Burghblizz

That was so close to being a epic storm. Double digit snows over most of the area, but just missed a widespread 2-3’ (of course that happened anyway 3 months later, and close to that again 13 months later. Good times)

This shortwave energy on the backside of this means business. Nice icing on the cake Nice kickoff to winter. And with a lot of people working from home, this is the most positive I’ve seen the general public about snow in awhile (homeschooled kids not pleased I bet :-))

The cautionary tale will be how demogoguery worked and propaganda sites laundered disinformation. Mostly driven by the need to have an exact answer that doesn’t exist, and not wanting to adjust their own reality. So “they”...whoever “they” is....wanting “control” is an easy false narrative. The reality is more boring - a society trying to figure out the balance of saving lives and keeping livelihoods. (Fortunately, most of us that understand weather modeling also understand how math shows us this is a huge problem when scaled over many encounters. And that reality exists even if things such as death rates are modest) But people who get a high off of having an “alternative viewpoint” get an adrenaline rush. And yes, I know the red herring responses - those have been well developed. But that whole mindset might be the biggest thing that perpetuated this into a long slow burn. That is what history will frown upon

As crazy as the NAM is, it might be at least be worth mentioning that we haven’t officially had more than .1” of snow in May since 1966 (when in snowed 3”). And I think there was a 2” type event a few years earlier. So the bar for “historic” is pretty low this time of year. This looks heavily rate dependent to have a chance for anything

Nice to see that some areas in the southern Metro area will see >20". They deserve it - they get screwed a lot But... With the city generally seeing 4-8", i hope this doesnt blow our "big storm" load where its 5 years before such an opportunity presents itself

Modern day seems healthy for yearly totals (seems like many more years above avg), but rough for big storms. Without looking at the numbers, we have to be up near a 50" average this century

Well...actually... Its more like every 2 years for an 8-12" type storm. Every 5 years is more the 12"-15" storm- not that that makes u feel better. I dont know...top of my head IMBY for 9+... Feb '03 Dec '03 February '10 (2 including 21") March '13 So maybe 5 in 12 years and about 20 5-7" type storms where we couldnt get over the hump. It is what it is - just seems like we are always in a drought That, and the Euro can suck my balls.