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January Banter 2025

George BM

By George BM,
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Maestrobjwa

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1 minute ago, nw baltimore wx said:

I'm glad you posted this here in banter.  I get that everyone wants snow, and totally understand the frustration of the last several years in our area, but reading complaints in the obs thread is a buzz kill.  I don't want to detract from the fun and enjoyment of other forum members.

Now if it's the Philly and north crowd, that's a different story.

Well there is kinda a discussion in the obs thread that PSU had started so I did kinda respond to that, lol But yes I hear you--I don't wanna detract from that either.

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katabatic
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Wanted to get out of the house so drove to Blackwater Falls in Davis. It was spectacular. Easily 18 inches on the ground and not busy at all. We are all likely getting some snow to scratch that itch,

Ellinwood
Ellinwood

Excited to be drawing a snow map again (tomorrow)... almost a year to the day since my last one. Hoping the 4-8" band verifies IMBY.

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Your formative years here haunt us all. 

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stormtracker

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42 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

also... for all my whining in the past week... basically no regrets about what turned out to be 5-6" (pending ULL) inches of snow. when NWS upped amounts last night I was sweating bullets

You know I like you right?  One of my faves, And I say this respectfully.  Deep, deep respect:

If we get a storm this weekend, stay the fuck off the board and go snorkel your ass somewhere in a lagoon.   You are going to be insufferable if you miss a big one.   Gonna be pointing out a one mile move of the 534  line of a vort and hyping up a bad run of the 84 hour NAM.  Might even drag out an old NOGAPS map.

Your girlfriend needs you.  :wub:

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3 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

You know I like you right?  One of my faves, And I say this respectfully.  Deep, deep respect:

If we get a storm this weekend, stay the fuck off the board and go snorkel your ass somewhere in a lagoon.   You are going to be insufferable if you miss a big one.   Gonna be pointing out a one mile move of the 534 MB line of a vort and hyping up a bad run of the 84 hour NAM.  Might even drag out an old NOGAPS map.

Your girlfriend needs you.  :wub:

You must’ve missed my meltdown yesterday where I bought an emergency flight back to BWI for Friday if I need it after yesterday’s 18z GFS… so I’m happy to cheer for a monster (8”+ is the bar). If I don’t need the flight, I can cancel it for travel credit and fly to Buffalo for the next lake effect storm 
 

also the girlfriend is back in DC - my family’s vacation didn’t work with her law school schedule. So more incentive to return early!

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North Balti Zen

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Oof, if nothing else comes from the ULL, then didn't even quite get to 3 inches...just 2.8" for the event. A common issue for most of the systems that have disappointed up this way since I moved here in Dec. 2021 was seen again with this one, delayed on-set, and then crap rates w/ icy flakes due to dry air.  Just have not been able to get to that sweet sweet good forcing and lift for years now up this way. Perhaps next time. 

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Maestrobjwa

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1 minute ago, North Balti Zen said:

Oof, if nothing else comes from the ULL, then didn't even quite get to 3 inches...just 2.8" for the event. A common issue for most of the systems that have disappointed up this way since I moved here in Dec. 2021 was seen again with this one, delayed on-set, and then crap rates w/ icy flakes due to dry air.  Just have not been able to get to that sweet sweet good forcing and lift for years now up this way. Perhaps next time. 

I'm stacting to think that the only way we cash in is with a big one. Obviously these slider systems just aren't able to produce for some reason (mostly luck, lol)

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2 hours ago, NorthArlington101 said:

also... for all my whining in the past week... basically no regrets about what turned out to be 5-6" (pending ULL) inches of snow. when NWS upped amounts last night I was sweating bullets

Yeah y'all in the southern half of this forum has no room for whining after today and the last 3 times, lol Y'all have done WELL in the 4-5 chances we've had since 2016.

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In retrospect the storm was kind of a let down after we got the SLEET, having been assured multiple times, that hey there is no way on earth that the SLEET was ever gonna get up into Northern Virginia, too damn much cold air. But last night was pure gold. I have never seen this sub so happy. I felt like it was 1987 all over again, I was a young man able to walk 6 mph for hours and shovel out half of Dale City with a 14 inch blizzard on the way. I was in total snow heaven and the entire sub was jumping like it was December 31, 1999 at the hippest party I have ever experienced! Last night was one in infinity, right up until that horrid pinging SLEET invasion came along destroying snow accumulation dreams like the Banda Aceh Tsunami.

