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We are morphing into Colorado, where there is a lot of "spring snow". 'Soon as the daffodils start blooming, in comes the phasing. I ended up bottoming out at 22 but what was more notable and a sign of arctic cold, was the single digit dp of 9 IMBY that I bottomed out to as well. It's currently 24 with dp 12.

Trying to garner trends of precipitation and something like snow cover to influences of CC is nearly impossible to do because of the variability involved. The better metric is trying to determine how CC has influenced the larger scale oscillations, ENSO, Hadley Cell, etc and how weather patterns are behaving now versus earlier in the record books. Now, you can argue the smaller scale phenomena (precipitation, snow cover) is a product of the pattern, however, not every similar pattern is going to produce similar outputs. Not every trough digging into the East during the winter is going to elicit a major winter storm, not every trough digging across the West and progressing into the Plains in late May is going to yield a 5/3/99 or April 0f 2011.

Sat image looking good this morning:

This was great - thanks for sharing. Folks were mentioning Alberta Clippers in the 90s, but honestly I remember them as a staple of the 80s. Those were always fun to track (and as a kid in the 80s, 'track' meant looking out for an updated 'A Look Ahead' on TWC, and tuning into the local mets at 45 past the hour.) They might miss to the south, and they might not have big potential, but at least rain was never in the equation. Plus, whatever did fall often stuck around awhile. Back then - this is prior to the spoils of 2000-2018 - a clipper whose potential was bumped up from 1-3 to 2-4 was enough to get us amped up as kids. 3-6? Amazing.

That was me. Measured twice on snow boards outside our public safety HQ.

Coldest shoveling I’ve ever done this morning. Temps between -5 and -10 with diamond dust in the air. Got a couple great pics this morning.

LES chase stay in Montague NY cabin stuck for a week. Wiz gets cabin fever and decides to fully transform into Miley Cyrus for good. Kevin goes out for a run, found a week later frozen in a 10 foot pile swept up by a front loader but had a smile frozen forever. Scooter discovers the frozen bodies Mitch had not yet buried piled up in the cellar and goes berserk usable to deal with it. Will, Ray, Garth, Hunchie, Wolfie and I devise a plan to get out when another 4 feet falls and we are all stranded with no food or communication. Will we survive? and who eats who? Lol that's the rest of the story...

Close to 3" on the south side of Charlottesville. Light snow hanging on for a bit longer

The United States is just a small part of the northern hemisphere's cryosphere. Overall, NHem snow cover is still at a record low for the date. This is in large part due to that huge deficiency in Eastern Eurasia, some 3x the surplus in the US. Eurasian snowcover growth is at a standstill.

We got more snow up here in Jan 90 versus Dec 89 despite it being like +6. Not sure how it was down there, but we had a couple of good events that month with monthly totals around 2ft.

Early-December sun angle is doing a number on the sidewalks and roads here in Burke. They were covered only an hour ago. Now they’re completely clear. 1.5” as of 9:45 am…

Had chicken and taters for dinner last night, so that determined this morning's late lunch/brunch. Tater cakes, bacon and toast with homemade blackberry jam. Or, as I refer to it when I make it, the biege/tan meal. Oh, this is not banter, lol. Looks like snow has lightened up a good bit in last 15, we may be done here. Still below freezing at 29.0/27.9.

1.5" in Gaithersburg at 930am per EM

0.3” was honestly kinda bullish for 7am. Didn’t pick up here til after that.

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I was kidding but appears I'm right....sadly.

I bet .08 then eclipsing an old record

0.3?

Moderate snow in Rehoboth. Sticking to grass, roads wet. at work so cannot measure. I'd estimate 0.5"

Our cyclical climate change is doing it's thing! United States snow cover is now the highest it’s been in 20 years on Dec 5th! The Dec 5th snow coverage is 45.4%. The only higher year on record (since 2003) was 45.7% on December 4, 2005.

Source: Capitol Camera

I don't know, I can see Miley driving a low riding, customized Impreza

9.5° for the low here. Good bug killing weather

Overnight low of 10 here. If I had any meaningful snow cover it would have been colder. Just scattered trace amounts remain around here. Coldest NWNJ icebox spots with a few degrees of zero.