areas north of NYC did ok on the 1/18 event-locally here I was all snow despite the storm being a cutter. Having a great arctic airmass in place helped.
I'll give him a little credit this year-he bailed early and actually said that the warmth of the last 5 years needs to be respected. I suspect his forecast next winter will be a bit more humble.
LR forecasting is difficult at best. Look at the super strong PV this year plus the warm water north of Australia-both were late breaking events that helped cause us to be warm and snowless. Good luck seeing something like that more than a month out....
What's interesting here is the PV-could anyone have predicted its strength last fall? Wildcards like that can sink a forecast. On the flip side, 2010-11 was a strong Nina and many forecasts were not great-yet we had one of the snowiest 40 days in history due to some well timed blocking.
That's our likely window-next week will have a crappy airmass, I would expect something if we get it the first week in March before the pattern goes back to what we've had all winter
yep, winter was canceled in mid January-go outside and do something productive instead of tracking fantasy day 7+ storms that never verify
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definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result