This winter gets a C from me.
Great start, horrendous finish resulting in below average snowfall AGAIN. Silver lining are the spring days we’ve gotten the past couple weeks
True, goes to show you how terrible the prior 3 years were. Those were the exception, not this year.
Though the back half of this winter is also exceptionally terrible. It is very possible that Chicago will end up below average again on snowfall.
If it wasn’t for a work trip I’d be on a plane to NY now instead of Seattle. One of my sisters lives in Brooklyn the other in Lyndhurst, NJ. Take your pick!
These are the types of storms that make me miss the east coast. Chicago winters pale in comparison when the east gets going. When I grew up in NJ, it seemed like we’d get a blockbuster like this one every 2 years. Unfortunately now it’s more like every 5 years
So much about this nor’easter reminds me of the Boxing Day Blizzard 2010. Most models were completely out to lunch on it until the NAM within 72 hours. NCEP even put out a notice that they believed the NAM was suffering initialization issues, until the GFS and ECMWF followed suit on the same run. Then it was a race to prepare NY and coastal NJ for the 2-3 feet on the way.