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  1. Review of the Feb 12-13 2014 snowstorm The experts like Bob Chill on the forum were watching this storm on the models from about a week out. The Euro showed the storm at least 5 days out. We had been burned by the "big snow" the weekend before, the unicorn snow, which turned into three inconsequential pieces of energy that ended up breaking our hearts. Thus we were honestly skeptical of this developing storm. We regularly get our hearts broken as storm appear on the models then they always find a way to screw DC. The models showed this storm from five days out. We remembered that all the big storms that hit DC had always been shown from 5 days out. This made some of us begin to hope, but there was always this strong healthy skepticism that comes from getting screwed over often by snows in DC winter after winter after winter. By Sunday night, three days out from the start of the event, I was watching the models too. I was avidly reading the forums. I forgot everything else in my life for about 4 days lol. Monday night the models were coming up with fantastic solutions for DC and vicinity. It was 'happy hour' and incredible euphoria reigned on the forums as we all imagined what 2.5 inches of water and two feet of snow would look like in our backyards. Of course the 12z runs brought us back to hard reality as they showed not so enthusiastic solutions. By Tuesday night we were all adjusting our expectations hard, zwyts setting the bar at 5-6 inches of snow. We were absolutely livin' and dyin' by model runs. We were high on cocaine then out on the ledge as the models thrashed out a solution. The damn good for shyte gfs was an outlier that we were all concerned might well turn out to verify. In the end the moderate solution worked out. By Wednesday afternoon we could see that we would get about 6 to 10 inches. Warnings were hoisted from Georgia to Maine. Over an inch of freezing rain fell in Georgia and South Carolina where civil emergencies were declared. NWS was uncertain about pulling the trigger on warnings for the lwx forecast area. The Nam won them over by 10pm Wed night and they hoisted warnings for 6 to 10 inches of snow. At one point they increased the forecast to 10-14 inches. DT and Justin Berk developed fantastic snow maps that verified! I wa sso impatient and fed up with the NWS being reluctant to hoist a WSW for my county that I posted a sarcastic message in the forums concerning NWS about sadistic forecasters holding back our winter storm warning but NWS warning everyone else, that was promptly removed by a mod since we were in storm mode lol. I was so concerned about heavy wet snows on cold roads that I rushed thru my workout Wednesday afternoon and missed several lebs as well as missing lots of exercises. My friends watched with amusement as I thoroughly panicked because I was scared to death to be caught out on the roads in heavy wet snow on cold roads. By 5pm I had fled home in total fear, because I had had my head so deep up the models' a$$ that I totally failed to realize that the 25 degree high temp on Wednesday would keep the snowfall from being wet lmao. Between 4pm and 430 the dewpoints suddenly increased from 8 degrees, to 15 degrees. My panic intensified. The column was moistening and tons of heavy wet snow would suddenly hit the roads - and I was still out on them! My panic increased as I saw virga moving over Dale City as early as 330pm. OMG it's gonna hit EARLY! I went out in the back yard and set up rulers and one MASSIVE snow stake with inches marked out in three inch increments with bright colored duct tape. I set duct tape up at the one foot level on the chain link fence posts and also made thick black marks at the 12 inch level on the front yard fence posts. I measured features in the back yard and noticed that the car undercarriage was 7 inches above the driveway, I oiled all my square edged construction grade shovels. I devoured an entire carton of soft chocolate chip cookies to pile on the carbs since I was about to dig Dale City out of the snow all by myslef. Well, the cookies promptly put me to sleep and I damn near missed the beginning of the storm at 7pm lmao. The damn snow finally reached the ground at 706pm in Dale City. Twenty minutes before, everyone in the lwx cfa was reporting snow and I was close to panic. The temps fell to 22 degrees. The roads were cold as hell. Every flake stuck. Roads and sidewalks turned instantly white. Light snow continued for a couple hours. -----------------------------------
  2. 2 inch snow on January 3 2014 --------------------------------------------
