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  1. wind direction might have something to do with it too. If we had more of a northerly wind rather than a westerly wind, we would have much less downsloping and a direct shot of arctic air.
  2. MJO will bring up late March / early April analogs for snowstorms. There is one coming out of a la nina that comes to mind..... April Fools Day 1997.
  3. No and it didn't apply in 2009-10 either. New England thought they'd have a great March once the block broke down at the end of February. But instead all they (and we) got was a powerful rainy noreaster. These kinds of patterns go from one extreme to the other.
  4. It's very unsteady and not reliable. I think most people here would prefer having a floor of around 20 inches (that is no season with less than 20 inches of snow.)
  5. You want to see real snow, go to the Poconos. Coastal areas aren't good for snow anymore. Right now there are major white out conditions happening in the Poconos with a big snow squall warning. If you want snow, you need to get away from sea level.
  6. I remember in late December people were worried about suppression in January. In retrospect the December pattern was a hell of a lot better than the January pattern for us.
  7. that's why my favorite kind of climate is snow without much cold. In other words, get a lot of snow but let it be warm and sunny in between snowstorms. Snowcover for a week or so is nice, but I don't want it to be cold for an entire month. And I absolutely hate rain, so when it's not snowing it should be sunny :-)
  8. The only historically cold winter months I remember since the 80s ended are January 1994, January 2004 and February 2015.
  9. To be honest, a negative NAO wasn't helping us at all either, it just made it cold and dry. Why can't the NAO just stop at neutral?
  10. Saves on heating costs though.
  11. It's going to become so quiet in here unless something historic happens (could be anything, historic rainfall, historic dryness, historic high temperatures, etc.)
  12. Chris, what does it look like using the global method?
  13. How long will it take for us to change and adopt the global method too?
  14. It's really weird to see the models bust so badly and not in the long range either. 5 days out they had a big arctic outbreak for Thursday and Friday and this event wasn't supposed to come in until Saturday. So we all thought the SE Ridge would wait until February 1st.
  15. we shall see how humanity survives the current mass extinction too, I could see humanity going back to a pretechnology state by then.
  16. la ninas after el ninos are excellent for cold and snow usually.
  17. Wasn't there a snowstorm in April 1965 up here? Note-- the following winter was a major el nino (1965-66) and late season blocking during la ninas is strongly linked to an el nino the following winter.
  18. also, we must realize that for 85% of earth's history there was no ice at either pole. Perhaps we will see an explosion of new life. We might return to what it was like during the Mesozoic.
  19. It's actually rather ingenious. Nature creates its own micro environment. PS-- did you ever read about how trees in the Amazon control their own rainfall?
  20. Yes, it's like the heatwave they had a few years ago. Also, barely any snow at all in Alaska.
  21. All months should have 30 days, the whole idea of 31 days is stupid.
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