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Jan 11-12 Model/Forecasting Discussion


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Going off topic from the point of the thread (what else is there to do as we wait for the Euro? whistle.gif), but I don't recall any Feb 26th event?? Looking at the LWX archives, it looks like a few places in VA (Culpepper, EZF, orange) got an inch or two but nothing in the immediate DC/Baltimore metro.

I had 5" of wet snow from the storm. That was the infamous one where LWX predicted ZR to rain and it was all snow at least in the western burbs - they hoisted WSWs right when it was winding down.

There's little documentation on it from their site- wish I could pull it up on eastern.

http://www.njfreeway.../25-Feb-07.html

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I am a teacher. Are you trying to tell me that I shouldn't wish for snow days or that wishing for snows means I don't deserve a raise?

No. I'm simply saying that, to the majority of the taxpaying public, who don't get snow days off, who don't get 2 weeks for Christmas, who don't get 2.5 months for summer vacation, your pleading for snow days and cheering when it happens is not conducive to your argument for deserving of a raise.

Don't get me wrong. My mom's a teacher. My wife's a teacher. As such, I have a lot of friends who are teachers. I think, on the whole, they're underpaid and even more under-appreciated.

My point is that the snow weenieishness doesn't help your cause.

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I had 5" of wet snow from the storm. That was the infamous one where LWX predicted ZR to rain and it was all snow at least in the western burbs - they hoisted WSWs right when it was winding down.

There's little documentation on it from their site- wish I could pull it up on eastern.

http://www.njfreeway.../25-Feb-07.html

Cool, I didn't remember it (which means it must have been rain for my backyard guitar.gif). Here's the map they did for the event

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/events/?event=20070225

Alright, Euro has initialized...time to stop talking about 4 years ago drunk.gif

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No. I'm simply saying that, to the majority of the taxpaying public, who don't get snow days off, who don't get 2 weeks for Christmas, who don't get 2.5 months for summer vacation, your pleading for snow days and cheering when it happens is not conducive to your argument for deserving of a raise.

Don't get me wrong. My mom's a teacher. My wife's a teacher. As such, I have a lot of friends who are teachers. I think, on the whole, they're underpaid and even more under-appreciated.

My point is that the snow weenieishness doesn't help your cause.

Hahaha

Luckily I'm not arguing for a raise.

It's just that snow days for me = happiness because I love weather and happiness because I get to sleep in.

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I don't think it really matters what the Euro or any of the models mean at this point.

So far this year, everything that looked good at 5-6 days, no matter what the model, has not worked out.

Yeah, I enjoy the "game" of all this and wouldn't be here if I didn't, but the days of thinking the Euro or any one model is capable of reaching a reasonably accurate forecast for our area is gone, if it ever "reasonably" existed

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No. I'm simply saying that, to the majority of the taxpaying public, who don't get snow days off, who don't get 2 weeks for Christmas, who don't get 2.5 months for summer vacation, your pleading for snow days and cheering when it happens is not conducive to your argument for deserving of a raise.

Don't get me wrong. My mom's a teacher. My wife's a teacher. As such, I have a lot of friends who are teachers. I think, on the whole, they're underpaid and even more under-appreciated.

My point is that the snow weenieishness doesn't help your cause.

Teachers also get paid according to their time-- 50k or whatever the average pay is peanuts Down here, a teacher out of college gets 32k or so. Their average work week when they do work is 55 hours or so between prep time and teaching. I don't think its bad all they root for snow days.

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That may very well be, but i think the setup will still look decent. OTS is no big deal at this point, if it is still OTS on Saturday then i will jump ship.

I also expect an OTS solution, which would cause more alarm given the other model runs. The "seasonal trend" hasn't been good to us, so it'll rightly cause us to be gun-shy.

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