dallen7908

Disagree. 1989-1990 was one of the most memorable winters since I've been in the area. Thanksgiving eve snow storm. Spent Thanksgiving in NYC watching the Macy's parade in the snow. Early December snow. Snow loss through sublimation. Ice skating on NASA-Goddard pond. Pattern change between XMAS and New Years. On the medium range front, great to see that the number of EPS members supporting a significant snow in the DC area next weekend (yes that real nice Sunday) has risen from 1 to 3 over the last 24 hours.

Partly cloudy with a few flurries in College Park too

EPS College Park thru Nov 17 0" 12/51 <1" 16/51 1" 7/51 2" 10/51 3" 3/51 4" 1/51 5" 2/51

Which is more likely, another December like this one or another February like last one? My hunch is that February 2015's weather was less abnormal but haven't run the statistics. Thoughts?

Remember Ian's article about how uncommon 1" and above snows are becoming at DCA. Well in today's Washington Post there is a non-technical article by Reid Wilson on California's drought that speculates that melting of Arctic ice may be 'contributing to a slowing of the jet stream contributing to colder wetter weather in the eastern U.S. and more persistently dry conditions in the west". I guess for every winner there is a loser. Kind of reminds me of spring 2010, when several hopeful posters here speculated that 2009/2010 could become the new norm or last winter when several scientific articles predicted that melting of Arctic ice could be responsible for warmer eastern U.S. winters and colder European winters.