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Defintely If only the cutter didnt get strong. We all could of had a nice storm next week with the cold air in place.

Great. Though at this point, it's as likely to be a storm of lava as it is rain or snow. Maybe more likely.

Only 7 months to go..

From a pattern recognition/climo perspective, it's very difficult to get warning level snowfall into the heart of the Chicago metro with wraparound from a surface low that initially tracks so far NW. The various solutions that have shown a big hit demonstrate that those outcomes are certainly plausible. However, with needing to get the multiple moving parts right, there's plenty of failure modes (as shown by the solutions that keep the big snow out of the metro), and reason to be skeptical locally. Sent from my SM-S936U using Tapatalk

The cat was meowing so went to see where he was at. Found him sitting on the bathroom windowsill. And looked out and wow there are so many stars shining tonight. Guess he was telling me to come look.

I took my first walk outside in ~a week this evening due to the end of false summer. It was pleasant with near normal mid 50s, dewpoints near 40, and a nice steady breeze. Looking forward to nice walking wx over almost every one of the next 10 days. Spring has sprung. Actually it is a fallback to spring in this odd March!

AI GFS took a huge jump north and is more in line with the OP now. ICON and GEM are way north too.

lol Duke won their game against FSU 80-79, while UNC lost their game to Clemson 80-79 (after a ferocious near-comeback by Carolina). College basketball.

I just realized winter is basically gone and no more snow. Depressing.

beyond that it snows in October and May, but it's not winter...nothing close. I guess late March/April can be "winter-like" in the mountains, that aside it's done

To all the boxelder beetles that decided to come out and play when it hit 80 - RIP BOZOS GUESS YOU DIDNT PLAN ON THIRD WINTER

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Quick edit from pontiac, also got a ton of shots from this storm with my film camera, which'll be neat to get developed

2001, 2007, 2020, 2024 averaged 35" after the equinox. Doesn't last nearly as long, but quite wintry. Add 1982 for the most "wintry" April storm for the Northeast in the past century or longer.

I'm up in Alberta and interior BC at the moment and have noticed how all the secondary roads have a ton of sand on them. Doesn't appear that much salt is applied. Reminds me of central Maine 40+ years ago in college when the roads were ice and snow covered a good portion of the winter. I hate salt and all that pre-treatment crap they throw down - can only imagine what it is doing to the water table.

Time to start tracking rain events. Now is when we want some good soakers, so that by May/June when things turn more towards convection, we have a good start and don't have to worry about a drought as much. Monday has my attention.

Fail I was almost right How about now ? No volcanos !

We had some sleet north of Kernersville just after lunch.

MetHerb?

My guess is a half inch of slush before it melted.

I’m so sorry to hear that Daniel Boone! I will pray for you and your family.

That’s just crazy how that all evolved down there this morning. The DCA ob was even registering a heat index last night when I had posted about it. People in there rating/upgrading their winters to A’s and such haha. If I don’t get any more snow this season beyond like a 1-2” bush bender I’m rating my winter a C-, and it’ll take a late March/early April 2018 type run for me to rate it any better than a C+. The only reason I won’t rate it worse than a C is the consistent cold + scoring the big storm on 1/25. But temps were similarly cold consistently last winter too, just without the big storm. My snow total is sitting basically on par with the last 4 winters, which were all solidly below normal for here. So I’m grading tough.

And I’ve recounted my narrative in leaving Beltsville about 5pm at 62 and returning around 8pm in blinding snow snd 32. Ushered in the great 1995-96 winter

This event raised my grade for this winter from a C to a B. Had the late Feb event worked out, it would've been a B+/A.