Jump to content
  • Member Statistics

    17,606
    Total Members
    7,904
    Most Online
    ArlyDude
    Newest Member
    ArlyDude
    Joined

Winter 2015-2016 speculation and discussion


AlaskaETC

Recommended Posts

The latest 45 day euro ens run continues the wet theme with higher probability wintry chances holding off until after the first week of Jan. Makes sense given the way things have gone so far. 

 

Ens mean precip for 45 days in now over 6" for the area. Temps don't really start looking good until the 10th of Jan and beyond. I have no idea how useful the product is. First year I've seen it. Just relaying what it shows. 

I'm going to go ahead and interpret this post as saying cold and snowy after Christmas............maybe historic.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 1.4k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Me too. Ens mean snowfall for my yard is 5+" and your yard is 7+". We can just hug that for now until it gets better. 

December is 21 days of calendar Fall anyway...so who cares if it dosent snow in the late fall. I would take my chance on a 86-87 winter lol. Donald sutherland wrote a poem that i cancelled winter but its bull crap. I never cancelled

Link to comment
Share on other sites

My prelim Jancast. Have at it, jumpers.

6nmIMgY.png

I agree Ian. The stratosphere looks beyond horrific right now and the forecasts all the way out to January keep it that way, if the vortex is to break down it is going to take a long time to do so. Also, there looks to be no break in the AK vortex/+EPO and troughs wanting to dig in the west right through early January
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Just stronger Ninos warm Januarys. Decent match for the long-average CFS image.

ee9WmxK.png

xhLUMG3.png

Ian, in your research, did any of the strong and very strong Ninos with warm Januaries flip to colder in February or did they all stay warm? I've pretty much written off March as sucking, based on what I found historically with strong and very strong Ninos
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ian, in your research, did any of the strong and very strong Ninos with warm Januaries flip to colder in February or did they all stay warm? I've pretty much written off March as sucking, based on what I found historically with strong and very strong Ninos

2/83 had BN temps at BWI....but I'm not Ian

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Ian, in your research, did any of the strong and very strong Ninos with warm Januaries flip to colder in February or did they all stay warm? I've pretty much written off March as sucking, based on what I found historically with strong and very strong Ninos

These four Ninos (two are not strong) had solid flips from warmer DJ than normal to colder F than normal. Could have included one more that was nearer normal but I used +/- 1.5 deg from current norms. Of course current norms are so warm there aren't a huge ton of warm Febs. 

 

7H6mwOa.png

BOJECxZ.png

 

OokkVod.png

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Interestingly it's not that wet of a signal. I guess because only Feb is conducive to big storms.  

 

GNiQ46i.png

 

mYFoMKL.png

 

UiaqkoY.png

 

5LhU1sT.png

Never have really trusted those maps.  I guess it's how the data is collected, but you often see well above and well below border each other.  Just doesn't seem to paint a meaningful picture sometimes.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Never have really trusted those maps.  I guess it's how the data is collected, but you often see well above and well below border each other.  Just doesn't seem to paint a meaningful picture sometimes.

Yeah I dunno. Mixing years and combining months prob creates a few oddities too. These maps look OK to me in general though.  BTW, here's the temps. Of course caveat that I dunno if we should plan on this winter following any sort of scheme a weak nino did. Or that we'll get a warm J.. or cold F for that matter -- though I wouldn't be shocked.

 

vJuL4FK.png

 

k02cMfO.png

 

BjCSA0Y.png

 

CrqwMeJ.png

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Quick question for the folks who lived here............what was JFM of 1995 like in this area?

I don't know but DCA ended up the season with 10.1" of snow.  Only Feb was colder than normal and it was 4.7 degrees below normal if I did the math correctly.   Jan and Feb had almost equal amounts of snow. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Quick question for the folks who lived here............what was JFM of 1995 like in this area?

 

Winchester numbers:

 

January: Highest recorded temp 68

               Average monthly High temp 41.4

               Total Precip 5.5 inches

               Total snow 4.3 inches

February: Highest recorded temp 63

                 Average monthly high temp 41.3

                 Total precip 3.75

                 Total snow 7.4 inches (all from one storm Feb 3rd)

March: I have no data for March 1995

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Quick question for the folks who lived here............what was JFM of 1995 like in this area?

 

For me growing up in Glen Burnie I only remember one big storm in Feb. - "The storm of '95" was all over the news. Don't ever remember it being cold or anything. That year was sandwiched between the two epic winters of my childhood- '94 and '96.

 

Looking at the BWI records there was 7.2" on 2/4/95 (a daily record)- that was basically the only snow the entire winter other than a few cartoppers.

 

Edit: I should probably add that I'd be very happy with a '95 type winter- give me one good 5+" event and I consider it a win in this region.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Quick question for the folks who lived here............what was JFM of 1995 like in this area?

I had a 10 incher on feb 3-4, it was an energetic clipper type storm that rolled in from the west including some lightning.  But the snowfall for the season was a measly 13 inches which is pretty bad for my location which averages ~ 35".

Link to comment
Share on other sites

For me growing up in Glen Burnie I only remember one big storm in Feb. - "The storm of '95" was all over the news. Don't ever remember it being cold or anything. That year was sandwiched between the two epic winters of my childhood- '94 and '96.

Looking at the BWI records there was 7.2" on 2/4/95 (a daily record)- that was basically the only snow the entire winter other than a few cartoppers.

Edit: I should probably add that I'd be very happy with a '95 type winter- give me one good 5+" event and I consider it a win in this region.

Were you a Gopher? Cougar here.... 2002 graduate

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

×
×
  • Create New...