OT- Predicting Cold Snowy Winter for the Northeast

[uconnfan68]

One summer, I was hiking out at Point Reyes National Seashore, outside of San Francisco. You needed a down jacket. I’ve read that Point Reyes has, on average, the coldest summer weather in the lower 48.

When I arrived in San Diego for duty, I went to a Padres game in my t-shirt... and saw all the locals wearing down jackets. After 4 years I understood.

 

[Waquoit]

Farmer's Almanac??? it has about the same prediction accuracy as flipping a coin.

Still better than utility company weather predictions.

 

[Ozimoto]

Growing up in the "mountains" of Western Maryland we got a lot of snow by mid-Atlantic standards. My area would often get lake effect snow but we usually got our biggest snows from nor'easters that came up the coast. When I was a kid snow storms meant an occasional day off school and playing outdoors in the snow. Now as an adult, snow is just a pain in the butt that has to be moved out of the way. The fun is gone, although a day skiing is still pleasurable.

 

[CL82]

Yeah I was that way too until I moved here...
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... but it's a dry heat.

 

[borninansonia]

Down here in the southern CA desert, where it was 122 F yesterday, we estimate how cold the winter will be by measuring, in late fall, at 50' below sea level, how deep the rattlesnake hibernation dens are. The deeper they are, the colder the winter. Sidewinders are best.

 

[and one]

The last thing I want on my to do list is to measure how deep a rattlesnake den is, even if the little buggers are asleep

 

[meyers7]

Down here in the southern CA desert, where it was 122 F yesterday, we estimate how cold the winter will be by measuring, in late fall, at 50' below sea level, how deep the rattlesnake hibernation dens are. The deeper they are, the colder the winter. Sidewinders are best.

Up here in the NE I usually check how fat the squirrels are in the late fall.

 

[MSGRET]

Up here in the NE I usually check how fat the squirrels are in the late fall.

When I was stationed at the Tank-Automotive plant in Warren, MI, I saw a lot of fat squirrels, never knew that meant a cold winter. I lived in Indiana and stationed in Europe and Korea and it got cold, but the coldest place I have ever been was the Selfridge Air National Guard Base. The Officers and Senior Enlisted family housing, was just off the shores of Lake Saint Clair and in the winter we got both the lake effect snow and the Northern winds from Canada.

 

[uconnfan68]

When I was stationed at the Tank-Automotive plant in Warren, MI, I saw a lot of fat squirrels, never knew that meant a cold winter. I lived in Indiana and stationed in Europe and Korea and it got cold, but the coldest place I have ever been was the Selfridge Air National Guard Base. The Officers and Senior Enlisted family housing, was just off the shores of Lake Saint Clair and in the winter we got both the lake effect snow and the Northern winds from Canada.

You were lucky you didn't get sent to the Upper Peninsula.

 

[Zanzman]

When I arrived in San Diego for duty, I went to a Padres game in my t-shirt... and saw all the locals wearing down jackets. After 4 years I understood.

San Diego gets that cold never heard that