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3 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Unfortunately, someone always seems to be in a snow hole.  Winters like 95-96 and 02-03 are extremely rare, there were no snow holes in those winters.

95/96 I think was fairly snowless across the southern US.  Oklahoma to SC got very little snow despite how active that winter was.  93-94 was also the least snowiest winter ever in MCI and ICT I believe so you get weird anomalies all over even in good years  

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1 minute ago, LibertyBell said:

mother nature remembers.....

whatever caused it then is still there and will cause it again

 

What's hilarious is that this is not a negative EPO it's a positive PNA but yet the trough is in the same spot lol.

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5 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

Remember the h5 setup was completely different. Also not just specifically speaking of that one storm event but rather the season as a whole which had some frigid ice storms.

but a very sharp cut off just to our south.  I remember being jealous of Boston because they got all the snow early in the season while we just had ice.  Our turn came in February.

 

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Just now, LibertyBell said:

but a very sharp cut off just to our south.  I remember being jealous of Boston because they got all the snow early in the season while we just had ice.  Our turn came in February.

 

And that's the difference that was the polar vortex to our North which is completely different than this year which is blocking based. New England has had a warm winter as opposed to that year where it was frigid for them.

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38 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

Doesn’t lack of sea ice in late summer tend to cause more blocking in winter or at least it’s believed to more often than not? 

I have heard that negative AO favors the Mid-Atlantic while a negative nao favors the Northeast. This would explain why in this episode the Middle Atlantic scores are not us. The nao barely goes negative while the AO is strongly negative and of course the Middle Atlantic got the storm.

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7 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

I have heard that negative AO favors the Mid-Atlantic while a negative nao favors the Northeast. This would explain why in this episode the Middle Atlantic scores are not us. The nao barely goes negative while the AO is strongly negative and of course the Middle Atlantic got the storm.

you can't consider Philadelphia in the MidAtlantic this season, their snowfall deficit is as bad as New York City's.  The entire coastal city corridor from Philadelphia to Boston is in a 7-8 inch snowfall deficit.  Philadelphia only has 7.5 inches of snow this season.

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The AO, EPO, PNA stuff is like vodoo. If you are a true believer, you might see a causal connection to an outcome in hindsight. But those parameters are simplistic, numerical representations of a very complex atmosphere-ocean interaction. They are merely broad descriptions of characteristics over a very large geographic area. The correlations to local weather outcomes are very tenuous.

Our weather, storm tracks, and rain vs. snow are local phenomena. The details of synoptic progression and evolution matter far more than the state of the indices.

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1 hour ago, EastonSN+ said:

What is causing the increased frequency of intense blocking? We keep getting blocking episodes over the past few years over and over again so it has to be increasing. 

The amplitude and volatility of the AO, NAO, and other 500 mb patterns has been increasing between deeper lows and higher highs closer together. As the ocean and atmosphere warm the 500mb patterns, jet stream, and storm tracks become more erratic. So we get these odd pairings of features of the like the Southeast Ridge merging with Greenland Blocks which didn’t used to happen in the way we have been seeing in the 2020s.

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13.5" for the season here. Not doing too bad in the snowfall department, but a little disappointing to be slightly below normal considering how cold it has been. We can nickel and dime our way to 20 inches, but hopefully we'll see a significant snowstorm at some point so we can get to average snowfall (high 20s here) for the season. 

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4 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

13.5" for the season here. Not doing too bad in the snowfall department, but a little disappointing to be slightly below normal considering how cold it has been. We can nickel and dime our way to 20 inches, but hopefully we'll see a significant snowstorm at some point so we can get to average snowfall (high 20s here) for the season. 

Same. Interestingly this was my 11th measurable snow event even though 2 were dustings. Most since 2017-18

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