  3. 5 inch snow Tuesday January 21 2014 I am writing this on Jan 31. We have seen 11 days of snow cover since this snow fell. It has been very cold since. In the morning, temps fell to 29 degrees from the night before. The snow may have started at 9am. I did not wake up til 1030am. I saw some light snow that briefly became moderate. We picked up half an inch by 1030am that accumulated to an inch then we got stuck with pixie dust that fell thickly. Temps fell through the 20s all afternoon. The only reason the pixie dust did accumulate as much as it did, was because we had such COLD temps throughout the snow. By 2pm it was 25 degrees, by 5pm it was 22 degrees. We got pixie dust for hours this afternoon. Maryland got snow bands all afternoon because most of the frontogenetical forcing was over them, just as models had indicated about 6 hours before the start of the snowstorm. The RAP and HRRR tend to pick these details up very close to the start of a storm. The green banding over Maryland finally expanded and became a green blob that started to move southeastward. We finally got a green band with pretty sick rates around 645pm. Snow became outright heavy with 2 inch an hour rates. By the time the green band finally hit us, the pixie dust had accumulated to 2.5 inches with 20 degree temps by 630pm. When the green band hit us, temps fell to 17 degrees with 15 dewpoints. By 815pm when the band went by and snow tapered off, we had gotten 5 inches of snow. This is the biggest snow we have seen in three years, since the psuhoffman snow in Jan 2011 which dumped 5.5 inches of heavy wet snow on us which broke a lot of pine branches and left many pine saplings forever bowed over. This was one of the coldest snows we had seen since the 1980s, until a surprise snow on Jan 28-29 which snowed at 9 degrees which is the coldest snowstorm I have ever personally experienced. This snowstorm had some winds as well. Not only was it running in the low 20s for much of the storm but we had N winds which gusted to 37 mph which blew much snow off the roofs and along the ground which produced drifts and near whiteout conditions at times. It was like a milkshake froth lol. That made this particular storm very fun. On Monday Jan 27 we had a warm spike. That morning at 5am it rose to 36 degrees. Later that morning we hit 55 degrees, probably around 930am or so until the polar front smashed into us around 1030am from reports and we fell to 41 degrees by 1230pm when I woke up. It got most of the areal snowpack, about 75 percent of it. By 330pm we had fallen to 31 degrees with 5 degree dews and NNW wind gusts to 35 mph. The Jan 21 5 inches and Jan 28 2 inches tended to overlap somewhat with limited snowpack areal coverage by the time the Jan 28 2 inch surprise hit us but those 2 new inches reestablished the snowpack for at least another day. By Jan 31 we had had 11 days of patchy to full areal snow cover, with a total of 23 days including Jan 31. We just might manage to pull out one more day tomorrow. ------------------------------------
  4. Surprise 2 inch snow late Jan 28-early Jan 29 2014 A storm was developing along an arctic boundary that stalled in North Carolina. This same boundary extended into the northern Gulf of Mexico and into Texas. There was horrific ice and sleet and snow all along this boundary F from Austin OBX. There was snow farther north as well. SE VA and parts of NE NC got 8-10 inches of snow. Late in the day today, models indicated the precip shield would move farther north into N VA. Last night, and early on the 28th at 3am I saw this SW to NE line of snow form from DC to the TN/NC state border. It was not snowing but the radar indicated it. It first showed up at 8pm on the 27th, then again at 3am the next morning. By 5am the line had gotten wider. By noon there was rain, sleet, freezing rain and snow bands down in NC, SE VA. There was a band of snow over C VA and another over N VA. It was cloudy all day here with highs only around 14 degrees. The wind made it feel like -5. It was very COLD. Mid level clouds lowered and thickened all afternoon. By 6pm the band over N VA had expanded in areal extent. At that time the temps were 13 degrees with dewpoints near -8. I thought it would not snow because of all the dry air. In fact I made a ridiculous statement on American to the effect that we would not see snow because of the dry air. Well, I was dead WRONG. Models had shifted the precip north some, and a shortwave was set to move across VA overnight, and though we only had a tenth of an inch of water equivalent to work with, it did snow, beginning at 930pm. The snow stuck, from flake 1. The ground was frozen and roads were cold. Snow fell for five hours, moderate at times. The dewpoint rose to 6 above zero while the dry bubd temps fell from 12 degrees, to 9 degrees. This is the first time I have ever seen snow fall at 9 degrees. It was a historic moment. We ended up with 2 inches of fluffy, glittery snow that turned the lawns white again and covered the roads and all surfaces. It was 9 degrees and 20 to 1 snow to water ratios were in play which meant that one tenth of an inch of water translated to 2 inches of fluffy snow. The winds were light. The snow was easy to measure. I had not expected snow from this SE VA storm. It was a total surprise. It was fun to watch the snow fall and accumulate at only 9 degrees. It brought my seasonal totals to 12 inches. That surpasses the 2011-12 and 2012-13 winters, and it is about the same as the 2010-11 winter when we got around 12 inches on the season. The snow ended at 245am. The low was 8. There were a lot of happy people in northern Virginia, Maryland and Delaware from this snow. Many of us had not expected it, though we wanted it. The day after this snow, some of it melted, it was only a fluffy 2 inch snow, it was in the teens but it still blew or melted. The day after that more of it melted. The north facing lawns looked spectacular with over three inches of snow ( they had snow from the last 5 inch snow on Jan 21). Even the Glendale Valley sidewalks stayed snow covered. Wed Jan 29 we hit 24, low 8 Thursday Jan 30 we hit 31, low19. On Fri Jan 31 more areal snow melted because we hit 45 degrees but the ground was still so cold and frozen that snow held on in shaded places and to the north of sun blocking objects like houses. We pulled out at least three days of snow cover after this 2 inch snow, today Jan 31 being the 3rd day. ---------------------------
