It's definitely amazing stuff and not watered down whatsoever unless you ignore anything pre-2015. Very true. Definitely Ice Age Now.

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. You already have to go back nearly 20 years to find a comparable start to December, and soon it will be longer than that.

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.