I have no idea how many consecutive such winters it would take to make a noticeable impact on the trend. I’d wag at least 5? Not sure how much summer temps have been involved either.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I haven’t had a flake since the early January storm. I’ve been traveling a lot so I guess I could have missed some sort of accumulation-less slop.
Even with the brief heavy rain this morning, major short-range QPF bust on this storm from the major globals, Euro first among them. Like nearly 2" too wet.
@losetoa6, read the Wikipedia article of “sixth mass extinction”. Extinction rates in the Holocene are 100-1000 times normal background, almost certainly due to human activity extending back to ice age hunting.
Yup I’ve had this thought already. My tulip magnolia buds are clearly growing already. Don’t want them to flower until mid March or after, but could be mid February at this rate.
I’m just waiting on “Impeach Joe Biden!!”, “Why won’t the LMSM report on how cold it was in East Siberia today!?!”, and “BOM meteogram says snowy finish to winter in Chicago!” for the win.
I’ll just say that if the pattern is as active as the gfs suggests, with a predominant pattern of shortwaves passing south of us, and we can’t score at least once at peak climo...this winter will really live in infamy.