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I'll grab a comparison soon but something tells me I won't be doing this in 3 weeks. LOL
And this was 4 weeks after an historic blizzard hit with 2-3 feet of snow. LOL
I had almost forgotten that north of us got a good blizzard last year. Although people around here remember 2012-2013 as a mild winter, February was rather snowy in a way, even for us. 11 out of 28 days had some snowy. I remember flurries falling so many times, but no real big snow events.
Looks very nice. Snow on mountains looks really beautiful compared to the ugly crap we see in cities.
My ideal retirement would be to live here in summer, and in Fort Lauderdale in winter. I would then take winter holidays to places like New England or the Rockies to get some beautiful snow, cold, and skiing.
I had almost forgotten that north of us got a good blizzard last year. Although people around here remember 2012-2013 as a mild winter, February was rather snowy in a way, even for us. 11 out of 28 days had some snowy. I remember flurries falling so many times, but no real big snow events.
And my max temps never stayed below freezing after that blizzard.
In fact it was mostly getting into the 40s and 50s. People were wondering why I was complaining after a blizzard hit. Talk about rapid melt. 6-10 inches melted 2 days later.
With all the lake ice this year, the colder than normal Great Lakes water will definitely have an effect on our spring (lake breezes will sting more), but as for summer, the Upper Midwest is more effected by the Lakes than we are here at the southern most end of Lake Michigan. Tom Skilling our local met guru a couple weeks back stated that there are some long range model indicators which point to a warmer than average summer here. In the end, that will depend on how much spring rains we get, and how much soil moisture there is.
There is a good chance with the northwest flow all spring and summer that you are in for a huge disappointment this year. Very cool summer likely for you, with probably slightly cooler than average for us. Reason - the huge pool of way above normal sst in the northeast Pacific. They have been there for months on end now, and doesn't look like they are going away anytime soon.
I checked his previous blogs from October and he predicted the winter dead on. You always go on about Joe Bastardi, but this guy is just as good or better.
You might be right, and that would mean that the Alaskan Ridge which has been present since before December would stick around for several more months.
On the other hand we've had warm summers ( actually just a very warm May and July) when there was a persistent Alaskan Ridge during winter. However the pattern flipped in spring
1977
Jan/February 1936 also looked very similar to this year
And we all know how the summer of 1936 turned out
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