Feb 11-13: Nowcast/Obs

[Warm Nose]

8 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said:

He called it “of biblical proportions”

[GramaxRefugee]

1 hour ago, Terpeast said:

Maybe I got it mixed up with another storm. But I do remember a major double digit storm where Bob Ryan went low and stayed low, it was almost like he totally disengaged from it all.

Feb '83 perhaps. In the early going he was influencing other TV mets to stay low.

I think WaPo humor columnist Gene Weingarten  Tony Kornheiser named him "Lyin Ryan" and it stuck, referencing it on several occasions.

I always bought those weather almanacs he wrote, and they were pretty good.

Don't wanna say anything bad though; he worked hard. We tease because we love.

(Edited)

[TSG]

3 minutes ago, GramaxRefugee said:

Feb '83 perhaps. In the early going he was influencing other TV mets to stay low.

I think WaPo humor columnist Gene Weingarten  named him "Lyin Ryan" and it stuck, referencing it on several occasions.

I always bought those weather almanacs he wrote, and they were pretty good.

Don't wanna say anything bad though; he worked hard. We tease because we love.

My parents I think adored him to a certain degree. He was definitely the face of weather for me as a kid. And even then, their nickname for him was "Boner Bob" lmao

it had to do with how excited he'd get on air

[IronTy]

14 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said:

He called it “of biblical proportions”

Doug hill used to live near me, met him a few times at local charity events.  Nice guy, I have pics of me and him somewhere.  I think he moved to NC when he retired, but passed away a couple years ago iirc.  

[TSG]

Just now, IronTy said:

Doug hill used to live near me, met him a few times at local charity events.  Nice guy, I have pics of me and him somewhere.  I think he moved to NC when he retired, but passed away a couple years ago iirc.  

can confirm that's a great family. I'm the same age as his youngest son. Went to JMU with them both 

[notvirga!]

6 minutes ago, TSG said:

My parents I think adored him to a certain degree. He was definitely the face of weather for me as a kid. And even then, their nickname for him was "Boner Bob" lmao

it had to do with how excited he'd get on air

 I think it may have been Tony Kornheiser who gave him the name. He was a humor columnist for the post back then as well and used to rip Bob all the time. I can’t imagine they’d be on speaking terms if they met now. 

[IronTy]

4 hours ago, hsq said:

I measured a tad over 9 early this AM before the additional precip. I'm off of Ponds Wood Road.

Sounds right.   I'm off plum point road, I drive down ponds wood almost on the daily.  

[IronTy]

5 minutes ago, TSG said:

can confirm that's a great family. I'm the same age as his youngest son. Went to JMU with them both 

Solid peeps

 

[GramaxRefugee]

6 minutes ago, notvirga! said:

 I think it may have been Tony Kornheiser who gave him the name. He was a humor columnist for the post back then as well and used to rip Bob all the time. I can’t imagine they’d be on speaking terms if they met now. 

Ah! I think you're right. It was Kornheiser. I knew it couldn't be Dave Barry, (of South FL) who preceded them both; (in syndication).

(I edited my post)

[dailylurker]

Looks like some moderate rain developing to the SW. If it's going to wash my snow away, I hope it's dramatic and causes rivers and creeks to flood lol. I love all weather. The worst the better.

[DraydenWX]

34 minutes ago, IronTy said:

Solid peeps

 

Can’t agree more. They had a summer house down in Piney Point, and they would come out to a local marina and sing every once in a while. 

[hstorm]

HRRR, which we know is an excellent model, has been getting a bit more aggressive with some snow for northern MD and with freezing rain to the west this evening (before everything changes over).  RAP, which is equally excellent, is generally showing the same.  I'm skeptical as is the 3k NAM.

33.0/30 here with some mist.

 

[adelphi_sky]

1 hour ago, IronTy said:

Doug hill used to live near me, met him a few times at local charity events.  Nice guy, I have pics of me and him somewhere.  I think he moved to NC when he retired, but passed away a couple years ago iirc.  

Is Bill Kamal still around?

[EastCoast NPZ]

1 hour ago, GramaxRefugee said:

Feb '83 perhaps. In the early going he was influencing other TV mets to stay low.

I think WaPo humor columnist Gene Weingarten  Tony Kornheiser named him "Lyin Ryan" and it stuck, referencing it on several occasions.

I always bought those weather almanacs he wrote, and they were pretty good.

Don't wanna say anything bad though; he worked hard. We tease because we love.

(Edited)

Indeed Feb '83.  I remember the 11pm newscast that Thursday night.  I beleive he was forecasting 6 - 8".  But I distinctly remember him saying "kids, you better do your homework."  I was so deflated.  That next morning I woke up around 7 AM and there was probably 7 - 8 inches already on the ground.  We ended up with 32" by 5 PM that day.

And we didn't go back to school for a week.

[Scraff]

8 minutes ago, adelphi_sky said:

Is Bill Kamal still around?

He was arrested a few years ago on some sex charges. Just google it if you really want the background on that creep. 

[WhiteoutMD]

Anyone seeing ice accretion on trees  at this time?

[NorthArlington101]

42 minutes ago, hstorm said:

HRRR, which we know is an excellent model, has been getting a bit more aggressive with some snow for northern MD and with freezing rain to the west this evening (before everything changes over).  RAP, which is equally excellent, is generally showing the same.  I'm skeptical as is the 3k NAM.

33.0/30 here with some mist.

yeah, if it happens that's not nothing. modest consolation prize?

[stormtracker]

2 hours ago, aldie 22 said:

@stormtracker didn't Bob Ryan attend one of the conferences? I remember seeing him there

It was Tom Skilling I believe.  Man brought a VHS tape.  We had to scramble to find a VCR

[DDweatherman]

20z HRRR continues to show snow this evening, numbers ticked up a bit for northern fokes.

[WVclimo]

Hours of freezing drizzle has iced up the snow cover here.  0.05” has accumulated so far. 31°
Not a breath of wind since the snow stopped, so trees and power lines still have all their snow.  

[WxUSAF]

34 with mist and drizzle. Miserable.

[rjvanals]

Hrrr is going to be wrong in the metro since it shows sleet coming into the area and I haven’t seen any reports of that 

[diatae]

Plain rain falls in the plains. Palm trees rejoice.

[Terpeast]

Hope yall got your jebwalks and took your kids (if you have any) out earlier today. Now it’s gross

[midatlanticweather]

7 minutes ago, Terpeast said:

Hope yall got your jebwalks and took your kids (if you have any) out earlier today. Now it’s gross

Icy snowballs can be made now! And they hurt

 

[kristia]

30.5 here currently. I would say about 2 inches total. 

[87storms]

So this next wave is gonna be all snow for Frederick, right?

[PrinceFrederickWx]

3 hours ago, Maestrobjwa said:

That's what I want to know! I mean he's THE weeniest local TV met in the state...he seriously went that low on the easiest blizzard forecast ever?

Pann also infamously went too low in Snowmageddon part 1, though not nearly as bad as 2016.

[North Balti Zen]

Just now, PrinceFrederickWx said:

Pann also infamously went too low in Snowmageddon part 1, though not nearly as bad as 2016.

He got off for years on being contrarian - he would literally forecast the opposite of the modeling.  When modeling showed a no snow or small snow event, he would grab the outlier snowiest model and push that. And, yes, he totally underforecast a few of the biggest area storms, again, I think because it was his shtik. 

[winter_warlock]

28 minutes ago, kristia said:

30.5 here currently. I would say about 2 inches total. 

Only 2 inches wow . Must be north ? Where r u at?