Cary67

A clipper miss to the north and the rinse repeat El Nino track providing winter from Detroit and Central Ohio and pts east through the end of the month. Outside of the 2 day rainer giving us all our December precip its been warm and dry since late October.

Well about every 10 years or so something should phase

Over/under on when ORD hits 15" on the season. Will guess Feb.15th

I think its a misconception that most mutations are more virulent. Thought the coronavirus group were relatively stable anyways and if anything over time mutations would favor less virulent strains. Selection would be to enhance and propagate the virus as much as possible not to kill the host quicker.

Xmas flurries are the best

Throwing darts

Good snowfall winters for this area. Won't argue that. I would say his standards for winter may be explained by the fact that he likes to snowmobile around here and unfortunately that requires cold and snowpack conditions that aren't too prevalent. Even those good snow winters had very transient snowmobile conditions here. Just my opinion but don't know why anyone would own snowmobiles in Chicago unless you run to the UP of Michigan alot. Same as owning a swimming pool in Northern Michigan.

Not meant to be hurtful. I hope Beavis continues to post on this board. Just thought it was unfortunate to have snowmobiling as a hobby in this area since it affords so few opportunities

Snowmobiling as a hobby around here is incongruent

Nope..nada..let the futility roll

Yep at least for our area. Maybe lower OV and far eastern parts of subforum could receive some action. Mid Atlantic and NE could be winners in this interesting pseudo El Nino pattern in a moderate La Nina

Mood flakes. Hoping Harvard doesn't receive 2-4" as NWS forecasts. Never want to see accum. snow in McHenry County if I receive none here

There were many instances of systems that winter favoring far NW areas and into S.Wi

Yeah OV and eastern lakes. Not sure about Chicago and Iowa.

I just remember over 85" in my area with parts of SE WI over 100" that year. Definitely acceptable in my book

Is a -NAO really that great for our sub forum?

Don't forget 2007-08.

Great way to run a La Nina

Pure hyperbole.lol But I don't think we have only 2 weeks of cold air per winter. I do think most "normal" winters only have a window of 3-5 weeks where the pattern is active and cold air is available. Although the cold rain outside might be biasing my thoughts.

You will get a window of a few weeks where the pattern lines up and provides enough cold air for some snow. Few if any will accurately predict with any long term accuracy when that will happen but it will. Unfortunately that seems to happen more in the early spring lately.

Last two years would have been bad stats wise if you weren't bailed out by anamolous Oct. and November snows.

That is disappointing

Bring thread, bring needle...oh yeah if you have any cold air bring that too

Rain/snow line around ORD.lol.

Wonder if vaccine roll out is going to be delayed for various reasons. Trump administration supposedly not buying enough doses from Pfizer when given the chance over the summer, raw material issues for the tubes in terms of purity etc..Would not be surprised if widespread vaccinations of the general public aren't pushed back months. Instead of Fauci hoping April its more late summer and fall. Also full immunity benefits not received till 2-3 weeks after 2nd dose. Looking at 2 months per person to effectively see vaccine effect. Could be like the old line everyone who needs a test can get one back in March/April. Saw how that worked out