LibertyBell

Which part is affected by shadowing?

3...and the best part none of the 3 changed to rain and got washed away.

That's what I want to know too, there is such a short window for this, and then no more chances until possibly March. What are the chances of any snow on the back end on Monday? That would be more interesting than a coating that quickly gets washed away by rain.

It would, I've actually been adding those up. It happened one time in November for an hour, but it was at night and I didn't see it. It happened once in December for a few hours (that was the most we had, I would call it a heavy coating lol), but also at night, but you could see it on cartops and rooftops in the morning and the third time was last weekend and I actually got to see it because it was during the day and I'd call that a light coating. So three events, one did not accumulate at all, one was a light coating and one was a heavy coating. The change to rain thing is what I hate because it washes it all away as if it never happened.

It's very useless, we get dozens of these events with snow quickly changing to rain, it's like it never fell so it's absolutely useless.

It's useless, going to quickly change to rain.

It's going to be much too mild to snow, Don, temps in the mid 40s.

Well at least he wasn't like the guy who got banned from the zoo....he got banned for doing stupid stuff like jumping into the tiger enclosure to impress his girlfriend. The girlfriend snuck out the back way and said she didn't even know who the guy was, that she was only sitting next to him because that was the only seat left lmao.

Is this mic working lol?

Ask him to do one for la ninas and for la ninas after el ninos please lol...I think we have time before our next (errr I mean first) snowstorm, don't we?

weak el nino is better for new england, we want a moderate and preferably a high end moderate to borderline strong.

But we got 2/3 really good storms, so I'm not sure why 82-83 and 15-16 would be bad luck and not 97-98? Those were two amazing HECS with the south shore getting the most snow of all in those events so I'd gamble on that. Also there were other borderline strong el ninos too, like 57-58, 02-03 and 09-10, that were also very good.

This is absolutely fascinating! Just out of sheer curiosity, can you do the average SD per decade? I bet that would have some interesting results too. It could be a per 30 year average SD too, but I'd also like to see a per decade approach like you did above.

Then we could have that SE ridge build and end the "good" pattern completely before it ever snows.

It was worth it to see him screw up so bad to get a historically bad winter like that. I'll still rank that higher than any of the others for snowfall futility and extreme warmth.

Remember JB's 2001-02, this is a repeat of that.

Chances of breaking that suspect 2019-20 record have increased. I still view that 332 record with some suspicion, no one ever talks about 2019-20 as among our least snowy winters-- it's always 1972-73, 1997-98, 2001-02 and 2011-12.

It probably isn't even supposed to snow at the coast much anymore. Have you seen what's been going on with the climate? None of this should be a surprise to anyone.

Yup feast or famine, and it'll probably be either next year or the year after, seeing what usually happens after really bad winters like this one. After 2001-02 we had 2002-03 (need a nice strong el nino) and after 2011-12 we had an average winter in 2012-13 and then a couple of blockbusters after that.

It's just like with the Indigenous people I watched in a documentary, they can't rely on salmon fishing like they used to for thousands of years, because the fish are disappearing in the wild. They have to move on to other ways of sustaining themselves

No but we're (somewhat tepidly) hoping for a big winter next year. Regardless my favorite years are la ninas after el ninos because they give the dramatic change from a super hot and very dry summer to a snowy winter. Those are my all time favorites. Nothing better than going from 100+ degrees down to the coast in the summer to 20"+ blizzards down to the coast in the winter!

I don't even understand how it could not have snowed after middle January. There must be a measurement error somewhere.

can we categorize SSW too? There should be categories for them as follows: LECS (Cat 1) SSW SECS (Cat 2) SSW MECS (Cat 3) SSW HECS (Cat 4) SSW BECS (Cat 5) SSW I wonder what the return period is for them per category?

Is that why 2010 was so crazy? el nino major blocking and SSW?

Blizzard of 1966 and Blizzard of 1967 the following year? I knew 1965-66 had more snow south of us (an el nino) and we got our big winter the following year after a super hot summer