Great Snow 1717

7 minutes ago, bluewave said:

It was actually one of our most impressive 3 to 4 week winter periods of all-time with a 30” snowfall in spots and then another 10”+ in early February and then the first below 0° in NYC since 1994.

Here in New England it was a non winter...

1 minute ago, LibertyBell said:

There was that -1 on Valentines Day morning.  Cold and dry..... sounds so familiar....

I recall that day. We were playing in an end of the season basketball tournament.  Our game was in the evening.  A few of the players hair was wet, by the time we got to the bus their hair had frozen... 

1 minute ago, MJO812 said:

This is annoying

No reason to look at any models past  24-36 hours anymore. Breaks your heart.

FYP

Just now, nycwinter said:

and central par had it's biggest snowstorm since records were kept since 1869 during that super el nino oh the irony..

otherwise known as a "One Day Winter" lol...

Just now, LibertyBell said:

they all seem to be now...

I think the Super El Nino of 15/16 was a tipping point...

7 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

It would definitely be a memorable event, and all day snowstorm on a Saturday is ideal.

sort of like mlb..it is a swing and miss winter...

43 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

Time to fire up a February 2026 thread?  

FYP

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Snow is coming. Just likely a small - medium event 

Uhmm you said the same for this storm...

3 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Cosgrove had a defiant post last night....rain for the big cities, and cold not impressive...."up and down winter, just deal with it".

As you know there has been very little "up" for the northern tiered states so I'd like to know when he thinks the "up" part of winter is going to begin...

11 minutes ago, Layman said:

Our observed and recorded weather data set is so infinitesimally small in the grand scheme that it sometimes seems ridiculous to refer to our current "norms" and "averages".  Maybe the past thousand years would be something that's more manageable from a recency-biased perspective of norms and averages.  Hard telling.  From my perspective, 40-100 years doesn't even scratch the surface but it's what we've got to work with.   

I've long thought the "norms" and "averages" should come from the entire dataset from a reporting station. Using the so called 30 year averages is senseless. A complete waste of time because much of the data is not used in coming up with a norm/average.

5 minutes ago, Spanks45 said:

We want to say its the 80s all over again....the results maybe the same, how we are getting there is a whole different story, though some want to ignore those facts. I'm all for using analogs, but they just aren't very useful anymore unless we have some from at least a billion years ago, then again there was most likely a supercontinent and they wouldn't matter either.....Anyways, hopefully it snows soon

I've been saying the same for several years. It's like comparing QB's from the 60's and 70's to current day QB's. It is important to understand how the "stats" during the analog years were compiled...the background matters and must be taken into consideration but it is often disregarded.

50 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Way too much reliance on LR maps from OP models...crazy to see day 15 maps posted regularly....

..and that is made worse by the lack of pattern recognition and the refusal by some people to accept the impact that climate change is having...

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Almost all of those are not winter related activities and are things done year round. 

They are activities that many people like to do during the winter....perhaps you should consider going outside more often rather than being glued to watching bad model runs??

8 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Besides figure skating , what otter winter activities are there with no snow ? 

hockey

Ice fishing

running

biking

walking

hiking

camping

photography

birdwatching

ice climbing

rock climbing

curling

..and that's just off the top of my head..

On 12/26/2024 at 9:10 AM, Great Snow 1717 said:

Areas that  currently have normal to AN snowfall for the season are going to be BN once the next 10 day period comes to an end.

The above will certainly prove to be correct once 1/5 arrives.

19 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It’s not even cold. 

Correct!

3 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

We need a Brooklyn post to make us feel better

 

 

I'll be cleaning my sock draw....

2 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

 

..and the surprise is?? lol Reality is beginning to sink in for the for the believers...

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Just knifing through the defense.

..oddly his running style at USC and in the pros was described as being just that....

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

He could cut and slice to the right and left like nobody else.

Prior to the 1973 season he was considered to be a bust. Then he had a great 4 year run but tailed off badly after that.

6 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Yeah. How OJ did it in 14 games is kind of wild (obviously a different game back then of course)

469 of those yards came against the Patriots. He averaged a little more than 6 yards per carry behind the Electric Company. And the day he went over the 2000 yard mark was also an epic bust for several  Boston TV mets. The Saturday before the game they were forecasting a very significant snowstorm for SNE but their forecasts busted badly.

6 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

where is Brooklyn wx with some weeklies?

I was thinking the same thing lol

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Literally N-S flow at 500 out west and the PV sitting on our face. 

..outside of that it is a direct hit for SNE and CNE...

9 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

 

same goes for many parts of the Michigan UP...

It's Dec 30th and practically on the eve of the new year but it has all the look and feel of a day in mid april..