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Welcome to winter in the SE. We might hit the jackpot and then sadness for years. This entire decade so far has been wall to wall sadness for most.

You are incorrect friend

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Why isn't there a west coast page on here unless I'm totally blind.

A week straight of caked trees. My kind of November. My son today told me “our house is really like a winter wonderland.” I think there’s a weenie in the making…

Kevin, it does snow in November and December, but not all the time. Some years it does. Some years it doesn’t. In the 80’s it was rare. The last 25 yrs it has a lot. But that’s no given. It can and certainly does, but if it doesn’t it’s not unusual. That’s just a fact.

Ratios will save us!

This weird idea that it doesn’t or isn’t supposed to snow in Nov and Dec is absurd . Cold weather months typically snow in SNE and it used to be a lot sometimes. There was always a November snowfall .. even in NJ where I I lived until age 7. And Dec was and should be snowy. This nonsense of waiting until January is ludicrous . There’s then 2 months of winter left before Morch .

Nuke em all.

Another tick removed, lost count to how many this year but it's one too many.

Cloudy 34.1/21

Different world down there right by the water. But here we have done real well in November and December storms many times over the last 25 years especially. Some years nothing. Some years it can and has been hefty. So again…it goes both ways. I will say, When I was a teenager during the 80’s…it seemed it didn’t want to snow here until January most years. But eventually that changed too when we got into the early and mid 90’s.

Interesting system coming in from the west needless to say. Those are some pretty good thunderstorms there in West Virginia. Currently precipitation to the south is hitting a brick wall and heading southeast away. Here is my interesting observation at the airport currently it is 47f with a 25f dewpoint. Here in Media just 13 miles west southwest it is 38 with a dewpoint of 23f Pretty wild to have an almost 10-degree difference in a short distance with a lower dewpoint. Looks like a pretty vigorous low coming in from the west and energy transfer southeast from the Great Lakes. I also too didn't have sleet on my bingo card today. I wonder if there are any more surprises coming tonight. wind here west at 7 mph.

As of right now looks like another southern special.

Mid level dry air for the win. If this were winter, people would be screaming.

We average plenty of snow in December down to the shore.

Remains to be seen if we can achieve phase 8. Still a little bit too far in the future for guidance, but this year... maybe? There's been somewhat of a notable trend on the EPS over the last couple of days now with the mjo. Incrementally amplifying the phase 7 transit through several runs. With today's 12z run the most amplified thus far. I bring up the EPS since it's been the one piece of guidance that has been the most reluctant with this event throughout. Here are yesterday's 00z run followed by the latest 12z EPS 200mb velocity potential (the ones in between follow the same trend). 00z yesterday: 12z today: Taking a global view of this now, in the 10-15 day mean. It's a fairly clear phase 7 signature being shown now on the 5 day mean. With the suppressed phase pushing into the MC and the enhanced phase pushing into South America. Again, this signal has been growing. Not fading away, much like we are all accustomed to in recent times, as verification time approaches. Consistent with the slower moving mjo events, as mentioned earlier in this thread. There should be a response reflected in the 500mb pattern. Or at least more likely. So I like to check the model output against the mjo composites in times like these. Since that is most certainly not always the case. In this instance though, there do seem to be at least several similarities between the phase 7 December La Nina composite. When compared with the 12z EPS forecast at day 15. Which, to me, suggests it is indeed being effective. At least in the model. What happens from here? I'm beginning to think it might be interesting to find out.

I don’t even bother looking for snow until January. November/December are such useless months especially down here lol

14-15 had a 70 plus degree Xmas eve day. That doesn’t bode well for wire to wire imo. And while the 6 week blitz was epic out east…it’s still not a wire to wire deal for me. 95-96 melted out completely down to the grass here with a huge warm rain event after the Jan Blizzard. So did 93-94. So as good as those winters were..And they were awesome, they still melted out here before reloading and going gangbusters. As has been said, that’s about as good as it gets here. I guess there’s different ideas, and that’s cool. So all good.

Maybe it does well in micro climates, But i find its way to generous with the qpf here in the coastal plain.

Yeah every month had major events....'02-'03 and '95-'96 both seasons (not October in 1995, lol...but still November to April) 2014-15 had a dud December here which kind of ruined the wire to wire vibe....too bad because we slammed over the interior on T-day eve that year with a nice warning event. '17-'18 was very solid Dec-Mar, but not much in April or November that season.

We normally do not do well with West to East moving systems in the Fall/Winter.

The companion maps, Eps weekly snow anomalies, from Pivotal have it likely falling the last 2 full weeks of December ending on the 29th fwiw.

fall weather been so boring last few years in the northeast while california enjoys wild weather..

Thanksgiving Eve into T-day morning has been trending colder too. Not expecting much winter precip here but interior CNE northward might grab something. If we somehow tick it another nudge colder, then maybe it gets interesting down into interior pike region. OF course, maybe it's not much at all like the Euro had....