40/70 Benchmark

GFS and EURO suck verbatim....only good outcome is EURO AI.

Yes, definitely...that failure kept it as a "B"....I need one more high-end event next week to go with an "A".

Yea, it's a good winter....not complaining....just stating why it isn't an "A" for me....I value precipitation a bit more than cold, which the stats back up at this latitude....that is why I grade a year like 2004-2005, which wasn't every cold and had a lot of melting, but also a ton of snow, higher than this.

I'm also pretty sure the days of -2 to -3 PDO values are over because this El Niño is likely to be the catalyst for change in that regard.....we just had a -PDO strong El Niño and highly doubt we are doing that again. This event should begin the transition to warm phase in the Pacific, which likely completed around the turn of the decade.

My ultimate orgy-scenario is rapid-fire events in fast succession, which is really what this season was missing....I would gladly give back some of the cold to get that. The pattern should be much more conductive to that next year, but of course the issue is likely to be the cold....trick will be to get it just cold enough for a couple of weeks consecutively. Obviously we aren't going 50 days below 40 degrees again, or whatever it was....especially assuming a higher-end El Niño.

Yea, Andover did not receive 4"....I chuckle to myself thinking back when to they tossed my 31" measurement in 2018 looking at some of the shit that they accept.

See my text RE Roundy.

I don't think most prefer December 1989.

I don't think so.....once we hit solar min and flip the Pacific we will get a good stretch around the turn of the decade. Some are getting carried away with the CC/addiction analogies and such.

This...I declared the season over in mid February last season, as I had always expected a mild March...not this time.

January 2003 wasn't dead, it was just north of you. It was great above the pike/outside of 128 and especially 495.

That 4" amount in Andover is a product of shrooms.

1.5".

Winter is a solid "B" for me right now, but a repeat of that Blizzard-butt-plug would lower it.

If that takes a Blizzard of '26 track, I'm going to pour kerosine into myeyeballs