1 young forecaster had right idea early
Friday’s weather will continue to be breezy with highs a little warmer than Thursday, upper 40s and low 50s. Low 60s still look to be a pretty good bet one or both days weekend, at least from Roanoke south and east, with rain likely early in the coming week, and cooler temperatures again beyond that. More on the next week’s weather this weekend.
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There’s a lot of buzz in the D.C. area about how the snowstorm forecast was a huge bust there — minimal amounts in the central city when various forecasts by experienced meteorologists ranged from 3-6 inches on the low end to 8-14 inches on the upper end. Of course, snow accumulation picked up a bit in D.C.’s western suburbs, and the overall forecast for a major winter storm affecting the Mid-Atlantic region was generally accurate, as the area expected to be most heavily affected — the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge region generally along and north of I-64 — was indeed hammered by 6-24 inches of heavy, wet snow.
Southwest Virginia area forecasts from various sources generally settled toward the correct idea that the heaviest snow would be to the north near I-64 with lighter snow amounts south to near the U.S. 460 corridor and little or nothing to the south. But ahead of the game on that shift in thinking on the winter storm as early as the previous weekend (as shown on the map he posted at left) was Zach Robinson, a Virginia Tech geography student from Fancy Gap who puts some of his thoughts on his “Blue Ridge Weather Blog,” and often posts comments and links on Weather Journal. (And I will get the link to his blog added to regional weather blogs on the right margin of this page).
Zach had an interesting online discussion with famous meteorologist Larry Cosgrove, who pointed out that the “blocking” pattern in place was far from perfect. Cosgrove pointed out to Zach that blocking high pressure over Greenland had shifted somewhat eastward and been replaced by a low-pressure shortwave, and that high pressure was not showing signs of recovering over Greenland and eastern Canada behind the shortwave. The result was that it was not a true Greenland block that we expect to see during the more persistent cold outbreaks and large winter storm threats for our latitude. The “50-50″ low near Newfoundland, a common feature in many Southwest Virginia winter storms acting as a “traffic cop” to guide a storm system farther south, also drifted somewhat eastward as a result. The butterfly’s wings were flapping, and it fluttered a couple of factors just a little out of place for the potential large scale winter storm hammering all of our region.
Zach said his conversation with Cosgrove took place after he had already started to back off the big snow threat, but it expanded his knowledge and confirmed some of his thinking, which is summarized by Zach himself below:
“Why was I so adamant on this being a relatively minor event for most of our region, and what did I see early on that others didn’t? Very early on, a few weeks ago I was very skeptical on my blog and Facebook page (Blue Ridge Weather), that a cold pattern would actually setup. My argument was the pattern over the Pacific was simply too strong and too fast to allow any major blocking to setup. … So going into last week, I had my doubts that a true cold pattern would take shape and hold. …. Using this belief, I had a sneaking suspicion of two things. One: The energy diving south out of Canada would enter further EAST than originally forecast. Consequently, the energy would have to take a steeper angle to get to our latitude, and given the lack of significant blocking I didn’t see that happening. I thought the models would adjust North some. The amount of amplification in the Jet Stream to get the energy to dive into Georgia/South Carolina was just simply not there. 2) From this, I believed that the initial surface low would also ride a bit further west into the Ohio Valley, because I believed (again due to the lack of a real block) that the 50/50 low would escape to the East, allowing the initial energy to ride into the Ohio Valley. Using basically these two criteria, I thought that the energy would not develop far enough South to hit our area with a widespread crippling storm.
Backing me was my knowledge and history of storms of these types. To get to the point to have the storm re-develop far enough to the South, we would have to be in a very high amplitude pattern, and we simply were not. A bit of it too, was my gut. I’m not going to lie it was a very difficult call to make, because the models we’re screaming something different, but I just had this feeling that they would adjust. The driving reason behind that I would attribute more to my knowledge and history of patterns in this area, rather than to my understanding of the blocking pattern of the Northern Hemisphere. I had seen storms growing up do this exact same thing. The pattern to me screamed Shenandoah Snowstorm, and not Southwest Virginia Snowstorm. 9/10 snowstorms for us seem to not involve some sort of energy transfer. “
So there you have it from a young weather forecaster who ended up looking pretty good in how it all played out.
March 7, 2013 - 11:06 PM
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Doug, I seem to recall April 2009 being cool. That spring was also a late blooming one I thought.
