Winter 2025-26 Medium/Long Range Discussion

[Snowstorms]

1 hour ago, DocATL said:

You might have to travel a couple of hours south.

Another option is a trip to NYC - looks like they get another decent hit on Monday-Tuesday. The rich get richer.

There are certain people in that sub that were constantly bickering and complaining about the "lack of snow" or that they may never see a big storm again or every storm is a cutter, etc for a couple years now including this winter. And this on the heels of one of the snowiest periods in NYC history (2000-2021) where they only averaged 5 true below normal seasons in this 21 year period. 

But as were constantly reminded, weather is cyclical and so is climate. One or two bad winters don't define a season and a stretch of warm or cold winters don't signal a change in climate. We only have so much actual recorded history. 

[McHenrySnow]

50 minutes ago, Snowstorms said:

There are certain people in that sub that were constantly bickering and complaining about the "lack of snow" or that they may never see a big storm again or every storm is a cutter, etc for a couple years now including this winter. And this on the heels of one of the snowiest periods in NYC history (2000-2021) where they only averaged 5 true below normal seasons in this 21 year period. 

But as were constantly reminded, weather is cyclical and so is climate. One or two bad winters don't define a season and a stretch of warm or cold winters don't signal a change in climate. We only have so much actual recorded history. 

The climate humans have created is not cyclical.

[nvck]

next sun/mon/tues period is looking interesting? recent ensembles seem to have trended south some, maybe one last gasp of winter back home before a week in the 60s

[hawkeye_wx]

It's looking much more active in March.

[Chicago Storm]

7 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

last spring was pretty ace iirc, maybe boring but nice

we had some severe wx events in the area.

[Chicago Storm]

8 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

punctuated by a few noteworthy events but it's been a real slow go as far as interesting wx goes around here, compounded by the fact that the planet is doing wild events on a reg now, i'm sure our time will come soon enough but this season has been a drag

we've had more winter this season than we have in many years.

stop your bitching lol.

[A-L-E-K]

4 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

we had some severe wx events in the area.

that's the few noteworthy events