Sometimes I think of the pointlessness of life and that our time here is but a mere grain of sand in an hourglass with infinite grains. Another winter will come and go and we will rehash the same old tropes and talk about winters we never experienced.

Looks like this year will be colder through today at Midway. 2006 also had multiple days above freezing...this month has none so far. In addition, 2006 torched from the 10th on, which does not appear likely at all this year.

I remember being very disappointed with the utter lack of snow at 4500’ when I went up to Vancouver in December 2023. Was raining and 45 at the top of grouse mountain and was actually quite warm walking around at night downtown. Of course it got VERY cold a few weeks later.

Also, December 1917 at Fairbanks. Fun times! Just to give folks an idea of what our source airmasses up there used to look like.

Looks like December 1-5, 2006 was over a degree colder at ORD. This month also is looking very unlikely to be as cold as Decembers 2000 and 2010 in the East. Both under 100 years ago but still under a colder climate regime of course.