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Approaching the mid-point of June and I haven't had to run the AC in the house yet. I'm loving it! Have had a couple days where the house got a little warm but it cooled off the next day. Looking at the extended, looks like the non-AC run might continue a few more days.

Am following this debate with great interest. I would say my view is somewhere in between (but probably about 3/4 of the way toward the pessimists). I probably have less to complain about than the central and southern OH posters (I got about 8” last weekend). Even with an 8” snowstorm I am only at about 17.5” for the season which is probably near normal – I figure my area averages about 35”. I think the frustration is that after 4 straight crappy winters this one promised so much more. In fact there were some so-called experts that mentioned 1977-78 as a possible analog (OK, so one of them might have been JB). That of course is the holy grail of winters in Ohio. I never really bought into that idea, having lived through that epic winter I always knew that was probably a once-in-a-lifetime winter, but still when the experts are throwing that winter out there it’s hard not to get your hopes up a little. November was encouraging (even though it didn't snow a lot), then the December and 1st week of January from hell. I really thought after last weekend’s storm delivered that we had shaken this awful snow funk we’ve been in. Then we get the snow-devouring rainstorm 3 days later, a modest event that looks to lay down 2-4” across much of Ohio veers up into Michigan at the last minute, now we get a strong hybrid clipper that dives through the Dakotas to Iowa and then signals for a left turn and cuts into Canada. 9 times out of 10 a system like that would bottom out somewhere around the Ohio Valley and then turn up the east coast. So it’s pretty obvious that we haven’t come out of this crappy run of bad snow luck. Adding to the aggravation is that everyone seemed to think that a nice run of winter weather was in store for late January into February with multiple opportunities for snow. Now it looks like we’re going to lose at least a week as the mean trough shifts out west and we go into cutter hell. I hope you are right about this bad pattern only lasting 5-7 days. I for one am much more skeptical. The CFSv2 weeklies are cold all 6 weeks, but all I hear from you guys is how bad the CFSv2 is (if I remember right they were consistently warm all of November). I don’t have access to the Euro weeklies so I don’t know what they think. I’ve learned not to take the 240+ hour GFS too seriously, but man, when it keeps showing warm cutters run after run after run, it’s hard not to get a little discouraged. I don’t think anyone here expects epic winters year in and year out (that only happens in Detroit) but after 4 crap ones and all the encouraging signs, a just OK winter isn’t going to cut it. I haven’t given up hope yet, but have to admit I’m a lot less optimistic than last week at this time.

The GFS is barely any better, has an inch or two from a clipper on Friday and other than that pretty much pitches a shutout at us over the next 16. Sure, most of those deep cutters are out in fantasy range, but it looks quite plausible to me.

Right, the rain wasn't that big a deal. Temps were around 33 and I think it only rained for maybe 45 minutes. I was just shocked that we saw any rain this far north. All the models I looked at kept any above freezing temps well south of I-70. Sure, it was a fairly minor event but Detroit picked up close to 4" out of it and as tough as 4" snowfalls are to come by down here in Ohio, it's pretty disappointing. Especially when up until about 12Z yesterday that snow was supposed to fall over Ohio. Really annoying to see systems go out of their way to avoid Ohio.

Yeah, the rain made it all the way up here to Lake Erie. That's the last thing I was expecting to see. Farthest north I saw rain on any model was about the Ohio River. The WTOD strikes again.

Just walked outside to get the mail and it's downright brutal out there. Sustained winds probably 30 mph with gusts 40-45 mph. We have been in between bands of heavier snow for the last couple hours but according to radar better snow is about to move in. Hard to measure but probably around 2.5" so far here.

1" of snow here in Erie County. Biggest snow of the season so far.

Even my area got on the scoreboard this morning with .5". Didn't expect it.

And then you have TOL at just .30". Amazing the contrast across 100 or so miles. Not sure exactly how much I've had but looking at my lawn I'd say I'm closer to TOL than CLE.

Nothing but a few flakes here. It's amazing how snow goes out of it's way to avoid this area. Congrats to you guys out east.

It actually started out fairly promising with close to an inch falling quickly after the changeover, but then the precip rate slowed and some rain started to mix in and pretty much stayed that way through the rest of the event. I'm pretty used to these really borderline events not producing in November and early December but it really hurts when it happens near the end of the snow season when the lake should be colder. I guess it shows how much the warm temperatures the last couple weeks raised the water temperatures. I think with a mostly frozen lake we would have done a lot better.

You did better than I did. Just over an inch out my way. Only a trace left on the ground this morning.

Only a few tenths out here. Glad to see you guys out east cashing in.

Almost 3" here last night. Looks like I'm just about in the center of the screw zone for tonight's event. Hope the models are wrong!

Around 1" here so far but hard to measure with the blowing and drifting. Looking at radar we should have at least a few more hours of decent snow so hopefully most of us can still pull off a few inches from this.

Got about 1.3" from the clipper then that band came through about an hour ago and dropped another quick .5".

Yeah unless something changes this is really going to underperform. Got about .8" here before the dry slot took over and the snow wrapping back in doesn't look real impressive. I'll probably be lucky to reach 2".

Right around 5" for me. Pleasantly surprised - felt like this system had major bust potential.

Got 1.4" with the first part of this clipper. Hopefully can tack on a little more this evening.

Only picked up a couple tenths out here in Erie County. Hoping for a little better from the clipper tomorrow but it looks like I'm on the southern edge and that's rarely a good place to be.

Right about that. Last evening, looking at the radar you would have thought I was under a death band - I kept looking outside thinking I was going to see a whiteout and the best I saw was maybe 1 mile vis. light snow. CLE even put out a Special Weather Statement calling for 1"/hour rates. Umm, no. The wind was probably more interesting than the snow. I think I had more branches in my yard this morning than after the big windstorm last week. Ended up with about 2" total, bringing me up to around 14" on the season.

It's been mostly rain here with a few wet snowflakes. Apparently the breeze off the lake is keeping lakeshore areas too warm for snow. That's normally a Nov. - early Dec. thing around here, not March.

I'm at barely 10" for the season. Picked up 1" last night (which is all gone now) bringing my total to a whopping 2" since the current "cold snap" began last Thursday. Congrats to you guys out east that have cashed in on the LES.

Storm was pretty much a dud for MBY. Just over 1". Being too close to the lake killed it for us. Glad you guys out east were able to cash in.

You're doing a lot better than up here in Erie County. I think we're at around 13" on the season. Today pretty much summed up the whole season. Not even a dusting when a couple days ago there were good models suggesting a 3-6" storm. I wasn't expecting that but I thought we could at least whiten the ground. Not sure what to think about the Thursday system. Part of me would like to see it snow but another part of me would like to see just how bad this winter can get. I think I'd be good with something 4" or more, but if it's going to be 1-3" (like the forecast reads) I would just as soon see it whiff and get on to spring.