Ottawa Blizzard

Does anyone know if the winter of 1931-32 was a La Nina?

That's interesting. Up here in Canada, they are calling what we are in now the second wave, and it is correlating almost exactly with the second wave of the Spanish Flu pandemic.

Wow, that's crazy. I wonder why it's so bad in California?

I honestly used to try and defend him on this board, but lately he has become absolutely ridiculous. He was good up to about 10 years ago, became terrible once he left accuweather.

January 1976 apparently wasn't too bad either.

It's interesting how similar this Fall season has been to that of 1975, another La Nina year, in some ways. Very warm first half of November, cooler conditions late November. There was a big storm in Toronto around December 20th, 1975, according to Environment Canada data.

There was a storm in late January 2004 that gave almost a foot of snow to Toronto, and also to NYC. Not very common, I would think.

Best Christmas/holiday weather period of the past decade was that of 2017, in my opinion.

I'm expecting mostly cold rain out of this in Toronto. Is there any model saying anything differently?

That does look terrible. I was thinking maybe this winter would be like that of 1975-76? That was a La Nina that saw a very warm first two weeks of November.

Wouldn't it be great if we had something like the Leap Year storm of February 29, 1984?

I'd so much like to believe this, but we've been teased before by the models this winter.

Push that further west and all would be forgiven for this lousy January.

It really is hard to believe how many outlets got their winter forecasts wrong this year. The only two that got it right were Environment Canada and the National Weather Service, from what I can see.

Does snowstormcanuck post here anymore?

Take a look at the data for January 1950 in Toronto. Bear in mind that this followed a cold November. Lots of flip flopping that month...this month kind of looks similar. https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=1953-01-01|2013-06-13&dlyRange=1937-11-01|2013-06-13&mlyRange=1937-01-01|2013-06-01&StationID=5097&Prov=ON&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2017&selRowPerPage=25&Line=61&searchMethod=contains&txtStationName=Toronto&timeframe=2&Day=1&Year=1950&Month=1

I gather it's now looking to be very warm for the last week of January? That's quite a flip, is it not? Wasn't it looking very cold for the same time period not so long ago?

Joe is now pointing to the JMA (Japanese) model to back up his opinion that winter is going to roar back.

You have to wonder if Ryan Maue left Weatherbell because of disagreements with the other staff members regarding climate change, or at least their style of weather forecasting.

I'm surprised arctic sea ice is so low when you consider how cold it has been in the Arctic. Forecast for Resolute is below. http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/nu-27_metric_e.html

Just wanted to drop in and congratulate you guys in Alaska and the yukon who are having such an amazing winter. Has been largely a dud for us out east! Amazing pics by the way!