Well, sometimes I’ll read or hear people and they’ll skirt the question a little bit. A lot of people want to hedge on that - I’ll go on the record.Ī lot of meteorologists want to hedge on that? Obviously I’m a firm believer in the human impact on the climate. How do you think about warming as it relates to the lack of snow this winter, and how do you try to incorporate it in the way you communicate with the public?
I know that’s a tricky thing for a meteorologist to factor in. Whenever there’s an anomalous period of warmth, one’s mind goes to climate change. Our peak climatology for snow is from very late January into early to mid-February. And the upcoming pattern is active, so I think there will be chances and opportunities. We can get snow with normal temperatures. You always have to remember that normal this time of year is pretty cold. 100 percent - at least getting us closer to normal or slightly below normal. I did see that it may start to turn colder soon. I think we’ll have plenty of chances to see snow here in the next couple weeks.Īs a snow lover, those are comforting words to me. That being said, there’s a long winter ahead, a lot of time left. All that mild air just took over the country. We had very mild Pacific air flowing into the country, the same jet stream that brought all that rain to California. And then after that, the pattern really took a turn for the worse. It was just kind of the luck of the draw - we didn’t get a storm where we needed it to be. The meteorology behind it is that we got very unlucky in late December. The thing is the pattern has just been hostile toward snow, particularly along the coast - there’s been plenty of snow in the interior Northeast. I think it’s safe to say that we have not seen our last snowflakes. That was set in 1973, which is actually the least snowy winter on record in New York. I can’t remember which year that was set. We’ve now gone 316 days without measurable snow in New York City, the fourth-longest streak ever, and approaching the all-time record of 329.
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