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They can still deliver in March though....1955-56 and 2017-18 are good examples.

we had a back loaded one just a few years ago with 4 snowstorms in March and one in April..... was that 2017-18? We also had 1955-56, remember that? Backloaded la ninas have still delivered 30-40 inches of snow

actually neither reality nor nonsense look good for us

Yeah we have new normals now BUT the good thing is that January and February are still our coldest months. December is absolutely finished as a winter month so it shouldn't even count as one.

and Seattle will have their first white Christmas in many years with an actual snowstorm today! I know a few people in Kamloops and that area in general and they just weren't ready for this. I remember a few years ago an entire town in Alberta burned down too.

I'd rather watch out of town teams that actually win games. Bad teams should be told to put their games on RSN's

Giants and Jets shouldnt even be allowed on TV

chin up, we can still get minor snowfalls in a pattern like this, we just had one this morning stop expecting double digit snowstorms every season those should be a once in a decade event

You can still get minor snowfalls with a -PNA like this (we just had one today). As the season goes on and if this stays the way it is we could still get minor events. People get way too spoiled with double digit snowfalls. Keep your expectations in check, and you can get 1-4" inch type snowfalls in ANY kind of pattern. We had a lot of those in the 80s when it was much worse than it is now.

2.5" in the Poconos and 0.5" near Hempstead

or what they BOTH* said. you know Rjay and his menage trois.....

It has to, otherwise we'll be waiting a few more months.

does this change to rain in the middle of the storm or only when it's about to end (as drizzle)? is this all at night or does it snow in the morning too?

Christmas's best tradition are the ugly sweaters, so thanks for keeping the tradition alive!

why is this changing so radically from day to day and even from run to run? how can you have any faith in these changes when it could just as easily change again tomorrow (or later tonight!) let's just wait until it actually changes to say we're going to have a good pattern.

granted haha, also I dont actually want 110 here, but if Newark airport hits it, it's okay (they're 5 degrees warmer than the rest of the area anyway.) I just want NYC and JFK to hit 100 just once during the summer and not be stuck at 98 or 99 while LGA and EWR get to have all the fun.

we might need a big one to counteract the -PDO which might be the new base state

that super el nino had left its mark for that second year....thats why la ninas that happen right after el ninos give us so much snow (like 1995-1996 and 2010-11 too.)

yup there were some blockbuster winters in State College in the early-mid 90s (mid 90s for us too). So has the average storm track been moving north and west or south and east? Also we must remember the 70s and 80s were a huge aberration in low snowfall totals in (for example) NYC.

Long Island jackpot? The highest I could find on Long Island was 0.8. Is it still snowing anywhere?

Damn it was all melted when I woke up at 10. I was glad to be awake at 6 am when I saw it on the ground. Never saw it fall though.

yep 2 inches in the Poconos! Nice surprise to get close to 1" in parts of the city!

It is but I wonder if we transposed the November pattern into December would we have the same outcome? And for that matter, how much colder would the November 2018 average temperatures be if we transposed them into December with the identical pattern? I agree about having a favorable pattern, and average monthly temperatures not being that important.... I would hesitate even further to compare November temps to December temps because the same pattern a month later would result in a different (lower) average temp.