roardog

Cold and dry is not something the midwest has seen in a winter month in a long time.

About 3 inches here and it's still not quite done. Back up to about 6 inches on the ground with the bottom 3 inches being more like snow crust.

Someone should have prepared for this and took their snowmobile to New Orleans. You probably could have been the first person to ever use a snowmobile in New Orleans. lol

You? No way. lol

We heard all season about how it was the best division in the NFL and not a single team from the division won a playoff game. lol

Yeah. We haven’t seen this type of pattern in a long time. It seems like we’ve had some semblance of a -PNA and SE ridge for a decade. It’s boring but at least it’s different I guess.

If the judging of winter is based off of how many fantasy storms are on the models then we would almost never have a bad winter. lol

Yeah, the EPS kind of squashes the WAR and just wants to keep us frigid.

Tomorrow has that over achieving temperature look. I guess it’ll feel nice compared to what’s coming.

You’ve been complaining about a lack of snow so you want the temp in the 50s so there’s literally no chance of snow? lol

There’s a difference between a winter that’s been too warm to keep a snowpack and one that’s not. Yes, it’s been a dry winter all over the Midwest. Northern Wisconsin might not have much snow cover right now but at least it’s been cold enough to freeze up the lakes for activities like ice fishing which is still a big part of the economy in those areas. That’s the big difference between this winter and last winter. Snow cover in non lake effect areas will always be hit and miss. 2 years ago Minnesota was getting buried with snow and had plenty of cold too so not everywhere had a “bad” winter 2 years ago.

Looking ahead at the pattern on the ensembles, I don’t know how anyone can complain about that look. -PNA, WAR, ridging into Alaska bringing continuous Arctic air into the country. The Gulf should be wide open with that WAR and it’ll be meeting up with bitter cold air. The only question is where will the boundary be. I think some people here get too caught up in watching individual operational runs and don’t stop to look at the big picture.

I think the lack of extreme cold this month has been more about this airmass being of Canadian origin instead of originating in Siberia. That’s about to change with the airmass coming this weekend into the beginning of next week. That has the potential to produce some legit extreme cold.

Like I always say, “warm” weather around here in winter isn’t warm so it might as well just feel and look like winter.

Next week the lake effect will probably be the dust sized flakes that barely accumulate.