***Official 2022 Weather Thread***

CyCrazy

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I like a dead brown lawn in August, because I don't have to mow it.

Winner. Only crappy thing is I had to wait till right before the first frost to plant native grasses. Otherwise I could care less if the grass goes dormant. It will come back. Has for millions of years.
 

cyfan92

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February is looking to be VERY mild relative to recent years. Above average moisture would be great with warmer temps. Rain > Snow.

Late Feb-Early March may be more of the same. Yes please

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BigBake

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What the forecaster says:
There is the potential for a lot of snow tomorrow! There is some disagreement on the models, so the track of this storm will have a major impact for snow totals in this area. If it shifts to the south we may only see a light dusting

What Joe Blow hears:
Lots of snow tomorrow!

When the storm shifts south and there is only a light dusting Joe Blow declares:
Where's all the damn snow they promised! I wanted to use my new snowblower! ******* meteorologists are clueless!

And we have a Joe Blow's even on CF. Just look back to earlier in this thread with the Jan storm. Several people declaring it a dud after the initial morning wave only gave a dusting and then it walloped us over night. If they had bothered to actually read they would have saw that was exactly what was predicted.
 

BigBake

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I spend my summer free time mountain biking, road biking, kayaking, hiking, grilling, etc. I'm hardly ever in the house that time of year, I just like not having the obligation of needing to get the lawn mowed.

That one makes it hard to hope for lots of rain. Or a rainy spring even.
 

awd4cy

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I normally agree but I wanted a lot of snow this winter to help ease drought conditions (refill my upper pond which is down 1' from normal).
Snow won’t do all that much to replenish a pond. I do wonder what type of pattern we will see this spring. This winter has been weird with the snow events. We’ve pretty much just had 2 snow events all winter. Most winters you at least see those small clippers intermixed and other small systems, but not this year.