Congratulations again, Zach, on that incredibly prescient call on …. was it Sunday? Whenever it was, you were all by your lonesome at the time in eradicating big snows and for the most part even moderate snowfall amounts from the US 460 and south areas. You correctly interpreted what the weird polar view maps were showing. I could see that they were strange, but did not know what the impact would/might be.
Now, if you had been the first to instead predict a big snowfall when no one else had been doing so, and that had happened, you would be receiving a lot more congratulations on this blog, I think. I hope that this great tribute by Kevin brings forth more congratulations for you.
Sort of reminds me of some words spoken near the very end of a movie that I adore, The Greatest Game Ever Played, about the stunning, truly epic upset win by Bostonian amateur Francis Ouimet in the 1913 U.S. Open golf tournament over English superstar Harry Vardon. Vardon meets Ouimet in the locker room after Francis’ win and says, “Congratulations on your win, Francis. You deserved it.” Ditto for you, ZR.
I should put Zach in charge of the snow meter next year … but we’d have to add Fancy Gap as a contest site.
Good idea. But even he might have had lots of trouble these last two months with those BWD’s. Blacksburg Weather Demons. Or maybe Snow Demons would be a better title. Maybe Blacksburg High School could change its nickname to Snow Demons. Then when they play Christiansburg, it would be the Snow Demons vs. the Blue Demons. A “devil” of a good time.
Please forgive me, bloggers. I am even punchier and dizzier than normal, which I realize is saying a lot.
I’ve noticed a lot too with the systems that involve energy transfers…the Miller B type systems. It always seems, locally, that if we get snow, it’s on the front end while cold air is held in place with a wedge situation, and that things transition to sleet or rain. And if that doesn’t happen, it seems like the storms simply miss to the north, and we get mostly rain. The Miller A systems, overrunning events, and clippers seem to be the more likely candidates for snow locally.
Zach did a great job of calling it a relative non-event locally, and it was essentially that. The system not only vastly underperformed in the snow department when compared to many models, but it also didn’t deliver as much moisture locally as was predicted…the dry slot got us. Last week, I was excited about the potential…but over the weekend, after looking at the models and several other things, like Zach’s thoughts, I shrugged this one mostly off for the area. I thought we’d still get some snow…an inch or 2…so only getting less than a quarter inch was a little surprising, especially considering it was snowing earlier than forecast…but the cold air just never established itself.
Zach’s Facebook page and blog are now part of the Earth Science curriculum at Galax High School, his alma mater. His love of all things meteorological and his gift for explaining highly technical weather phenomena in non-technical terms is amazing. Thanks for encouraging the young and up-and-coming, Mr. Myatt!
34* here. What a very cold first week of March. Roanoke has had an overall mean temp of 36.9 F, a huge 6.6 degrees colder than normal, but maybe typical for the middle of a normal January. Each day has been at least 3 degrees colder than norm, and the temp has yet to climb above 50.
Blacksburg has been even more ridiculous. Overall mean temp of 30.4 F, even colder than normal than ROA, a tremendous – 7.7. Every day has been colder than norm (Tuesday the 5th was only 1 degree colder than norm), and the temp has yet to get above 46. 5 days never got above 36.
Roanoke’s streak of not getting above 50 might end today, possibly ekeing out a 51 or 52. Big deal, the normal high is at least 55, possibly 56. It will be the 9th straight day colder than normal, because 2/28 was also ctn. In fact, starting with February 16th, Roanoke has had only 4 days warmer than normal, none more than a +5 (2-24-13).
Other John: Good observation on how we tend to get wintry precipitation on the front-end of an energy transfer type storm (one low inland handing off to another on the coast) in banked cold air. It seems to work better that way if a low tracks from the Gulf to west of the Appalachians and then transfers its energy, rather than coming out of west or northwest before doing so. We seemed to frequently get those kind of storms in the 2000-2004 period (usually some manner of mix on the end) but less so since. On the models, I haven’t done (and really don’t plan to do) all the verification research on how they handled the system as a whole, but the later models were pretty decent with local precipitation amounts. It seemed like, strictly talking about SW Virginia and not the entire region, the GFS and NAM actually led the way in stopping the heavy snow just north and calling for lighter amounts Roanoke Valley and south, while the Euro and Canadian were more stubborn in holding onto a big snow event farther southwest. The Euro finally drifted toward the American models in the precipitation field (or lack thereof, after the rain) over Southwest VIrginia in the final 36 hours.
