If the RGEM actually verifies then it might be the most snow I've seen in 20 years per time spent tracking. I've hardly paid any attention to this system.
I vaguely remember seeing that Foxboro received 2'+ from Dec 2003. I think one of the TWC mets was there. It would've been a good time for me to live where I am now.
December 5, 2002 at 32:12. The start of an excellent winter.
I even remember when the forecast was initially for snow showers, before getting better and better as it got closer.
Why?
Last winter was atrocious here in SNE, but I enjoyed some really nice powder days in Wildcat and especially Stowe, because up north it was much closer to normal.
Is there any good climatological reason why early January has usually been such an unimpressive time for storms for most of the last 20 years? Even worse than December. Of course 2011 and 2014 were exceptions, but more often than not the first half of January has been a lame period ever since the turn of the century.
You’d think with all that blocking we wouldn’t get those kinds of cutters. Maybe the models are especially clueless, or we are in for a massive longitudinal super ridge which I don’t recall ever seeing.
I’m surprised Concord hasn’t had more 20”+ storms. I think Baltimore has had 9.
Seems like a lot more of these types of storms are on the way in the next several decades.
I’m a big snowpack guy and I rarely saw extended snow cover where I grew up, so I’m very interested to see how long this pack lasts. It’s a spectacular scene right now, almost straight out of a Christmas movie, and I don’t want it to end.
How is all of this, especially the STJ, happening in a borderline strong Niña?
It all sounds way too good to be true, and something I’d expect from a Modoki Niño.