EastonSN+

Yeah the 70s and 80s. 90s were a basic all out torch save 3 years.

I mean yeah if somehow that happened, however I would bet the house against it. I do not want to contest anything anyone believes w/r/t GW and the severity of the effects l, however I still find it extremely hard to believe winter shut off like a switch after April 2018 (we JUST had a really good winter in 2022). The mid 50s through 1969 time period was almost as epic snow wise as 2000 through 2018, yet that ended too and there was a relative snow drought from 1970 through 1999. Nobody KNOWS what will happen going forward, however MY viewpoint is we are in for another long "snow drought" period with great years sprinkled in (1978, 1994, 1996). I hope I am wrong, but again I lived in the 80s and 90s when GW was all over the news and people thought the extremely warm 90s was the new norm, then 2000 through 2018 happened. It's cyclical with a background warming theme which is likely caused by natural cycles and human influence.

Yeah, somewhat similar issue as last year with the primary location (Great Lakes). Have to be patient as bad winter patterns can last a few years.

Yeah this resembles the 90s more from a temps perspective. I hated the 80s for freezing cold, warm up and rain, back to freezing cold or outright suppression. Outside of 93, 94 and 96 winters were non-existent. At least it was warm.

Welcome to the 1980s and 1990s.

Looks like the late 90s Nino was a southern based one FWIW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997–98_El_Niño_event

Yeah this recent stretch has not concerned myself as much as others, as I lived through the 1980 through 1999 snow drought. This feels like the furnace, snowless years of 96/97 through 99/00. This is why I am not overly enthusiastic about the looming el nino, as there was an El nino dud in that time frame as well.

Hopefully that's our typical snowfall distribution this winter.

1913 looks like it was on heck of a year.

Same general pattern as last winter.

This is what we saw last year. Missing the ridge in my previous neg NAO example. This is this year but looks like last winter. High pressures escape east.

If I am not mistaken, last year's Neg NAO pattern was not classic and allowed needed high pressures to escape east. Therefore we were due to fail from a snowstorm perspective. In the below snip, there is a ridge right through the Atlantic. If I remember correctly last year the ridge was right over us allowing the escape route east.

I love the fact that we are heading into an El nino winter, however as we all know we have had some real furnace el ninos as well. One question I have is how does this El nino look CURRENTLY compared to ninos of the past? I believe 1997 (or 1998) was a strong El nino, however it was one rain storm after another. The constant rain kept overall temps a bit cool otherwise who knows how warm it would have been. Looking at last winter, the RNA overruled a decent block. Also, and I am guessing here, I believe the blocking placement allowed high pressures to move east when storms "arrived". I believe more of a ride east of us would have helped lock in high pressure. History has a way repeating, just hope it's more 95/1996 than 1997.

Further to the above, I do not subscribe to the notion that typical NAO responses will not work moving forward due to ocean temps and global warming. Now, if someone has statistics that said that this never happened before......

Wouldn't the record RNA have something to do with the lack of cold air? I know CoastalWX stated before the NAO was pinning the PV to the SW. I am thinking if this is the case, then we would not have the usual cold air in place. I have a feeling that if the RNA was not a strong and persistent (a normal RNA) we would have seen a typical response.

Nothing to melt.

Connectibama

I am just not ready to move on yet. I think I need just one more day 10 snow map. Preferably 10 to 1 ratio.

NO. With Global Warming I am now in the sun belt!

You CRUSHED me this season. I finished the year with 6.6 LOL.

At least you avoided the record at JFK. CPK will have the lowest in history (2.3, old record was 2.8).

6.6 final for the season in Easton CT IMBY. Yikes. Second lowest snow total in my life.

Been there before it sucks (March 2018). Hope you have am alternative way to keep warm (wood burning stove/fireplace).

I like snow maps

Think 2.3 in CPK. Wonder if they measured any today.