But how do you know this is the case already? If this has happened numerous times in the past, for longer periods, how do we know?
I mean if we go 4 more years and only one is above average? However no way to tell yet.
The issue I am taking is not that it's getting warmer, it's that I feel as though EVERY reason we don't snow or it's warm is ultimately attributed to warming.
Two things can co exist. We CAN be warmer and we CAN be in a low snowfall period that has happened in the past.
Why can't both be true?
Obviously everything happens for a scientific reason, however I view it as a "missed opportunity" when we have a favorable setup and we fail. Like last year when south of us got crushed. December where of the 2nd storm was a little weaker the 3rd would have produced.
The most frustrating part is that the pattern HAS changed for a third time now,
One was good and we were unlucky and blew it.
One was a flood of PAC puk and no chance at all
Now we are heading into a cold cutter cold patter.
97/98 was at least PAC puke 99%of the time.
I guess, just to me if CPK gets 0.1 and misses the record or 0.0 and gets it, it's still just a crap stretch.
I think the much much larger record is a full season under 1 inch.
Yup. We have to wait until it loops back to 8. As a lot have alluded to March may be the month to watch (we could always waste a good look/below average temp month like December).