lookingnorth

Yeah, we had a couple good weeks in January, and a decent snow in February, but overall this winter was unimpressive. At least we weren't setting records for winter warmth like they were further north.

Doesn't feel much like winter today, with much of Oklahoma getting into the upper 80s, and the southern part of the state having some areas in the 90s.

The mountains do block radar coverage, but it looks decent around Lake Tahoe, assuming this map is correct.

I find the CPC is usually pretty good on their 6-10 day and 8-14 day outlooks. Getting accurate forecasts beyond 14 days out is just extremely hard.

I believe it's happened twice before. 1990-91 and 1991-92 each only had a trace of snow. Same with 1948-49 and 1949-50. But the third time in over 120 years of records is still pretty bad.

It looks like the Antarctic sea ice extent gap is down to 187,000 km^2.

Only got an inch of snow in Norman that was almost all gone by the next morning.

Yeah California has gotten a lot of rain and storms lately. I saw lightning flying into San Diego before Christmas, which is somewhat unusual for them.

We got barely any snow in the Norman/OKC area from the cold blast, and the coming couple weeks don't look that interesting either. I hope we see something good in late February/early March.

I got some surprise flurries today at least.

It looks like December 2023 had the fourth greatest positive temperature anomaly of any month in the UAH dataset, with the three hotter months being this past September-November. https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/

The MJO doesn't look too favorable for cold and snow in the coming couple weeks.

Here are the current CPC forecast maps for DJF, as a reference.

There was a major El Nino in the late 1870s, that's probably the explanation for the spike in 1877 September temperature.

It's up to 102°F in OKC and 103°F in Norman, the hottest September temperatures here since 2012, and the hottest I have personally experienced as I was living in North Carolina back in 2012.