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I guess I didn’t actually expect that. The blocking was probably stronger in 1977 though. You can also see how the temperature in the Arctic dropped in February at the same time it warmed up significantly down here. I swear some people act like there’s palm trees growing up there today. lol

It really is tough to get the right combination of cold and gulf moisture together consistently.

I was wondering if there’s a way to get Greenland’s average temp over a monthly period and compare to this January. There probably isn’t. This January in the US will be much warmer than 1977 because the planet is warmer and the pattern wasn’t even cold for the first half or so of the month. Look at Alaska. It was very warm in 1977 and actually will be below normal in much of the state this year.

I’m not sure using one month from one city seven years ago really proves much.

After all the years of reading this board I feel like there’s three categories that the warmth cheering crowd falls into. 1. Someone who genuinely likes warm weather. They’re always hoping for the warmest it can be. 2. someone who knows the majority of the board likes cold and snow and hopes for warmth to see the misery of the cold lovers possibly because they are unhappy with their own life. 3. Someone who cheers on warmth because they want the cold lovers to be upset with humans for putting CO2 into the atmosphere. Political motivation is not out of the question with this type of person.

So how much warmer was Greenland this month compared to a month with -NAO blocking in let’s say the late ‘70s? I honestly have no idea. If I remember correctly the winter of ‘76-‘77 was one of or the warmest winter in Alaska which makes sense because it was so cold down here.

I’m having a hard time believing that.

You make it sound like every winter used to have extended coast to coast cold as if we’ve never had a warm west/cold east winter before. Large temperature swings in winter certainly aren’t anything new either.

Isn’t he also the guy that lived in Canada at one point because he was on the run from the law here?

I think this just shows what some people here have been saying for awhile now, that despite a warmer world, it’s not so warm that it can’t still be very cold if the pattern supports it. The problem we’ve had a lot in the last decade is a bad pacific pattern for cold and a lack of high latitude blocking. Now, if you want to argue that the pattern is influenced by a warmer world, that’s another story but that also kind of goes against what happened this winter too.

It seems like they just make things more difficult for the general population. It’s like when they simplified winter weather headlines. Now, a winter weather advisory can mean anything from 5 inches of snow to a little bit of freezing drizzle to .2 inches of ice or anything in between. Also, why does a winter storm watch precede an ice storm warning? Why not just have an ice storm watch? For the general public, I think the headline should tell you what to expect and not make you guess or dig deeper to figure out what a winter weather advisory means on a particular day.

I guess it makes sense to a weather weenie but this is way too much for the general public that still don’t even know the difference between a watch and warning.

Yeah. It’s cold and dry right now but at some point there will be accumulating snow again in this subforum while Tampa is 75F. So I can’t get mad about them having flurries. lol

Yeah. I mean most posters here enjoy summer outside of thunderstorms, so why does is it surprise people that someone likes winter outside of big snowstorms.

Since you’re just looking to experience a big dog, why not travel to where there is one instead of hoping one hits Detroit?