Its a Breeze

Going to be making snow angels with my inch and laughing at everyone else complaining how it's never going to snow again With the way this year is setting up, this event is basically the equivalent of Dec 2018 or Jan 2022. If climate change is pushing the snow further south, then bring it on!!

Bumping. We have the very real potential of accumulating snow in the SHORT term. This'll be the thread for another potential win for the S&E folks this week, since...no one else cares

yes it is

The dreariness feels like it, but no. Not sure if you are counting October, but October started well above average, only to end up close to an inch below average. November was slightly below average, December was slightly above, and so far in January we're well below average.

Plus, we can stop the embarrassing tributes, have a true rebrand - name change and all, and just have people here who know what they're doing. It's not too much to ask for

The 2013/14 season was pretty close (since 2011.) One of the only times, I came close to "Ok, that's enough already"

Also to play advocate (and to make it abundantly clear, I am in no way saying climate change isn't real) but you don't even have to go back any additional years. You can make the case this "bad cycle" is location dependent. For the folks DCA south at least, half of the past 10 years have been at or above normal with no consistency on the below normal years... Average departure from normal in below avg. years: -8.56" Average departure from normal in above avg. years: 8.65" (also has anyone brought up that we've been stuck in La Nina for like 7 years now?)

His original? Because.....

More fun than not looking for a storm 10-14 days out *shrugs*

GFS loses the hurricane, but has four cutters in four days. Can't wait for tomorrow...

Friendly reminder that for a good chunk (majority? no?) of the region, LAST YEAR was at or above normal. As was half of the past 10 years... Edit: That being said, unless we get a one and done or spring snow, this year is kaput...

The last time we had a winter tropical storm transfer it's energy to a runner was..........?

Not in officially because this feels like one of those stupid years where it doesn't snow in the Jan or Feb but it stupidly snows in March or April when no one wants it to. So stupid.

If it wasn't for the ownership mess, he would almost certainly be in danger of losing his job. I do however see next season playing out as a carbon copy of 1999 - 1) New owner 2) Talented roster with us picking up the one or two pieces missing for a successful campaign (QB, O-line) 3) Coach with only mediocre success to date. Has success. Saves his job for another year.

What trend?

CMC is cold to end vice cold to start this run. Not sure what everyone is worried about. All of this is excellent progress. Yesterday, worried about it cutting and cold air. Today just worried about cold air. Tomorrow, no worries! Right?

What we want doesn't match the geography of our area... 99% of our storms are crazy rare things happening at the right time.

And folks are getting all bent out of shape, lol It clearly doesn't know what to do with this storm yet. We still have plenty of time before panicking....

Definitely the early January storm. Almost hitting climo with one storm is always a good thing. After January the rest of the year was pretty meh, though during one of the summer storms I captured upward lightning, which was cool.

You are 100% correct. If this was opposite day. Under no circumstances, does that ever work out for us, lol.

As others have mentioned, last January is a perfect example. It was in the 50s and 60s all week prior to the storm, including the low 60s the day before. I ended up with 13.5" And yeah not always, but it is far more common for it to be mildish before a snow here, than a nice solid cold air mass already in place. Edit to add: Completely agree rates are key. And yes we always waste a bunch, but...that's just to be expected.

Often? How about always. I never understand why people still say that stuff ("it's too warm", "it won't stick", etc.) Do you not remember the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time before that? A 'cold snow' is about as rare as a white Christmas around here.

Ugh, remember 2016, when literally down the street the recordings were several inches to about a foot more.... Why they choose to still measure at whatever spot they're measuring at DCA is beyond me.

Not sure climate change cracks to the top 10 reasons why we fail, yet... We're neither north nor south, stuck between mountains and an ocean. I think that's reason enough for boom or bust....

Close, but not since records have been kept. I was wrong with '98. The latest was actually in 1906 - May 6th. '97-'98 did tie with '72-'73 with the least amount of snow for a season - "0.1. Basically 2 flakes fell.