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I just wanna know why man, lolol I'm starting to wonder if even he knows why...

Frustrating Why are you frustrated by digital snow? (But then you complain when there isn't any...what gives, dude?)

Ha...that's gonna be funny...I think if they were to be favorable for a change this winter...I mean we gotta look at the solar minimum effect again, don't we? (Especially for the -NAO that has been absent since, well...the effect of the LAST solar minimum)

I find that lower expectations don't completely erase disappointment with an outcome. Last winter's futility still sucked even when it was clear that it was a no-go. However...more level-headed expectations do help fight off wild emotional swings. With this being a nina...I'm trying to just take it as it comes with that in mind (yeah I'm still hopin' for somethin' deep down, lol)

Dang...so now sub 200k days become the LOW days? Mercy...How fast this has accelerated is dizzying...to think 100k used to be a bad day!

Op run analysis 10 days out, eh? Lol

Ha...both almanacs call for a storm on those dates...lol Yeah I know, I know...but whenever the medium-long range models potential on dates that coincide with the Almanacs (in this case both of them), I can't resist mentioning it

Oh no doubt...I think snow envy drives some of that complaining in those kind of years (at least for me anyway, lol Yet when we are snow-starved like we are now, you'd take even some 1-3" "scenery" snow! Anything is better than a complete shutout like last year...

Hope you're right! Because the fact that we had to draw a nina card after last year's disaster kinda stings...hope we can fluke into something!

Was this after the twin blizzards?

Yeah ya gotta hope that maybe it's an opposite effect: mild November colder/snowier December?

Huh...wonder what 2013-14 would've looked like with a nina? Lol

Now not reaching to this modeling specifically, but in general...in ninas, what has to happen to make a southern and/or east-northeast miss less likely?

Definitely. (especially the O-line with the penalties...the patchwork makes me a bit nervous for those procedural ones!) For tunrovers... the good news is...at least we still have most of our corner backs and safeties!

If it is competitive there is always a chance. I'm not counting them out! This is the kind of thing that can spark a team...you just never know. We shall see!

Yeah @Bob Chill where are ya? Did you finally get tired of us last winter? Lol We miss your special brand of snow gut analysis!

Ha...of course very early, but...if, IF things were to work out with a -NAO and/or -AO and/or blocking for a change (...wouldn't that be enough to put the solar min back in the conversation? Again, obviously a big IF...but IF it were to happen what other explanation would there be? Lol (especially if it were to happen after going this long without, and happen in a nina on top of that?)

Well now...gotta that possible connection!

For our mental health we'd be better off just taking it as it goes...lol

Now that would be more typical nina behavior, no?

So I'm confused then as to why this looks more like a super nino December or something, lol Is there an anomaly?

Now I thought that at least front end of ninas were usually colder...not always the case?

Meant to respond yesterday: Dude, this right here? You are certainly not alone. I have had to weather similar psychological reactions to snow fails. I have been wanting to start a thread about the whole psychology of this...(tried but didn't get too many responses, lol). I'm not sure why we react the way we do, or how to dig ourselves out of the ditch (or stop ourselves from getting in there) when it happens. Shoot, I still just get a tad perturbed wben thinking about our more recent fails (like 12/8/18 or the miss in March of that year)...and it kinda piles on top of whatever isn't going right snow-wise. Ya tell yourself that this is such a tiny part of life and not worth the emotional energy...yet ya find yourself slipping, lol

But it sounds like the league is still bent on having the game Tuesday. If they do it...it might take a miracle for us to win.

Wait what? Man don't they get snow every nina?? (except maybe 96). I mean they cash in on late developers all the time...so what's their problem? Lol