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In this case, OJ, your point actually still holds, because the 1-4 inches in the Roanoke area actually came from an earlier-than-expected changeover on the front end of the precipitation rather than the back end snow rotating behind the low.
Babette: Very glad to do so. Zach and I bounce things off each other quite a bit in a run-up to a storm. Enjoy his love and appreciation for the Appalachians and Southwest VIrginia as well.
AS for this past week’s storm, it came up short for snow here in far SW VA (1-2″) but delivered a heaping dose of rain. My gauge is now broken from freezing but according to the news the other night, rainfall totals were in the 1″ – 1.50″ range. The moisture just did not make it up the road to the NRV and Roanoke as expected but our creeks and streams were bankfull by Tuesday PM.
The sun has finally broken through this am but it is still mostly cloudy. I have to admit, I am ready for spring. Guess we will enjoy this early dose the next couple of days before the rain and cooler air arrives.
I follow Zach on Facebook, and he stuck to his forecast the whole time!! He even took time to private message with me about questions/concerns that I had!! Way to go Zach!!
Doug, Mrs. Knuckolls, Kevin, John, and anyone else, so much thanks for the kind words. The goal for the future (long way down the road) is to have a site similar to Rays Weather out of NC – - except for SWVA. It all starts with building a good reputation and making accurate forecasts, so thank you for this piece!
John n R’ville…
Would love to get in 1 more ski trip but I’ll be busy playing globetrotter for the next couple of weeks. I have 1 window of opportunity March 24-26 and that’s it. If Wintergreen is still open, I may get in a day trip if schedule allows it.
When I saw Zach’s post of the Big Call or Brave Call (something like that), I got the gut feeling he was right, knowing this young man from the area knew the stakes. Interestingly – my younger son, when he would go to scout camp at Ottari or Powhatan in Pulaski Co. in the summers, was amused at the Florida kids that would come. Being a Hokieburg boy, my son could see and feel when a summer storm was coming. Then he would make sure his gear and tent flaps were secure and get his poncho ready. Then it would pour rain and the Florida kids would ask wow, how did he know that? To him it was so obvious that a storm was coming over the mountain and never gave it a thought until these Florida kids thought he was a weather whiz.
Wow, what an enlightening post from Sean Sublette. He’s always been my favorite. Very cool to hear a professional met go into detail about how they feel about forecasts in advance. And what he said it right…but it’s not just media hype. We (snow freaks) hype it more than the media.
Just got in from Salem and came over 12 OClock Knob. Must have been at least 6″ or better on top and still 4″ or so. Looking at thw latest forecasts issued for our immediate area, after the guess model joke was out of the way, the forecast was pretty much on target.
Congratulations to Zach! Well done and so awesome that you are now part of the curriculum. You are correct about building your reputation! The WJN will be proud to say in the future – “we knew you when”. Go Get ‘Em!
I gave Zach a hard time somewhat about his map, but conceded to him that he had stuck to his guns about the forecast. I knew he was right, but didn’t WANT to believe it LOL But that of course is the snow lover in me :>) So now on to the congrats! Good job Zach! You nailed it, long before anyone else was even beginning to think in that same direction!
Well done Zack. You bucked the trend and odds and rolled a seven.
HokieTrax, great story and observation about your young-un. Good for him. Even young people can learn about weather tendencies if they pay attention to what has happened before and also listen to older folks, such as parents, uncles/aunts, ESPECIALLY grandparents, and teachers/educators. And the other thing that I (and I would be willing to bet the Brooklyn Bridge that Kevin would agree with the following) maintain is that they should keep an open mind. What happened in similar weather circumstances before is no guarantee that anything close to the same result will happen this time.
Example: In the two previous years when the Siberian snowpack in October was huge, it lead to big winters for snow not only in Virginia but in also a large part of the East. I now remember that 1960 was also huge in Mass.; I was in 3rd grade, and I remember that instead of going home for lunch, we had to bring our lunches with us for weeks on end that winter, because the sidewalks were snowpacked and icy and they didn’t want us kids walking on them any more often than necessary. But the Siberian snowpack this winter may have caused lots of eastern Canada to be very cold and I guess snowy, and in recent weeks ditto for upstate NY and New England, but not for SW Virginia.
