Eduardo

Love the nostalgic turn this thread has taken. My journey was AccuWx —> Bill Evans board —> Tristateweather —> Eastern —> Here. Anyone remember a poster on the Bill Evans board named “hani345.” They lived in Newburgh and would always post punctuation-free sentences like: “Bill how windy is it gonna be please Bill I’m scared….”

I read through the last two pages and your post reassured me that I’m not alone. Also, why does the thread title keep changing?

That’s a top-notch list to make if you are hoping for a snowy rest of the winter as well. I genuinely do not understand how any winter wx lovers in the Tri-State found December disappointing. Plenty of reasons for optimism this year after a string of true ratters.

Can confirm about an even 6 inches in Lindy.

Still snowing steadily at my parents’ house in Lindenhurst (SW Suffolk). This latest band has delivered nicely. About 5.5 inches on the ground now.

Ok.

That deep-winter, tundra feel to it. Perfection!

Just left my parents’ in Lindenhurst (SW Suffolk) to head back to the city. Can confirm that light snow was falling while I was waiting on the platform.

Man never have I understood a perspective so little. After a few shutout years, the tristate has several inches of snow OTG two weeks into met winter in the middle of the holiday season. It’s a great weekend to be a NYC winter wx lover! The last few winters, I’ve had a “close the shades” mentality. Not this year though. We are definitely working against a broader backdrop of a warming climate and less snowiness on a decadal timeframe, but I’m growing confident that this is the year we start cycling up and out of the recent nadir of craptastic winters.

Unapologetically, it’s 100% cozy vibes for me, engendered by cheesy Xmas movies. The holiday just doesn’t seem real for me when we are torching during it.

I distinctly remember you and I on the Bill Evans board discussing this exact surprise on that day.

Can’t believe how long I’ve known the guy from our fun little world here. Talk to us @HurricaneJosh!

Stuck patterns FTW. You really can’t go wrong betting on continuity this decade if you’re a seasonal forecaster.

It’s been stuck in hyperdrive for the better part of a decade now. Any insights on how long things like this usually last?

Yeah this period is painful, but still nothing like the late 80s and late 90s ones.

Moderate snow on Roosevelt Island with a coating on all non-paved surfaces. I wish we weren’t gonna flip!

I always saw them as more of a crapshoot since, in the event of one, you face the risk of shunting all of the cold to the other side of the pole. That’s why I always cringe when there’s SSW talk in the beginning of the winter. You chance burning up valuable climo periods. On the flip side though, when we get toward the waning days of the winter, why not roll the dice on the possibility of some bonus winter wx?

This is basically how I’ve been thinking about the pattern for the past few days. Hopefully it sticks around a bit into Feb before we are probably done outside of some lucky Niña March slop.

Puts in perspective how, for us retention snobs, having 13-14 and 14-15 back to back was something of a dream come true. Sign me up for that anytime! BTW, I too was living on the south shore at the time and recall that, even when snow depth fell under 1”, there still were plenty of cement-like patches and piles dotting the landscape. I don’t think the ground was completely bare for most of January and February.

Lakes and Hudson Bay have to be freezing over some by this point though, no? If yes, then a discharge similar to last week’s would probably be a touch colder in terms of sensible weather, right?

Yeah I was just a kid, but IIRC, 93-94 and 95-96 were really the only cold 90s winters, no? 92-93 had the December and March storms, but isn’t remembered for being cold.

It’s close. I was around for and loved both 95-96 and 02-03. Even though 95-96 was snowier, the retention snob in me likes 14-15 slightly more than both of them. It was true “deep winter.” We really were spoiled for awhile beginning in 02-03. I knew it at the time though and never took it for granted.

Yeah I agree. Definitely some loose resemblance, though that was an especially epic year for snow and cold. One of my personal fav’s—the top one for me being ‘14-15.

You risk cutters in that pattern, but I wouldn’t call it a “cutter pattern.” It’s like a diet 13-14 look. You can score decent events when waves ride the arctic boundary dragged down by a cutter, in fact!

You risk tainting at the coast, but in this type of pattern, it’s worth chancing to bump some precip up against the cold air. I still think we score one warning-level criteria event before we mild up on Feb. Also a chance we sneak something in March when wavelengths shorten…not uncommon in Niña years.