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Meatyorologist

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  1. 2009-10 to them is their 1968-69. 2014-15 was also a banger, especially in February. They have a handful of great winters since the beginning of the century amidst a sea of nonexistent ones. At least we've only had a couple bonafide torches during DJF during that stretch, albeit no all time cold/snowy ones either.
  2. I support the southeast China-fication of the eastern seaboard.
  3. Let's recap why Phil wants us to root against La Niña: -La Niña will prevent La Niña from happening again, so in order to get La Niña we have to root against La Niña. So we can have more La Niña in the future. Makes sense. -La Niña is actually an endothermic process which burns the Earth. I mean the effects of this warming aren't noticeable for centuries but think of how hard he just OWNED you with the Thermodynamics 101 lesson. But don't worry about CO2 emissions, we don't really understand that or something lmao -If next winter is a La Niña he might CRY and that would make us feel bad
  4. The Magnolia in my front yard is undergoing a major bloomout today. It's getting increasingly colorful outside by the hour as the plants wake up. Tomorrow and Sunday will be spectacular and I can't wait. My SAD is improving already. Also loving how hard this is gonna crash next week. More of a typical 'false Spring' situation compared to the initiation of our annual death ridge. That'll have to wait til April!
  5. They did something similar in 2017... I believe they just hug the center of totality and follow its path until the shadow beats them. No they aren't as fast as our rotating planet or its celestial bodies, but planes do have some speed to them. I believe they can add a couple mins if they're accurate and fast enough! Personally I'd rather experience the eclipse on a warm day with the smell of grass in the air surrounded by friends and family. Paying $2500 for a solo window seat crammed in a stuffy metal tube with obnoxious AC whirring into your ear and other passengers fighting for a view while you try to angle your head to see the eclipse because you can't see the moon itself from a comfortable seating position, and who knows the myriad of other potential problems you could think of that you'd likely encounter...yeah, i'm good on the ground.
  6. I did some research into that spot since it's the obvious winner... You need at least a day pass to even enter the park, which they're probably all sold out for the day of the eclipse. Worth a look though. I figure it'll probably be shoulder to shoulder up there which would ruin the vibe for me, so I'll take my chances somewhere else. I might not even be able to see the eclipse this year, which is a drag, but I did end up seeing the 2017 eclipse in Salem, so I do have at least one under my belt to cross off this bucket list item. I also have big plans to see the one in Iceland in 2026. I was planning on visiting there eventually anyways.
  7. Their all time record of -128F was set on my birthday!
  8. I'm hoping everyone here gets the chance to enjoy this very mild upcoming early Spring week. If the warm weather and pertinent sunshine doesn't awaken the whole biosphere, I don't know what will. The middle and lower elevations of the PNW will get a solid head start on the leafout season with this heatwave, perhaps a couple weeks ahead of schedule near sea level and escalating to over a month in some of the foothills. Unsurprisingly on brand for a dying El Niño in a warming climate. I'm gonna be a moderate Mitchell here and claim that highs won't get too far out there. Low 70s in Seattle, upper 70s in the Willamette. Nothing ridiculous like the mid 80s. Afterwards, there seems to be an intriguing push towards a midwinter-esque high latitude retrograde of the ridge. It's certainly possible given the immense magnitude of the initial ridge which will park overhead this week; heights nearly four sigma decameters above the mid march average. And with there being some cold on our side of the pole trapped in the vicinity of northeast Alaska, there may be gas yet left from our 2023-24 season in a very, very high end, out there blocking scenario. Reading some of the great 1800's talk we've been having over these last few days, we do know there's still a dying breath's potential to squeeze out a Salem Slushie Special on some Spring Sunday sometime soon, surely. Sayonara! But hold your thawing horses. Tomorrow and into Tuesday we have more transitive troughing to contend with, maybe bringing some lightning via some of the well timed bands of showers. There'll be more of a westerly component to this next incoming trough, so the Seattle area will probably deal with more Olympic shadowing, and will have to benefit from clear sky daytime heating and other thermal perturbations in the PSCZ to swoop in a squall line. We're in mid March now... could happen. Just the other day we had hail showers under a surprisingly clear sky!
  9. Most of the arguments I've read supporting HOA's are like this... Very extreme examples. This rarely ever happens and if so it's even more rare that a reasonable compromise can't be met with the neighbor, after a polite honest conversation. I bet a lot of "examples" are people simply not trying hard enough to make peace. This is probably the only sound example that I can see supporting HOA's... Though the "when administered correctly" is pulling a lot of weight here. Technically this wouldn't even be an issue if Americans weren't so concerned with silly things such as the continuity of their neighborhood or having to walk half a block to their front door.
  10. I have some very strong opinions on HOA's... I'm curious as to what good you see in them?
  11. Ehhhh I was fine with the 2-4 days of 70ish weather. Extending it to a week would be a little much this early, beyond the extent of our usual Spring warm spell.
  12. Hey @Phil... How's that ENSO transition looking? Any thoughts, any updates? Looking clean or messy thus far?
  13. There's been a lot of fun talk today about one March ridge endangering our region. But I think removing a key pollenating species would actually wipe out a good chunk of the remaining biosphere in the city, not to mention irreversibly alter the ecosystem in the wild. But they are a nuisance, no matter how you slice it.
  14. The winter of 1879-80 was an equally ridgy period for the southeast US. Then you have its inverse in 1861-62 out here. The more and more I read about it, the more and more it seems that the 19th century was a time period of midlatitude extremes overall. Or perhaps I am simply acknowledging the extremes you'd expect to see out of an entire century of weather across a whole continent.
  15. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it atmospheric river events and intense warm rain processes that are really bad for snowpack? I don't think 3-5 days of 35-50F sun will annihilate anything in the mountains. Even if KSEA itself smooches the seventies.
  16. He's probably too busy retrofitting the air circulation system in his house to include smoke filters, that way he's prepped for three weeks from now when Maryland is breathing in every last trunk of the Santiam old growth.
  17. You should've seen me when KSEA bumped up to 27F in the middle of the night on 12/28/21, avoiding a 23/17 day. 4F warmer than every surrounding station. I still think it was plane exhaust. Plane unfair if you ask me
  18. KSEA pulled off a respectable 28F this morning. Clouds and some weak precip have held temps around 42F this afternoon so depending on how well this overcast sticks around for the next two hours we could be looking at a double digit negative departure today. Pretty slick and sly for the backend of a days-long maritime trough.
  19. Who cares what Snowmizer thinks. This is wasted breath to anyone but him. Leave it to the DM's.
  20. I could really use a 70F day on my scheduled weekend. My SAD has been out of control lately (too much time spent kept up in my room drinking twenty monsters and livestreaming the 12z Euro with Snyder). So long as it snows while it's sunny and warm #blessings #bestofbothworlds #lifegoals
  21. I don't really care about the Tim versus Jesse WAR, it's above my pay grade (zero). But the bare roadcams and warm nose 925mb temp maps and long range EPS ridging just to troll certain members and piss on others having fun in their nonsticking snow, intentionally or not, is lame as hell. And yes I can tell the difference between you trolling and you genuinely appreciating impending warmth. You do plenty of the latter and I don't mind that, hell I agree half the time. But the tagged post is an obvious example of the former.
  22. Unless it stalls and keeps strength I doubt anyone in Seattle below the high points of KSEA and the watertower are gonna get anything measurable. Maybe we SCORE a mix though!
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