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@paweather - thanks for the updates. Much appreciated!

It's currently 46 at Lancaster, officially. If the temp manages to make it to 50 (perhaps a long shot at this point) it would make today the 10th day in a row that the temp has reached at least 50. What a way to run a late December into early January winter time period.

It's time for a little southern tier county loving...a lot of areas south of Rt. 30 in Lanco ain't got nothin' yet this season.

@MAG5035 geez, I had no idea it was THAT bad out that way - I just checked 7 Springs, and they're not doing much better...only 22% of available terrain was open yesterday. Not a good start to the season pretty much up and down the east coast I'd guess. Conversely - Mammoth Mountain was closed yesterday due to extreme winter conditions. You know it's bad when one of the big boys in the Sierra can't keep up with the snow they're getting. It looks like a couple of feet will fall on Saturday before potentially many more feet fall early to mid week next week. If those 2 high probability storms pan out, they'll be well over 300" for the season by 1/15. (and higher than that at the summit)

I'd love to have snow on the ground for a month at a time. That seems to be getting harder and harder to accomplish these days. Minus that, I'll always take the thrill of a 30" dump that melts in 4-5 days over 6, 5" snows spread throughout the winter. I'm all aboard the "go big or go home" train - which ironically, seems to be becoming more likely these days as the number of big dog storms has increased since 2000, relative to the previous 30 years.

That's right where we... I'm still interested in this time period. Not to be overly dramatic, but going beyond this time frame, if we don't score in the next 10-14 days, it might start looking a little dire.

When the HVAC guys came to the homestead when I first inquired about central AC, the guy showed me a unit that looked similar to that. After a brief discussion it became apparent to both of us that it was gonna take a bigger unit than that...

12z Euro is a Short Pump special.

Last time I was offered to get in on some white stuff wasn't snow...

Thank you sir! Good stuff as always.

Ensembles look better than the OP run, which is good.

Low pressure takes a perfect (well, good enough) track for snow next weekend = 100% rain from it, in the middle of January. Sigh.

60.3 here at 12:50pm.

I don't have the numerical data, but I know for certain that this is 100% accurate. Far many more nights in the 20s and 30s instead of the teens these days compared to years ago, and look at how many summer nights now stay in the 70s.

I had a feeling that you were a fan or warm weather - I lurk in the tropical threads and see you posting more there than you do here. You're exactly right though - some are only active here in the winter, and are much more "fans of snow" while others are here year round, and are truly fans of all kinds of weather. Personally, I get just as stoked watching 4" of rain fall in an hour as I do 12" of snow fall in the winter...I'm a weather fan first and foremost.

Sunny and 58 approaching noon. Forecast high for today last I saw was 54.

I agree with almost everything that you shared here - the only thing I'll elaborate on is the part about "doom and gloom" posting. To me, the weather is the weather whether or not it's 75 or 5 in January. Comments regarding excessive warmth right now is not doom and gloom, I've seen none of that in our thread this week. I see a lot of people posting about what the weather is - abnormally warm. It's the current reality. And I'll post about it just like I post every day in July when it's 97. I enjoy posting about ALL kinds of weather. When people aren't posting about heavy snow and bitter cold that's not necessarily a negative indictment. Now - if someone says an hour before an obvious impending snowstorm "let me see how this can fail" - I will be the first one to call them out for being doom and gloom.

PSUHoffman made a great post this morning - basically, he's intrigued by next week as well. What that means in reality is that we have a 25% chance of snow instead of 7%. I like that...I think it's really close to our reality. I'm looking for snow, but also understanding that way more times than not...we're going to end up on the brown side of things. Or in this year's case, maybe green side of things.

In fairness to me, I do post/share when I feel it's warranted to do so, which I did several minutes before your post. Hey...I want it to snow BADLY, and I will jump on the excitement train when I feel it's warranted. Right now, I'm intrigued by late next week. Perhaps I'm more balanced than a lot in here, and that might in part be because I also see what can go wrong as well as what can go right.

After looking at the guidance about as closely as I have in some time, to me it looks like we have a "decent" chance at something late next week. Sure seems like there's potential - but will this end up being potential that we end up shoveling?

Sure seems like it, doesn't it?

2022 was the 11th warmest on record at Lanco in the past 109 years of record keeping.

It's been a month since I posted this - and I'm only reposting as several in here have asked me to please consider sharing MU's thoughts. A month ago, almost everyone in this thread was giddy in anticipation of snowy times ahead. MU was not. This ended being yet another great call, not only for the accuracy but also in the face of going against just about everyone else out there. I believe MU finished December with .1" of snow, despite an awful lot of pretty colored maps during the month.

4th day so far this year the AC has been running. And it's January 5th...

We've vacationed in Florida over the holidays about a dozen times over the years - we drove a lot of those times and would excitedly watch the temps drop on the car thermometer from the 70s down into the 20s as we made the journey north. A couple of those trips included bouts of wintry precip as well. I was thinking of those trips coming home from Philly late last night with temps the entire route within a couple of degrees of 60. I said to my wife "this is like an early to mid June kind of night".