40/70 Benchmark

Yea, plenty of coastals to soak the marathon runners.

I would like to see that map for a later baseline.... What is the link for that data?

This is why I am beginning to use the language "reversal" instead of SSW because it more accurately denotes what I am actually forecasting. I don't really care whether it begins on the ground or in the strat. RE the "front-loaded" aspect....I think the only reason that worked out is because the early February reversal failed....had that succeeded, it would evolved differently, a la 2018 and 2001....as it was, it was delayed until early March, so we get the Feb 2018 like record warm spell in March, instead, and then the return to "winter" will engineer an April butt-bang for everyone due to the erosion of climo.

It was intended as a December-March analog, not April/May, so yea...maybe. Definitely in terms of the direction ENSO is headed.

Absolutely....never disagreed with that. If you look at my composites, February 2018 was one of my main analogs, but my timing was off...so we got it in March.

This season has a shot at something like that, but always a long shot that late...even if the pattern is favorable. This season is a prime candidate for April snowfall, though.

I was wondering about that season...would have to look. 2000-2001 comes close, but more for the interior...coast was susceptible to unfavorable tracks.

I don't think the January thaw set any records...it was a pretty run-of-the-mill mid-winter thaw.

It's too bed that reversal attempt in early February failed...that is the one I expected to land.

I mean..name we a winter without a thaw? The whole first half of 2014-2015 sucked....95-96 had the worst that I have seen. If you need to avoid thaws at this latitude to be an "A", then you're going to wait a loooong time...especially this day-and-age. I understand we had some Pacific trough periods....I predicted them 4 months ago.

It wasn't like this...big difference between 50 and 70.

It won't impact mine....only one of these all season and it waited until second week of March.

52.3..just finally mixed out around 8am.

Stay safe and find an interior room

Front right over my street...funny, I dropped my daughter off like literally a mile south of our home, and I could feel the difference...thought something was up. It was 38 at home and like 46 there

I was 38 when I left the house at 6am...up to 41.4 now....

My yard looks similar...maybe a bit less.

39.0...still several inches in my yard.

Maybe the 5th wife will help enforce? Or you mean Bryce lol

41.5 IMBY.

@TauntonBlizzard2013What do you say, hope for Bryce? Maybe first wife at 13, 3rd by 20...hey, he could be working on 12 by the time he's our age!

41.5 up from a low of 37.9

Hubby swap at the homestead?

Ah yes...the good, 'ole "front-anal action always works out well....

This record warmth occurred in February 2018, a bit over two weeks earlier...also on the heels of the SSW, so while March is warmer this year...February was warmer in 2018. Like I said, timing is off a bit, but similar progression.