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I thought this was an amazing picture and a signature shot of what has been happening in New England. Here is a back yard pic of Joe D' Aleo's back yard in southern New Hampshire. That is a 5' fence and its almost covered! I would love to experience what they have been enduring. A once in a lifetime event for sure. http://www.weatherbell.com/images/imguploader/images/FEB151.jpeg

Gosh I hope something to this magnitude transpires....

I'm sure Phil will feel compelled to up his game after this account of weather-related peril.

Surprised as to how consistent this LES has been in NE IL. Been getting a nice tranquil Sunday snow event while watching a victorious Hawks team beat the Penguins! Meantime, some of the members from the 12z Euro Ensembles look impressive for late next weekends system. Majority of them have a Plains/Lakes signature and having the system cut west of the Appalachians. Looks like the East Coast may catch a break on this one with a transitioning PNA.

Going to work on the lawn today. Winter arrives in 2 to 3 weeks!

Jim Cantore's reaction to thundersnow over in Boston was great Actually I think it was Plymouth, MA. There were 6 times with thunder and lightning and he was freaking out and jumping around said he would take that over the $500 million lottery. Haha. I love his enthusiasm.

The warm season lasts too long? It's hot for maybe like 3 months of the year and even that isn't continuous heat. At least when it's hot, there's more stuff you can do outside. When it's cold outside, you're not guaranteed of any snow on the ground and therefore winter usually translates to being stuck inside boredom, i.e. this winter. I'll take heat any day over cold. For me extreme heat is preferrable as heat is just uncomfortable. You get sweaty and sticky. When it's brutally cold outside, it hurts. Your fingers, face, ears anything that's not covered really well, hurts. It's painful when you're really cold. It's a whole other level of being uncomfortable. To each their own though!

I heard that Winter's Hill in the Silverton Hills where Andrew lives fared well in March 2012.

Yes. It's low frequency tropical forcing, dude. La Niña forcing regimes are colder globally due to a +Walker/Hadley intensity ratio..more instability in the tropics/subtropics = more convection hence more cloud albedo. This year, we've seen a record -Walker/Hadley intensity ratio and an insane amount of dry, stable air over the tropics. Hence your reduced cloud convection/cloud albedo/global wind speeds, raging SSTs, and warm planetary surface. That has not extended to the lower troposphere as is usually the case in a full-profile warming. Just look at the fooking satellite radiation data..you can see why 2014 was so warm. It's not a sustainable process.

- An ever so slowly evolving (changing.) pattern. Set with an increasing sun-angle. .. With a still poorer focusing of more primary cold north. It's getting tougher and tougher to spin this collection of elements. The best that can be hoped for, I'm thinking, is a Later and Wetter Spring, with more and quicker main moisture generation south, and with cold remaining cold (dense.) enough to off-set it and steer it toward us.

I love how that aspect is the most nationalized one of this whole saga.

One has to wonder when this cold phase will end.

Anyone else anxiously awaiting the January PDO update!??

Even for March it's been rather warm. Average high here thus far has been about 55, March's average max is 51.

34 here this morning. It'll seem a lot colder when it happens in April.

00z gfs showed all of Nebraska with over 1 foot of snow, 12z gfs shows 0. I guess nothing should surprise us with the models this winter. Maybe tonight it will come back? Sometimes it is tough to take them seriously with this large of a swing.

Oh, so the NWS SLC says SLC is +17.3F above normal for the first half of the month. That's a blowtorch if I've ever seen one!

Amazing how clear the sky is today, February sun is burning away what's little left of the cloud bank out here. Not sad to see inversion season on its way out.

@ Tom For Nikos and myself over here in SMI These aren't mine as I have broken camera, but they're from an airport close by and typical to what were treated to on VD with 3-5" fluffy snows on top of the glaciered remains of the winter blowing in 40+ mph gusts causing whiteouts and lots of drifting in open areas.

Geographically speaking KC is not very far from the Lake. Anyway, I completely understand you're previous post. Yes duhh I wrote this storm off because for four consecutive days it showed nothing. Now it's throwing everyone in our area for a loop, meteorologists included. That in turn means there's now reason for optimism. So maybe I wrote this storm off and was doom and gloom but with the way this winter has gone for most of us it should be understandable. Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way because that wasn't my intention.

Haven't seen a colorful map like this all season on the GFS from the Plains to the Lakes in the 8-10 Day period...

This is exactly why we don't "Throw in the Towel" 3 days out...even though most of this sub forum isn't getting the bulk of this storm, it's still a significant event for those down south, especially down near the Ozarks/S IL (where I attended SIUC Carbondale). Smokey Mountains get crushed.

I don't get the point about the cold (what fun is cold weather by itself? It's just an excuse not to get exercise and stay cooped up in the house).

I'll take the cold any day--- the warm season lasts much too long as it is. PLus-- I love hearing the morons who complain about how long the "winter" has been. Seriously???

Cooler than the 1895-2014 average. Since 1996, the closest years to being legitimately cold were 1997 and 2008. Warmest year on record for the country in 2012. 1998-2004 was a slightly warmer stretch nationally than 2008-2014, but that still isn't saying much yet.

No, only those who dillute themselves and expect the government to do it for them.