Maestrobjwa

Man it feels like it's been forever...(been almost 4 years since just a DC-Philly one!) And one advantage Philly has: you guys can score in Nina's...giving you more chances for snow over a given period of years! (In ninas primaries come, fart on top of us, then transfer and explode in you guy's region, lol)

Well, if this winter already won't work out...it would be the first time in about 24 years that would've gone more than 3-4 years without getting a 12" snowfall...and January will mark 4 years since the 2016 blizzard Nice multi-decade trend we've been on...

And @psuhoffman I remember you saying awhile ago that strong +ao Decembers didn't turn into good winters overall...

Whatever happens...we know we have to benefit from the solar min eventually...be it this winter or the next! That's what I'll hedge my bets on for now...(I mean, we've benefited from the last 3 anyway...no guarantees, but at least that's more recent success, lol)

I mean, it's pretty much been a head fake month the last few years, hasn't it? Lol

Ha...Now that winter kinda looked like what we had in 2015-15: Extreme blowtorch and a Christmas in the upper 60s/low 70s...and then an epic Blizzard in January. (That's why I was kinda excited when I saw that record because I wondered if the 70 degree Christmas in a strong niño correlation was gonna hold true again--because it also happened in 1982-83!)

Yeah I mean there were 0 duds...And at least 5 or 6 that were above average, by my count--pretty epic decade!

Ha...that was me, lol But that was really something--that kind of look was the norm for an entire decade? Not sure if we've ever seen that over an entire decade any other time on record (or if we'll see it again--would be awesome, lol)

1960-61 Raging positive NAO. 40” at DCA. And the rare trifecta of above avg snow all 3 winter months. 8.7”, 13.6”, 18”. Well I mean...it was the 60s: probably our snowiest decade on record--it's gotta be, lol I mean my goodness, that was a golden age if you were a snow lover: Not one year was below 18"...and at least 7 of the 10 were above average! (what, did we go without la Ninas that decade?) Would love to know what kind of dynamics were at play that decade! (of course we did kinda pay for it between 1970 and 1978, lol)

Say wha? Lol

Lamjack?! Hahaha

Yeah that was really something else...That was a MNF game with the feel of SNF drama. And Wilson...as much as I'd love Lamar to get MVP, this is why Wilson is probably still in front right now! (voting may be still end up being close, lol) That was straight clutch--epic finish!

SAME! (folks that aren't Ravens fans didn't know much about him, so he was just kinda sitting there in the late rounds...stud!)

No offense taken--because you're right: I am a little obsessed with knowing for whatever reason...(perhaps it's my overall impatience...It's kinda a quirk of mine that I tend to want to know what's happening and knowing exactly whether joy or disappointment is coming! Guess I'm still learning how to just prepare for more than one scenario, lol). And yet, it's my love of snow--and wanting to know when it was coming next--that drew me to this hobby more than the technicalities of the hobby itself (which I have ended up learning more about in the process!) But the more winters I go through with this forum, I'm beginning to see what you mean...it is indeed fluid and has a healthy dose of unpredictability. Yeah, I like to search for trends and patterns of things to try and see "the future" so to speak...but I can see how weather just doesn't work that way!

Not to mention...Jackson has a certain shiftyness that Vick may not have even had. Of course Vick had the pure speed, but...LJ has this "twitch" where he can elude somebody right in front of him (and now today we see a new spin move, lol)

Yeah I could watch that over and over...that along with all his other remarkable highlights! (and the call by Kevin Harland was great: "Ohhhhhhh he broke his ankles!!" Lolol)

Yeah that's the result of conditions that look so ambiguous right now. Just in a big wait-and-see atm...hopefully we get some more answers by the end of November.

Was nice seeing the first flakes today!

Wait, what did I do? Yeah I may have overreacted a little bit to PSU's post, but outside of that...thought I'd been doing pretty good!

Question: Was 2008/09 +AO/NAO? I ask because the sites I've read so far detailing approximate dates of past solar minima have placed the last one in late 2008. Of course that winter wasn't much good...yet the next one obviously was (and that particular time to historical degree, lol). Now, is a possible "lag" effect from the solar minimum part the reason we saw a great -AO/-NAO...or was that just coincidence? And overall...you could say the last three solar minimums we did benefit from, it seems (you could say the last four if you count 77/78--but the minimum came in 76)

Which makes the 1.7 inches we managed last November a monumental event...lol I mean, one look at the snow records over the last 140 years tells ya how hard it is to defy the climo! (By my count, only 15 Novembers on record had snowfall that topped an inch...The highest being 8.5 inches in Nov. of 1938)

Now wait a minute...I thought the solar minimums tended to do the opposite? (neg NAO) Albeit sometimes it would be a lag and not show up until the next winter)

Eh come off it...I see there ain't no reversing the effects of my posting from last year, smh (y'all are making me regret that more and more--I'm just moving on from it) I ain't off the handle on this, I'm telling ya...just waiting and seeing, fine-tuning expectations just like the rest of you. I mean...I know I ain't the only one here who loves snow and of course would love to see anything positive that might signal better chances, and not so much those things that signal not-so-good chances. Slowly learning the history of our hits and misses...and how erratic it can be year-to-year. Yeah I love snow and yeah I wanna know our chances long before they come...so what? Why some seem to keep trolling me about it I have no idea. We all (or most of us) love snow here...

This is why I'm wondering if this winter in general is gonna be a mirror image of last year...Again, just one factor, but it seems like I keep hearing a few of the same themes from this time last year (minus high expectations, lol)

Ah I see...any indication if things will couple this year? (I know it's just one factor out of many...but just wondering)