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"first" people are so lame...get a life

Well, the idea of having snow during the winter was fun while it lasted. Hopefully there are more storms out there yet to form that are just itching to hit us.

2nd, go to another blog if you don't like it.

What are the chances that this storm could hit the northeast if it misses us?

12z NAM coming in even more suppressed for tomorrow. Points south and east of D.C. could still receive a little snow, but most of us will remain high and dry (according to this model run)

Next week looks like an active weather pattern. any chance we could get somethign out of that?

Uncle Dak:
This storm should also miss New England (for the same reason it misses us)

Eighth!

This is my life, don't make funny of it. I get all weepy.

12z American models continue the trend in the wrong direction for snow lovers. If they are right, we might not see anything other than some clouds.

Mike :
We are under another threat at mid week, but too early to nail down. 12z GFS is suppressed a little to the south. The GFS is also giving us little more than flurries tomorrow. Hopefully this is not the beginning of a pattern.

Thanks Jim. Keeping my fingers crossed for next week as tomorrow not looking good, esp for me being so far west of DC. Us snow lovers are never satisfied!!

OK, if Boston gets ONE MORE cool storm, I'm moving there. They've had the best winter! NOT FAIR! Jeez, can't I get ONE storm like the one we got Presidents' Weekend 2003??

Yeah, second, go on with yourself.

My gut is telling me that our better chances will come next week. Just looking at the precip over Texas, it doesn't appear to be taking aim at us. The front moving in from the west could squeeze out some light snow though, but I suspect that'll be it for this round. I'm looking forward to the middle of next week.

This storm is definitely fading fast...you can always hold out hope though. Just to remind everyone of(though I know some of you already thought about it)January 25, 2000. A storm that was supposed to scoot off the coast and give us nothing, and at the last minute changed paths, and we wound up with 10-18" of snow....one can only hope.

Alex:
One item of interest. The models are not handling the precip. over Texas well at all. QP returns are already farther north and east than projected at 1 pm. This is something that bears watching.

Remind me where to find models? NOAA site?

Here ya go missy:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/

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Dear Snow Lovers:

I tried. I really did. This was the year I was going to embrace snow and winter weather. I was going to look forward to it, in the hopes that I would understand snow lovers.

I even enjoyed the clipper system we had in December. I told myself how gorgeous it all was, how fluffy and white. I even took my dog for a walk in it (he never liked snow that much either, but I thought he should try with me).

I really tried, I promise. But then January 17, 2008 happened. Oh sure, it started out nice. Big fluffy white flakes. All so lovely.

But then, as almost always happens in this area (seriously, I would bet 80 percent of all snow events), it turned to a mix. Then a mush. And then a mess.

And at the end of a long day of slogging through it, scrapping it off my walks, and generally dealing with it soaking me to the bone, I asked myself: what do snow lovers find so wonderful about all this? I couldn't answer that question.

So I'm going back to being a full-fledged winter hater and advocate for the endless summer of flip-flops, tans and short sleeves.

But just like snow lovers won't get enough of what they want in DC, I won't get enough of what I want in DC either. So maybe the snow lovers should head for New England, and I and those like me should head for Key West.

The question is, will anyone be left in DC?

Counting 2day, 27 of last 30 days have been above average.

Jim, that's interesting. I still think, though, if you made me look at that map I'd give it no chance, not with a big front moving. Then again, I'm an amateur, so I'm basing it almost completely off of instincts and experience...not necessarily scientific reasoning. But hey, give me that front any day because we all know what's up for next week!

Where do I go to get realtime comments?