Zach, comment 12, you are very welcome!
Just took a look at the polar view to see what it looks like (it has not yet updated to today’s), and it has two pieces that it didn’t have early this week that might have actually helped the snowstorm be a bigger event locally (?). For one thing, a fairly impressive polar vortex had set up shop yesterday centered at the NW corner of Hudson Bay, Canada. Brightest color is a pinkish purple, with a number in the 490s in there. Kevin or someone can translate that. And the other thing is that there is green (warmish) air in extreme eastern Quebec and Labrador, almost close enough to be a small Greenland block. But the conditions in CONUS are warming up quite a bit now. Only states of the lower 48 that had blue air over them were Oregon/Wash./N. Idaho/W. Montana in the NW; and NY state and southern New England in the Northeast.
I just watched the beginning of Channel 7 News at Noon, and weather forecaster Leo Hirsbrunner came on and said that his mom in Attleboro, MASS (just east or NE of Providence RI) has 13 inches. Also said that 8 (that’s right, EIGHT!) miles away in Providence they have only one inch.
This snowstorm that TWC has as an “S” storm has one of the strangest histories I can ever remember. Light snow amounts in ROA and southward, huge up around the Skyline Drive east of Harrisonburg and at Wintergreen, some in central Virginia north and along I-64, basically a miss for Washington DC and its eastern suburbs (miss for snow, that is), and also for Balt and Philly. But now it has regenerated and lots of New Jersey, eastern 2/3rds of NY State, and most of eastern 1/2 or 2/3rds of New England are getting hammered. Rod Serling created the track for this one. If asked, I will explain who Serling was in case some of you younger folks don’t know who he was. “Younger” = younger than me, which is 90% of the bloggers here, I think.
wd, thanks for the alert about the return of Eastern Daylight Savings Time very early Sunday morning (really tomorrow night). Return to Eastern Daylight Chicken Time for you and a few others here. Usually I welcome it, but not this March. If we get a snowstorm (or frost) on a day I have to work, it means conditions will be a little colder early in the day.
Wow, it sure is nice to have a cloudless day again. Have watched three turkey vultures flying around above my back yard and beyond, looking for lunch. I can easily see not only the Peaks of Otter but also Apple Orchard Mountain and the white former NORAD building on top of it. All three of those mountains are snow-covered, of course.
Previously I have mentioned our forsythia bushes. Here it is March 8th, and just about every previous March 8th except for 3 years ago they would at least have yellow buds showing, and in quite a few years would be in full bloom by now. They are still hibernating, in a coma, whatever. Not one bud of yellow.
Congratulations on the call, Zach and good luck in your ventures. Its great to be able to do something you enjoy and maybe make a living out of it as well.
Quags let me know if you are headed up to Wintergreen during that time frame. As much snow as they received and have been able to make recently, I would not be surprised if they were still open. It will likely be up to the accountants though.
Severe sun here today. Not a cloud in the sky and with the snow on the ground, its really bright out there. The snow is melting off but it is so dense, it is taking its time but the grass coverage in the back yard is definitely making its comeback.
Some 20+ amounts in Massachusetts and Connecticut now, some of the same areas slammed earlier in the season. A truly historic March storm, D.C. bust and SW Va. brush or not.
joe, saw a jet so high I would have missed it had it not been for twin vapor trails[maybe more] heading due SW. What’s the travel height[jet] for SW bound flights? Or maybe a military flight. Just don’t see them that high often
Elliot:I do agree with Sean that there is sometimes a communication disconnect in that the largest possible amounts mentioned days in advance are often taken as the actual forecast for a specific location. I think by and large it’s not much of a problem for the frequent users and commenters on this blog, because you know what we do here, discussing the range of possibilities and scenarios.
Kevin, if ever there’s been too much info put out too early and too many models being shown and guess terputed, this was a classic example. It looked like no info given before 36 hours was even relevant to what it actually did. Granted, this blog is about all possibilities being discussed and laid out, but your board realizes that and looks at other things as well. That’s not the case with the general public. The masses tend to find one forecast that fits their purpose and hang on to it. Way too much info for the public to absorb.
