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.