Bubbler86

We made it to 54 yesterday and 53 so far today so actually down a degree but it is certainly a lot nicer feeling out!

Same temp today as yesterday but feels 10-15 degrees warmer...all about that wind.

That bar chart you posted definitely includes snow outside of met winter so maybe they just keep two different kind of records.

They need to change their wording on their charts and posts then. They just posted 3 days ago that there were only 10 days left in the season and Harrisburg would end with the 3 worst snowfall total. It's all semantics. If we get 30" of snow in March we are counting it. Lol

Those charts they keep putting out are true met season only so they end next Saturday. Not sure it matters and we can count anything we want. A lot of stuff online is actually yearly totals of Jan 1 through Dec 31. Will be interesting to see if they make a final standing post next Sunday.

The mountains and surrounding valleys looked brilliant today. Definitely a great day to have out the binocs. A bit windier than I had hoped.

I think we see snow flakes but believe this ends up being top (bottom 5) as to snow rankings for the history of recording keeping at MDT. The thing is I believe the deal is done in 7 days. They do not count March snow from my understanding.

Depending on whether one considers 2020 the new or old decade we had more snow than that before winter even started twice this decade (pr past decade).

I guess I need an energy person to walk my house. I had to keep the heat on this afternoon just to keep it in the mid 60's.

In this house its either heat or A/C. I guess we are old.

Maybe Itstrainingtimeinmaytown uses a stove as well. He probably told me as such before. We use 3 different kinds of heat at different times. Oil, electric and a propane fireplace. Keep it around 67.

I still do not know how you can deal with no heat so many nights. It would be in the 40's on my house.

Who is this Maytown character?

In the LSV it's going to be a borderline Chamber of Commerce weekend. 50ish, sunshine and light winds both days. Maybe a bit breezy late tomorrow. Time to get out and enjoy it.

In winter Americanwx.com without a snow storm shown on LR models is kind of like a casino that forbids gambling.

Elevation helped me out this Am. Of course my 11 is nothing compared to that -37 just south of me.

Coldest morning of the season here...down to 11.

Thanks for the run down Mag. My compare to last year was specifically pointed at the fact that almost all systems (save November) either ran to the west of the LSV or at the very least the 850 came over us. The thing that keeps that MA LR thread alive this year is the fact that many of these cutters are shown different out in that 10 day range. My memory from last year was that their true cutter colors were displayed on the models a bit earlier (except the FV3) . Speaking of the FV3 if that truly is the GFS of this year I think that is the most remarkable thing of all of this....this years GFS has hardly shown anything big in the 7-10 range....

Wedgies, swamp ass? What the hell are we talking about. LOL

Some of my friends in Florida think we get around by dog team and live in Igloos up here so I am never going to hear the end of NC getting snow. The "you guys must be below freezing for NC to get snow" comments are coming.

This winter literally has been the Groundhog Day Experience.

Late next week there is a chance of snow but does not seem likely right now. Until then spring type weather after tomorrow with storms going to our west.

I think some of that is coming from the front/LES type stuff.

I can jive with most of what you are suggesting except the boundary lines. I am not going to go back and look at all the systems from last year but the boundary was very near us much of last year as it has been this year and constantly cutters pushed the 540/850 line well north of us as we had snow to ice to rain situations. Its the lack of deep cold air that has made such a large difference this year. We can say it is AO related but I still have an issue in the way the models are handling it. I feel they were much less likely (except the FV3) to show things cutting under us last year....they were usually showing cutters in the 7-10 day range and that is what happened. This year the models, including the EC, keep trying to start out with Gulf storms or bowling balls that do go under us only to switch back once they hit that magical 7-8 day mark. So something else I/we are missing in my opinion.

On a somewhat related point, the Climate site for MDT is now saying they DID reach 35 last Friday meaning the string of 35 or more days is now currently still active and has no specific end date in site. Incredible....31 days now.