February Banter 2025

[mappy]

32 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

It's a measure of some level of insanity that there is a storm on the maps w/ means like are showing for next week and there are posters worried about the pattern AFTER that chance. 

And that’s why I don’t bother to read the long range thread. Too many roller coaster of emotions every 6hrs when models come out. I know a threat is worth following when we make a thread for it lol 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

1 hour ago, mappy said:

And that’s why I don’t bother to read the long range thread. Too many roller coaster of emotions every 6hrs when models come out. I know a threat is worth following when we make a thread for it lol 

Right, exactly!  It gets very aggravating to read stuff in there at times (many times?).  You've got people (usual suspects!) dissing any chances next week already if the models don't show a foot of snow every cycle, and flat out damn near canceling or getting freaked out whether or not the supposed better pattern change later in the month will happen.  Jesus!  That said, it's still one of the best places for good information and discussion, if one really just pays attention to the knowledgeable posters and good comments, while scrolling through the chaff.  But yeah, it gets really freaking old having to do that.

[RickinBaltimore]

4 minutes ago, Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Right, exactly!  It gets very aggravating to read stuff in there at times (many times?).  You've got people (usual suspects!) dissing any chances next week already if the models don't show a foot of snow every cycle, and flat out damn near canceling or getting freaked out whether or not the supposed better pattern change later in the month will happen.  Jesus!  That said, it's still one of the best places for good information and discussion, if one really just pays attention to the knowledgeable posters and good comments, while scrolling through the chaff.  But yeah, it gets really freaking old having to do that.

For someone like me, who's a novice to this stuff, it's frustrating as hell. I just would like to read some of the posters here that know what they are talking about explain what might be coming. Not "winter canceled!" over and over.

[Interstate]

So I beat the Wizards up so much... they actually have a win streak to spite me.

[Interstate]

Terps up to #18 with two winnable games this week.

[aldie 22]

You can cut the tension with a butter knife in the long range thread. Ji wants to crack but he has his fan club watching him. A few others are getting super antsy. If 18z is ugly somebody is going to crack

[mappy]

13 minutes ago, LeesburgWx said:

About to be frozen dinners instead of gourmet eating out for V-Day...

I’m ashamed to say I thought something very much up RRs alley as a response to this

[ravensrule]

1 minute ago, mappy said:

I’m ashamed to say I thought something very much up RRs alley as a response to this

. I knew you would come around. To say I'm proud of you is a strong understatement. 

[mappy]

3 minutes ago, ravensrule said:

. I knew you would come around. To say I'm proud of you is a strong understatement. 

No lol I didn’t post it so it doesn’t count

[ravensrule]

Just now, mappy said:

No lol I didn’t post it so it doesn’t count

LOL, if you had posted something like that i would need a cardiologist. Just thinking it is enough for me. Bravo. BTW i knew exactly what you were thinking and it was hilarious. 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

1 hour ago, mappy said:

No lol I didn’t post it so it doesn’t count

 

59 minutes ago, ravensrule said:

LOL, if you had posted something like that i would need a cardiologist. Just thinking it is enough for me. Bravo. BTW i knew exactly what you were thinking and it was hilarious. 

It was like a whispered bat signal, or a silent letter in a word...very subtle!

[CAPE]

4 hours ago, aldie 22 said:

You can cut the tension with a butter knife in the long range thread. Ji wants to crack but he has his fan club watching him. A few others are getting super antsy. If 18z is ugly somebody is going to crack

I've been super busy with work and haven't posted since Sunday. I skimmed the LR thread thinking I might make a post and couldn't really find a reason to. Things have certainly escalated over the last 2 days.

[Jebman]

I hope the Mid Atlantic gets crushed by heavy snow!

[ravensrule]

58 minutes ago, Jebman said:

I hope the Mid Atlantic gets crushed by heavy snow!

I hope when i go for my Jebwalk, you come to shovel my driveway. 

[ravensrule]

This has to be a joke.

 

[87storms]

1 hour ago, ravensrule said:

This has to be a joke.

