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Misc General Banter Thread

Parker said:
Can someone let me know what it’s going to do in my backyard please? I need to know right now

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Thanks
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It'll be interesting to see how efficient ice acrual is in MBY. I'm in a bit of a valley. Last year, the .25 or so of ice never materialized literally in my back yard, but just a 1/4 mile up the road, and a couple of hundred feet in elevation, there was ice galore.

The trees around my house have grown quite a bit since the last good ice storm in 2000.
 
Honest Question, what past storms are similar to this in potential setup? The reason I ask is I thought the AI models used past historical data to try and resolve the possible outcomes / scenarios. I don't recall any in the past 20 years that i have been following or learning.
 
jeremyt said:
Honest Question, what past storms are similar to this in potential setup? The reason I ask is I thought the AI models used past historical data to try and resolve the possible outcomes / scenarios. I don't recall any in the past 20 years that i have been following or learning.
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Athens/Atlanta ice storm of January 1973
 
Hypothetically if the euro is right. Trying to decide if I want to potentially witness a crippling ice storm in the north ATL metro or head north and see a foot of snow but maybe get stuck for days lol.
 
Wild Weather Monger said:
You have to calculate how many watts the devices you plan on connecting that will be on at the same time. Same with extension cords. 16 ga is the cheapest and will handle things like a microwave. 14ga or 12ga for electric heaters.

For heating, you would be better off getting a propane indoor heater.

I have natural gas and will just use the stove and the antique space heater in my man cave to heat the house.
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Careful running a gas stove. I know someone that did that during a multi day outage. Thankfully it ended only with a detector going off.

I know… but thanksgiving all day no one died blah blah.

Please make sure you have a CO detector. This does go epic ice storm, I don’t want to read about someone on this board dying. And there will be deaths from this that can be avoided.
 
jrips27 said:
Hypothetically if the euro is right. Trying to decide if I want to potentially witness a crippling ice storm in the north ATL metro or head north and see a foot of snow but maybe get stuck for days lol.
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If you have the funds for room and board and are okay leaving your house & stuff behind for a while, I'd 100% go play in the snow
 
jrips27 said:
Hypothetically if the euro is right. Trying to decide if I want to potentially witness a crippling ice storm in the north ATL metro or head north and see a foot of snow but maybe get stuck for days lol.
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Already thought this through. Anything historical at home and in here for it
 
tractor girl said:
If you have the funds for room and board and are okay leaving your house & stuff behind for a while, I'd 100% go play in the snow
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This is how I’m leaning but if we can trend our area to at least some backside snow then I’m all for it. Just nothing pretty about ice
 
SD said:
We have actually been discussing this among staff.

2 ideas so far

A imby thread where folks can ask questions
A model run thread where the runs are discussed


Let us know what you guys think or if you have other ideas
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i've thought about this. my biggest issue has always been less experienced model viewers chiming in with conflicting interpretations of what a model run is doing. maybe a badge system of "model commenters" could be helpful

otherwise, i'm not in favor of balkanizing discussion to a bunch of smaller threads. i think there's a frenetic beauty in a catch all discussion thread (even though i'm sure it is a PITA to moderate) that you don't get on twitter or discord or anywhere else
 
Parker said:
I can’t stand this guy and he’s somehow popped up on my TL, guess it’s the algos
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I annoy him from time to time and he rarely replies. Probably should stop but it’s fun because his entire forecasting mindset is whatever favors him. Bad meteorology in my opinion.
 
jrips27 said:
Hypothetically if the euro is right. Trying to decide if I want to potentially witness a crippling ice storm in the north ATL metro or head north and see a foot of snow but maybe get stuck for days lol.
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I dunno. I’m hoping the ice storm of death is just fantasy. But if it’s not. You’d not only be stuck, but you’d be away from your property. It’s not always easy to get back in after the fact. I’m not far from you, and I’m going nowhere. I’m hoping the snow comes our way. Lol. Doesn’t sound like it, but who knows?
 
Iceagewhereartthou said:
I really, really, really, would like to see the Euro suite move more towards the GFS with colder flatter look for snow over ice. It has been stubbornly consistent with the skating rink idea; gotta fix that.
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Also pulling for this trend. I’m 31 and have never lived thru a horrible ice storm, but my Dad has and he’s told me they aren’t fun in any way.
 
jeremyt said:
Honest Question, what past storms are similar to this in potential setup? The reason I ask is I thought the AI models used past historical data to try and resolve the possible outcomes / scenarios. I don't recall any in the past 20 years that i have been following or learning.
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Parker said:
Also pulling for this trend. I’m 31 and have never lived thru a horrible ice storm, but my Dad has and he’s told me they aren’t fun in any way.
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I lived through the 1994 Mississippi ice storm. No power for over a week. We had a very old house with gas heaters in every room so we were very fortunate to stay warm. I only remember being stuck inside and the silence until all the pecan trees started popping. I never want to see that again.
 
ducketta27 said:
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That was a really nasty one. I was in Evans at the time and we had to store our refrigerator items out in a pile of sleet because we had no power for days. We could hear pine trees breaking like shotgun blasts in the dark. It was cold because our fireplace wouldn't light. I never want another ice storm like that, but it looks like we might get one.
 
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