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Ralph Wiggum

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  1. 16 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

    I’m on board too, especially with these 5 day means on the 3 major ensembles for the period of the 18th to the 23rd.

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    That's a new England look mid season, let alone down here for us in late March of a waning Nino. I'm with PSU, show a couple GFS/Euro runs in a row of snow and I'll bite. This look won't do it for us. Adjust that trof about 250 miles further S.

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  2. 55 minutes ago, Scraff said:

    Have you tried some higher end mezcal? I love good tequilas, but man that smoke component in mezcal makes me a fan. 

    Mezcal was my poison back in my 20s. I always fought for the worm in the bottle. Always seemed to contain a hallucinogenic component to it.

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  3.  Always been a believer that the earth has a way of balancing itself out naturally. Sometimes gradually over time...years, decades, centuries, eras....other times thru extreme sudden events. PSU had been poking tongue in cheek about underwater volcanoes. Ironically,an article surfaced in my news feed the other morning about Yellowstone. I wonder if something like that supervolcano (even tho some some scientists dispute that it would ever erupt) would spark a sudden reversal wrt to the elephant? I mean, we've all read the articles about how warming supposedly has created more extremes and shifts in weather. Will something this extreme be the balancing act someday? They don't know how long effects would last but scientists seem convinced it would lead to a nuclear winter scenario. I dunno, just throwing my thoughts/$.02 in the pot if this hasn't been offered as a scenario already. The earth balances itself out over time  in mysterious ways.

  4. 2 hours ago, JTA66 said:

    May as well issue my final winter grade today. Only a March '58 redux could get me to change my score...

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    Pros: It snowed. We had junk & stuff to track. We had snow on snow. I was under two winter storm warnings (although only one verified). It was better than last year (which isn't saying much).

    Cons: Winter was reduced to two, one-week stretches. Other than that it was another long November. Strong Nino, -QBO and this was the best we could do?? There should have been at least one MECS. And where were the nor'easters? It wasn't a dry winter. It started off with those heavy rainstorms in Dec...and then?? Not to steal drought-guy's act but I was certain we'd get our fair share of coastals with wind, beach erosion, watches/warning/advisories, etc. Whether they would be wet or white was the only question. At least 1982-83 and 2015-16 were one-hit wonders. 

    Final thought: Time to toss SSWE's in the trash bin. They're as useful as Siberian snow cover.

     

    Toss the MJO in the dumpster as well. Didn't really reflect historically  what we would expect given the phase. Another overrated/understudied tool wrt east coast winter weather.

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