Eskimo Joe

It's insane how hostile this region is to snow.

HR276 on the 18z GFS op is hilarious. Snow from northern tip of Georgia all the way up to Maine.

50" for Pittsburgh...rofl

That's a shame honestly. If the trough axis was focus over the Ohio Valley, we'd have the door open for disturbances to shoot up the coast. At least it's cold. There's nothing worse than 55 and sunny in winter.

If we can't score one legit event, 6"+, be Feb 5th then I think our season is cooked.

Another high in the 50s during what should be the coldest time of the year.

Fair point. Moderate, west based El Nino.

Clarksville

Just give me a weak, west based El Nino. The last few El Ninos that we've had have either been basin wide or east based. Neither are good for snow lovers.

Classic La Nina.

Yessss

I think we're at the point where that's all we'll get. It will take a significant alignment to get a warning level snowfall, and that'll be it for the winter. Just like 2016 - statistically it was an above average snowfall winter, but winter only lasted 5 days.

Yea its entire possible in the next decade we reset to 5"-10" regional snowfall climo. El Ninos will just become cold rain winter.

Death knell for widespread snow

Trigger Warning: I'm going to be honest, I thoroughly believe it's climate change. The oceans are warming, especially the Pacific. Formerly marginal patterns are now outright hostile. This translates to our once marginal events where it's be 30°-32° and a Coating - 2", are now 35°-37° and rain.