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Give us one big blockbuster storm, cold for a couple weeks and open up the flood gates of the SE Ridge! Looks like you have quite the hill to climb as well. At this point a couple good weeks would be just fine....I don't see how we make it to average. But it would be a fun ride if we did....something has to give

Shuffle the deck and hope we get a better hand this time....if for some reason we end up with nothing to show for it, It just wasn't our winter. It happens and hopefully next year ends up better. Still sitting under 3" here....I still can't imagine how I don't add onto that number, even by some dumb luck over the next few weeks. This is extreme SNE and I would assume I average around 45" per year around this neck of the woods.

Yup, when the trees are bare and the ground is brown, so much nicer to have them covered up with snow. Although we could use some boring, sunny weather. This cloudy, cold weather is very close to 33 and rain...

As long as this post isn't coming March 15th.....I'm ok with 2-4 weeks of winter followed by a nice warm Spring Ensembles do look great as posted above

Knee jerk reactions almost never work out.. if we would have slowly waned our dependence on fossil fuels in an economical/reasonable way things could be different. But we always want to just pull the plug and hope for the best outcome regardless of what the consequences are. I try to focus on what is better for my children's future and even their children's future. My time left won't be that effected, but theirs will.

I have noticed this season, when ever we get "good" look, it lasts 1, maybe 2 model cycles. Except for when the GFS got stubborn and eventually caved anyway. This season's models would probably look pretty good if they were run every 24 hours, not every 6 or even 12 hours. The only thing we end up seeing is false hope regardless of what the OP or even the ensembles say. For whatever reason, this season we can't trend a colder or snowy look. Hopefully that changes, but persistence as many have said is a......

I think most understand that the climate is changing and in the warmer direction. The argument develops between those who believe the warming that we are seeing is completely normal and that humans have had no influence to the warming trend and those who believe humans have acted as a catalyst, reducing the overall time it takes to get to endpoint. Speeding the process up, could prevent the planet and species living on it from naturally adapting to the changing climate. The rate we are burning fossil fuels is accelerating our warming, were just don't know how it will affect our planets health or even humans ability to adapt in the short term. Famine, floods, and disease are all concerns a planet of 8 billion plus should have...it is better to be prepared or even try to slow things down a bit than to close the shades and hide until it smacks us in the face

early season severe outbreak at some point?

Next hope is for a follow up wave, but we know how those always work out...we just need something to go right, a bloop single reference would work here.

My 4 year old asked if that was really snow on the ground this morning, only a coating at best. On the family computer yesterday, my 9 year old had left open the NWS 7 day forecast for Key West. They must have given up on winter and are ready to move on....

Just because AGW is real, doesn't mean the west won't see snow anymore or New England will stop snowing all together (This is probably happen at somepoint, not sure anyone can fully predict when at this point). Yes there have always been heat waves and arctic outbreaks and we will continue to see these occur. The problem is that these events are becoming extreme and are occuring in greater frequency. Records aren't just broken, they are shattered whether it is temperatures, snowfall, rainfall, etc. The world barely does average anymore thanks to AGW...The acceleration factor is larger thanks in part to the human catalyst....

In this winter, I am psyched for my .25" of snow over night.....Will most likely wake up with nothing but bare ground though, 28 degrees at the moment. Surprisingly chilly day, despite the full sunshine

Couldn't be anymore spot on.....brings back some rough memories of hardly any snow. Even when it did snow, it never stuck around for very long. The only year I remember was 96, even then it wasn't that great. 2003, I think? Was a good year too, but never stuck around for too long.

So far this winter, I have shoveled leaves, stones, and the debris left behind when my firewood was delivered. I have yet to shovel snow....the snowblower might as well go back to the storage shed. It is taking up valuable space in my garage.

I try hard to not come off whiney, but it has been tough this winter so far....I love snow as much as the rest of the crew, but this winter is testing my patience....LOL

Just looked at the Euro, poor decision it seems. 6-8 inches.......of rain around here. Following Murphys law, I totally expect it to finally dry out once the cold air shows back up, if it ever does this winter.

It's now starting to lose its intrigue, of course the temps are dropping now...37.8⁰ now

Looks like we finally got our inverted trough and it is too warm for snow....been raining all evening 39⁰ atm

2024...this winter is not ours, I have accepted it already and have moved on to planning the garden a bit early this year. Marginal airmasses used to work out more often than they do now. Unless of course it is October or April. It will snow again this year, but take anything good looking with a grain of salt. Until the snow is falling from the sky...

It would be nice just to see snow fall and accumulate in January of all months. But one thing that seems certain, 1 inch or 1 ft, it all melts pretty quickly with the warmup that follows. Hopefully shuffling the deck for the second half of January....

lol, 15 inches of snow here followed by flooding rains....that would sum up this season pretty well. Just another OP run though, at least a better look today so far, until Dr. No comes in

right where this entire winter is going....Using animal movement from just last night, I had a bobcat, coyote, fox, opossum, and a raccoon ping on the same camera. They think or know spring is here or right around the corner.

Mid Atlantic winter, I remember them quite well.

Sun is peaking through the clouds. Temp never got below 38⁰, looks like a 0.25" of rain. Not even sure there was much snow in the NW corner of CT....

A balmy 46⁰ here, off a high of 48⁰ but can feel the cool breeze now. A case of a little too late down here. Best of luck to the north and east, at least I got to bask in 68 degrees yesterday!