Weatherman predicting higher than average snowfall this season?

**Endlessseason** · 09-17-2007, 10:29 PM

Not that I pay attention to what these weatherman types say about such stuff (sorry SteveB, Dan, and Scot), but.....My wife just told me that Channel 5 just now reported something pretty cool. They said that following the "way hotter than normal" summers of 1961, 1988, and 1994, the winters were higher than normal for snowfall.
Sounds like maybe we'll have a better than average chance for decent snow this season to make up for the stupidly hot summer we suffered through.

**Ottime** · 09-17-2007, 10:30 PM

And where should this snow fall?

**Endlessseason** · 09-17-2007, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Ottime

And where should this snow fall?

Oh. Excoosme. I thought my "Location: Oootahhh" would give it away.

**snoboy** · 09-17-2007, 11:11 PM

Our local guy who does our resort forecasts is predicting "wetter than average" but no word on temps...

**f2f** · 09-17-2007, 11:14 PM

they can't even predict global climate change for the next 100 years and i'm expected to believe their predictions for next winter?

**tromano** · 09-17-2007, 11:16 PM

Sounds good to me.

**paedde** · 09-18-2007, 06:50 AM

Sounds good – I’ll help u to track all the good stuff as Scot will miss half of the good days anyway

**Sluff** · 09-18-2007, 06:56 AM

Bring it on.

**Lumpy** · 09-18-2007, 07:06 AM

It better get cold and wet. I'm not sitting through cold and dry without, well, ice fishing or something.

**Kenai** · 09-18-2007, 07:31 AM

Scraping frost off the car windows this morning wasn't so bad. Its coming.

**irul&ublo** · 09-18-2007, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by Ottime

And where should this snow fall?

On the ground

**ski_adk** · 09-18-2007, 12:36 PM

It looks like KSL is jinxing our early start...

"Fall jacket weather returns to the Wasatch Front. A cool morning, with temperatures in the 40's. Afternoon temperatures in the 70's. It's looking like quite a storm to move in for the weekend. Expect some windy days this week before the storm arrives. COULD see our first taste of mountain snow Sunday. -Grant Weyman, Live 5 Weather HD"

**Trackhead** · 09-18-2007, 12:59 PM

Saturday Night: A chance of snow or rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35.

Sunday: A chance of snow or rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50.

Sunday Night: A slight chance of snow or rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35.

Monday: A slight chance of snow or rain showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 56.

Early season snow is neat, but I'd just assume it comes late October or early November to avoid the preseason depth hoar issues.

**MTT** · 09-18-2007, 01:02 PM

I hear its going to be an (AVERAGE) year in the Tahoe area.

That is not a bad thing

**chaka** · 09-18-2007, 03:54 PM

ummmm

NOAA's climate prediction center seasonal outlooks appear ho hum

hopefully an anti- jinx?

**Buzzworthy** · 09-19-2007, 09:42 AM

Ahhhhh, pant and a sweatshirt at night. I love it.

And MacDaddy is NOT allowed to post in this thread you non believer!!!

**asland** · 09-19-2007, 12:12 PM

looks like the east coast is going to get some pow this winter according to the always accurate farmer's alamanac

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/2007_2...eather_outlook

**NorCascader** · 09-19-2007, 12:45 PM

HO-LEE-SHIT.
In the past I've put a lot of faith in Farmers almanac.
I hope they are waaay off this year
Washington says "DRY AS FUCK"

**frorider** · 09-19-2007, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by NorCascader

HO-LEE-SHIT.
In the past I've put a lot of faith in Farmers almanac.
I hope they are waaay off this year
Washington says "DRY AS FUCK"

farmers almanac forecast = complete shite. might as well flip a coin. actually, flipping a coin would be MORE accurate than their 'predictions'.

http://ggweather.com/farmers/2005/index.htm

This study found that the national regional [Farmers Almanac]forecast for Winter had both the temperature and precipitation correct only about 13% of the time and Summer forecast was correct just 6% of the time.

The California forecasts for temperature were right only 13% of the time and the precipitation was correct 27% of the time.

**yogachik** · 09-19-2007, 05:46 PM

Our CA (Mammoth) weatherman, dweeb, says something similar (he can't spell, though):

A MODERATE LA NINA STATE IN THE FALL IS OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY COLD WESTERN CANADIAN OUTBREAKS OVER THE WEST....EARLY SNOWS IN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ROCKIES AND PERIODS OF STRONG SANTA ANA WINDS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. HOT SANTANA WINDS MAY OCCUR IN THE EARLY TO MID FALL.....THEN COLD SANTANA WINDS IN THE LATE FALL AND EARLY WINTER. WET STORMS FOR THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE OFTEN TIMES WILL OCCUR LATER THAN NORMAL.

THE DWEEBS BELIEVE THAT A STRONG NEGATIVE PHASE OF THE PNA WILL DEVELOP BY MID NOVEMBER TO LATE NOVEMBER WITH STRONG COLD STORMS INTO DECEMBER AND INTO THE BOREAL WINTER. THIS WILL BE A VERY DIFFERENT WINTER FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THAN LAST WINTER.

I AM STILL LOOKING FOR "AT LEAST" ONE RECORD COLD SPELL BY LATE FALL OVER THE GREAT BASIN.

BEST GUESS FOR WINTER PRECIP (80% TO 120% OF NORMAL) ALL BETS OFF IF PINEAPPLE CONNECTION DEVELOPS DURING THE WINTER OF 2008

**filthyfrenchbum** · 09-19-2007, 07:25 PM

I don't want to be a downer but the NOAA's 2-month forecast for UT and CO is above than normal temperatures, but equal amount of precip (less than average for some parts of CO)