roardog

I’m having a hard time believing that.

You make it sound like every winter used to have extended coast to coast cold as if we’ve never had a warm west/cold east winter before. Large temperature swings in winter certainly aren’t anything new either.

Isn’t he also the guy that lived in Canada at one point because he was on the run from the law here?

I think this just shows what some people here have been saying for awhile now, that despite a warmer world, it’s not so warm that it can’t still be very cold if the pattern supports it. The problem we’ve had a lot in the last decade is a bad pacific pattern for cold and a lack of high latitude blocking. Now, if you want to argue that the pattern is influenced by a warmer world, that’s another story but that also kind of goes against what happened this winter too.

It seems like they just make things more difficult for the general population. It’s like when they simplified winter weather headlines. Now, a winter weather advisory can mean anything from 5 inches of snow to a little bit of freezing drizzle to .2 inches of ice or anything in between. Also, why does a winter storm watch precede an ice storm warning? Why not just have an ice storm watch? For the general public, I think the headline should tell you what to expect and not make you guess or dig deeper to figure out what a winter weather advisory means on a particular day.

I guess it makes sense to a weather weenie but this is way too much for the general public that still don’t even know the difference between a watch and warning.

Yeah. It’s cold and dry right now but at some point there will be accumulating snow again in this subforum while Tampa is 75F. So I can’t get mad about them having flurries. lol

Yeah. I mean most posters here enjoy summer outside of thunderstorms, so why does is it surprise people that someone likes winter outside of big snowstorms.

Since you’re just looking to experience a big dog, why not travel to where there is one instead of hoping one hits Detroit?

Everyone is moving south. Pretty soon they’ll be hardly any of us left. lol

I had a -21 on my car this morning. I’ve had it since 2020 and that’s definitely the coldest I’ve seen on it.

Decent jump north actually. Doubled the precip total up here.

Should I feel guilty for rooting for it? lol

The lakes are probably going to form Ice fast over the next week so we might lose a little from that.

The posters just wishing for a big storm still have lots of time left. It’s only January.

The frost will be pretty deep in the ground in your area. Aren’t you excited about that?

It looks like both the 18z euro and euro terminator nudged south.

The CFS v2 is pretty much heading toward a super Nino. I’m not sure anything currently indicates that an outcome like that is likely.

I remember when we had about 2 inches of sleet in early April 2003 and I can confirm it looks like snow on the ground until you walk on it. I remember it took awhile to melt too even though it was April.

Slight bump nw on the RGEM

Don’t worry, it’ll be cold NE wind season before you know it while cyclone77 will be basking in 65 degree air. lol

I know this doesn’t necessarily mean anything for this particular storm but we have seen NW trends with storms this winter. The storm two weeks ago that no one was paying attention to because it was it was rain and Spring for most of the sub actually trended way NW 48 hours or so prior. It was modeled to go over or south of my house and ended up over northern Lake Michigan I believe. I mentioned something then about how this was the first winter in like 10 years that storms have been trending NW instead of SE.

It’s probably because this thread is used for medium/long range pattern prediction while threads in each sub forum are used once an individual threat becomes realistic.

I think developing El Niño summers(which we might have this summer) tend to have ridging and heat out there too.

Dry is bad this time of year whether it’s warm or cold. Warm and dry here usually consists of temperatures around 35-40 and 30MPH winds. Might as well be cold enough to look like winter when the warm option is still cold. lol