  5. 2013-2014 winter weather. Posted in the December Banter Thread 2, Page 25, post 874 http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/41896-december-banter-thread-2/?p=2533314 State of the snowpack - December 11 2013 Its barely mid December and Woodbridge already has 2 inches of snow and sleet on grassy surfaces. The snowpack is composed of an inch of glaciated snow and sleet, with another inch of compacted, frozen snow on top. The ground is surface frozen which supports the snow/sleetpack. An anomalous frigid airmass over the eastern two thirds of the US will likely preserve this snow/sleetpack for at least part of the week. Plows have piled up piles of sleet and snow as much as three feet tall. Tonight these will freeze fairly hard as temps fall to near 20 degrees. If this anomalously cold pattern continues, we could hold on to snowpack into next week. This is early for northeastern Virginia and is not indicated by climatology. This weather pattern is much more representative of late January. -------------------- This is the post to use for the description of the Dec 8-9 2013 snow/sleet/zr storm. http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/41909-winter-storm-128-9-observationsnowcasting-ii/?p=2524265 Sunday December 8 2013 snow and sleet storm. It had two parts. The first part was snow and sleet from 7am to 2pm which then mixed with ZR. We had FZDZ into the evening then the 2nd part of the storm was freezing rain which steadily fell from 9pm to 5am. The temperature during the day was in the 20s and rose to 30, where it remained into 4am. The snow and sleet accumulated an inch. The afternoon ZR then iced up the snow/sleetpack and soaked it. The ZR lin the evening into the overnight accreted a third of an inch of ice over the existing snowpack. The ice accumulation brought down branches and caused power outages. Pine tree branches were the hardest hit by the ice. I saw pine branches at least 6 inches in diameter that had been snapped off. The snow and sleet in the first part of the storm readily accumulated on roads as well as grassy areas. The sleet piled up on roads despite initial road temperatures in the low 40s. Models progged temperatures to rise above freezing at 9Z which is 4am EDT Dec 9. The temperatures stayed at or below freezing until after sunrise. The high on the 9th was only 34 degrees. It stayed cloudy. Some ice melted but much of it remained on the trees and on roads, sidewalks, cars, fences and bushes well into the day. The third of an inch of ice was difficult to remove from cars, particularly if the snow and sleet had been removed before the nighttime icing started. I missed getting to go to the R and get my Bailey and opp some lebs. It would have been a very good day to Bailey and get AD cycles because there would have been very few ppl around. Jon said they closed at 3pm Sunday. Tuesday December 10 2013 snowstorm Models had indicated 4-6 inches of snow which was supposed to start at 7am, perhaps mixing with sleet at the onset. The snow started around 7ish. I woke up at 830am and noticed about a half inch of snow on roads and grass, then heard the ping of sleet mixed in with the snow. We also had a period of very light snow and sleet between 830am and 1030am. Then the snow picked up and fell moderately through at least 1130am but the boundary layer temps were marginal, around 32. The upper level low was moving very fast and the snow was over by noon. I slept til 230pm then saw the sun was out, temps rose to 38 degrees and the snow on the roads and sidewalks melted but we had picked up an inch and a half od fresh snow on cartops and on top of the inch of glacier from 2 days ago. We've had three days of snow cover - The snow/sleet and ZR that fell Sunday Dec 8 stuck around thru Dec 9 into this event which added another inch and a half of snow for three days so far of snow cover. This week is progged to be pretty cold. We might hold on to the snowpack for another few days. Higher elevations such as where Trixie lives near CharlesTown got 4 inches of snow. FDK got about 5-6 inches of snow. They got more banding, just like the Rap had indicated. Jan 28 2014 It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability 12/8/13...1" SN/IP + 1/3 inch ZR 12/10/13...1.5" SN 12/17/13...surprise 1/2" SN 1/3/14...2" SN 1/21/14...5" SN 12 inches of snow 2013-14 season --- 22 days of snow cover <p> -----------------------------------------------------------
  6. As of 840pm Mon Dec 9 2013 when I first cleaned up my sig on American Wx Forums for the new 2013-2014 winter It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability 12/8/13...1" SN/IP then a third of an inch ZR Final version for today: It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability 12/8/13...1" SN/IP + 1/3 inch ZR ----------------------
