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Who are the snowfall winners (or losers) during El Niño? As Emily shared with us last month, the jet stream tends to extend eastward and shift southward during El Niño winters. You can think of the jet stream as a river of air, which carries more moisture and precipitation along the southern tier of the United States during El Niño. As a result, it is not surprising to see a stripe of increased snowfall (blue shading) over the southern half of the country. More
When all of this “forecasting” turns out to be incorrect, I’m sure the reply will be “Climate change makes it difficult to predict anything. So stop driving your car.”
I just got done watching the noon news and they can’t predict what this weather system is going to do 4 days from now.
Cleveburg here – Where we say “if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes!”
Forecast Schmorecast.
If yer a weatherman and lose yer job, itz common knowledge that there is always a future in Snake Oil sales!
I’m hoping for tons of snow and good cold temps.
The illegals from Africa and So. America are already holing up inside and we’re only down to 30 degrees. Maybe they’ll get Catholic Charities to send them someplace else. We at least won’t have to see them wandering the streets all day.
Need to watch out for illegals attempting to drive their gifted cars in the snow. They’re bad enough in good weather…
Less snow in the north while the mid-tier gets more than usual is what the Weather Service is predicting this winter using the last 100 years of El Nino weather patterns. Less snow this winter would be fine by me.
Leave it to the government to publish indistinguishable and uninformative maps. Just prepare as usual. Ignore this crap.
I just wanna use the damn snowblower once in three years!
I bought this nice two-stage with the electric chute and headlight and haven’t hardly used it! Damn! I’m looking for some real snow to use it on!!
We had a real snow about four years ago and I used it on my 100′ driveway, sidewalks, two neighbors on either side of me and two neighbors across the street! That’s how much I love it!!
@Harry
I hope you drained the gas out of the carb after you last used it. Otherwise it’s not going to start.
I just diagnosed my neighbors snow blower. Needs a new carb. Glogged with gas varnish and rust so bad it’s not worth trying to clean.
Keep all that white crap north of Dallas!
KR
I wanna go over to Harry Eyeball’s house and try his snow blower, too! We can make Hot Toddies and have a Christmas bowl while it blizzards in Cleveburg!
Jethro – I literally have about a dozen small engines that I maintain and many gallons of fuel (a year) that I store in marine tanks and treat with Sta-Bil and a bit of Marvel Mystery oil. I have cleaned many carbs on engines from the 30s to the 60s and have never had to clean them again as they get drained – even tho the fuel is treated.
BTW I had an old homelite weed eater with the engine at the bottom and the handle was the fuel tank that say for 5 years after I got a new one. My neighbor didn’t have one so I told him he could have the Homelite, but that I would probably have to clean the carb. To my surprise it started right up with the treated fuel – I honestly thought it wouldn’t last that long, but it did!
Another fuel story – my dad’s boat last run was in 1971. After he passed away, I took it to my house to fix up. It had a 60HP Evinrude on it from 1967. I put a battery in it and hit the starter to see what would happen – no gas tanks were connected yet. The engine started right up and ran for about a minute on the fuel in the lines and carb! In the late 60s and early 70s we just used pre-mix in the tanks – no fuel treatment. I was shocked!
The same thing happened to an old BMW bike with the side starter foot pedal. It had been sitting in a buddy’s garage for probably 25 years. I played with the starter to see what the compression was like and the damn thing started up and purred at an idle perfectly! My buddy was shocked when I told him – he said he had never started it since he acquired it in the 60s. It had just sat as a garage ornament! The take-away is that fuel was different back then – probably due to a lack of alcohol.
BTW – I acquire my Dad’s boat in 1992… so that fuel was old enough to vote and then some!
@Harry
That old gas was some awesome stuff.
Interesting, until it got to here:
“Unsurprisingly, because of climate change, over most of the contiguous United States we have trended toward less snowy winters.”
Probably wearing a mask when he wrote that.
I look forward to a long, cold, deep, snowy El Nino winter. We need the snow to refill our water tables.