buckeye

It's all relative and perception....and of course personal preference. But you kind of make my first point by asking if we've even hit normal snowfall yet when we are currently about 30% above normal. Our climo is such that typically we nickle and dime our way to normal with light snowfalls that disappear in a few days....every once in awhile we get a true snowstorm thrown in there. What are CMH's chances of not only having a white Christmas, but having accumulating snow on Xmas Eve and day? What are our chances of having a solid snow cover with intermittent refresher for more than 2 weeks? Those two things happen rarely but even more rarely in the same winter. The winter storm sucked if you're a snow stat lover, but it was still a disruptive winter storm that was fun to track and gave us a bulletproof snow cover. I think we romanticize and exaggerate past winters....I know I'm guilty of that. I think its because we tend to lump events and memorable times together instead of looking at them for what they were, isolated events often spread out by years. All that being said winter 77-78 was the benchmark A+ winter in my lifetime for many different reasons not just the blizzard. I could probably be arm twisted into dropping to a B+ if we don't see another flake, but for now I'll stick by my A-. (I don't want to insult the weather Gods ) . I suspect with your standards we may all be dead before a Dilly-B rated or above winter happens again

We had a neg nao/ao and epo. MJO was in warm phase and the pna was negative though. Looking ahead though, there really isn't any indice that points to cold. Ao, nao, epo, all positive and pna neg. MJO still circling in COD or warm

Looks like the fat lady has approached the microphone for winter 2020-2021. Every indice I've seen is showing a warm signal moving ahead thru March. I might be a little early here but even if we don't see another flake of snow, I'm giving this winter an B+/A-. It's all relative but here are my thoughts, -Christmas eve/day snow -Multi-week snow cover -Avoided insanely cold temps -Insane block allowed us to avoid cutter city (considering it was a nina winter) -Yea, I know....what about the sleet storm and what could have been? Oh well, was still our first winterstorm in awhile and was fun to track. Granted, had that been all snow I might have had to go with an A+ . -Let's not forget, we would have killed for similar stuff the last few winters.....as I said, it's all relative.

Entering least favorite time of year....mud and 40s season. Could be a wild spring though.

It's kinda funny, not picking on anyone, but there's always been a sense of competition on this site. It's as though there's a skill set involved with ending up with the most snow.

Oh hell no, I'm still applying burn cream from yesterday.

It's funny we all called it a NW trend with the last storm, but it was more like a NW pop. It literally unfolded during the storm. I said I'd take my chances any day with a storm that rode from AL to central WV and east....but it got to WV and nudged into eastern OH, bringing the wtod with it. It really sucks when you can't trust models 24 hrs out. We rarely benefit from NW trends but the most infamous one that we did was PD03. After the first wave came through the second bigger wave was supposed to be a miss south. I checked I remember checking the.18z models that Saturday evening and everything had suddenly shifted central OH into the game and that was less than 24 hours out.

Our snow pack probably has more staying power then some of the deeper snow pack further NW. High water content and layers of frz rain/sleet mixed in. High ratio snow is great but it disappears more quickly. I'd still rather have the high ratio stuff though.

I'm with you. Also that system Thursday looks like a couple inches best. All that being said it's pretty damn wintry outside....in spite of all the cries of what could have been.

37 degrees at 5000'

NAM this Thursday. Fool me once.....

It's like a glacier...probably can walk on the surface without breaking through.

One thing for certain, our snow pack is bullet proof...

Geezus, now we have warm noses on top of warm tongues to deal with....this is getting dangerously close to being meteorological harassment

I'm not throwing the white flag til morning on this one. I think the bigger bust threat on Thursday is weak/sheared vs. another sleeter

Whose first up to kick when Lucy tees it up Thursday?

February 1994 was the gold standard for sleet storms here. All day heavy sleet with temps around 16 degrees.... turned to freezing rain thunderstorms in the evening before it ended.

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everytime I look out of my office window there's a new precip form or combo thereof.

yup, walking the tight rope with vaselined soles.

yea we're about 50/50 snow sleet now....I suspect it will be going over to mostly snow very soon

kitchen sink

moderate KS here in lewis center

ILN will never issue a WSW again