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Winter WX January 29-30 Southeast Event

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Not aware if you’re data so no reason to dismiss it or anything but despite this season, which has been seasonalble so far, I am expecting some cold snap and big winter events during the next three to six years.

This chart explains what I"m talking about. We typically see multi-year spikes before multi-year quiet periods, and it seems like we're entering the beginning of the next quiet period. I was born in 1998, so this chart actually perfectly illustrates my claim that I never saw a big snowfall until I was 12.

Now, there's nothing preventing it from happening again say maybe NEXT winter or maybe even a late season surprise this winter, but the pattern looking long-term seems to indicate maybe a warmer and stormier February before climatology takes over unless we get another SSW event in the next 30 days.

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Here is James Spann's mean tweets video.
 

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The low is gonna be 6F here tomorrow and the wind chills will be well below 0, but I guess I shouldn't complain too awful much. The wind chills in the Dakotas are gonna be around -60F (so roughly the average surface temperature on Mars).
 

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This chart explains what I"m talking about. We typically see multi-year spikes before multi-year quiet periods, and it seems like we're entering the beginning of the next quiet period. I was born in 1998, so this chart actually perfectly illustrates my claim that I never saw a big snowfall until I was 12.

Now, there's nothing preventing it from happening again say maybe NEXT winter or maybe even a late season surprise this winter, but the pattern looking long-term seems to indicate maybe a warmer and stormier February before climatology takes over unless we get another SSW event in the next 30 days.

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I’m just going to be anecdotal but where you see spikes I see randomness not necessarily correlated to colder than average winters although some logically coincide. For example 1988 snow totals include freak April snowfall and the year of superstorm 93 was a March storm following a mild winter. This is from my memory of course not hard data.
 
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