midatlanticweather Posted Tuesday at 11:16 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 11:16 PM 2003 I was robbed of the 3 feet of snow in eastern Loudoun due to a change to heavy sleet! Can't forget the anniversary of PD2 - The February 15-18 (President's Day) 2003 Snow Storm Pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted Wednesday at 12:23 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:23 AM This arctic front means business! It is getting cold and windy and we will lose all the plants that managed to survive all the other arctic outbreaks! I am sick and tired of winter in south Texas! I crave 87/74 with sun and 2 mph south winds. Temp fell from 61/60, to 40/39 in seconds and those north winds are already gusting to 33! We got no mountains to protect us down here! Yellowknife is coming down here at orbital velocities! Its so damn cold I don't even want to go outside. I am definitely not the young man I once was! I need my 80s/70 weather just to get started in the morning. Sometimes, I wish I lived in the deep amazon. I don't think they have ever seen a front in several million years. Just beautiful deep green jungle and warm humid weather every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted Wednesday at 12:59 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:59 AM 21 hours ago, Bob Chill said: Rumor has it that Jebman is already there walking all 800 miles on foot with his extreme duty shovel and a Walkman cassette player. Listening to ELO probably How did you guys know? I posted about hating cold in Buda thinking everyone would think I was down in Buda! ELO is one of my FAVORITE bands associated with rapidly accumulating Lake Effect Snows! Like this track! I BLASTED THIS in the 2003 Presidents Day Blizzard while I was at Massanutten jebwalking around while carrying my snow shovel there! You'll want to blast it at at least 130 decibels! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewell2188 Posted Wednesday at 03:08 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 03:08 AM Don’t know if this has ever been a topic here but just thought I would share my thoughts on what I have observed over the past 5-10 years within the weather community like ourselves and social media. Agree or disagree social media has ruined the weather community and most importantly TRUST from the “Joe blows and John smiths” of the world. Tomorrow’s storm in regards to the social media impact greatly diminishes the public’s trust. That’s mainly in part due to the fact that most know nothing about meteorology except what they see on “Twitter and or facebook. I also believe that free access to models from the general public should be regulated. Social media has had some benefits to the ge real public as far as advanced warnings etc, but for the most part I’ll I ever hear is “they were just calling for 10+inches the other day and now nothing” well that same person probably won’t take the next tornado warning seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted Wednesday at 02:37 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:37 PM I hate shitting on people's love for looking at LR models and seeing windows for snow.....but after the PSU debacle failstorm and the models saying FU x100, how can anyone look at things beyond 5 days? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstorm Posted Wednesday at 02:42 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:42 PM 4 minutes ago, H2O said: I hate shitting on people's love for looking at LR models and seeing windows for snow.....but after the PSU debacle failstorm and the models saying FU x100, how can anyone look at things beyond 5 days? Masochists or as well call my fellow members Orioles Fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted Wednesday at 09:22 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:22 PM Forecast high today is 39. It's STUCK at 26 degrees. With 30 mph northerly winds. Tonight, down to 14 with 30 mph north winds. Good bye to all our plants. Last night, forecast low, 26. It plummeted to 19 with 45 mph gusts. It was cold as northern Alaska. At least to us way down here in south Texas. This, is a badass arctic front. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted Thursday at 02:48 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:48 AM Walking outside, in that WIND and low 20s nonsense, feels a lot as if you could somehow walk in solid 21 degree ice, breathe it, walk in it, and it blows past you like air. It is THAT frackin utterly COLD! I am so accustomed to spending 7-10 months working outside in delightful 77 dewpoints and 97 degree ambient temps. I can sleep for hours in the shade in that stuff. But this freezing cold ridiculous stuff is a living freezing hell. Nevermore have I so wished for a time machine, to take me to August 10 this year. It would be like coming Home, to Heaven in every way. 104 degrees, brilliant sun, all the grass is dead, lots of Texas dust, and a soothing 75 dewpoint. And nice 15 mph south winds straight off the Gulf of America! And weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks of summer weather yet to go! It can hit 95 degrees for Christmas down here! All we need is a subtropical ridge, from 1000mb clear to 1mb. Something like that could become semipermanent and never move for many months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted Thursday at 03:18 AM Share Posted Thursday at 03:18 AM Why does it seem “strength” is