Winter 2025-26

[bncho]

11 minutes ago, JenkinsJinkies said:

I wonder what the conditions would have to be where one can reliability say that 2003/2010/2016 will never happen again even if you live in Boston and if you want that level of snow again you’ll have to move north AND up in elevation.

you'll probably be dead by then

[dailylurker]

2 minutes ago, bncho said:

you'll probably be dead by then

I'd say 200-300 years. But who knows. Mother nature will probably throw a curve ball and we'll have ice age lol

[Ephesians2]

I could see it being a -EPO / -PNA / southeast ridge kind of winter with a few brief but relatively intense cold shots but overall warmer than last year. I've heard that the North Atlantic anomalies signal a +NAO, but if we get some transient blocking in January or even March, we could luck into something. 2021-22 was mostly like that except for Jan and we had chances. I don't even think there was much blocking that year. If we had had Dec 2022 later on, it also could have produced. Something like 2017-2018 or last year is probably the best case scenario.

(I'm using 1981-2010 anomalies in this image on purpose. It's just so hard to get a legitimately cold winter now. Even this September is likely going to end up above normal here.)