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17 minutes ago, Parsley said:

Of course, LES moves in just as the game ends. Mother Nature, not being kind to us. 

True, but the game overall turned out to be well-played! Hopefully the Eagles will have similar success tomorrow.

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Astronomical winter hasn’t even started yet. Last year, we didn’t even get a good pattern until after New Years. Do I think Phil will be above normal snow? Idk, it’s a Niña. But it will probably snow. Doubt we see a ‘19-‘20 repeat, that was highly unusual. 

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Does anyone else here use an Ambient WS-2000? I've had mine for about a year now and while the temp and precip readings seem dead on, the wind readings always seem to come out weird. Like max gusts always seem to land on the same numbers such as 10.3mph, 13.6mph, 17.2mph, 21.6mph. Also seems sort of low (I'll admit it's in a non-optimal position for wind readings at ~7ft above ground). Maybe some sort of precision issue?

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15 minutes ago, mb2231 said:

Does anyone else here use an Ambient WS-2000? I've had mine for about a year now and while the temp and precip readings seem dead on, the wind readings always seem to come out weird. Like max gusts always seem to land on the same numbers such as 10.3mph, 13.6mph, 17.2mph, 21.6mph. Also seems sort of low (I'll admit it's in a non-optimal position for wind readings at ~7ft above ground). Maybe some sort of precision issue?

I have a WS-2902, but they look pretty similar overall.  Mine is set up high, so I catch the gusts better, but I don't totally rely on it for my temps (I have 2 other stations for that, but most times they are similar anyway).  Most of the time my gusts seem different, but on some occasions I've noticed that the gusts are similar.  26.2 seems to happen more than other numbers.  Overall though I wouldn't consider it an issue.  My wish is that for temps they would make that in a separate small unit.  I know they have them, but they are a few hundred more I think.

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On 12/12/2022 at 6:52 AM, Parsley said:

Here's my half-ass long range forecast for southeast PA using a quick glance of the (horrible) long range models and a good dose of disappointment in my reservoir based on recents Decembers...

 

Chilly-> Cold rain/wind -> Chilly -> Cold rain/wind -> Cold, dull, brown Christmas.  🤨

On 12/12/2022 at 7:34 AM, Allsnow said:

You forgot the random snow shower, but other then that looks on point. 

 

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3 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

We’re not getting enough credit for this…..

Ha! I guess that was the easy bet (forecast). When what….maybe 80%? (just a random guess) of winter storm events are rain around here i guess calling for rain is a nothing burger. 

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On 12/17/2022 at 10:11 PM, ACwx said:

I was too young to remember that one, but based on something I read about it a while ago it was pretty awful and I believe John Bolaris in particular was in some hot water?

My equivalent of that event was the January 2015 bust, 18+" predicted for Philly (and I think 24-36" for NYC?) only to end up with 1-3" just a couple days later. I remember watching the radar live in disbelief.

Bolaris never gave up on it. NBC also broke into their prime time network coverage to be the 1st to throw it out there on the last day of sweeps month. No one looked good on this, but he became the poster child for this non event.

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On 12/20/2022 at 3:24 PM, frankdp23 said:

I have a WS-2902, but they look pretty similar overall.  Mine is set up high, so I catch the gusts better, but I don't totally rely on it for my temps (I have 2 other stations for that, but most times they are similar anyway).  Most of the time my gusts seem different, but on some occasions I've noticed that the gusts are similar.  26.2 seems to happen more than other numbers.  Overall though I wouldn't consider it an issue.  My wish is that for temps they would make that in a separate small unit.  I know they have them, but they are a few hundred more I think.

Thanks. Lol I get so OCD over this thing. I got into looking at all this because I'm calculating Wind Chill and using Wind Speed rather than gusts, which I think is probably the correct way to do it. I also realized the NWS formula for wind chill assumes the anemometer is at 33 feet and a human face is at 5 feet (V^0.16 portion of the forumla), so if you anemometer is actually at 7 feet like mine, my wind chill calculations might actually come out to high.

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Oh well, another gorgeous sunset tonight. Took a landscape photo but when I try to share it is inverted. But it very similar to photo I shared yesterday. @frankdp23 did you see it? Or beautiful sunrise this morning, image attached. Had to scramble out to of bed with phone to take photo and not lock myself out. 😄

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1 hour ago, rramblings said:

Oh well, another gorgeous sunset tonight. Took a landscape photo but when I try to share it is inverted. But it very similar to photo I shared yesterday. @frankdp23 did you see it? Or beautiful sunrise this morning, image attached. Had to scramble out to of bed with phone to take photo and not lock myself out. 😄

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Nice pic! I did yes, but missed the best time for a pic because we had company.  I did sneak out to take this though.  

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What would you do if you were in this situation? Trapped inside an ice encrusted home with no power. Even if you had a generator would it work? I’m not that claustrophobic but this would test my limits. 

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