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SLP went from UP of MI yesterday to S MI today. So significant improvement for us snow starved in Iowa and Illinois

Well the 18z NAVGEM still has our back (sort of).

Welcome back winter!!! Stick around for a while please!

No easy calls this winter. Something has to break your way at some point. I suggest having Tim over for a Super Bowl party. Snow loves that guy.

This has all the earmarks of a Whatcom County special.

There is still enormous potential with this, as tonight's runs are showing. Brennan is not wrong by saying earlier that the overall pattern remains nearly the same, even with the worst runs of the last 24 hours. It really will not take a huge shift to nail us harder than Steve Bannon hits his wife.

Early next week trended better on both the 00z GFS and GEM. It's all going to come down to the strong L on Sunday. The farther south it comes in the better.

Regardless of one's views on euthanasia, I think Trump could have done a lot worse. At least Gorsuch has had a lot of bi-partisan support to this point (Obama, Clinton, and Biden all voted to confirm him previously), something desperately needed in our current government.

Those teleconnection forecasts can swing as wildly as the models. I say we have 1 more shot near the end of the month with MJO once again propagating into the EHem

Map. Pretty good for many on sub. Heck I'd take it.

Well, that de-escalated quickly!

Its a pretty varied terrain in Greater Vancouver. Near sea level as little as 6-8". Higher elevations have probably seen 30" and more.

I don't know what the totals are but Burnaby and central Vancouver will likely get hit the hardest, as usual. Hopefully it doesn't rain too much...

Seems to be someone who had their account banned, or made a fool of themselves and made a new one

Man, King EURO looks like king GEM. Go Canadians!

Honestly you are getting annoying in your spat with Jesse.

Calibration I guess. This is becoming quite the model rollercoaster. I'm just glad that there have been improvements with the first event on Friday, especially with many of the model runs bringing the low up closer to the shore. It could easily be the best event of our winter so far for many of us in the "screw zone"; perhaps the best event of the winter if the fun stuff that was forecast early next week doesn't come back into play. It also seems that having the initial low closer to shore reduces some of the negative tendencies to want to spit energy further offshore with the secondary low.

I only saw a couple Puget sound folks panicking. Don't mistake ones prediction with panic.

LGBT rights are about a lot more than just marriage. In fact for me, marriage is one of the least important parts of it, but it's what's been most talked about because it's so controversial and because it's the main concern for many of the more powerful people behind the LGBT rights movement (i.e. they want to be able to get married). But LGBT rights are also about addressing things like: the fact that trans people die way earlier on average and have a far higher suicide rate than people who aren't trans; workplace discrimination; helping out kids who are homeless often because they've been kicked out of their parents' homes for not turning out the way they were supposed to; and dealing with the harassment that people who don't fit in face all the time. I'm sure there's other stuff I'm leaving out. To improve the lot for people who face these problems, who didn't used to have much of a voice at all and were either hated or ignored by most people or forced to not be themselves, is not really "spoiling" them, unless you mean we are starting to "spoil" them the same way everyone else has always been "spoiled." Creating equality for a previously less-than-equal group of people is not wrong.

Where's Wizardo?

I agree with this. I like the fact that he seems to have some bipartisan support. From everything I have read up on him he seems like a good choice.

00z is a small step in the right direction

This is a joke right? HIs logical fallacies are frequent and often glaring. And made all the worse by the fact that he doesn't even seem to be aware of them and appears to actually buy into extreme views rather than just mocking them. Do you honestly think someone who blindly buys into extreme views is better than someone who sees through that kind of thinking and routinely mocks it?

I agree that it makes the left look bad. Unfortunately, the vast majority of liberals who don't want these protests to turn violent can't do much to stop the tiny number of anarchists who do. Most recent protests have been peaceful. For example, I was at the women's march in Bellingham a week or two ago, and there were thousands of people there -- more than I'd ever seen in one place in Bellingham before. Everyone I saw was being calm, collected, peaceful, and respectful of everyone else there, including the police who were monitoring the protest and the one guy who was heckling us. That to me was an ideal protest.

It's interesting that you can find so many examples of the right saying ridiculous things about Obama's executive overreach. Very similar to some of the things the left are saying about Trump recently, yet right-wingers and their apologists now act like it's completely unheard of and uncalled for. And suddenly all of the protesters are now disruptive idiots, while in the case of the tea party and other anti-Obama movements they were freedom fighters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/25/obama-immigration-and-10-words-in-the-constitution-that-mean-mr-president-dont-be-a-king/?utm_term=.359539d2b8c0 http://video.foxnews.com/v/4610057025001/?#sp=show-clips http://www.cbsnews.com/news/boehner-obama-is-acting-like-a-king/ http://thehill.com/video/senate/277299-rand-paul-obama-acting-like-a-king-or-a-monarch-on-guns For the record, I think both assertions are extreme. But how quickly we forget...

it was "Tim the weatherman" lol

Lovin' this! It's like a warning for a rogue T-storm cell. Have to get my daughter from work ,before that 2nd wave hits here. Stepping out..

Stunned - GRR floats the "b-word" in their pm update "The ECMWF ensembles from last night and the operational ECMWF from the 12z run favor a much farther south track that would result in a near blizzard here Wed of next week. Meanwhile the GFS is farther north so we would get snow to rain back to snow. At this point we will continue to watch this as either way this could be one our more impactful storms of the winter."

Yeppers, suddenly, just when everybody was ready to pull the plug on this winter it gets interesting again. Sure beats the boredom of mid-January. Buckle-up Snowflakes

CFS weeklies have been showing a GOA ridge popping late February or early march. Seems to be along your line of thinking.

I like cold core storms and hail. I said something about that before he ever mentioned the impact on his vegetables. Nothing angry about it.

We have ta make up for the loss of January, so, yes, winter till mid March Pls.

So far for the winter season, my snowfall is holding at 32.8". Still more winter ta go.

This clipper provided another 0.5" last night, so, grand total for January snowfall is 9.5".

@ pic /\ Sweet! Hopefully sticks around a good 6 weeks or more, since it took most of January off One thing that's been a constant this winter is over-shooting daily high temps Today for instance, GRR had KRMY at the freezing mark so I figured 34F most likely..WRONG!! Shoots up to 37

There's a joke in there somewhere! Liking the south trends so far. Just want to stay on the cold side.

You're a Trump supporter.

Surface low goes thru S MO and N AR. Far cry from the GFS. MI kill run...

City of Portland having a press conference this afternoon to outline how they're going to handle the winter storm. Tune in and save the ones you love!

Is Lake Whatcom in Covington?

GEFS are tanking the AO and trending towards the ideas for February, now if we can get the NAO to play ball a bit more it would be even better. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.sprd2.gif http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao.sprd2.gif

I think we'll pretty much know on the 12z. Certainly by tonight.

Lock this in please.

Welcome to winter in the Rockies! The crazy weather swings within a few hours are one of my favorite aspects of this climate.

Big time. Can't even get a half a** windstorm out of this horrifically dull winter. Bring on the sun and warmth.

yeah coming home from work and it was pretty much a whiteout. North of Milwaukee and most of WI are probably above average snowfall so far this year.

Didn't hear any thunder but I did get about 2" in about an hour when that same snow band moved through. Out snowmobiling and it was hard to see through the silver dollar size wet snow. Awesome surprise!

January left with a bang in SEMI. Total snowfall for the month is safe ta say is: 9.0". Not bad. At average.

You live in your own world, where you're always right, never wrong. You make Jim out to be such a horrible person, when he's not. We all love the weather, and it affects us all in different ways. You know what's funny? People missed Jim while he was gone, wanted him to come back. People never miss you, never will