  7. It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability
  8. It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability ---------------------------
  9. It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability /b]It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before.[/b] baroclinic_instability [/b]It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before.[/b] baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability ----------------------------------
  10. WINTER 2013-2014 Existing sig on American Wx Forums Thats a great sign. Wes is the medical examiner of this board. He shows up, delivers a grim prognosis and picks up the body. As long as the prospects are alive and kicking no need for the toe tag guy. CRAZYBLIZZARD It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. baroclinic_instability This is a pretty nasty combination of a pretty good thermodynamic environment with some excellent shear. Fairly steep ML lapse rates combining with increase low-level WAA and moisture transport and increasing theta-e is really helping to not only keep things unstable but helping to destabilize the atmosphere even further! Supercell composite parameter is 20 with sig tor of 4...that's insane for this time of night. You even have Dcape values over 1000 J/KG. weatherwiz 12.24.12 - Hour or so of snow showers, no accums. | 12/26/12 - 0.25" snow |1.23.13 - 1.5 inch snow, 1.25.13 T 2 days snow cover 3 days snow cover so far in 2012-2013 winter
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  15. Well you got 70s cranking, ice sliding, pile walking, drift shoveling snow obsessed Jeb back again for sure (and then some LOL!). The Winter Olympics aren't going to help either. So many things ongoing at the same time PLUS this unbelievable 500 year block pattern. I know it truly marks me as a hopeless weenie case just to be saying this, but I hope that southern storm tracks a bit north of NE overnight and we wake up to 4 inches and steady snow. I'm greedy as all heck. We don't get blocking like this every year. I'd be the same if I visited Jay Peak in Vermont too. I'd be hungry for EVERY snowstorm. I'd want 3 feet so I could dig snow to my heart's content. Also I hope that arctic clipper tracks south of us, slows down and goes all-out with 1.3 inches qpf with crazy 30-1 snow to water ratios so we pick up 39 inches!! In this 500 year blocking pattern ANYTHING AT ALL is possible!! Tip mentioned on the SNE thread that the AO is so negative that it is pushing the envelope of what is possible in Earth's atmosphere, that there are so many negative polar indices that they (the SNE'ers) will need to wait five weeks for anything to change!!!!!!!!!!! He said this pattern is so profound that there has been nothing like it since before technology settled on this continent!! He mentioned that this blocking is forcing a microclimate along the Eastern Coast that will persist for a YEAR!!! MAYBE THIS WILL BECOME SEMIPERMANENT!!! Maybe this is what the 'Hide the Decline' bullshyte was trying to cover up!! I hope so!!! I have always wanted to experience the Little Ice Age lol. This pattern is so great and there is SO MUCH SNOW in Dale City that I am nearly in tears with happiness and gratitude! Some of the streets in my city have four foot snow berms along the sides of the roads! The Central Ridge on the southside of Potomac Mills Mall has HUGE TALL plowed piles!!! The snowpack here is so deep that I am actually having trouble jebwalking in it and am being forced to walk in the streets. Parking in the subdivisions is a major disastah; people are too lazy to shovel a small cramped niche form their cars so they just park 'em right in the street!! This is what I enjoy and why I want another 2-3 feet of snow!! Another thing I absolutely adore is the fact that so many lanes on the major thoroughfares are blocked by huge snow berms! It develops a whole new meaning to Blocking lol! It's so fun to drive those streets!! The same goes for the subdivisions!! I want even more snow so bad! I love this winter! This winter is the winter of our dreams, the season when not only will your best snow weenie dreams come gloriously and wonderfully true, but be fulfilled beyond your wildest imaginings, often just when you least expect it!! YEAH Old man winter!! BRING IT!! We'll show SNE how to deal with REAL Snow LOL!! http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/...px?animate=true ------------------
  16. RoyW at EUSWX posted some truly amazing snow related links: Amazing snow/drifting photos from Kansas http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?sh...p;#entry3729721 Pretty awesome photos from KS. These are from the Pratt and Mullinville areas in the west central part of the state. My hometown has some interesting CNN ireport footage; they got roughly 15-18 inches, an incredible amount for a part of the state where 12+ snows aren't common. Heck, even getting 10 was rare growing up. Pratt and Mullinville are further west and experience that more often. However, they received 24-28 inches or so, which is a lot anywhere in KS, record-setting. I am sad I couldn't be there anymore to see it, but kind of glad I am not shoveling this mess... This image won't post, but it is awesome because the snow almost covers lawn furniture...: http://item.slide.com/r/1/0/i/YDKhceeOmj9G..._5MX1RF1BTo4M9x http://media.kansas.com/smedia/2009/03/28/...ffiliate.80.JPG http://media.kansas.com/smedia/2009/03/28/...ffiliate.80.JPG http://media.kansas.com/smedia/2009/03/28/...ffiliate.80.jpg ----------------------------
