Plant those pumpkins and watermelon the 2nd week of March. Call me risky. SSWs have not correlated with cold in March-April the last few times. Experiment to see how they do, they are thick plants.
20+ days with significant snow on the ground is good. I feel like it was a real Winter. Of course at 39N/90 we aren't always going to get sustained cold like it was.
Re-enforced by -PNA pattern though. We need that Pacific High pressure to change. Some lite signs of -NAO loading pattern setting up... New El Nino's certainly don't start leading the pattern in March.
They have basically no snow on the Colorado mountains, for pretty much the first time ever. I saw a stat where Salt Lake City had 0.1" for the year, beating their previous low of 28" (still some time to go though)
Euro seasonal model too strong SE ridge DJF two Winters in a row. Seasonal models seem to have heavy ENSO bias, even when Weak like they are grasping for any forecasting accuracy lol
So much for warm ENSO subsurface effecting pattern right now.. Feb-March La Nina state in Hadley Cell 2018-2026 has been incredible
Bright sun in late Winter really correlating with +NPH (North Pacific High)
It's a pretty warm 500mb pattern coming up - Models have been too aggressive on the pattern this Winter, so we'll see how it pans out, but some areas in the Midwest may get very warm in early March