110 Inches of Snow for CDA this winter? (estimates, activity)

[Wulf335]

In a recent CDA Press article that's what's predicted.


"Our initial estimates are going to be around 110 inches in Coeur d’Alene with very healthy totals in the higher elevations. As we’ve been saying for quite some time, it’s possible that we could have a season that challenges the record-breaking 172.9 inches of snow."


Here's the link to the full article.


https://cdapress.com/news/2020/oct/26/city-city-snowfall-predictions/

[Boone1791]

Originally Posted by Wulf335

...Here's the link to the full article.
https://cdapress.com/news/2020/oct/26/city-city-snowfall-predictions/

Interesting! I won't be surprised if the total is more than the average. Then again, as the column says:

"Last year, the 2019-20 season, many locations around North Idaho started off with record snowfalls in September and October [like this year]. Then, November had the least snow in history as only 0.1 inches fell at Cliff’s station. December 2019 was another month with below-normal snowfall as only 13.9 inches fell, compared to the normal of 20.6 inches."

I particularly like the technical considerations, like the "low sunspot activity and a developing cooler than normal sea-surface temperature event, La Nina, in the waters of the south-central Pacific Ocean. The circumpolar vortex has moved over the western U.S., which also increases the chances for higher snow totals for the season."

I'm not sure how the low sunspot activity factors into it, but the ocean temperature and the circumpolar vortex are certainly factors in the weather patterns. And they are patterns. Only chaotic patterns, ha!

[elousv]

There is a correlation to high snowfalls with low sunspots.

[volosong]

Originally Posted by elousv

There is a correlation to high snowfalls with low sunspots.

We are so fortunate to have Randy Mann and Cliff Harris as our resident climatologist/meteorologist. Since the Monday edition of the Press is usually pretty small, they always write an article for the paper about something or other related to weather. Usually local, but also national/international. They avoid politics totally and are not influenced by current political rhetoric. All of their viewpoints are backed up by established science.

[Boone1791]

By the way, "There's a new sunspot on the sun--and it's a big one. AR2778 contains a dozen dark cores sprawling nearly 100,000 km across the solar surface. Earlier today, it began to strobe Earth with minor C-class solar flares, activity which could intensify if the sunspot's rapid growth continues apace...." - Spaceweather.com Oct. 27, 2020.