BLI snowman

0 posts on the forum that month. Folks were pretty quiet.

8 hours without a post is pretty close to a record. Analogs?

Temps don't look too impressive back there. A drop in the bucket next to the completely historic torching they've posted for the first 2/3 of the month. Nice for them to avoid an all-time bad snow season though. The last cooler than average month for MSP was April 2023.

This month is absolutely torching too, just for good measure. Minneapolis is running a +11.5 anomaly. Just unending. Climate change appears to be accelerating more and more with baselines shifting. The big Nino this winter probably kicked things up a notch.

It just hurts me to see so much nervously optimistic anticipation on the Eastern weather communities each and every fall. They need to give up the ghost already. George Washington ain't coming back and crossing the Delaware any time soon.

Honestly, DCA is going to melt either way as the East Coast climate becomes increasingly subtropical up to Cape Cod or so. The weenie handwringing back there over ENSO state is an antiquated formality at this point. Snowy winters there are probably a thing of the past, and cold ones definitely are.

1998 was a very active and devastating tornado season though.

I see asphalt! Quick working CO road crews + March sun is one hell of a team!

OT but it looks like a sneaky tornado outbreak tonight in IN/OH. I think the SPC had a 2% tornado risk up in that area this morning and it ended up producing this: Just goes to show severe weather forecasting is still a very tricky science.

1. State of panic 2. State of confusion 3. State of denial 4. State of acceptance 5. THE Ohio State University

Seattle traded a 3rd rounder and a 5th rounder for Sam Howell, a 4th rounder, and a 6th rounder. Probably not a bad trade at face value but I think it signals that we're much less likely to draft a QB now with any of our higher picks and I'm not sure I love that. Howell looks like a career backup level guy and he's likely going to have starter expectations now, as will Geno. Neither one of them is QBOTF material.

Denver itself is pretty flat, sprawled, and overpriced. I don't see the appeal aside from its proximity to much nicer areas. Unfortunately that's true of a lot of the Front Range Colorado population centers IMO, though I like the area from Colorado Springs up to Castle Rock a lot and was looking at relocating there briefly. That said, the state itself has tons of truly stunning areas outside of that and is well worth visting.

Looks pretty dirty, gross, and honestly like a major headache.

Maybe the most dramatic example of a ridge retrograde that we've ever seen. Just a wall of easterly cold air advection as that ridge shifted offshore. And Portland's top dog of the 20th century as far as March is concerned. Managed a nice overrunning snowstorm with it on the 18th as well.

1964 and more recently 2020 were both cool to cold, albeit with weaker Ninos. Late March 1964 had a 12z Euro-esque backdoor blast into the northern Rockies. Gave Spokane some very late subfreezing highs on the 23rd- 24th. 1906 way before that was also a Nino to Nina transition with an all-time March airmass.

If the 12z Euro works out then we will clinch a VERY chilly March.

Waimea Canyon is a must. Would highly recommend trying to do a Nāpali coast boat tour as well.

Might end up being the 2nd coldest airmass of the season for some of those Plains folk.

Pretty ironic that Canada doesn't do them. Also utterly depressing, and dare I say rather 3rd world.

Today after 15 years of obsessively following its climate, Phil learned that it does, in fact, rain a lot in North Bend, WA.

Lots of simplistic and dumb things there, but one thing that jumped out to me was the comparing of the Ketchikan/Prince Rupert area to Germany. Very odd. Ketchikan is fully oceanic and averages 150" of precip per year and the wettest parts of Germany are humid continental climates that average 50-60" down towards the foothills of the Alps. The coastline of Norway (near and north of Bergen) is a very good comparison to the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert areas.

The contract was certainly nasty, but the Herschel Walker trade the Vikings made with Dallas is always gonna be hard to top.

Pretty gusty south winds at times here now, probably 40mph.

Portland had a 37/31 with 5" of snow on April Fool's Day in 1936. 1935-36 was an insane cold season, with the October arctic blast/snow, the historically cold February, and then the late March/early April event.

I agree that week in 1936 is probably the latest regional snow, and latest sub-40 highs for a lot of places. The April 2008 trough was pretty close to regional from a snow in the air perspective, but most areas near sea level just had a trace of accumulation. Other April snows have traditionally been a little more localized in their breadth, even though there have been a lot of events around the region. April 1875 was a very legit airmass and I don't know if you have any data on it. Portland had a 40/32 day with what appeared to be gorge outflow on the 4th. New Westminster, BC had a dry 39/20 on the 4th and Spences Bridge just north of Lytton had a subfreezing high. So a very, very late arctic airmass. 1874-75 was a crazy winter and that was the final bow.