WinterWxLuvr

Wasn’t that around the time that the O’s Pirates series game was canceled because of snow

I’d prefer it with 15:1 ratio and temps in the low teens

People really think we’re gonna have winter?

I thought we’d already done that.

Yeah you’ll probably get plenty of rain then

Probably means you have really good soil ... in addition to being dry.

Yeah but that was a very anomalous event. I’d rather not have to wait on the once in a 50 year event.

Devastated. Had already started planning on starting the thread.

Thing is though that it can’t snow usually in a Nov Dec torch, but you can get lucky during a mild Jan Feb and even March. So if this is the only option we have it’s the best option to have.

That early season snow looks really good on the gfs. Getting excited

Geez. We’ve got an elevator stuck between floors

Lows in eastern Ohio are our bread and butter. They work great in January, why not October as well?

LOL getting absurd in here

Shame this winter ended so early. What can you do? Maybe next year.

The last sentence you wrote cannot be stressed enough. And two of the most preventative things Americans can do is totally within our control. Get off your butt and put the fork down sooner. And I’ll admit that even though I consider myself healthy by doing both of those, I need to do them both better.

I’ll just say this. I try to be respectful of people so I give them a wide berth, and I wear my mask when indoors in public. And of course I have to wear it in school. But this, for me, confirms what I’ve thought all along. We are all eventually getting this virus. So I will continue to be respectful of others but I’ll not spend a minute worrying whether I’m gonna get it because I’m already resigned to the fact that I will.

It was packed. Leaves are either at peak or very close.

That is a seriously cool picture

Yeah but what I was saying is that that map shows extreme high heights in the pacific but the height lines don’t really show a pronounced ridge. So what I’m asking is would “normal” heights produce a trough there? Not really commenting on whether what it shows is good or bad. It’s pretty clear it’s bad. I’m just confused why mega high heights (relative time normal) don’t produce a pronounced ridge.

LOL your data was sea ice. Like everyone doesn’t already know that. I have no idea if you’re wrong. That’s my whole point. You can’t look at the past 5 years of winter and draw a conclusion that we’ve entered into a new era of winter weather. If you want to say we’ve entered into a new era with arctic sea ice then I’d say your data supports that. See ya, bud.

I do have a serious question. Or two. That look is almost zonal but in the pacific it shows that same zonal flow as being much above normal. Is “normal” a trough there. I mean if you lower heights in a zonal flow wouldn’t that result in a trough? Also, aren’t those heights in the arctic centered in such a way that it’s “leaning” toward eastern North America? Couldn’t that produce bouts of cold in the east from time to time with just a bit of transient ridging along the west coast?

Two weeks until it looks different? Over/under?

You said since 2006. I said half of those winters have been good. I guess we can revisit this conversation in 14 years.

Ok but we aren’t talking about sea ice. If this new regime is to be applied to winter outcomes then we basically can say that roughly half of the winters in this 14 or so year long new era have been decent to good to great. I’d be willing to wager that if you take the preceding 14 or so year period you’d probably find about half of those winters to be decent to good to great. In other words, I don’t think there’s data that links the warming to the winter outcomes. If there is I haven’t seen it. And I certainly don’t think you can link arctic sea ice to the outcome of winter. If that’s the case then explain the years 2012-2013 through 2014-2015. Not seeing this new winter area, especially after just a handful of less than stellar winters.

So you’re clean?