutes ago, HighStakes said:

I know! It's crazy isn't it. I noticed when I dropped my daughter off at the High School this morning. It appeared like a solid 5-6 in town but just down the hill at MVHS it was more like 4. 

Yup that's exactly where the gradient started...after you get off that ridge the main part of town is on...it goes down dramatically...there is maybe 2 miles between the town and Walmart and it goes from 5-6" to 3" and 3 might be generous.  It was one of the crazier gradients I've seen that wasn't caused by marginal temps.  

[wxdude64]

Atlanta had a minor 'snowmagedon' this evening.... 

 

[psuhoffman]

36 minutes ago, wxdude64 said:

Atlanta had a minor 'snowmagedon' this evening.... 

 

Yea...and that's why I said "no thanks" to any southern snow chase... 

[LongRanger]

New Orleans? If the NFL wants to be sure of no big snow during the Super Bowl, they should move the game to our area.

[pazzo83]

some of these snow totals are out of some shit from the 19th Century lol

just saw some guy measure 7.5" in Florida.

[pazzo83]

should we go in the NYC forum and mention that New Orleans and Pensacola have more snow this winter than Central Park?

[Jebman]

Don't get many chances to do a SOTS down here in the South.

All day yesterday the sky was dark and low clouds moved in, lower and lower and darker and darker. Forget a high of 37. We barely eked out 30. NE breezes made it feel colder. Then, as the sun went down and dusk gathered, I got hit in the face by light sleet pellets.

Last night much to my surprise we observed surface frigidization right from the first sleet pellet/flake. That ground was COLD, alright. It started out as light sleet and a few flakes of snow. The ground, road, deck, everything caved in right from the beginning. I was expecting only a coating, a standard Washington DC car topper lol. The sleet and some snowflakes continued as I tried to keep that nasty NE wind from uncovering the fig tree. I had been so sure of a mild Texas winter! Now I was scrambling to cover the lemon tree and the fig tree. I was also packing blankets around the well pump. The Austin city lights were reflecting off the low pressing cloud deck, of which there were probably at least three, I was sure. Isentropic upglide continued transporting Gulf of America moisture over the frigid Arctic dome. This storm was vividly reminding me of a typical North Virginian snowstorm. The sleet fell more thickly. The ground was getting very white, it didnt even look like nighttime out, between the low cloud deck and the whitening ground. I used two tarps and blankets then put a heater under it to keep the fig tree warm. I took a jebwalk and saw that all of our water containers were blocks of ice covered in sleet and snow. Everything was turning white. This sure did not seem much like south central Texas. The temperature had fallen to 27 then stayed there. The dewpoint had been 3. Now it was rising through the upper teens fast. That wind cut right through me! I had three coats on, a hat, scarf and gloves. I am not accustomed to this. I am much more used to 68/50 weather and would not have minded 83/63. That wind slung that sleet right into my eyes! As the night wore on the temperature held steady but the sleet/snow mix continued then it changed to light snow. By 3am we had this band over us, it was light to a little moderate snow. It was still snowing at 6 am when I reluctantly went to bed. We ended up with an inch of snow. In places there were 2 and 3 inch drifts. We got up to 39 today and most of the snow melted, except the 3 to 7 percent to the north of sunlight blocking objects. I even tried to shovel it up some lol. It was hard to believe. It has been such a pleasant fall/winter, we really thought we'd get away with some cold weather and no ice and snow but here I was stayin up all night No Sleep Til Brooklyn style in South Texas lol.
The State of the Snowpack is that about 93 percent of it melted today in the sun and 39 degree weather. But there is snow on the driveway and patches on the north side of the house and garage, especially where I tried my best to pile it up.

It was SO FUN watching those dendrites blow right past our streetlight! This is NOT something you expect to see down here in the Southland! I am sure many in New Orleans and up the southeastern seaboard are feeling the same way. Wow, 10 inches in the Big Easy!

Look out, Mid Atlantic! YOU'RE NEXT!

[nj2va]

20 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

should we go in the NYC forum and mention that New Orleans and Pensacola have more snow this winter than Central Park?

Yes

[nj2va]

Another 2 points for the Caps.  Thompson was sensational.  

[Jebman]

11 hours ago, MillvilleWx said:

Well, ended up getting the tooth extraction yesterday afternoon and so far so good on the pain front. Just the standard post surgery pain. Ice and ibuprofen my bff’s. Resting. I’ll be back to normal soon enough. It did end up being a fractured tooth below the gum line that helped cause an infection. Got the tooth out and cleaned out the infection. On antibiotics for 7 days to clear it out completely from my system. 
 

Side note, nitrous oxide is some damn good stuff. Between that really good numbing, I felt asbsolutely nothing during the surgery. Probably the most relaxed I’ve been in over a month. Incredible. 

Glad you got that out. Nitrous is indeed very good. When I had all my teeth extracted in 2015 in Texas, I used a mild anxiety med plus Nitrous and a metric ton of novocaine. I was in la la land, didnt feel a thing, not even when the dentist had to break up a few back molars then pull the pieces out. I was also blasting 1970s and 1980s tracks on some headphones. THAT, made it downright fun.

I have half seriously thought about breaking into a dentist office and breathing in all the nitrous in the middle of the night. I LOVE that stuff! Great times! Damn man that's the BEST stuff in the whole world. Recovery was challenging as well as adapting to having no natural teeth when I got ravenous, but I REALLY enjoyed all that nitrous! I got to just kick back and breathe it all in for hours!

You haven't really lived, until you breathe in that nitrous so deep! Just relax and kick back, you'll have the most profound revelations! lol