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You are one person . There are many others who appreciate the site of a few flakes falling, whether they melt when they hit the ground or pile up to a foot. Watching that snow yesterday was as awesome in the moment as the snow in early february.

Trudeau is a laughing stock in Canada, so you don't have much to be jealous of. He has no chance of getting his party re-elected in a few years.

It's probably snowing the hardest it has all season right now and it's been doing that for a good 20-30 minutes. Fat flakes and a stiff north wind!

I haven't taken my official measurement but did go out and measure 5" in the grass. This one storm matched my season total to date.

Absolutely piling on my winter snow totals now!

WRF looks snowier

I give this winter a B plus. We missed major chances at good snow, but nice winter overall so far.

Yeah...I think I'll look at this winter as a very positive step in the right direction. I have my eyes on 2018-19. Everything should be aligned for wickedness on that one. Next winter is kind of a wildcard. The context will be similar to 2006-07 so it might be decent.

There should be a lot more moisture at play and a much better tracking low coming through in the morning hours, it has way more potential than anything that was predicted for today.

Unreal warmth across the Midwest and East Coast today, tons of places broke their all-time February records. 77 in Cleveland, 76 in Pittsburgh, 73 in Boston. Meanwhile I just had a snow/rain shower roll through.

Now that is funny!

Amazing gradient of the snow in S MN south of the TC metro. Kenyon, MN received 15.2" while Farmington 25 miles north of there got nothing.

Pipelines for everyone.

I take it the 18z was disappointingly progressive.

Do us all a favor and move to Canada. I'll buy the bus ticket.

Pretty awesome, we had about 1/2" last night. Then it started snowing again at 6 am and hasn't stopped all day! It's been light most the time and now up to 33f not sticking to the roads anymore.

I apologize and replace the word "dangerous" with misguided

The question has been brought up with February being so warm this year can March be colder than February? Here are 10 past February's here in GRR that had a mean temperature of 31° or warmer. 26.6° is average. (so far this year GRR is at 34.1° and if this were to hold it would tie for the warmest February in GRR) anyway here are the past 10 warm February's 1. 2000 February mean 31.4 March was above average. 2. 1999 Feb mean 31.3 March below average.3. 1998 GRR Feb mean was 34.1° March was near average with 13.5" of snow. 4. 1984 GRR Feb mean was 34.0 that year March was colder than February coming in at 28.9° and had 10.4" of snow. 5. 1976 Feb mean 31.0 march was above average. 6. 1954 Feb mean 32.3° March was colder than Feb 30.9° and there was 21.3" of snow 7. 1932 Feb mean 31.8° March colder than Feb at 28.4° and there was 25.3" of snow fall. 8. 1931 Feb mean 32.9 March was below average. 9. 1930 Feb mean 32.9° March was below average. 10. Feb mean 31.1° March was once again below average. So bottom line based on past mild February's in Grand Rapids March was below average 7 years, above average 2 years. average 1 year and above average 1 year, in 3 years March was colder than February. How will this year play out? Time will tell.

Looks like the defo band keeps redeveloping over NE...

And someone was complaining its fading away as it reached the Omaha dome...

Had a band of light snow coming for me and it died right before it reached me. Just can't get any luck.

I have you beat...around 2" of mud here!!

I was able to score a bit of frost. It has already melted, however. In shady areas, I still have about an inch and a half of mud. It will probably stick around for the rest of the day.

Up to 35 and the dusting of snow overnight is now gone.

LMAO!!! Member berries! Nice South Park reference!

Pretty light here in omaha. 2" on the grassy areas, roads are mainly wet with frozen slush on side streets. Ground temps were just too high to support much accumulation. I'd be surprised if we get another inch out of this band.

Holy NW flow on the 6z GFS. I counted 7 systems on that run, 6 of which are purely from the NW.

Had a severe thunderstorm wake me up at 4:30am with loud claps of thunder and hail hitting my skylight. The February to Remember continues to impress...

Everybody is gone. Wouldn't surprise me if traffic doesn't pick up on here until early next fall, even if we do have a snow event. The majority of our posters have been satiated with snow this wintet. The few of us that have not, remain.

big bolt of lightning and thunder

Pound town

That's El Niño modoki. Think of La Niña modoki as the inverse.

71° yesterday and now its snowing. Fun stuff

Blizzard warning update on the way

Gosaints smash job

Looking at climate through the lens of degree days (base 65 F US, 64 F/18 C INTL) Cooling degree days occur any time the mean temperature of the day is more than 65 F/18C. Heating degree days occur any time the mean temperature of the day is less than 65 F/18C. A good way to measure climates is to look at the mean HDDs and CDDs during a typical year. We can also sum the two to get an idea of how relatively comfortable a climate is, and how much energy is required in that climate to heat and cool a building through a typical year. Hottest locations in the world by CDD: Mecca, Saudi Arabia 8,176 (hands-down the #1 hottest large city in the world) Khartoum, Sudan 7,833 (hottest national capital) Bangkok, Thailand 6,680 Singapore 6,192 Manila, Philippines 6,027 Jakarta, Indonesia 5,905 Manaus, Brazil 5,861 Mumbai, India 5,756 Recife, Brazil 5,718 Dubai, UAE 5,702 Death Valley, CA, USA 5,600 (hottest location in USA, uninhabited) Lagos, Nigeria 5,577 San Juan, PR, USA 5,588 (hottest large city in USA) Key West, FL, USA 4,825 (hottest in mainland USA) Phoenix, AZ, USA 4,620 (hottest US city with metro >1 million pop) Coldest locations in the world by HDD, isolated outposts like Eureka, Canada not included: Verkhoyansk, Russia 21,322 (coldest city with > 1,000 pop in world) Barrow, AK, Alaska, USA 19,428 (coldest in USA) Noril'sk, Russia 18,307 (coldest city with > 100,000 pop) Yakutsk, Russia 17,788 Iqaluit, Canada 18,211 (coldest over 1,000 pop in Canada) Churchill, MB, Canada 16,322 Yellowknife, NT, Canada 14,861 Fairbanks, AK, USA 13,531 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 12,537 Leadville, CO, USA 10,877 (coldest town in lower 48 USA) Novosibirsk, Russia 10,650 (coldest metro > 1 million pop) Winnipeg, MB, Canada 10,400 Edmonton, AB, Canada 10,274 International Falls, MN, USA 10,080 Moscow, Russia 9,168 Minneapolis, MN, USA 7,574 (coldest metro > 1 million pop in USA) Least amount of HDD, CDD, Total Uruapan, Mexico 276, 429, 755 (most "agreeable" climate in world in terms of temperature?) Huambo, Angola 429, 364, 793 Guatemala City, Guatemala 62, 749, 811 Nairobi, Kenya 155, 742, 897 (most "agreeable" major city in world?) Mexico City, Mexico 954, 122, 1,076 Cochabamba, Bolivia 934, 153, 1,087 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1189, 0, 1,189 Iquique, Chile 766, 677, 1,443 San Diego, CA, USA 1166, 802, 1,968 (most "agreeable" major city in US?) Degree days are all based on degrees Fahrenheit

Uruapan, Mexico actually has a pretty sweet climate if you ask me...agreeable temps year round and a good deal of thunderstorms in summer. Subtropical highland climate without being so high that frosts are common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruapan Jan: 77/48 July: 79/59 Rec: 102/30 warmest month May: 86/57, mean 71.6 or about 2-3 deg warmer than Portland in July/August. 4-5 month rainy season (mostly convective) with 60" a year.