Most of us have no problem with you highlighting these la la land snow maps, but being the realists we are, we know how just about all of those have turned out for most this winter. So excuse us if we don't get too excited about 324 hr snow maps.
We tried to tell 'em. This winter should have taught us that day 8-9 snow threats most likely are not going to pan out. As I've said, when the threat gets to within day 5 some of us will be more interested.
What's surprising this winter is that there haven't been more jumpers.
We had D6 threats earlier this winter season that didn't work out. So when the threat gets to within D5 maybe some of us will take more of an interest.
Neither was the 0z GFS. Just cutter after cutter after cutter.
I'm thinking of running the snowblower out of gas after having started it up in December. No sense having stale gas in it that will prevent starting when I really need it. A blizzard will probably show up on the next run after I do that.
At least with a clipper we could follow whether we will get a redevelopment over or just S of LI for some enhancement. We can't even fire up a thread for that these days.
Just 2 days ago, the GFS was throwing cold water (pun intended) on the extreme cold that the Euro was consistently showing. One of the mets here even said that "the Euro suite will probably blow this".
Having lived in New England most all my life...we do get these extreme cold spells we are having here now..Yes it is cold…brrrr.. but it's not like it is some novel event never experienced here before. Yet that is what the media act like.
Interesting article about "sneaker waves" in the Pacific NW fueled by far-off storms and most likely to occur in winter months. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-far-off-storms-fuel-dangerous-sneaker.html