Out of a bad beginning, middle, and end, a bad beginning is harder to stomach because in the other two scenarios, there’s already been a good part. Some winters don’t have a good part, but it seems every winter has a bad part or two or three.
At least temps are below freezing at midnight on New Year’s.
(with some WAA and rain looming as a low cuts through Iowa)
Edit: actually looks like mixed precip for many areas.
I mean I get the whole sentiment that we only get a few months each year to track snow and we might as well enjoy it, but the fact that the window is so small to begin with makes it all the more discouraging when 5-6 weeks of that window is wasted on a pattern like this.
The 64 at MDT just after midnight sounds accurate. I remember being worried about being screwed out of a white Christmas because of how warm it got Christmas Eve and then we got a bunch of snow in Pittsburgh on Christmas Day.
So what do we have here? Christmas 2021 has a solid chance to be warmer in many parts of PA than:
Friday and Saturday of Easter weekend
Mother’s Day
2 out of the 3 days of Memorial Day weekend
Thanksgiving