Winter '23 / '24 - 'Season-total' Snowfall Forecast Contest: DEC Snowfall Totals

Smithstonian
1922

DEC-23 snowfall summary by forecast station.

Rank ordered descending by percent of monthly period-of-record-normal (P-O-R-N).

Green ==> 4th quartile
White ==> less than 4th and greater than 1st quartile (inter-quartile range)
Red ==> 1st quartile

'Obs' reporting '0.05' denote 'Trace' amounts (observed but unmeasurable).

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DEC Forecast Station Highlights
None

Biggest Losers
Not one station anywhere close to climatology
12 stations observed trace amounts.
2 stations not a single flake ... ice pellet ... or hailstone observed.

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Season-total-to-Date
DEC P-O-R-N contributes 207" (22%) toward the season-total (D-J-F-M) snowfall of 936".
DEC-23 observed snowfall:  33" (16% of monthly P-O-R-N; 4% of P-O-R-N season-total snowfall).

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Teleconnections

AO / NAO / PNA data

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/ norm.daily.ao.nao.pna.aao.gdas.120days.csv