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Where is this? Wow

Thanks to all who share their educated analysis and historical tidbits. Very appreciated! I've been learning a lot by reading this forum. Learning that El Niño can help, but it isn’t the make-or-break factor I originally thought for major snowstorms, as the 1996 event showed. I also heard that the Knickerbocker Storm occurred without an El Niño, and look at the impact it had. There are clearly other factors at play, so it really comes down to timing. Large-scale patterns such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and similar climate oscillations also play a role.

Icon now shows 1/2-1” over us Wednesday.

I said six weeks because I know if I said eight people would jump down my throat about how March is barely a winter month and we rarely get March snow anymore, etc.

Just popping in from the valley down here to say congrats to all you mountain folk on reeling in a memorable snow!

Didn’t Feb 5, 2010 and Feb 9,2010 delivery the goods?

25” just west of Morehead City in Newport off Hwy. 24. Snowdrifts approaching 6’! .

Dogs from NC to Boston during that classic east coast pattern and it's not over yet

The amount of damage from the first storm on the coast wasn’t seen since 1991. It looked like a hurricane went through. Poles bent over, houses gone. Even though there was little snow, I won’t forget that wind.

I’m talking about last week right through the 10th. Flaccid and boring. Unless you see a magic snowstorm that I don’t. Sun and cold doesn’t give me movement. I’ve taken advantage of what Mother Nature Has given me, but fact is it looks boring for awhile.

Happy Feb 1st…

Just imho, but any below normal month in this era+ is quite an achievement. There's probably a relativity value, like a monthly RONI for atmospheric departures, where a -1 month in 2026 becomes a greater significance compared to doing that in 1986 A more here and now subject, I find this interesting from NASA for December. I wonder what January will work out to. I'm guessing it will be more negative in the mid latitudes ... just by arithmetic from the Climate Analyzer folks. Their on-going monitoring has a whopper warm arctic domain, while the N.H. et al has sunk some... so in terms of anomaly distribution that only leaves the sub-arctic regions to be driving that downward trend.

I’m surprised at you. I’ll take 2-3” end of This week. Not a greedy person. Thank you.

Here come the low post troll accounts

Public Works just plowed again and was laying salt. I guess we're OK up here regarding salt for now!

There’s zero truth in what you said. Zero!

Up to 18 inches of snow fell on coastal North Carolina. I've never measured 12.

As climate change continues to warm the world, we'll need extreme patterns more often to get what used to be a normal winter. The 2020s have been abysmal for snow and cold (with a few exceptions for cold, including last winter) and its becoming harder and harder to chalk it up to anything other than climate change is taking away most cold and snow. The warmth continues to outpace, and when we have something remotely below normal in the way of temps, it feels brutal.

Many people ask how you can live in the north with those cold temperatures. And you nailed the answer, you kind of just get used to it and dress appropriately.

You know what can’t be matched…is your propensity to constantly moan. Even if you are buried in two feet and single digit temps. As a whole, so far this winter has been good to very good depending on exactly where one lives. And with another half still to go…And the snowiest month in front of us climatologically speaking, we’ll see how we end up.

Friend on the water right on the NC/SC border

Advisories completely canceled lol. MVY and ACK be lucky to see more than a coating now from the coastal. Looks like itll completely miss. yikes

I gave the last one a B (I think) this was is a solid A. All powder with 12 hours of snow. Low vis for about 5 hours yesterday. Getting to use my big pasture hill today for sledding might turn it into an A+. Cheers

They didnt. I had a good feeling about the winter here, but i certainly didnt think it would be as cold as it is. Its the perfect combo of above avg snowfall, above avg snowcover, and below avg temps in Michigan.