michsnowfreak

Quick burst of snow and blowing snow moved through late in the evening, depositing a quick 0.6" both here and DTW. Season to date 39.8" my backyard, 38.8" DTW.

It seemed that way to me too. And I don't even pay close attention. Seems like during several of our synoptic snowfalls here Chicago backed in with LES.

The Northeast has been in a multi year snow drought. They've not had 3+ feet in consecutive years. Plus, even if they get a noreaster next year, one with those amounts (even though confined to the immediate coast) seem unlikely.

The winter here so far has had below avg precip, slightly above avg snowfall, solidly below avg temps and above avg snowcover. It was a really good winter but without any big storms (biggest to date 6.2") and shockingly dry for a nina (fortunately nearly all meaningful precip has been snow). Winter wasted no time getting going in late November, but the longstanding snowpack melted in a thaw earlier this week. Winter once again showed that enso is just one piece of the puzzle. With each passing winter we learn more and more how detailed outlooks like yours prove far more valuable thsn the repetitious "el nino" or "la nina" national outlook maps always issued. Regarding the east coast snow, especially in areas that are feast/famine, they saw a feast after multiple years of famine. Hopefully this will put to rest some of the nonsense talk by some that NYC was a spiraling lost cause from which they'd never return. Cc does not stop local weather conditions from their normal ebb and flow around climo.

Some potential next Sunday-Monday timeframe. But keep the discussion in here. NO NEW THREADS

Since Jan 1st Detroit has only seen 1.77" precip (and 21.4" snow). Its much better than QC but its shockingly below avg for a La Nina. Fortunately its been nearly all snow except for a few meager lgt rain spurts.

This one not just went south, the snow portion really withered away. Model reliability is just not there right now.

TOL is located about 20 miles SW of actual Toledo in Swanton, OH.

We do get big storms here as well. Its not all nickels and dimes. The 2010s saw the most 6"+ storms on record for Detroit, and several 10"+ storms too. Were definitely due for a good one (last 7"+ storm now 4 years ago) but a regression after the 2010s was anticipated. Snow climo always ebbs and flows but when you see something that really out you know it'll correct itself a bit. NYC and BOS also had a record snowy stretch in the 2000s/10s then a record drought the last decade or so (especially nyc).

Imagine what it was like in the pre model days. There were no exhilarating good busts, no demoralizing bad busts....every day was a crapshoot.

Not even close. East coast storms and rumors of storms bust all the type.

Back in the day (oh God im sounding so old).....the boards were more full than they are now. And there was always an odd fixation with the east coast. But it was ONLY when they would get a noreaster. Its one thing to be interested in a storm, but the fixation was lingering, even when a majority of the time they would not see winter weather. All around winter is superior here, the ceiling for storm potential superior there. Should be easy to understand.

You know who im talking about too

The fixation on the east coast is wild because it's so one sided. 80% of their winters are zzzz. In fact....they just had a historic snow drought so a historic storm is a perfect middle finger to a few on the main weather forum who acted like it would never snow in NYC again. Feast and famine climate will get the occasional feast.

Id kill to be on long Island right now but the feast or famine climate of the east coast is a hard pass for me. Our (SE MI) winters are far superior to theirs. I've mentioned i have a snowlover friend on long Island. We talk several days a week for the past 10 years. He says our winters are like a good solid marriage/relationship and theres are like a hot one night stand.