We're almost in to 2019 and we still haven't had an actual snow event. The handful of small dustings we had back in November really doesn't add up to me the way the airport snow readings say they do. As far as I'm concerned, we're sitting at 0" of snow for the year. A dusting isn't enough to get me excited.
Now we're going to end December with absolutely no snow. Over the past 20 years, December hasn't really defined our season. Some would think a snowless December would be bad, but the records seem to show there's no correlation.
December 2011
We had only 0.5", ended the season with only 12.2"
December 2012
Got 14.9" and ended the season above average at 41.2"
December 2013
Had 12.7" and ended the season with our highest total ever, 56.4"
December 2014 and 2015
Here are the outliers. Both of those Decembers saw no snow. 2014 ended with an above average 33.4", while 2015 was below average at 17.1". Those two years could be what people would consider the proof that December has no tie to the whole season.
December 2016
Maybe this is also another argument that December doesn't set the season. We had 5.4" of snow, right at our average for the month. We ended up with only another 3.9" of snow to end the season a 9.4".
So what does that mean for the rest of the season? Who knows. All I know is we're still looking snowless for the next 10 days. Happy New Year?
kinda seeming like we'll need lawnmowers instead of snowblowers in January, with it hitting 60° every other day and all the rain.
ReplyDeleteHermit43130
I just had a realization...
ReplyDeleteLike you, I've often wondered when winter would show up over the past decade or so, waiting for the patterns to shift to a reasonable facsimile to what I remembered a Central Ohio winter to be...
Then it hit me: This now, *is* a Central Ohio winter -- 44 degrees and gray, with an occasional 60 degree day when it rains a lot.
There is no snow, it is rarely cold, just 44 and gray, except when it's 60 and raining. This isn't some weird pattern that'll eventually change, this is the pattern. When the high doesn't hit 40, it's a cold, frigid day, and if there is a dusting of snow on the sidewalk, a rare Central Ohio blizzard must have come through. Enjoy it.
I guess we'll just have to be content with dreaming about old fashioned winters in places that get a lot more snow than us, like in North Texas and Atlanta.
In other words, "Winter" is already here, and this is it.
--TheHermit43130