We haven't had any snow to speak of this entire winter here in the New York City / Southeast New York area. We've had a lot of rain events with unseasonably mild weather followed by clearing and cooler but barely any of the usual winter cold we are used to. Interestingly enout things started off looking like we would be in for a cold one. Late fall brought us an ice storm and some rather cold temperaturesand a few intense snow squalls. Then right around Christmas time it went poof... as if someone threw a switched and turned off the winter and then forgot to turn it back on.
The reality is the jet stream has been locked in a pattern pretty much all winter where the jet stream is pretty much blocking any cold arctic air from making it;s way down into the northeast. There is a big trough in the middle of the country where the jet stream takes a sharp dip southward allowing some arctic air to roll down into the midwest. But then it takes a very abrupt turn northeast and it pretty much rolls up well north of us leaving the eastern part of the United States (including the northeast) pretty well blocked from receiving any cold arctic air while enabling plenty of warmer, humid air to come up from the south and ultimately giving us a pretty wimpy mild winter with almost no snow to speak of.
Hopefully next winter will be kickass but I've pretty much written off this winter as a "non-winter". P.S. Even last winter which was pretty wimpy comes across like a tiger compared to this winter.
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Originally Posted by n2ize
