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Still a bit early, but it's almost time to give out our annual winter grades. At this point I'm thinking an F+ works here. We've had worse winters with less snow, but the majority of the snow this winter fell late at night, lack of a warning criteria event, and constant rug-pulling-out-from-under-at-the-last-minute events have made it a lower grade than what seasonal totals would normally dictate. With how well things went last winter when pretty much everything seemed to work out for this area we def can't complain too much about how this winter went here. If it weren't for the fact that 80% of our less than average snowfall happened in the middle of the night I probably would have given it a D+, or C- even with that models screwing us over and over at the last minute multiple times.

Haha, no doubt. I guess I'll also have to stick with my call for the biggest dog of the season, the late March southern IL to southern OH whopper.

March is gonna come in like a weak/strung-out pos, and go out like a weak/strung-out pos.

Guess the GFS was a little off with this.

If you look closely you can see a big shelf of ice/snow that has broken off the southeast shoreline of LM, and floated "out to sea" several miles.

I can go for another bout of 34 and rain. Would like a dash of sleet thrown in this time though please.

Sounds pretty exciting. Hopefully a ribbon of 1-3" can be deposited for a lucky few.

Lol. They need to just cut their losses and decommission the current version of the GFS, and put the old version back in use. Time to go back to the drawing board boys. post a photo online

Yeah I feel like a cat endlessly chasing after some kind of toy. For a bit you can tell it feels kind of stupid for continuously chasing it, but then quickly resumes chasing after it.

Just 2.5 more weeks till met spring.

zzzzz. Bring on spring. Let's hope that next winter delivers a warning criteria event to more than two members outside of the lake belts.

Still early, but I'm leaning towards a D or D- winter for a grade unless we can get a quality event between now and March. Even though we have a good shot at getting close to avg if we can muster another 10", it's been a very unsatisfying winter. Almost every snow event has been at night, and there's just not been much to get excited about overall this season. Systems downtrending in the final 48hrs has been an unfortunate theme this winter. We need a good widespread winter storm with some balls to wipe away the lameness that dominated this season.

Looking forward to tracking the next strung out pos later this week/weekend.

I love GFS.

GFS and the Euro continue to indicate some sort of threat around the 4-5th. About the only thing to watch so hopefully the threat continues as we get closer.

Ground zero @ 384hrs out on the op GFS. What can go wrong?

Euro and GFS both showing a big dump of cold air around the 4th-5th of Feb. Hopefully something of quality can develop on the leading edge of that. Until then, zzzzz.

Lock it in.

I'm surprised at the relative lack of big lake snows there. Ever since you moved from LAF back to where you are now I can't remember you having a major lake event there. Maybe I just forgot lol. I always figured anywhere from the IN/IL border and points east got blasted all the time during the winter. Guess it isn't as common as I thought.

Looking pretty quiet the next 7-10 days.

Euro throwing you a bone with a nice snowstorm. GFS says It's an ALEK special.

I think I remember seeing a post from him awhile back saying he was going somewhere tropical on vacation.

There's gonna be a lot of frozen dog turds to kick around.

This feels like an Arkansas winter. Hopefully that means we'll get a late Jan/February tornado outbreak to top it off.