I take a bit of solace in fact that first half of december 2008 was similarly mild and underwhelming before we hit the jackpot around 15th all the way to Christmas (speaking as a Portland resident). However, I don’t know what longer range trends looked like back then when we were in the crap. I was way less into weather back then as I am now.

Absolutely brutal runs, but long range models have shown little hope for December. Maybe we can score some low level cold or inversions at some point, though I don’t see a ton of support for this on current models. Really couldn’t look worse for the first half of December, but the hope is the worm will turn.

Love it...even though I'm out here, I still get excited about winter and for my family back in Chi City. I'm really hopeful that the holiday stretch won't be boring and brown. I witnessed such sad Decembers before moving to Arizona.

I hate our climate. It SUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS

That was one of my fond memories of tracking that storm as the Euro flashed it by around D 10 and pretty much never lost sight of it...all but one day I think it was. In fact, Tom Skilling made a comment about how models sometimes loose systems and then bring them back. It was a lot of fun tracking that big storm and all the local mets were pretty excited about it as well. Skilling was the best!