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The ICON has a slow moving bomb cutter than spreads snow over western areas of the forum. First time I've seen that solution. It happens in the 11th/12th time frame.

because we saw it on the internet?

I was in DC so I don’t know the CT experience. We had all time collapses three weekends in a row in DC but the season turned around somewhat starting with an epic Arctic front 2/14/15. I’d rather someone see a historic stretch than no one.

Looks like about 2”

The idea of a pronounced 30-45 day cold run was very good and since last 4 days of November thru today being 40 days it ends. 30 of 40 were below average including 21 in a row (Wow) and averaged -5. Snow has not shown up yet

This FCS national championship is fun to watch. Heading to OT.

Well you thought wrong.

La Nina is basically dead. I have no clue why you and snowman19 keeps bringing up the idea that its running this pattern.

Yes I remember that storm. And it was crazy how the amounts went through this stripe of the state. I remember I had just about 15" here ... Crazy

Thanks Tip... I fully understand the spacing issue with respect to the isohypses controlling the overall speed; the tighter the speed gradient (so to speak) the faster the flow; also I get the suppression process. What I was inquiring about is do you just scan the isohypses spacing, or do you look for a specific gradient value, if you get my drift? Have you come across any papers discussing the increasing speed / shear issue; compared to years or decades ago?

It was always January 15 and onwards.

"Watching digital snowfall pile up?". Not in this forum sir.

I’ll take southern stream energy flying around under a Rocky Mountain ridge. Been a long time this year to finally see some of that showing up even in fantasy

Snowfall Averages have really dropped off over the Decade's. 1950-1980 Average for downtown Pennington gap was. 20.7" and that was at one of the lowest elevation area's and measurements weren't measured as precise as Now. For instance, measurements were taken generally at one location in the Lawn and not until the Observer got up in the Morning if Snow fell at night. So, if it ended at 12 or so that Night and settling , melting or drifting occured the actual amount accumulated would be missed. We measure in Intervals during a Storm and add until it Ends now thereby not losing any measurements to sublimation, settling etc..

You know it's a bad winter when 'it was always' appears in the vocabulary ...

That was the second of the 4…which did pretty nicely here too. The first one was the windswept all rain storm here. The third and fourth flopped. So we got 1 out of 4 lol.

The one silver lining in that stretch was the wet snowstorm that featured some epic thunder snow.

Same story in the District, where the 10-year period ending 12/31/2025 narrowly beat the 10-year period 12/31/2024. I wonder if 2017-2026 will outdo 2016-2025 and 2015-2024. Will be interesting to see. At least 22.2" is needed to avoid a new record - a very solid tally for the District.

While we watch the digital snowfall totals pile up and hope some of that comes into fruition, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the historic 10-year snow drought. Very impressive numbers, and we will need some fairly hefty snowfall in 2026 just to keep pace - especially at Baltimore, where nearly three feet (35.1") would need to fall just to prevent 2017-2026 from being even less snowy than 2016-2025. To put that into perspective, only 18 calendar years at Baltimore have seen more than 35.1" of snow!

Lol true. Errybody be whining…

Boston slightly AN. Obviously I’m just hedging and it’s mostly based off vibes ha.

Of course…but just showing what the model shows at this time. It should just be used to get a general idea. Hopefully it’s on the right track…

I was in Maine sledding during that March one(13th) and my mother called me cuz I had a buddy that was supposed to plow the driveway, and she called me and said she told him not to come, cuz we only got like 2-3” lol. What a flop. Out east crushed it. Ray with a 30 plus I think. And Hoth is right about that later one…that flopped too…went south lol.

The Euro Weeklies today look even better in terms of temperatures & precip for the 7 day period ending January 31. Bottom line if the ensembles & Weeklies have the right general idea, we should have chances for Winter storms for mid month through the end of the month.

You ain't shittin kitten!!!