becoming a more valued characteristic than kindness or empathy? What good is strength without kindness. Actually if someone is a bad person isn’t it better if they are weak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmclean Posted Thursday at 03:33 AM Share Posted Thursday at 03:33 AM 14 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: Why does it seem “strength” is becoming a more valued characteristic than kindness or empathy? What good is strength without kindness. Actually if someone is a bad person isn’t it better if they are weak! "Becoming"? Strength has been highly valued through pretty much all of human history. The extent of the exaltation has varied from time to time and place to place, but I ask you, how much did the Vikings value kindness or empathy? Or the Huns? Or the conquistadors and other European adventurers? Or the Aztecs, or the Atlantic slave traders, or the Comanches...and I could go on and on The truth of course is that none of those groups were monolithic, and they were all made up of varying individuals, some were probably wonderful people, some were assholes, just like today. But the idea that all of a sudden people are obsessed with strength, as if they weren't before, is completely ahistorical. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted Thursday at 04:17 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:17 AM 45 minutes ago, cbmclean said: "Becoming"? Strength has been highly valued through pretty much all of human history. The extent of the exaltation has varied from time to time and place to place, but I ask you, how much did the Vikings value kindness or empathy? Or the Huns? Or the conquistadors and other European adventurers? Or the Aztecs, or the Atlantic slave traders, or the Comanches...and I could go on and on The truth of course is that none of those groups were monolithic, and they were all made up of varying individuals, some were probably wonderful people, some were assholes, just like today. But the idea that all of a sudden people are obsessed with strength, as if they weren't before, is completely ahistorical. I was limiting the scope of my comment to our current western liberal democratic society post WW2. As a sociologist it disturbs me that we created what by every objective measure is the most equitable, egalitarian, and successful society in history but recently there seems to be a movement away from the values that made our current society objectively better than all those you just listed. Especially if you were not lucky enough to be one of the few in positions of power in such a society. The inception of this point is due to the fact I’ve increasingly seen references to “strength” as an automatic positive even when describing someone who is an objectively awful human being. Which is odd. Take Hitler for example. Wouldn’t it have been better if he was a weakling? Strength is only a good thing if it’s vested in someone who uses it to do good. If someone is evil strength is a bad thing. It feels as if being strong has become the most important thing to many and that’s dangerous imo. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmclean Posted Thursday at 04:29 AM Share Posted Thursday at 04:29 AM Perhaps, like snow below 40 ° latitude (and that goes 10x for me), the postwar consensus is an anomaly, dependent on a momentary collocation in time of multiple factors that all had to come together in just the right way to achieve the observed condition. Perhaps brutality and hierarchical domination are the "climo" of our species (at least when population sizes are such that he more egalitarian band structure is no longer feasible). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted Thursday at 05:11 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:11 AM 1 hour ago, psuhoffman said: Why does it seem “strength” is becoming a more valued characteristic than kindness or empathy? What good is strength without kindness. Actually if someone is a bad person isn’t it better if they are weak! Bad people are never weak, witnessed by almost the entire OT here. What a blessing that cesspool was finally shut down. More hate there than a KKK meeting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted Thursday at 05:14 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:14 AM 42 minutes ago, cbmclean said: Perhaps, like snow below 40 ° latitude (and that goes 10x for me), the postwar consensus is an anomaly, dependent on a momentary collocation in time of multiple factors that all had to come together in just the right way to achieve the observed condition. Perhaps brutality and hierarchical domination are the "climo" of our species (at least when population sizes are such that he more egalitarian band structure is no longer feasible). We better hope not because we won’t be long for this world if we regress to our less civilized base state but with our current level of technology. I do not think giving any of those previous societies you mentioned access to chemical, biological and nuclear weapons would end well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted Thursday at 05:18 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:18 AM 4 minutes ago, ravensrule said: Bad people are never weak, witnessed by almost the entire OT here. What a blessing that cesspool was finally shut down. More hate there than a KKK meeting. Bad people often like to act strong but I would contend they are not always actually strong. Good