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I think DCA just finished 9th longest

The piles are just amazing. Never seen anything like it but of course this’ll happen when you’re shoveling every day.

Fire up a thread.

I was looking back through old photos and I found a screenshot of a Euro run four days out from that storm. It had a foot here. Actual total: 0.5". Typical.

My God

Pretty sure I’d dominate the super G downhill in the Olympics. I wouldn’t crash or kill myself

We need a storm…rain or snow.

Nam tried hard, but needs to be wound tighter.

QBO information, near real-time The Quasi-biennial Oscillation (QBO) January was the 2nd lowest 30mb QBO Jan on record, 2015 was number 1: cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/qbo.u30.index It will likely reverse to +QBO for Winter 26-27. It has a cold season Stratosphere polar vortex correlation, stronger stratosphere polar vortex is +QBO, weaker SPV is -QBO.

This happens in the threads where we don't verify income and offshore assets.

The 18z GFS(and GFS in general) has been trying to cook something up. As we approach shoulder season, it is a vastly more competitive as a model.

Exactly. Some winters you know its over by the 3rd week in January. This has been steady -AO and ridging in the NAO....and those ingredients are exactly what lead to late surprises and long cold dreary March and early Aprils.

Fantastic Event Memory; Dang!!

Problem though was that they stayed over the same areas all winter. Nice to finally see clippers again, but maybe next time we can spread them out a little more lol.

Sorry, it was that bad? I 'm glad you're on your way. Having VVS never makes things any less complicated.

Has anyone mentioned sun angle yet? Because she’s here .

Its kind of endearing I think

No one is forcing you to read it

Yeah Jan-Mar was snowy IMBY

They were cold…I was a teenager during the 80’s…And while they were consistently cold, the snow sucked 85-90% of the time. There were a few big ones scattered in there, but it was underwhelming most of the time. Mixing was very common. It was like pulling teeth to get a pure snow event during that decade. 1-3” and 2-4” were very common. 3-6” was a good storm. And the beloved 4-8” was a biggy. of course there was the April Blizzard of 82 which was a monster, and Feb of 83 was big. And 1984 was a decent snow winter. Mid March of 84 had a good 8-10” storm. And then a couple weeks later in late March of 84 there was a pretty big late season snow storm around the 30-31st, which was pretty dam good for that decade. And as Will said…they were consistently BN. So it just goes to show how this winter has been dam cold.

Great Lakes ice coverage peaked at 54.8% this week. After a near average winter in 2024-25, this winter ice coverage is solidly above the historical average around 40%. Superior is now half covered, with Erie nearly 100% covered. I went down to a park this afternoon where the Detroit River turns into Lake Erie. The ice is said to be 12-28" thick. Seeing an ice covered Erie is beautiful, even though that stops its Lake snow machine. https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/ice-grips-great-lakes-with-erie-nearly-fully-covered/

Back in Minnesota, the thaw is on. Full sun and mid 40s today was awesome. Sad seeing these old historic farmsteads turn into suburbs, but such is the pace of progress

Even if this one mostly misses us, there should be more chances as the month goes on.

Pretty sick hour on radar. animated.mov

18z Euro AI & AI EPS both keep hope alive for southern PA as well.