As I post this, it's raining heavily here in central Connecticut. We've had over 25 inches of snow so far this winter, but most of that snow fell in the early days of December along with one storm in January that was forecast to bring a foot or so, but only produced around six inches. There won't be much snow left on the ground after today, as the rain is washing most of what has been there away.
It's been an unusual winter in that, while the overall weather pattern has been stormy, the general storm track has been to our west. Only a few strong secondary storms have formed off the eastern seaboard, and, for the most part, they've been too far south or east to bring us the heavy snow. Outlooks for next few weeks seem to continue the pattern of strong storm systems moving northeast, but west of Connecticut, leaving us on the warm side, and bringing lots of rain, instead of lots of snow.
But don't forget that the atmosphere has a way of balancing things out. While we've been getting lots of rain around here, locations in the Midwest, such as Chicago have been seeing a lot of snow over the past few weeks. As I'm not a skier, I say, "let them keep it."
