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What sounds better, seeing 12" of snow on vacation and then 4" at home a few days after you come back, or see 12" on vacation while 4" falls at home, and then when you come back it's back to boring weather?

Colorado-like diurnal cycle today. 35°F at 7AM to 71°F by noon. Will miss this come July when it feels nastier at 9PM than it did at noon.

Not great. But much cheaper than Verizon was for us.

Not really. It was never anything more than a very weak Nina to begin with, and the weather patterns remained remarkably consistent across the CONUS pretty much throughout so there was no discernible impact from any of the marginal SSTA warming in the equatorial Pacific. It will go down as a weak Nina cold season that for one reason or another had an unusually dominant grip on the weather patterns. Kind of the inverse of a year like 2004-05, which was only ever a very weak Nino but one which developed a solid death grip on the weather patterns nevertheless. It's cute that you're still so hung up on it, though.

Well this really backfired.

Just horrendous!

You have T-mobile? I’ve only heard awful things about them.

We get free wifi through T-Mobile on Alaska. Seattle based companies partnering up.

I always get the in-flight WiFi too. Can only play sudoku and minesweeper for so long

It’s healthier to talk about your feelings as opposed to bottling them up. Try it sometime.

That’s not true for me, but we’re all different I guess. We used to go skiing in UT and I enjoyed snow events there just as much as here. One of our trips actually lined up with a historic spring storm there, went to bed with strong SE winds and drizzle, woke up to 12-18” of snow and strong W/NW winds. I’m still salty I slept through the overnight chaos..the progression of weather conditions basically mirrored a strong miller-B nor’easter out here.

Nov/Dec maintained the weak niña base state, but that regime imploded in January. It was quite remarkable, actually. By February, the niño-costero signal was stronger than the preceding niña ever was. Then it abruptly collapsed in May/June, and a more substantial EPAC niña signal emerged during summer 2017 (though it was still disconnected from the PMM/IPWP state..the entire system state appeared disheveled and confused in the years following the 2015/16 super niño). I figured you guys would have some intellectual curiosity on that front, but apparently people would rather cling to preconceived notions because of how the weather behaved in their backyards. Sad.

True, but I will still write long winded manifestos every single chance I get!

Suffice to say... any weather you really enjoy is always better at home. Why we prefer not to travel in the summer.

Lake Washington with Puget Sound in the distance. Took off to the north then turned east right over downtown Seattle. We usually take off going south from SEA. But we usually fly in the cold season and the wind is typically from the SW in the winter. North wind today and I guess they prefer to take off into the wind.

I digress, as evidenced by my non-response. We all have our own unique oddities. Sometimes those oddities are weird weather preferences, sometimes it’s other stuff. No amount of debate on a weather forum will change that.

But you do that literally every day!

The 2016-17 Nino is the stuff of legend. Amazing how we pulled that off.

12z runs look great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snow at home is just fundamentally different. Never hits the same when you're on vacation.

Oh sweet, another excuse to blather on about our preferences!

Yikes! Hopefully nothing like that again

I don't care what you say. I would prefer it to be stormy and rainy at home when we are gone. I love our perfect days at home... like today... and would prefer not miss any of them. If it was going to be 68 and sunny at home this weekend I would much rather be at home than in 85 degree weather in Charleston. But it's going to be 52 and raining at home this weekend and I will love being in Charleston. And I think many people would prefer to be home for a 4 inch snowstorm over a 12 inch snowstorm elsewhere. It's more special at home.

I deny fairytales, yes. 2016/17 wasn’t a niña. Niño 3.4 was in positive territory before the end of January. Look at SSTA maps from Feb-Apr 2017. Legit niño-costero signature in both SSTAs and OLR/atmospheric circulation.

But you’ll see more sunny/70+ wx in SC than you would in WA. So what are you missing? I don’t get it. If I was missing a 4” snow event here but traveling somewhere where a 12”+ snowstorm was headed, I wouldn’t be salty about “missing” the 4” one. That’s just weird.