*SIGH*
After the "BIG STORM" before Christmas - where it rain HARD down here for half of it, it has been nicely chilly enough for snow, and we have gotten NOTHING.
Now, when a system (storm? - hahahahaha!!!) finally re-tracks for our area, it RAINS!!!!! Last week, there was a snowstorm on the TEXAS/MEXICO border!!!!!!
Lake effect peters out by the time it makes it here to the Garden Peninsula, so our only hope for appreciable snow is a storm. again, *sigh*.
Long-term forecasts are behaving as usual as of the last 15-20 years: 10-15 days out, snow (potentially lots of it) is predicted with cold temps. 5-10 days out, less snow with green creeping in and rising temps. 1-5 days out, darker green and any cold air funneling in behind it is accompanied by, wait for it, clear skies & NO SNOW. I cannot recall a case where it has gone the other way - we actually get more snow and colder than intially predicted (I am talking about my area here - others closer to Superior & LES belts notwithstanding).
I USED to sled, but no snow put the halt to that, and work and kids hamper traveling to the snow. Sadly, some part of me is deeply offended that I live in the U.P., and for the past 8 years or so (and the majority of the past 20), I haven't been able to ride from my doorstep.
Besides, I just like snow. We haven't had more than 3-6" (for a day or two at a time, once every 3-4 winters) on the level down here since 2004, and then it was just once. 1995-1996 were nice (thanks to the odd lake-effect bands lining up just right and making it down here from Superior), but Febrary 22nd, 1997, it was 55 and I was raking my yard. There have been other "winters" like that - 80 degrees just last March, to wit.
Sorry, but this isn't funny any more.
Another poster posited that this could possibly be the new norm - frighteningly, this is seeming more and more likely.
*sigh*
After the "BIG STORM" before Christmas - where it rain HARD down here for half of it, it has been nicely chilly enough for snow, and we have gotten NOTHING.
Now, when a system (storm? - hahahahaha!!!) finally re-tracks for our area, it RAINS!!!!! Last week, there was a snowstorm on the TEXAS/MEXICO border!!!!!!
Lake effect peters out by the time it makes it here to the Garden Peninsula, so our only hope for appreciable snow is a storm. again, *sigh*.
Long-term forecasts are behaving as usual as of the last 15-20 years: 10-15 days out, snow (potentially lots of it) is predicted with cold temps. 5-10 days out, less snow with green creeping in and rising temps. 1-5 days out, darker green and any cold air funneling in behind it is accompanied by, wait for it, clear skies & NO SNOW. I cannot recall a case where it has gone the other way - we actually get more snow and colder than intially predicted (I am talking about my area here - others closer to Superior & LES belts notwithstanding).
I USED to sled, but no snow put the halt to that, and work and kids hamper traveling to the snow. Sadly, some part of me is deeply offended that I live in the U.P., and for the past 8 years or so (and the majority of the past 20), I haven't been able to ride from my doorstep.
Besides, I just like snow. We haven't had more than 3-6" (for a day or two at a time, once every 3-4 winters) on the level down here since 2004, and then it was just once. 1995-1996 were nice (thanks to the odd lake-effect bands lining up just right and making it down here from Superior), but Febrary 22nd, 1997, it was 55 and I was raking my yard. There have been other "winters" like that - 80 degrees just last March, to wit.
Sorry, but this isn't funny any more.
Another poster posited that this could possibly be the new norm - frighteningly, this is seeming more and more likely.
*sigh*