 

That's a bit goofy, but Middleton is off the books a year earlier (I think), so it's probably a financial move.  I'd be ok with that...not really a big fan of either Kuz or Val.

[MillvilleWx]

4 minutes ago, 87storms said:

That's a bit goofy, but Middleton is off the books a year earlier (I think), so it's probably a financial move.  I'd be ok with that...not really a big fan of either Kuz or Val  the Wizards.

FYP

[Jebman]

Mammoth is getting demolished by snow right now!!! Winds to 55 mph and 27 inches of freshies tonight!!!

Massive AR incoming!!!!

those winds are blowing HARD! That snow is getting super heavy and blowing all over the place like that one blizzard last winter! This is going to be FUN tonight!!!!!

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/main-lodge

[Scraff]

Great Caps win tonight! Played very well. And Ovi getting closer!! Love it. 

[Maestrobjwa]

2 minutes ago, Ji said:

That was a bust for me

Yes...for YOU. But seeing as your snow standards are rather extreme when it comes to what's a success, why knock the thread even more off-kilter than it usually is? Folks read that and think it's an actual disaster when it isn't.

[87storms]

2 hours ago, MillvilleWx said:

FYP

lol they’re a tough watch. Grew up going to the cap center bc my dad worked there. They gotta get this next draft right, that’s for sure

[nj2va]

17 goals to go for Ovi! 

[Jebman]

Those aggregates at Mammoth are getting big, in spite of the 90 mph hurricane gusts! This is a FANTASTIC STORM!

However, that temperature is RISING. We may well end up with another SLOPFEST like that last storm. It's 31 now, and rising. This AR has a deep TROPICAL connection, and with Global Warming, its just too bad sometimes. You get a metric ton of moisture, and with it, the dreaded warm air blows right on in on shrieking 90 mph gusts. Then the flakes become slushy and the base lodge turns to a wind driven torrential RAIN that pools deep where there was once beautiful deep sparkly snow.

Its Midnight at Mammoth and the Village is rain. You can see the water in steps people made in the snow, and the rain hitting it. Its 32 degrees and rising as massive tropical moisture is hosed upon the Sierra. It is still snowing and blowing at the Woolly Lot; the lights at the Main Lodge are out and you cant see anything. I'd say this is going to transition into a very sloppy, slushy storm overnight. Climate Change is real. So much warm air is being directed at the Sierra that cold storms are becoming rare. We got the moisture, at the expense of cold air for snow.

Damn it to Hell!

[midatlanticweather]

Well, here is a look back to when I made a map for Snowmaggedon! What a storm! Was a bit low in many spots! 

[midatlanticweather]

Wow! 

https://twitter.com/volcaholic1/status/1886740762546581968?s=19 

[aldie 22]

Not the most pleasant of reads in the long range thread. As usual people tend to want to push their angst and worry onto others...I know its just a coping mechanism but it's definitely tiresome after awhile. It's only Wednesday so honestly who the f knows what the final solution is

[Jebman]

Mammoth is just snowing and blowing. The Woolly Lot is becoming a total milkshake froth at times. 90 mph winds just blow that snow all over! There's a guy on a snow tractor getting all buffeted by intense blowing snow! He is clearing the new snow off the lot. More is coming down and is blowing like fracking crazy!!!!! At times, visibility is going to all hell! Its a gray wall! Good bet winds are gusting to 100+ mph.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

The Village has gone back from rain to all snow again, but they are quite lame, hardly any accumulation there.

[mappy]

1 hour ago, aldie 22 said:

Not the most pleasant of reads in the long range thread. As usual people tend to want to push their angst and worry onto others...I know its just a coping mechanism but it's definitely tiresome after awhile. It's only Wednesday so honestly who the f knows what the final solution is

Living and dying by every model run is the norm around here. 

[Ji]

Well, here is a look back to when I made a map for Snowmaggedon! What a storm! Was a bit low in many spots! 

Ya you weee way to low lol

[aldie 22]

One thing I've been thinking about unlike the January snows where temps were in the teens and 20s after we will probably be in the upper 30s after whatever falls next week. Even if we get a big dog i bet the January snow will have lasted on ground longer.