  17. Need to make this a sig: http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?s=...t&p=3491559 Phineas stated that it should be made a sig today. -------------
  18. The Future of the Internet III http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more social tolerance, more forgiving human relations, or better home lives. Here are the key findings on the survey of experts by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that asked respondents to assess predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020: # The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020. # The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness. # Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020. # Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing arms race, with the crackers who will find ways to copy and share content without payment. # The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations. # Next-generation engineering of the network to improve the current internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch. -------------------------------
  19. DIY Renewable Energy blog http://diy-renewable-energy.com/articles/ ----------------------------------
  20. http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http:...egin/intro.html I took a walk at 10 AM, Saw how everything was doing http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=84585 ---------------------
  21. Singularity Summit to Discuss Impact of Machine Intelligence http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/singularity-sum.html Singularity Summit 2008 http://www.singularitysummit.com/program The Singularity Is Near: The Movie http://www.singularity.com/themovie/future.php Questions and Answers on the Singularity (PDF File) http://www.singularity.com/themovie/Questi...Singularity.pdf -----------------
  22. Jak488 listed some incredible snow pics on EUSWX. They sure get snow early on in the season and also very late in the season (by northern VA standards). Most are pics of Bozeman, Montana, except for the last several which are of Banff, Alberta: http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6546/img0840zj1.jpg Morning of October 6th; first accumulating snowfall of the 2007-08 winter http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/2756/img0856vz6.jpg Bozeman's Bridger mountains in mid-November http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/5916/img0872up0.jpg Downtown Bozeman on a frigid December afternoon http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/3377/img0907xy7.jpg Christmas morning after a heavy Christmas Eve snowfall http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/30/img0916nn3.jpg Mid-January after ten inches of unforecasted snow blanketed the area http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3486/img0927xl5.jpg Mid-Jan again, after another several inches fell along with extremely high winds, hence the drifts http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6927/img0929kl6.jpg The driveway http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7800/img0941xg7.jpg Late January white-out http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6295/img0942iy1.jpg White-out again http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/2367/img0954de9.jpg Looking towards Bozeman's Spanish Peaks of the Gallatin Range, early Feb http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4189/img1138sz2.jpg Beautiful mid-April morning http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4028/img1148xl9.jpg Mid-April again, with the Bridgers in the clouds http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3353/img1222we1.jpg Snow on my birthday!!! April 25 http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9156/img1357bk6.jpg Lake Louise, mid-May http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/4176/img1363jq2.jpg Lake Louise again, still frozen http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/6944/img1375wm7.jpg Hector Lake along Banff's Icefields Parkway (the most beautiful road on earth IMO) http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/673/img1376ze6.jpg Further up the Icefields Parkway http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/9272/img1382ef2.jpg Near the Columbia Icefield in southern Jasper National Park --------------------------------------------------------
  23. Oct 3 2008 What is it about a Snowstorm that gets everyone excited? http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=175478 -----------
  24. 12-year-old Revolutionizes the Solar Cell http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/12-y...=1&mbid=yhp -------
  25. Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets. Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link as he spoke at the California firm's annual developers forum in San Francisco. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/ts_af...hipcompanyintel ----
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