Powerball

Meh...

Already starting to see changes in the medium/long range with the temps given the PV stretch and/or SSWE. Not looking so torchy any more...

lol

MSP special...

A lot of these PV Stretch / SSW events have been happening well into Met Spring as of late though, so the cold anomalies do end up eventually happening, but relative to average and thus haven't been all that cold.

Definitely highly skeptical of the current projections beyond the 7 day period with a supposed PV stretch (some are calling it a SSW event, but that's such an overused term and not really accurate) happening...

I see you ruffled some feathers with this question and triggered an individual who's seeking attention (won't name names...). But that person's issues aside, people like what they like and hate what they hate. It is what it is I will say, warm weather states have been the fastest growing part of the US for over 4 decades with no signs of slowing down (many southern cities/metro have already or soon will surpass a lot of cold northern cities/metros in population) so there's actually a lot more people than you think in the real world that can also do without "deep winter." Just have to remind yourself, weather forums can be a bit of an echo chamber that isn't always reflective of the majority opinion.

But it will still do so any way, especially if we're in transition to an El Nino...

I personally don't remember much in the way of pingers with GHD 1. Dry slotting hurt us a lot more than any mixing. Now with 12/31/2007, mixing was absolutely a problem. And in all fairness, there were the positive busts we never talk about, such as Feb 5-6, 2008. 4-8" with TSSN+ in the vicinity that fell in a span of 2 hours (after spending much of the day with a light icy mix).

Preliminary reports suggest a storm total range of 2-5" around the Detroit area, so a bit of an underachiever. Same thing happened in OK. Inefficient accumulation due to the snow being the sugary/sandy type.

The bolded made me chuckle. The struggle is real, lol...

https://x.com/i/status/2015534485513597355

You'll be disappointed to know, there was no ice storm here. Granted, roads are still trecherous enough. But not only was there virtually no freezing rain after the changeover from plain rain, but even the sleet amounts ended up underachieving. Now it's dry slot city.

This is one of the most widespread winter storms for the nation period. The guy on Fox Weather (Ari something) said yesterday that he's never covered a system this expansive (in terms of frozen/freezing precipitation) in his 20 year career.

The fact that Beavis of all people is trying to play peacemaker is sending me...