well only one of them was snow lol. Some of my friends are already sick and tired of winter and want spring to come already....I was told dont tell me what the weather is going to be unless it's going to be above 50 degrees and sunny every day!
right that is the period I'm looking at also. Anyone who thought we would have another snowstorm in December was foolish. That's not how our climatology works. The period I've been looking at is a little later than yours though, between the 5th and the 10th. Panic is for the weak-minded.
Yeah but wasn't that all from one storm? We had the same thing in Jan 2011 but I believe both Dec 2003 and Jan 2011 were from one storm with a lull in between
A 12 or 24 hr gap sounds like two different storms. That's why I brought up Feb 1994 that was two different storms.
sounds like we had some pretty interesting storms back then, two significant storms 12 hours apart aren't something I've experienced before (the closest was in Feb 1994 when they were about a day apart.)
I dont think many are complaining it's the best of both worlds. The worst of both worlds? Cold and dry like December 1989 was (and most of the Januarys in the 1980s)
new years event looks like heavy rain minus the extreme winds of this event (since it cuts further to the west), that might be the one to realign the pattern
and that's how our winters go (outside of the extreme outliers on either end), you typically get brief spikes and that's where the vast majority of our wintry weather comes from.
Correct, that is the climatology for this region, you only need the pattern to be good for a couple of days each month, irrespective of what the overall "pattern" might be.
isnt this a precursor to some of our best KU events....firehouse pac jet into a big NAO block.....pacific supplies the moisture the block supplies the cold air