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I remember that storm. 5 inches of cold smoke. Loved it
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The snow got its sparkle back. I guess bitter cold temps does that. And the creek behind my house is frozen solid. Probably safe to skate on (not that I’ll actually do it)
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Low of 2.8
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I wasn’t here for 2014 (got back in late 2015 for almost a year till I went overseas for a while), so the last time for me here was 2004 I think. Not a lot of snowfall, but it was cold and icy. Kept the pack for a long time.
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8 at 10 pm in ashburn
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Might even make a run at 3 consecutive weeks with snow cover. Day 17 now
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I’m not sure our friends in SoCal are going to like this.
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Down to under 10 already. 9.9
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21.8 for the high, real temp probably 20 if calibrated. Waiting for another month of data to do it properly. Lowest wind chill was -3 though Now 13
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I was just thinking about this when bluewave kept mentioning the stronger pac jet. We saw the same last year when the pac jet verified stronger than forecast, and that actually hurt us in a nino by flooding the continent with mild pacific air almost the whole winter. Only when it relaxed a bit did we get a snowy week in Jan here. Now this time, the stronger pac jet is helping us because were not in a nino (cold enso/weak nina). In the long range, the models keep trying to weaken the jet and bring the PNA ridge west towards the aleutians. Then it all shifts east as it gets closer in time.
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Recorded a wind chill of -1 as well
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Paste bomb verbatim, yes. Let’s see how the temps trend if the wave holds as it gets closer.
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Maybe it’s a mental thing or the air is thinner up there, but 20-30 doesn’t feel that cold in the rockies or sierras. But here, its freezing. One time in steamboat springs, we were swimming in the hot springs when it was 17 degrees out.
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And 16th straight day of snow cover. Pleased with this January when expectations for this winter was super low.
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Saw some high clouds just to the SE of me, that was probably what kept the three climo sites warmer than just to the NW. I also noticed that my station runs 1.5 degrees warmer than the average of the surrounding stations, so I might have to do some calibration. My car’s thermometer said 7 degrees, and it usually runs 1-2 degrees too warm.
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8.8 still dropping. Core of cold is just west of the metros
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Low of 9 so far
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This looks very similar to what the ensembles are showing at the end of their runs. It’s not shit the blinds pattern, more of a gradient one with cold air lurking just to the north. Upper plains and great lakes will do well, and every cutter of decent strength will bring in cold air southward and eastward. Those are the short/small windows to watch for for any small hits or well timed phasers. Late feb and march should also be interesting.
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Par for the course. Growing up here I remember tons of busts and lengthly periods of cold without snow. It happens.
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Not saying it does. Planet is warming, but we will see snow and I think the bad run we had since 2016 is more just a bad run than a steep dropoff in snow climo. Like instead of a -50% hit to climo, it may actually be just -10% or so.
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This January seems to be spreading the snow love everywhere where everyone gets some snow. We got ours Jan 6, south got it Jan 10, nrn folks got theirs 2 days ago, and now the gulf coast is getting it too. Blows a big hole in the “south of 40N is SOL” narrative. Love it
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Low of 11
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Most of the -25 and below air are in Canada, and it is a big airmass all the way from yukon to south of hudson bay. While it isn’t as severe as the one in 1994 and 1996, it is a remarkable arctic outbreak that can and will continue to happen in many future winters. And the good news is that we don’t need severe cold like the gulf coast does.
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14.5 and dropping
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At around 8-11 inches, we already beat IAD January climo for snowfall which is 7 inches Worst location indeed
