In the new normal, we seem to only get one decent storm in January... my forecast accounted for this one-and-done. But I've seen several people pointing to early February as the time to watch, which would make sense historically, so we'll see if I get blown out or not. Obviously I hope I'm proven wrong.
Yeah this is becoming the meme of the winter on this subforum, up there with amped/Randytastic, Carbondale/Short Pump, and my personal favorite, Jebman telling off some dude from SNE (I think that was 2015).
Final total here was exactly 2".
Roads and sidewalks had caved last night, but are all melted now. Currently raining here.
My kids played in the snow yesterday evening, they're about to play in it now inb4 it all melts.
I’ve been wondering about this a lot. Could it be that our new normal gives us more Miller B’s, etc., or otherwise a pattern that leaves NYC permanently higher while the Mid-Atlantic trends lower? Will some areas in the northeast be permanently better off? Or are they just now in the feast-or-famine stage, which will eventually transition to all famine (like we seem to be doing)?
At some point between last winter and the Canadian wildfires I transitioned into full-on climate doomer. I keep checking in the hopes we at least get a MECS to prove my worst fears wrong, in the short term at least…
I have four young kids and it scares me what this planet is going to look like by the time they grow up.
The real question is: what happens if we somehow get completely shut out again this winter? That would even be worse than my dire winter forecast. What will the conversation be like going forward? Would anyone ever forecast above average snow again? Would we still have “deniers?”
15-16 was way better in SoMD than 14-15. We had another WSW on President's Day (some areas got more from that than the HECS), then another borderline WSW event in early March, and even an accumulating event in April. 14-15 was only really good if you were in the northern tier.
Of course both winters look amazing compared to the last two years here, so I'd take either of them at this point LOL