Winter 2020-2021

[Typeing3]

This is it folks. This is going to be the big one. I’m taking the over on 100cm at YVR this winter.

Will be tough. Have to say we are really due for a big one though. Here's snowfall some stats I posted a while back for YVR:

1961-1990 yearly average: 54.9cm
1971-2000 yearly average: 48.2cm
1981-2010 yearly average: 38.1cm

2008 total: 109.0cm
2009 total: 26.4cm
2010 total: 16.8cm
2011 total: 24.1cm
2012 total: 27.2cm
2013 total: 11.6cm
2014 total: 25.8cm
2015 total: T
2016 total: 28.4cm
2017 total: 43.4cm
2018 total: 25.8cm
2019 total: 32.2cm
2020 total (thus far): 45.4cm

[Monty]

Will be tough. Have to say we are really due for a big one though. Here's snowfall some stats I posted a while back for YVR:

1961-1990 yearly average: 54.9cm
1971-2000 yearly average: 48.2cm
1981-2010 yearly average: 38.1cm

2008 total: 109.0cm
2009 total: 26.4cm
2010 total: 16.8cm
2011 total: 24.1cm
2012 total: 27.2cm
2013 total: 11.6cm
2014 total: 25.8cm
2015 total: T
2016 total: 28.4cm
2017 total: 43.4cm
2018 total: 25.8cm
2019 total: 32.2cm
2020 total (thus far): 45.4cm

Those totals since 2008 are pitiful at best. What did they measure in 1996? I’m assuming those are all yearly totals and not seasonal totals?

[Typeing3]

Those totals since 2008 are pitiful at best. What did they measure in 1996? I’m assuming those are all yearly totals and not seasonal totals?

Yep those are yearly totals.

YVR got 130.4cm in 1996.

[AbbyJr]

Yep those are yearly totals.

YVR got 130.4cm in 1996.

I literally just did the calculation and was about to answer Monty's question. But hey, I came up with the exact same result: 130.4 cm.

Confession: I used a calculator.

[Monty]

Some decent cooling of the N pacific in recent days. Starting in northern Japan and pushing eastward. I remember something similar happened in 2016. A pretty dramatic cooling in the fall iirc.

Come on!

[Typeing3]

Some decent cooling of the N pacific in recent days. Starting in northern Japan and pushing eastward. I remember something similar happened in 2016. A pretty dramatic cooling in the fall iirc.

Come on!

Yeah I remember that fall had a very strong zonal/SW Pacific jet. Neverending rain in Oct/Nov.

[AbbyJr]

Some decent cooling of the N pacific in recent days. Starting in northern Japan and pushing eastward. I remember something similar happened in 2016. A pretty dramatic cooling in the fall iirc.

Come on!

1990/1991 or 2008/2009.

Come on!

[VanCitySouth]

Can I just say, because someone has to, it's barely October. We're setting awfully lofty expectations based on tenuous analogues. Let's just hope for a -10 or two, and a couple feet of snow. Even that might be setting up for disappointment given this climate.

[Roberts Creeker]

Can I just say, because someone has to, it's barely October. We're setting awfully lofty expectations based on tenuous analogues. Let's just hope for a -10 or two, and a couple feet of snow. Even that might be setting up for disappointment given this climate.

Good point VanCity. I'd be pretty happy about 2' of snow...maybe a few snow events too would be nice. Heck, I'd be happy with snow coming down and a couple of inches of accumulation more than once this winter.

[Weather101]

Can I just say, because someone has to, it's barely October. We're setting awfully lofty expectations based on tenuous analogues. Let's just hope for a -10 or two, and a couple feet of snow. Even that might be setting up for disappointment given this climate.

Happens every year lol this climate should be giving everyone a step back on expectations.

[Storm]

https://twitter.com/ericfisher/status/1 ... 33958?s=19

[Monty]

Pondering about the winter and thinking about analogs has really very little impact on my enjoyment of the winter that will be. Just interesting to look at.

[Catnip]

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[Catnip]

STORM!

[Catnip]

Doesn't mean much this far out but here is the JAN precip anomoly.

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