Big snow bust in Rhode Island today too. Would imagine the same thing that happened in DC
I noticed your comment Doug about the forsythias and it is true for our area also. No sign of life, however, I have seen several daffodils in bloom. My friend who grows many varieties of daffodils told me hers were about 2-3 weeks early in blooming. That is strange with one variety of plant being early and another not. Of course, the daffodils start showing their leaves even in late December if we have mild weather and in December it was mild. Whatever the reason, I am ready for Spring!
Need to clarify my last comment. Upon further look not NEARLY as big a bust as what happened in DC. Nowhere near the same type setup or reasons behind some lighter snow falling there than the hills to the west in Conn and Mass.
It’s wonderful to see the blue sky and the bright sun. The snow is rapidly melting away here. If it stays clear, we might get to see that comet tonight.
On the other hand the wind is still gusty up here and very chilly – out of the north/northwest. Brrr!
If you are interested in planes overhead – remember to go to FlightAware. Not sure if the site would tell the altitude or not.
I just posted a comment underneath Sean’s article. Praising him at the end of it. I will start to listen to both 7 and 13 from now on, time permitting.
I will give the models credit where due. This particular storm was mentioned over 3 weeks ago wheh it was coming off Japan , correct me if wrong here. That was truly amasing that far in advance by any type forecasting.Now if they can get their 3/4 day outlook pinned down, then weather will have advanced a great deal.
WD..
the fact that you were able to distinguish 2 distinct contrails
might indicate that it wasnt as high as u may have thought..
Flight levels that direction would be even numbers…
I just took a scan at flights leaving NYC headed SW direction..
most are 32000 to 34000ft..could be a flight or 2 out there to 40000ft..
Could have been military…but generally speaking they aren’t any higher than the commercial guys..of course if its a SR-71…all bets are off.
Id guess the reason it stood out so much is its so doggone crystal clear over all of central and western Va…..For u other plane watchers..
Would be a great time this evening from about 616pm till 650pm to watch
the airplanes east of the Blue Ridge..and even west…
you-ll get a good sun glint just before and up to about 30 minutes after sunset
Forecast till sunrise tomorrow…NW winds…sky clear..
WD: You spell out a classic irony of the information/Internet age — having so much information at our fingertips and not always knowing what we should do with it, about any topic. Also, your last point about a “mid-range blind spot” in the models has often seemed to be the case. It used to be, quite literally, that the GFS would show a storm at 5+ days, lose it entirely for days 3-5, and then bring it back in the last 72 hours. Not so much the case anymore, but sometimes it seems, subjectively at least, that the long-range and short-range forecasting are better than the mid-range.
Another very good site to locate your flights…worldwide..
and very user friendly…flightradar24.com.
Mouse over each flight…itll tell you who the carrier is..
it wont tell you the altitude. What you can do
is just enter the flight number (ex: dal1761) in Google and itll give
u some basic info…from/to etc…its lots of fun to play with.
And now, the meteorologists around Boston are having to do the opposite of what the ones in D.C. did, and explain why they got a foot of snow when less was predicted.
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/weather_wisdom/2013/03/why_wasnt_this_predicted.html
Hmmmm … 10 day map on 12Z Euro has cold air banking down the east side of the mountains, and low pressure centers passing just south.
http://raleighwx.americanwx.com/models/euro/12zeuro850mbTSLPUS240.gif
Kevin, my latest e-mail from the fat ladys manager mentioned that she hadn’t re-schuduled her concert yet
Heres Boston hourlies for the last 24…..
..the R04R info is rvr reading.i.t gives the RVR..
which means runway visual range..visibility is
given in feet..2000V3500ft…would be runway 04R
visibility 2000 variable to 3500 feet..
only if youre interested…It does give a good record
for what hours in a given period had the heaviest precip..
These times are all Greenwich…5 hours ahead of Roanoke local.
