wild I forgot it was in the 70s on this date in 2007, 11 years after the big blizzard.
Second half of winter that year was much colder, even April's first 3 weeks were colder than January.
and then 11 years after that we had a record cold stretch lol. There's that 11 year sunspot cycle again....
sometimes they do
February 1978 was forecast a week in advance on 70s technology that's like going to the moon on 60s technology lol.
February 1983 was forecast in advance.
March 1993 was also forecast well in advance
January 1996 was forecast in advance.
PD2 was also forecast well in advance.
Obviously the tracks nudged north/west but the signals for all of the above were there well in advance.
everything was nicely treated here so the roads are only wet as are the sidewalks and driveways, the snow has only accumulated on natural terrain (grass, trees, bushes, etc.) as well as rooftops and cartops.
took a long time to get up there, our first flakes started at 9:44 am but only just started to accumulate (we have a light dusting in spots), it's a very light snow but very consistent.
snowing here since 9:44 am (yes I managed to see the first flakes fall lol) but nothing has stuck here until now-- now we do have a light dusting in places, it's been very light snow.
might be those SST anomalies and marine heatwaves at work to speed up the northern stream.
A super el nino would probably upend this entire awful pattern.
did we ever figure out why the block was so strong in 2009-10 and 2010-11 and is that cyclic or a one off? The interesting thing is we've had very strong blocks before that did not pay off with a lot of snow....