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A coworker offered his place up the next time there’s a big lake effect event or major nor’easter that’s a crappy rainstorm on the coast. I’ll definitely be taking him up on that at some point lol

When I first got here it was practically nothing. There’s 2-3” where it hasn’t blown around. Other areas are nearly bare. Some big shopping mall piles are left from the early Dec storm that was rain for us. Not too far north of here in the Tug Hill there’s much more on the ground, where the snow was more persistent. But even here it’s been a below normal winter so far. I think there’s 35” for the season here when it should be over 50” by now. I’m told it’s very rare to have such little snow cover this time of year.

For work. I’ll be back this weekend.

I met coworkers for dinner last night and it was really treacherous and nasty when I left my hotel. An hour later, there were just a few clouds around and the band was gone. It really was from 8-9am and the evening when conditions were pretty bad. It was 9F this morning which made everything feel very wintry for a change. Of course it’ll all be gone in 24 hours and even here it’ll spike to 60 on Sat.

3.9” here in Syracuse yesterday! This snow is so fluffy and blew around so much that plenty of spots are nearly bare. It blew around like crazy yesterday afternoon. We got stuck under a skinny lake effect band in the evening which gave another inch or two.

Squalls/lake effect added about another inch where I am in Syracuse. Very wintry/tundra like since the snow is blowing around and hard to tell how much really fell. There’s a small band that’s been bouncing in and out of where I am over the last hour. The snow is practically pure fluff and blows away like nothing.

About 1” so far from squalls in Syracuse.

About an inch new in Syracuse this morning from squalls. I’m here for work this week-hopefully there’s some excitement today. I expect bare ground in Jan where I’m from but up here that’s depressing.

So much for that one, sorry. This winter just keeps finding ways to suck. Heavy snow squall currently here in Syracuse, visibility under a quarter mile. We’re under a WWA today for 3-5” from snow squalls/lake effect. Believe it or not there was practically no snow on the ground until this morning. This winter blows even up here.

Blue wave posts solid reasoning and analysis behind his thoughts and ends up correct more often than not. That doesn’t in any way make him a “warminista”. The pattern has been lousy this winter so far just like last winter. Those are facts, not any kind of bias.

Doesn’t seem like it would take too much to make it a slightly better event-2-4” maybe? It would mostly be on colder surfaces but I would call that “half decent” in a season like this. I know in our good seasons we would barely blink.

Go figure I’m in Syracuse this week and LI may get a half decent event. That’s how it’s essentially a guarantee this edges north a bit and swipes the area.

March was a good month up here, about 10-12” between three events. At times there was 4-5” on the ground here and almost zilch in Long Beach.

Maybe both. The warm water there will support more convection there, which will amplify the MJO and keep it in a lousy phase for us. As someone else said it’s funny how Australia’s heat wave can hurt our winter here.

Like I’ve been saying I’m not really interested in any threats while the Pacific jet, MJO, NAO etc are this horrendous. Maybe a minor event can sneak in there but the 6-8” snow maps from the Euro are almost definitely wrong. In the meantime it’ll continue to be a NNE and upper Midwest winter. Very Nina-like.

Yup thanks. I saw the first one and removed it but I guess there were more.

No snowstorm for St. Augustine any more like it showed a few days ago? Like last year, I won’t be interested in anything until the MJO goes into a favorable phase and the Pacific jet quiets down. Until then we stay with the SE ridge and cutters to cold behind them. NAO blocking won’t be enough to help or it will make things worse by being positive. We’re stuck in the same raging Pacific, lousy MJO and NAO as last winter. Hopefully something can make it change soon.

Very much like last winter so far with the cold behind the rain/ice storms keeping the temps near normal or below for the month. Hopefully that changes-luckily it’s early.

In Long Beach I had 14”. Was an amazing storm that was forecasted to hit eastern MA. The ridge saved the day for us that time. But what feeds us also takes it away such as with the repeated coastal huggers and inland storms since then. 3-14-17 would’ve been widespread 12-18”+ everywhere if the track was 75 miles to the SE.

And that’s that. Sun is already back out. Nice coating on the ground, about what last year’s had.

Very heavy snow now, ground whitened right up.

Nothing here yet but dark clouds rushing in from the west.

I was in TX for the Jan 2016 event. My town had 25” or maybe more. Yup, sickening. That was maybe once in a lifetime where I’m from.

Same at my place-nice glaze on trees/wires and any colder surfaces.

Even in 2017-18 we really lucked out, and the massive WAR helped us cash in on storms like the post-New Years blizzard. But that large ridge also steers storms inland and over the coast. Wouldn't shock me at all to see a return to much better conditions inland and more coastal rainstorms. That's more typical.