Polar Bear Plunge / Snow this weekend
January 26, 2010 at 10:33pm EST.
Busy Saturday, whether it snows or not.
Yup, the Polar Bear Plunge annual event is going to be this weekend at Sandy Point Park near Annapolis, Maryland. This is when a bunch of foolish people raise money for Special Olympics by agreeing to jump in to the ice cold Chesapeake Bay near the Bay Bridge. I plan to be streaming the event and my own plunge/swim into the ice cold water. This will be quite the mind-over-matter as for me, not having a lot of body fat, will be extremely hard to convince myself to do considering the shock to the system. However, I have seen or read about so many endure icy waters when fighting to survive I figured I really need to get a small taste of that. I have no idea how it will go off, but it will be live!
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The live footage will be shown on my TV channel (http://www.weatherwarrior.net/TV.html)
Also on Saturday, maybe even Friday night
SNOW!!!! That four-letter word as most DC area residents feel about winter precipitation, but I’m hoping for the best. In fact, I’m hoping it is snow while I do my plunge….really HARD CORE! There is a lot of disagreement amount many hobby forecasters and even some professional meteorologists. Some are a bit optimistic, saying the DC area (or parts of it) could see near 12″ of snow. Part of this is because with the cold air in place, it would likely mean higher ratio snows closer to 20:1 (inches of snow per inch of liquid equivalent of rain). While I tend to be an optimist, I find that many forecasts are over estimated early out, and tend to pull back by 24 hours out of the event initiation in this area.
I’m not complaining or hoping, or anything. We have seen a decent about of snow this season so far and I’m happy. Of course I would do anything for more snow. If it does snow more than just an inch or two, I’ll likely continue the live video stream and start covering the snowfall before or after the Polar Bear Plunge event.