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Watch it be the one that sneaks up within 5 days..If anything we turn the page to March and we suddenly get more snow than January/February combined...definitely happened in the first 10 days of March last year.

51° at 10:38 am on February 24th and it feels great. Took a great hike in the woods yesterday and no ticks were found, I know this can't last forever....It is great to have really cold mornings followed by warm afternoons, keeps the ticks at bay for the most part.

I have had 4.5" since December 18th, 3.7" of that fell in the SWFE on January 18th....I lived 20 miles south of Newark for 6 years and I am pretty sure we averaged 15 inches per year, which is exactly where I sit for this season....

me neither, probably just use to snow this time of the year...

I actually have a couple of them singing away near my feeders today....

I'm listening...I always enjoyed an exciting lecture by a good prof. I reacted initially with regards to another dynamic system leaving us on the warm/rainy side as has been everytime since early December. However, assuming the players are a bit different this time around, I guess there is room for some improvement?

Euro setting up a massive rain storm next week....same old story

Can't wait for someone in NC (not in the mountains) to get more snow this week in one storm than I have had all winter long.....that will feel pretty good

It has that feeling if somehow we can finally get onto the right side of a system we could stay there for a week or 2 before it warms up. But who knows, I keep seeing that trough in the west showing up in the long range, which we all know how that has worked out this year without any NAO help...

My memory is not the greatest, but I do seem to remember the Euro tossing out one of those NJ Lows the blankets most of SNE at least 4 times over the past month. Usually in that 8-10 day range and we all know how they worked out, hopefully for once it has a clue...

Love how early next week looks to have a pretty good track, but we have no cold air around so it end up a cold rain....lol, can't win this winter it seems

Despite the 23 degree temp this morning, the sun felt warm and the Spring birds were singing away...Time for Spring!

It is probably a better correlation than say snow in the middle of some field in Russia, in October....I remember the discussion sometime in late November regarding this, and we further discussed the -PNA/Pig combo showing up in the longer range everytime there was glimmers of hope in December/January and now again in February. Great work

They had the dust bowl, great depression, and then WW2 to worry about...I'm sure that would have taken up some of the social media space.

Is there anything upstream to prevent this at this point?

Odds are it is only a rebuild of a few inches(if not less) that will melt off completely this summer when they hit some record highs again...The heat has been offsetting any gains now for decades. I assume the only thing that would produce a net gain besides few decades of this type of +AO regime would be some sort of super volcanic eruption. Otherwise it is going to take decades of gradual cooling to refreeze what we have lost. I do like seeing cooling in areas that need it, the wildlife definitely needs it, but we are sacrificing our winters int the mean time ugghh... Not to continue derailing the thread, but the real issue with CC is how we are getting there and what we are doing to our planet during the process. Polluting our water sources and the air we breathe by burning fossil fuels that were stored perfectly over millions of years by the planet (clearly the planet's way of reaching equilibrium was to store all of it away, deep inside the earth). But we chose to yank it all out and throw it back into the atmosphere in what less than 200 years? Our intelligence has given us ways to harness energy from the sun/wind/water, which could have helped us reverse some things, yet greed has kept us from that at this point. The melting ice sheets/glaciers has happened before and will happen again as will the rebuilding process. Flooding coastlines is not a real issue unless you live there and we are able to move away and/or build walls. As humans we can adapt(fairly quickly) to most of what climate change will throw at us. The real issues here are things such as the acidification of the oceans. Not many care about that or even have a clue as to what that will do so everyone uses the fear of flooding coastlines and sea level rises to help lead a change. Change the chemistry of the oceans too much and we are most likely not going to survive. But I will stop the "left" doomsday stuff, since science has taken a back seat recently. As a scientist with a degree in Marine Biology/Marine Science/Oceanography, the threat is real. It is very disheartening the way I have seen real science being derailed by politcal/corporate greed. I feel scientists need someone to stand up for them, they are going to be the ones that will hopefully find away to "save" us before it is too late (last one I promise)...

Anyone want to start a March thread, maybe we can have 100 pages before it starts....lol Although it clearly didn't work for February...

I couldn't find anything specific, Iceland I saw winds were up to 100 MPH in gusts, Ireland less than that....Not sure what they are, at the peak, in the middle of the ocean.

I hope so, I find it hard to believe I finish the season below 15 inches...then again, I wouldnt have thought a <920 mb system would be meandering around the north Atlantic. So who knows.

Next December.....

looks like maybe 0.2" of sleet this morning with total liquid at 0.75" so far, currently 36.8° and pouring. This has to be the worst, first 13 days of February I have ever experienced. It has rained all but 4 days so far this month, Seattle weather in the Northeast.....

With the way this winter has gone, if this somehow finds a way to be correct the whole SNE portion of this forum might just quit until next March....lol

being OCD with my snow measurements, do I get up at 2 am to measure or just assume it is sleet to rain with another 0.1"added to the meager season total?

I am fine with a snowy March, as long as I get a super torch for April and May....

Seeing that most of our winds here in CT are coming from SW to SSW at 850, even as the precip is starting along with the anomalously high water temps to the south, I would assume we see little to no accumulation for at least the southern half of CT....It has just proven time and again that the atmosphere has been warming up quicker than forecasted for this area, this year...