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    “Let’s Talk Winter!

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    21 hours ago, dilly84 said:

    65 Wednesday. From the looks of it, this winter is in the books. So barring severe outbreak, I guess we shall talk to you all in a few short months lol.

    Indeed. Have a great Spring & Summer! Talk to you in the Fall.

    “Let’s Talk Winter!

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    10 minutes ago, buckeye said:

    It's all relative and perception....and of course personal preference.   But you kind of make my first point by asking if we've even hit normal snowfall yet when we are currently about 30% above normal.   

    Our climo is such that typically we nickle and dime our way to normal with light snowfalls that disappear in a few days....every once in awhile we get a true snowstorm thrown in there.  

    What are CMH's chances of not only having a white Christmas, but having accumulating snow on Xmas Eve and day?   What are our chances of having a solid snow cover with intermittent refresher for more than 2 weeks?  Those two things happen rarely but even more rarely in the same winter.   The winter storm sucked if you're a snow stat lover,  but it was still a disruptive winter storm that was fun to track and gave us a bulletproof snow cover.

    I think we romanticize and exaggerate past winters....I know I'm guilty of that.   I think its because we tend to lump events and memorable times together instead of looking at them for what they were, isolated events often spread out by years.   

    All that being said winter 77-78 was the benchmark A+ winter in my lifetime for many different reasons not just the blizzard.

    I could probably be arm twisted into dropping to a B+ if we don't see another flake,  but for now I'll stick by my A-.  (I don't want to insult the weather Gods :lol:) .   I suspect with your standards we may all be dead before a Dilly-B rated or above winter happens again ;)

     

    The Christmas snow was special b/c it actually happened on xmas eve/day. That may never happen again in our lifetime (unless you are in your 20s). If it wasn’t for that boring stretch in all of January, this winter probably was an A in my book. So I’ll go with a solid B.
     

    You know me, always reminiscing of yesteryear & my days on the east coast where we got real snowstorms. They did quite well again, Philly north to NY, this year. Around here, if we don’t score a true clipper train for a time in winter, generally it’s not a great winter & we get stuck praying we don’t get the WTOD with storms.

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    “Let’s Talk Winter!

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Frog Town said:

    Weren't the indices all torching in Late January, for February prior to this cold and snow outbreak??  I remember every outlook for February as above to much above normal.  We'll see I guess.  

    Hah, yeah, ask The Weather Channel!

    “Let’s Talk Winter!

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    17 minutes ago, buckeye said:

    It's funny we all called it a NW trend with the last storm, but it was more like a NW pop.   It literally unfolded during the storm.   I said I'd take my chances any day with a storm that rode from AL to central WV and east....but it got to WV and nudged into eastern OH, bringing the wtod with it.  It really sucks when you can't trust models 24 hrs out.

    We rarely benefit from NW trends but the most infamous one that we did was PD03.  After the first wave came through the second bigger wave was supposed to be a miss south.  I checked I remember checking the.18z models that Saturday evening and everything had suddenly shifted central OH into the game and that was less than 24 hours out.

     

    So you’re saying there’s a chance? LOL

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    “Let’s Talk Winter!

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, jbcmh81 said:

    Not really.  While it was the furthest NW and warmest, even it wasn't nearly warm enough and still showed far more snow for many areas.  

    Versus the other models it kept it much further NW so it was sniffing out something. Was it 100% accurate? No. But it kept a fly in the ointment the whole time. 

    “Let’s Talk Winter!

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    1 minute ago, JayPSU said:

    Yep.  If I’m reading the radar correctly, it looks like we’ll be dry slotted once we change back to snow.  Those a little west of us...they could pickup a quick 2-4”.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if I go from sleet to nothing. 

    “Let’s Talk Winter!

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, HighTechEE said:

    The 8pm obs all Cincy stations is finally back to snow, but most of the Dayton area still sleet.

    Heavier returns especially south of Cincy. Fingers crossed for all of us it’s snow versus sleet. Painful especially when radar shows snow.

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