Just as the biggest crying comes the ensembles pitch a wonderful pattern in January with some snow between now and then. Now as the sloshing back and forth occurs the weenie flags will blow red hot or ice cold. This place has been rough but funny nonetheless.
Some people have advanced the theory that climate change for now is enhancing SNE snow totals. The next 30 year normals we see (2 years from now) will show a big jump in Boston snow climo....May be as much as 10%. I personally thInk that we do have periods like this and ultimately the price will be paid....maybe in time for me to be too old to live here....lol.
I get what you’re saying but consider recent ratters. 2001-02 had no cold air anywhere in NOAM-none. A one eyed beast from October through March. 2011-12 similar excluding the October storm. This year we have cold air available and will get snow....it will or won’t be above normal but I just don’t see it resembling those severe ratters. BTW ratter is one of the word descriptions I invented..it came out of “this pattern blows dead rats”.
It seems to me that at the end of the ensembles we’re ok but not particularly great on the Pacific side. I think any epic pacific pattern is 1/15 and beyond. However, I’m pretty confident of multiple snow chances between 1/1-15.