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  1. Not sure how much flipping the PDO will actually help.  The oceans are on fire and keep getting warmer.  These oceanic cycles are super-imposed on a general linearly warming trend in water temperatures.  Analog based forecasting is based on a different regime and not sure how well it applies today.  We'll still get occasionally snowy winters but I think we should give up the hope of returning to the winters of the 1960s.  Who knows, 20 years from now we may be reminiscing about days like today as "the good old days".

  2. 7 hours ago, Terpeast said:

    Agreed. Since I’m exactly halfway to the old climo benchmark, I’d give it a midterm grade of B. 

    I should have clarified:  By winter ending today, I meant if we don't get any more snow until next winter, then I'd still give it a C- because my expectations have lowered a lot for the current climate regime we're in.  But if we're strictly judging it as a midterm grade, then yeah I would give it a solid B too.

  3. 1 hour ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

    According to the CPC, it's been a Strong +NAO Winter. I don't really get that because look at Greenland, and even a little cold pocket over the Azores

    I think they made an error somewhere.  The max NAO didn't even make it to 1.94 in December, so it's impossible that the average would be 1.94.  You should notify them

  4. 12 minutes ago, Drewber said:

    Milwaukee and Chicago are having trouble with temperatures during the current storm because the adjacent lake is warmer than normal.  There should be some ice on the lake right now, but that hasn't been possible because of the mild weather in the region.

    agreed, but water temps are on fire in most of the world right now, so perfect track rain/slop fests are becoming more common especially in early winter.  I think it's one reason why march has been far snowier than december lately.

  5. 6 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

    You have folks here who were ungrateful for the Jan 2016 blizzard just because it was a one and done winter. I don't get that...but to each their own!

     

    it was a great storm, but that was an awful, under-performing winter.  I was wearing shorts for most of december 2015.  february 2016 was filled with heartbreaking near misses.  that winter should have delivered much more snow than it did.  the snow from the blizzard completely melted in a week and we had bare grass the rest of the winter.

     

    contrast that with the winter of 13/14 -- no great storms, but an amazing winter.  the last good winter we had was probably 14/15.

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  6. On 12/27/2023 at 8:46 AM, gopper said:

    Just learned a new word!  I always learn something new here :)

    Yeah, milquetoast is my new term for pacific puke.  Although in our state, maybe continental polar air isn't enough for snow either.

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