people often are reserved which is not always weakness. But this is a side topic to my original point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted Thursday at 05:19 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:19 AM Just now, psuhoffman said: Bad people often like to act strong but I would contend they are not always actually strong. Good people often are reserved which is not always weakness. But this is a side topic to my original point. Makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSSN+ Posted Thursday at 08:29 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:29 PM Going to be out of this frozen but not snowy hell hole by this time tomorrow will be on the way to Vegas for the weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted Thursday at 08:36 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:36 PM 5 minutes ago, TSSN+ said: Going to be out of this frozen but not snowy hell hole by this time tomorrow will be on the way to Vegas for the weekend. Send pics, preferably like the ones from Hangover 1-3. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted Thursday at 11:55 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:55 PM Drinking a Wicked Weed Perni-Haze IPA. Kinda been bored with the NE style Hazys for awhile, but picked it up as a single big beer can just for the hell of it. Rather enjoying it to my surprise. It seems quite good, but might just be that I haven't been into these much lately so a nice change of pace. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yohan Posted yesterday at 02:04 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:04 AM I was lurking here about 10 days out of the "Debacle 02/20" storm and seeing the clown maps and watching the guys I trust here on forum @Bob Chilland @stormtrackerthat actually knows some things. I just think the Polar Vortex was just to strong for the low slid to the south and just push it out to Atlantic. I truly miss the "Snowmeggdon" and "Snowzilla", these were my experience of a lot snow in my life time being from Texas and living in NoVA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yohan Posted yesterday at 02:06 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:06 AM 2 hours ago, CAPE said: Drinking a Wicked Weed Perni-Haze IPA. Kinda been bored with the NE style Hazys for awhile, but picked it up as a single big beer can just for the hell of it. Rather enjoying it to my surprise. It seems quite good, but might just be that I haven't been into these much lately so a nice change of pace. really can't go wrong on a decent IPA over domestic crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yohan Posted yesterday at 02:09 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:09 AM 1 minute ago, yohan said: really can't go wrong on a decent IPA over domestic crap I rather drink budget IPA, Founders All Day IPA over domestic shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted yesterday at 04:16 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:16 AM Let’s go USA! OT vs the canadiens. Win it for Johnny hockey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardmeiser Posted yesterday at 04:29 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:29 AM Binnington saved them. So many chances in OT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted yesterday at 04:35 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:35 AM 5 minutes ago, blizzardmeiser said: Binnington saved them. So many chances in OT. Yep, Matthews had several great chances to finish it in OT, not to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazzo83 Posted yesterday at 04:45 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:45 AM Canada was always gonna win this game - they are pissed off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interstate Posted yesterday at 04:46 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:46 AM I hope my recycle cans survive the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaWx Posted yesterday at 07:32 AM Share Posted yesterday at 07:32 AM On 2/18/2025 at 7:59 PM, Jebman said: How did you guys know? I posted about hating cold in Buda thinking everyone would think I was down in Buda! ELO is one of my FAVORITE bands associated with rapidly accumulating Lake Effect Snows! Like this track! I BLASTED THIS in the 2003 Presidents Day Blizzard while I was at Massanutten jebwalking around while carrying my snow shovel there! You'll want to blast it at at least 130 decibels! I first heard them ~50 years ago (I think it was a song on one of the annual K-Tel greatest hits albums…remember those?) and they then became my favorite band in 1978 (around the time the great “Out of the Blue” album was out). They’ve remained that way for me since. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted yesterday at 01:45 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:45 PM 9 hours ago, wxdude64 said: Yep, Matthews had several great chances to finish it in OT, not to be. It was a great game. Loved the USA chants throughout the arena all night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickinBaltimore Posted yesterday at 02:12 PM Share Posted yesterday at 02:12 PM 9 hours ago, blizzardmeiser said: Binnington saved them. So many chances in OT. Jordan Binnington in a championship game at TD Garden. Wait, I've seen this movie before!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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