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  1. Front Ranger
    Guess it depends on what your definition of "outlandish" is.
  2. Front Ranger
    It sounds pretty major. Anyhow...like I said, it seems like you've been focusing on the recent warm anomalies (which are 95% due to persistent patterns) as a reason why the PNW is becoming "more Mediterranean", and then concluding that good winter events are going to become less and less common - yet, the Willamette Valley just had an impressively snowy winter, one of the snowiest in the past 40 years. Arctic outbreaks have been quite common in recent years. There is nothing to indicate that good patterns still won't deliver good results, by and large. Just seemed like one of those things where you have a shift in thinking, but the shift might have gone too far.
  3. Front Ranger
    That sounds more reasonable than when you were saying our current climate is "ridiculously removed" from 30 years ago. There is a difference
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  5. Front Ranger
    He's on a kick. I have faith that a more balanced perspective will set in soon. He's a reasonable guy.
  6. Front Ranger
    My sister went to school there for a year. Missoula is definitely not my favorite place in Montana, but it is a decent-sized city (especially for Montana), and it's very steady in the snowfall department. The vast majority of winters are in the 30-70" range, with only a few duds with less than 25". I prefer a place that gets more big storms, but minor quibble.
  7. Front Ranger
    Yup. The overall winter blocking pattern has definitely favored central cold, as that map I posted above shows.
  8. Front Ranger
    Sounds violent.
  9. Front Ranger
    Yeah...that wasn't the point. It was that the East was warm that winter.
  10. Front Ranger
    But I don't have your number? Anyhow, the 2008 mid April event where parts of the lowlands saw inches of accumulating snow was about as anomalous as a mid-March event you are most likely picturing. Point being, it's not climate change that's preventing that from happening.
  11. Front Ranger
    The northeast has actually been the warmest region of the country relative to long term averages since 2007.
  12. Front Ranger
    Of course, since 2007 NH cold in winter has actually been more abundant. We've actually seen a downward trend in average NH temps in winter, though it's a short time scale, of course. It still takes the same patterns as it always had for the East to get cold, and for the West to get cold. If those patterns occur, it gets cold.
  13. Front Ranger
    I remember the good ol' days like 2008 and 2011. Back then, lowland snow could happen well into spring. Hell, one year Pullman even saw snow in June!
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  15. Front Ranger
    Phil is touting a "full wind reversal in the upper levels". Sounds like something that could really shake things up. Winter could last through April.
  16. Front Ranger
    There are a lot more people east of the Rockies. Ironically, man-made global warming effects them less. Instead, it targets the Prius-driving denizens of the Pacific Northwest, in an inevitable march towards Mediterranean-ness. Mother Nature is a *****.
  17. Front Ranger
    Going back to the Bowl! That was truly one of the most amazing finishes I've ever seen.
  18. Front Ranger
    Big gust of wind please!
  19. Front Ranger
    Yup. A lot of similarities to the Atlanta playoff game a couple years ago. Hope it ends differently.
  20. Front Ranger
    All up to the D now. Lots of time on the clock. Packers need a TD. My nails are gone.
  21. Front Ranger
    Oh my. Anyone still have the game turned off?
  22. Front Ranger
    From a weather perspective (and weather may have very well played a significant role in Wilson's struggles today), it's interesting how the rain shadow setup around Everett instead of Seattle today. Strong southerly component to the flow.
  23. Front Ranger
    Conspiracy theory alert: Wilson taking a bullet for the long term future of the team by intentionally driving down his value. That must be it! Of course, two of the interceptions were off his own receivers hands first.
  24. Front Ranger
    Hell. Yeah.
  25. Front Ranger
    Things can change in a hurry. Just like the models!!
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