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I blame PSU personally. If he hadn't have made that infamous post back in late December, this never would have happened.

As much as I love snow, cold and the outdoors, I would like to get into skiing. But there are several factors against me 1. I hate looking like an idiot. 2. I hate getting in other people's way. 3. I really hating looking like an idiot and getting in other people's way and paying a small fortune to do it. 4. My wife despises cold. So I would need a to find a place with facilities dedicated to teaching adults who have absolutely no knowledge/experience. I'm sure they exist but it is probably 10x more expensive than even the already expensive normal places. And even if I could find an affordable one, I wouldn't be able to go because the boss would just laugh at my suggestion.

Warning: the person who runs this site that I am linking to appears to be dedicated to AGW skepticism/denial. I post it because it has some interesting discussion of the hypothesis that I have alluded to previously about reduced latitudinal temp gradients causing more blocking. Apparently the hypothesis is being questioned by new studies. http://joannenova.com.au/2020/02/global-confusion-turns-out-global-warming-doesnt-cause-wandering-jet-stream-extreme-weather/ Just ignore the constant carping at the "stupidity" of climate scientists.

Wow, I hadn't heard anything about this. But apparently the Summit station in Greenland may have hit an all time record low this winter. I guess the fruits of our friend the PV.

I will gladly take some extra snow, but I am really rooting for our comrades in the MA to score something.

Things are getting out of hand. I just saw reports on the news that the +AO was sighted mugging little old ladies in Philly and stealing ice out of people's freezers.

Its a pretty low bar, but I'll take it.

Still holding at 33 F. If I could have had one degree, I could have had 6 inches.

Oh come on, no trolling.

Well, I didn't get blanked this year. I am grateful for that.

Checking his garbage cans ain't happening?

So I'm in the jackpot zone 48 hours out. What could go wrong?

Luckily you guys have Rutgers in there to take the spotlight off of you.

For some reason, I am actually kind of surprised at how many Terps fans there are here. I am kind of curious if you guys like being in the Big 10. I miss the old ACC days before it essentially merged with the Big East.

I'm just kind of curious if you know what scapism actually was (or supposedly was). I happened to run across in my usuall Wikipedia leisure reading. So it caught my attention when I saw a beer named after it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

The sentiment is much appreciated, but we all deserve some winter. Unfortunately, in the words of the great Clint Eastwood....

Well, I am from Hope Mills, NC, which is just south of Fayetteville. I probably mentioned that sometime. I am rooting for some sort of fluke to sneak in and give at least some of you guys some love. For here, I'll be satisfied if I can just get some seasonable weather to fend of the bugs for a while. I'll be dreaming of next year.

Even without the ignore button, I just skim over his posts and also all the posts arguing with him, except when someone actually presents hard data which I find interesting. Speaking of which I downloaded the hard data for RDU from the NOAA and have started to slice and dice various interesting statistics. So far I have seen that December was "only" our 12th warmest, but it was tied for 6th for least number of days with min<32. Has anyone seen the numbers for Dec and Jan for IAD and DCA in terms of Tavg?

Its more east-central. My climatology is nowhere near you guys. I hang out here because the posters are the most knowledgeable and the large scale pattern drivers are mostly the same for me as for you. NC is fairly diverse for climate at its latitude. The SE quadrant (Wilmington and environs) is darn near tropical. The NW piedmont is much more continental (relatively speaking of course) and the high mountains actually get a good bit of snow.

Sigh

My area has recorded its earliest leaf out in the 39 year history of the metric. It is currently 71 °F at my house.

Oh we will, this is just a thought experiment to wile away the time.

Only need 20 more straight years of this, and we might have the Arctic sea ice back in a reasonable shape. Actually, this is an interesting hypothetical discussion. There is a rather strident guy over at WattsUpWithThat (don't throw tomatoes, I just go there for the graphs, honest) who is convinced that the entire institution of climatology is full of poo and that AGW is not going to be a big issue because it will be severely moderated by negative feedback mechanisms. One of the negative feedback mechanisms that he has touted is increased cloud cover due to convection in the SW Pacific. So for fun's sake let's just assume the following hypothetical: that he is on to something and the increased MJO forcing in the maritime continent/crap zones that we love so much is actually impacting the AO to become more positive. So let's assume that our recent predilection to go on season-long grand tours of zones 4 -5- 6 is the new base state which will cause us 20 straight years of snowless misery, give or take the occasional fluke. BUT let's also assume that it will cause a continual +++AO which will keep the cold air locked up in the Arctic and will thus help the Arctic sea ice to significantly recover. So my hypothetical question is: will you guys accept the trade-off. Would 20 years of this kind of fail be worth it to get back to the halcyon days of yore with a cool base state?

OK everybody how does this year rank among the great dumpster fires of the last several decades? Hating this more/less than 2001-2002, 2011 - 2012 etc?

I'm honestly interested in the AO watch, following the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see it go to +23. I am rooting for the heights in the PV to get so low that the air condenses into liquid.