BOS
082257 082254Z 02013KT 10SM FEW035 BKN050 OVC070 04/M04 A30¶
082157 082154Z 03017G33KT 10SM BKN035 OVC055 04/M04 A3006 R¶
082057 082054Z 03031G42KT 3SM -SN BKN024 OVC037 03/M03 A300¶
081957 081954Z 02023G31KT 1 1/2SM -SN BR BKN032 OVC040 02/M¶
081857 081854Z 02022G30KT 1 1/2SM -SN SCT023 OVC035 01/M02 ¶
081758 081754Z 01015G21KT 1/2SM R04R/2600V3500FT SN BLSN FZ¶
081657 081654Z 01016G22KT 1/2SM R04R/2400V3500FT SN FZFG VV¶
081557 081554Z 36013G20KT 1/2SM R04R/2000V3500FT SN FZFG BK¶
081458 081454Z 36018G23KT 1/2SM R04R/2400V4000FT SN BLSN FZ¶
081357 081354Z 01016G24KT 1/2SM R04R/3000V5500FT -SN BR BKN¶
081258 081254Z 01014KT 1/4SM R04R/2400V3500FT PLUSSN FZFG ¶
081157 081154Z 36016G22KT 1/4SM R04R/2400V3500FT PLUSSN FZ¶
081057 081054Z 01013KT 3/4SM R04R/4000VP6000FT -SN BR VV007¶
080956 080954Z 01016G21KT 1SM R04R/P6000FT -SN BR VV011 M02¶
080857 080854Z 01016G22KT 1SM R04R/P6000FT -SN BR VV009 M02¶
080757 080754Z 01017G23KT 1SM -SN BR OVC014 M02/M02 A2994 R¶
080657 080654Z 01015G22KT 1SM R04R/P6000FT -SN BR VV009 M02¶
080556 080554Z 36014KT 1SM R04R/5000V6000FT -SN BR BKN008 O¶
080458 080454Z 36013G20KT 1 1/2SM -SN BR BKN008 OVC014 M01/¶
080356 080354Z 01016G20KT 1SM R04R/6000VP6000FT -SN BR BKN0¶
080257 080254Z 01015G26KT 1 1/4SM -SN BR BKN008 OVC014 M01/¶
080156 080154Z 01015G21KT 1 1/2SM R04R/6000VP6000FT -SN BR ¶
080057 080054Z 01015G23KT 1 1/2SM -SN BR FEW013 OVC018 M01/¶
072357 072354Z 36017G23KT 1/2SM R04R/P6000FT -SN BR FEW010 ¶
072257 072254Z 36016G24KT 1/2SM R04R/P6000FT -SN BR FEW010
NWS-Wakefield Va. posted this photo on its Facebook page showing the difference in snow amounts over a little more than 20 miles.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=417462645013649&set=a.127818683978048.27393.118296021596981&type=1&theater
I can remember being on Cripple Creek down around Rural Retreat trout fishing on May the 16th about 5 or 6 years ago and the ground being covered White 2 times that day by very heavy snow squals. We froze all day that day but had some great fishing.
With this years winter pattern so far I would not be surprised with any type winter percipitation for the next 6 weeks or so.
Wd, I found a really nice towel and fork combination here this morning from folks who had thrown in the towel and stuck the fork in winter. How about you?
Not yet, Mr. Griggs, you know better than to call the game yet. Tho anytime would tickle me.
I wonder what kind of early March is happening throughout eastern Russia and Siberia. Just looked at today’s polar view, and it almost looks like the world is ending over there. No less than 4 polar vortexi/vortices (whatever the plural of “vortex” is!) on the Asian side of the North Pole, and a couple of them are big and strong. Some region over there (possibly in Eastbunflunkgrad, i.e., middle of nowhere) might be getting pulverized with a true “blizzardsk.”
No, no, wd, I wasn’t asking if you thought winter was over, just if you had picked up a discarded towel and/or fork. I am with you …. just told Kevin this afternoon in a moment of bravado that I bet bottom of Roanoke valley gets a 2-inch snowfall later this month, on or after “Saint Patty’s Day,” as the old-time Boston Irish used to call it.
I saw a brief TWC report from Plum Island, Massachusetts, which is long but skinny north-south island that is a Bay State version of a barrier island. Southern end of it is extremely close to where my sister Susie lives in Ipswich, NE of Boston at least 25 miles. I think that the northern end of it is where there are some houses (just east of Newburyport, MA). Well, they have had so many damaging storms with very high tides in recent years that one home that was on 4 stilts and was not at all close to the high water mark as little as 3 years ago is now leaning on just two stilts, because the two stilts closest to the water have been knocked away. Same mistake that some homeowners (I didn’t write “most” or “all”) along the Outer Banks have made …. building in a spot where Mother Nature didn’t like it.
KUDOS Zach! Excellent call!
Have you picked up on any trends on Wall street you’d like to share?