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Sure looks like the Euro won this battle.   

A lovely (to me) late afternoon with a glass of Jamieson/rocks.  We had training storms overnight and morning today but it seems we're clearing out.  Either way, my 4 mile  rt walk for coffee featured clouds and 78/70.  My skin is happy!  So liberating not to chase snow in a ratter.   Maybe next year....or maybe April, or who knows?

1 hour ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said:

The NAM has certainly liked that idea over the past few runs. Hints of it in the SREF as well. None of the globals seem interested whatsoever though. 

SREFs is a NAM model so….

Rolling through lower SC en route to Savannah tonight.  We went through the cutoff and got rain from Richmond down to near the SC border.  Temps dropped to the low to mod 50s. As soon as we got out of it temperatures rose 10 degrees.  Currently 59 in rural SC and clear.  Tomorrow we go into summer from Savannah to Naples.

4 hours ago, tamarack said:

Found ~12" (3" gray, 9" black) on Flying Pond, about 10 miles south of my place, but almost no action last Tuesday.  Maybe try again Monday.  In an average winter there would be 18-20" this time of year.

It’s actually pretty amazing.  Summers are dry and beautiful with long days and light until close to 9:30-10pm in high summer.  You’re within 90 minutes of epic snows in winter with the occasional snower into the city.

I've only been there (actually near Olympia) twice, both times for Thanksgiving week, and there was rain every day both times.  Only about 4 of the 14 days were stormy all day; the others had occasional showers - every cloud seemed to spill a little.  Some say that it only rains once in November, from the 1st thru the 30th.

No doubt winter is dark and wet but huge snows are not far away.  I went to paradise ranger station around June of 1990.  It is fairly low in elevation but has booked 1000 inches in a season.

5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I've always imagined a scenario where I had the wherewithal to flee this New England taint season.

I'm willing to risk the historic bomb, because they are just too rare to bother.  I'm also willing to risk the fair day in April, because those too are just too rare and not enough of them.  April should not exist on a God intended Earth ... 

Mostly from about March 15 through May 1, what you get is what's going on out there right now.  Light rain/40s F 

 

Yup.  We’re outta here tomorrow but unfortunately will be back by the final days of March which spares us some but certainly not all of the awful spring we typically get.

Just now, WinterWolf said:

Ok..I stand corrected then. Lol. I’m thinking fall and spring ain’t to great though. However it’s not my first choice to live if I was gonna pick a place away from SNE.  

I spent a lot of time there 35 years ago when I was frequently visiting a gf there.  Got to see a lot-had Starbucks before anyone ever heard of it…lol.

1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

No way, Seattle blows..period. 

It’s actually pretty amazing.  Summers are dry and beautiful with long days and light until close to 9:30-10pm in high summer.  You’re within 90 minutes of epic snows in winter with the occasional snower into the city.

ORD hot 71 today.  Normal max for the date is 40.

22 minutes ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said:

890 ft. Not usually too bad in all honesty.

Get a window unit at least.  They tend to be pretty inexpensive these days.  My friend has a camp in Wakefield NH on a lake.  He has had window units there for about 5 years.

4 hours ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said:

No central AC, no window units here. Swamp-ass is coming for me.

No ac at all?  What’s your elevation?

Definitely closing the book on the worst winter in my collective experience.  Having my area miss the dump that treated CT so nicely was the final icing on the cake.   My March will be beautiful even if I have to endure it in Florida once we arrive around 3/6.

14 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I always thought back to the 1996-1997 as being an odd year.  I really don't remember much happening between the twins of Dec 1996, then the "April Fool's Day Blizzard" later that spring.

Those two positive buster storms, happening in the same 36 hour window ... remove those and that winter ( based upon my experience) would have come down to the March 31/Apr 1st event.

That was a disappointing season after that Dec put so much higher expectation in play.   I was also a bit more naive then ... But I distinctly remember wondering with higher hopes, only to go some 75 days before a worth-while event happened again.

But yeah ... one cannot "save a ratter" with a single storm, particularly if the ratting is very egregious.   It's too much of a slope to climb.  There's also a bit of personal druthers ( maybe ...) clouding my opinion here, in that if we've come this far and I sense the sun's return ...knowing that calendar and all that, the futility awareness turns me off to it.

And don’t forget the surprise snow in January 1997 and the multiple March events leading up to the April Fools blizzard.  But February 1997 was about as torchy as ot can get.

A ratter of this magnitude rarely changes this late in the game.

3 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Sorry for the OT guys, but worthwhile read during this down time for anyone struggling with addiction, or who knows someone who is.

https://45pedrospupils.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-decade-of-reflections-on-my-recovery.html

Thanks for sharing Ray.  Inspiring journey!

27 minutes ago, ChangeofSeasonsWX said:

Largest ever snowstorm in PVD for the month of March was 14.7" on 03/19/56. That month was like the March version of Feb 2015 with a snowstorm every week. 31.6" in March 1956 and 31.8" in Feb 2015.

March of 1956 is one of the great snow periods of my life and the 3/19 storm was pretty amazing.  But ponder this:  BOS got 65 inches in February 2015.   How crazy is that!  

Is the euro control now the op?  When does that go into effect if not?

22 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

No one gives a rat’s ass or a Goddamn what that idiot thinks

He’s a shill but methinks he’s pulling in some nice coin…

3 hours ago, mahk_webstah said:

Off topic, like this thread, but if you want information, motivation, and direction, read Peter Attia's new book called Outlive.  
Best thing I've read from a reliable source with the latest research on health, longevity, but also healthspan (living healthy as long as possible).

He goes overboard on several issues but the take home is strength training is essential for a better chance at healthspan.  
 

Today was a strength training day followed by my usual core and augmented strength circuit plus a call I have Monday’s was moved to today online of the holiday so I had to accommodate that and needed to get up before 9-usually blasphemy!  
 

Healthspan is what we’re trying to achieve hence my hard 3 hour walk in the cold last night.

Above OT.  Sunny and bright but cold today.

It’s been a cold weekend and for now not much warming until at least after this week.  In other news our journey to FL departure is now delayed until 3/3.  Hopefully it snows because 2 more weeks of this awful winter would be bad if it’s chilly.

2 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

70 F at most climo sites on March 1 and … everywhere else, is between  25 and 30 abv nornal  

Let’s not belittle the matter.  It’s not that common. 

Doing so as often as it has in the last 10 years is alarming.

But these occurrences have couched 80 as well.  

But March is a 31 day month.  On 3/1 70 is much more highly anomalous vs 3/31.  As a kid growing up mid 20th century, the things I grew to expect in March was a big snow event and the first run at 70.

1 hour ago, George001 said:

Those Heat bursts you mention is something I noticed happening earlier and earlier. 70s in March used to be very rare, and now it seems like every couple years we soar into the 70s in Feb. 

70s in March was common 70 years ago per my memory.  I used to realize that March would often give you the first 70 and April 80.  Didn’t happen every year but it was common enough.

I’ll root for la nada.  Or whatever it is being weak…and the west to warm up.  Regardless of enso state if we have a cold wet west our chances go down for a snowy winter.

While I’m glad to see many of you enjoy a deep winter week, it has blown here.  Got a total of about 1.25 inches and cold.   Fairly useless as our biggest event was 0.75.  And today’s squalls missed my house.  Just turn it up 50 degrees and I’ll be happy.  This is by far worse than any ratter in memory.

Looks like mby is in the 7-10 split and will miss out on the meat of the squall line.