But at least everyone got some snow. At least one person got to see 12 inches. I think Dale City eked out 6 inches. Its better than nothing. But just the THOUGHT that we could have had that PRECIOUS 16 INCHES! To break a back trying to shovel! To jebwalk in deep snow, getting beatdown right in the face with huge snow aggregates coming down so damn hard you can't even see where you are going!

I hate sleet. I hate warm noses and any other POS that gets in the way of the Mid Atlantic SUB getting a truly Brobdingnagian amount of powder snow.

One item that was particularly galling, was that we sacrificed inches of precious snow on that damn DRY COLUMN at the start where we were all CRYING the MOST for snow! Some waited hours and hours! All that DRY FRIGID AIR! We sacrificed snow for dry air, finally it reached the ground, we got a few inches then that DAMNED SLEET came smashing in, obliterated the snow party like no other! Crushing dreams NINE FRACKING YEARS IN THE MAKING, while people patiently endured hours of useless PIXIE DUST and sleet pellets!

I can't BEGIN to tell you all HOW MUCH I LOATHE THAT ACCURSED SLEET. I hate it. I truly do. Damn. We waited NINE YEARS for this. That Base State is horrid, It might be 2034 before we get another storm like this. Times have changed. I'll be 69 old years old, if indeed I am still alive.

 

Need to add something here.

We ended up with with some sleet and some lulls BUT this storm HAS turned out to meet the NWS forecasts after all. Many places are getting totals of 8 to 12 inches of snow. The ULL pass is helping many, and this has turned out to be a very good storm. I am so happy for this sub but I still wish you all could have gotten 16. That, would have been truly EPIC, but 8 to 12 inches of snow is a damn good storm!! Enjoy it! You have another system coming, but I will be more cautious and just say I hope it brings you more pure powder snow.

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Jebman

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Hey everyone. Please don't forget to pile those dendrites up. Pile them on the north sides of sunlight blocking objects like your car, the house, the shed. Pile them high. The idea is to have piles of snow all ready for the next storm, which may bring you all more accumulating snows! Shovel your walk, the driveway, the entire road if you have to, and pile it all up nice and high. Maybe even increase the depth of your snowpack, spread it around then pack it down. The entire Sub, is a northern Snow Town!:snowing:

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Eskimo Joe

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2 hours ago, mattie g said:

Not clicking that shit.

 

2 hours ago, weathercoins said:

Lmao at them Tweeting this.  Insane thing to write outside of this message board.

 

https://x.com/fox5dc/status/1876422265123860495?s=46

 

2 hours ago, stormtracker said:

Jesus Christ.

Like, what?!?!?  When did they turn into some kid in his basement ripping and reading one model?

They got Community Noted and deleted the post :lmao:

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MillvilleWx

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1 hour ago, psuhoffman said:

But the pattern in the pacific you are referring too evolved the exact same way in 2006.  The difference was the NS SW dove in behind the STJ wave and dug the trough better than most guidance is doing now that suggest the NS and STJ waves will be out of sync.  The rest of the pattern is nearly identical.  Especially the pacific which is specifically what you were talking about. 

Day of storm 2006

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Day of Threat now

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I saw Feb 2006 and immediately needed a cigarette. You can't be mentioning that storm around me without me getting a little hot and bothered. That's a top 3 snow memory for me. 4.5"/hr snowfall with a full hour of thunder and lightning. 20" on the dot and most of it came in 5.5 hrs. Just unbelievable. I would pay good money to see that again. 

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psuhoffman

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17 hours ago, snowfan said:

I pictured a more dramatic skyline for the Maryland alps. Don’t forget to chain up. 

Well the "valley" I am in there is at like 900 feet so the ridges aren't that dramatic, its more a plateau than true ridges with only about 300 feet difference between the peaks and valleys until you get off Parrs Ridge completely.  

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Just now, DDweatherman said:

Have come up with nicknames for the models other than the euro 

GFS - good for shit

UK- ukSHIT

CMC - SHITcan

ICON - iconic piece of shit 

any others?

Don’t forget NAM- Not a model 

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I know I was talking to some about Christmas Twister and how the title was spelled wrong on Tubi.  I went back and took a screen shot and here it is. They must have the unedited version. lol. Then I went back to Amazon Prime and looked at the title. The name of the movie is complete different now. It is called F6 Twister. :drunk:

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Hank Scorpio

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For some reason my tempest station is reporting a temperature of 36. Every other nearby tempest is sitting under 32, with a bunch reading 31.6

Guess I'd better find a better place to mount it. Only thing I can think is that it's picking up a bunch of heat radiating off my house.

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