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I think this pattern is going to eventually bare an amplified EC storm. Go read Cranky’s post on Twitter that I shared in the main thread yesterday. It may be at the tail end of the pattern but I do think it’s coming.

Yes

Or move to Stowe

Another marginal event that misses to the north. Surely we will get our win soon..

This is honestly the longest I have held onto an inch of snow since I moved up here. It has been great and cold all week. Stringing up the outdoor lights today! I honestly don't know how people don't like winter, especially on a day like today. The chill feels great!

You can predict with 100% confidence the Christmas week warmth. You can take that to the bank.

Euro isn't anything special unless you are in Va. It moved north slightly.

This place is going to get really bad the next few weeks if odds continue to favor cold and dry until a pre Christmas week Rainer. Let’s hope we can reshuffle for a Christmas Week Miracle.

Give it time...most of the great months of December hadn't gotten started yet.

When’s the next one?

Finally we have BN December and it just wants to fail. Man I want to pull my hair out!!!

Huh?? Didn't you see the MJO phase 8 and SSW??

We are just too down with the sickness to ever stop

Yes, it is...totally fair.

For those with all NFL access, looks like a 1PM snow game in Cleveland today. For the rest of us, the tundra at Green Bay will be frozen in the later game with temps in the teens. Except that they heat their field.

That’s hobby quitting material right there

Ended at 2.7”. A little more than 9” on snow depth. Nice refresher.

This December is so overrated! Potentially, no sub 20 lows in the city with no snow! Plus, it's looking like we will have our annual Christmas week tourch with it raining on New Years Eve again!

When that blasts thru Monday dropping temps there will be snow with it

The treatment process doesn't remove chlorides, etc. Your best source of water is from underground aquifers, in which the soils, rocks and minerals work as a natural filtration system. Unless of course a toxic waste site has leached into it, or somebody's septic system leaked...

I have seen a lot of chatter across social media on how it doesn’t snow as much as it used to and if we don’t see significant snow by the end of December it is winter snow potential over! I have framed up some stats on some recent winters that may be why some of these folks may being influenced by some recency bias based on winters here during the past 20 years. Keep in mind it is only December 7th and some spots including East Nantmeal in Chester County have already exceeded 1 inch of snow for the season – to date most spots in our area average near 2 inches of snow to today's date in a typical season. Assuming we see no more snow this month below are some snow stats for years with 1 inch or less of accumulated snow by New Year’s Eve and the final seasonal snow totals. There is for certain a correlation but enough outliers to allow for Team Snow folks to dream! 30 years with 1” or less of snow by December 31st · 5 seasons ended up with above normal snowfall at +35” · 8 seasons ended up between 60% to 85% of normal snowfall at +20” · 7 seasons ended up between10” to 15” of snow · 6 seasons ended with no snow to 10% · The greatest snow season with little pre 12/31 snow was 1977-78 when 59.8” of snow fell · The least amount of seasonal snow was 1972-1973 when no snow at all accumulated that season at Coatesville. To put the above in greater perspective at the NWS and trained spotter locations at Coatesville 1W/2SW and East Nantmeal there have been 47 winters with greater than 35 inches of snow. In 3 decades 1900-1909 / 1910-1919 and just recently in 2010-2019 we experienced 6 winters seasons with snowfall greater than 35”. The longest stretch of no season with over 35” was the 23 straight snow seasons from 1934-35 through 1956-57 that all failed to exceed 35 inches of snow for the winter season. So far here in the 2020’s only 2020-2021 with 52.2” of snow has exceeded the 35” mark. So, if you think it doesn’t snow as much as it used to…just imagine growing up in Chester County in the 1930’s thru 1950’s! It is important to remember our last complete decade from 2010-2019 was our 3rd snowiest decade since the 1890’s with only the 1890’s and 1900-1910 averaging more snow then that last decade we just completed. If you are a believer in cyclical climate change like me I would suspect we are due for some less snowy winters.

Seeing how the snows are beginning to show up in VA and NC, it won't be long until the gulf coast gets their storm again....Same pattern, just a different year. We sure can't seem to do marginal anymore and now the somewhat newly added, too cold to snow around here. Clearly something is going on....Other snowless periods were just too dry, now we deal with warm/wet, cold/dry pattern

I have seen a lot of chatter across social media on how it doesn’t snow as much as it used to and if we don’t see significant snow by the end of December it is winter snow potential over! I have framed up some stats on some recent winters that may be why some of these folks may being influenced by some recency bias based on winters here during the past 20 years. Keep in mind it is only December 7th and some spots including East Nantmeal in Chester County have already exceeded 1 inch of snow for the season – to date most spots in our area average near 2 inches of snow to today's date in a typical season. Assuming we see no more snow this month below are some snow stats for years with 1 inch or less of accumulated snow by New Year’s Eve and the final seasonal snow totals. There is for certain a correlation but enough outliers to allow for Team Snow folks to dream! 30 years with 1” or less of snow by December 31st · 5 seasons ended up with above normal snowfall at +35” · 8 seasons ended up between 60% to 85% of normal snowfall at +20” · 7 seasons ended up between10” to 15” of snow · 6 seasons ended with no snow to 10% · The greatest snow season with little pre 12/31 snow was 1977-78 when 59.8” of snow fell · The least amount of seasonal snow was 1972-1973 when no snow at all accumulated that season at Coatesville. To put the above in greater perspective at the NWS and trained spotter locations at Coatesville 1W/2SW and East Nantmeal there have been 47 winters with greater than 35 inches of snow. In 3 decades 1900-1909 / 1910-1919 and just recently in 2010-2019 we experienced 6 winters seasons with snowfall greater than 35”. The longest stretch of no season with over 35” was the 23 straight snow seasons from 1934-35 through 1956-57 that all failed to exceed 35 inches of snow for the winter season. So far here in the 2020’s only 2020-2021 with 52.2” of snow has exceeded the 35” mark. So, if you think it doesn’t snow as much as it used to…just imagine growing up in Chester County in the 1930’s thru 1950’s! It is important to remember our last complete decade from 2010-2019 was our 3rd snowiest decade since the 1890’s with only the 1890’s and 1900-1910 averaging more snow then that last decade we just completed. If you are a believer in cyclical climate change like me I suspect we are due for some less snowy seasons.