El Niño
One more hurt, then… Update 1/7/16
Yes, we had a cold blast this week, but that’s only part of the transition to what I expect for the heart of the winter from mid-late January thru February. You’re not going to go from record warmth in December to hard core winter without the proverbial two-steps forward, one-step backwards. Unfortunately when a seismic […]
Winds of Change! Update 12/23/15
As of December 22, Indian Lake Dam has totaled just 4.4 inches for the present snow season. This is simply mind-blowing when the average October thru December snowfall for Indian Lake is nearly 3 feet! To be sure, any hint of a “pattern change” by the GFS models has been latched onto by the social […]
Winter, Missing in Action! Update 12/11/15
It’s been another brown week here in ilsnow land. I don’t see any real change coming for a while. So, I will give you a thumbnail sketch of what is going to happen for the remainder of December and more important: What needs to happen for winter to FINALLY make a show of force around […]
Winter in trouble, already? Update 11/30/15
We didn’t have snow on the ground for Thanksgiving and some people think winter is dead before it started. The problem with that line of thinking? How much snow we get in November has little consequence in regards to how the winter turns out. To get the true scope of what’s going on, we must step back […]
Winter Outlook: Update 11/5/15
Siberian Snow Cover Throughout October, the spread of snow cover from Siberia into Eurasia was ahead of climatological schedule. The books have closed on October 2015 Eurasian snow cover and the numbers are impressive. This chart snows a very robust Eurasian snow cover at the end of October: The relative lack of snow cover in Alaska and […]
