Eskimo Joe

Strongly disagree. Apps and websites featuring questionable sourced weather information abound. Local, trusted media and meteorologists are needed now more than ever. Take Windows 11 for example. I get push notifications for Rockville, MD for tomorrow on my work laptop that it's going to be a high of 4° degrees tomorrow. How is this even remotely accurate?

Same. It's ten years since we've had any real winter this these parts. It's like winter has just ceased to exist anymore.

Yea we're in real trouble. Winter is essentially on life support at this point.

JFC I hope that's wrong.

Clouds seem to be the only thing preventing our afternoon highs from torching.

Yup. Then it was gone in a week.

Yup. We've really devolved into a winter climate more akin to Georgia or South Carolina.

Overnight GFS showing a rapid strengthening of the polar vortex after this episode. Yikes.

I think we know where this is headed folks

Am I missing something, or do the 12z Euro/ENS and GEFS just dump all the cold air out west and just torch the east coast.

Well said Bob. Good luck to your backyard this winter.

I'd take a continuous series of light to moderate events that don't erode a block, vs one "big dog" storm that melts off in 4 days. Snow-on-snow is the best!

Yes that's definitely occurring. Hopefully we can get the PDO to return to a more neutral if not slightly positive state in the long term.

To be clear, I'm not debbing on this winter. We have several favorable factors working in our favor thus far, and as @WxUSAF has noted these torches advertised in the medium to long range have been muted as we close on the date.