2011 Weather Summary And A Winter Forecast Performance Review
The final two weeks of December had the potential to create some winter weather in our area. Unfortunately we missed out on both opportunities as the systems slid south and east of Oshkosh. While the new year brought a needed taste of winter, the first half of January will trend back towards the lack luster winter weather we saw most of December . The forecast trend is based on Lezak's Recurring Cycle theory and can be found on the OSNW3 LRC blog . A performance review of the LRC based Oshkosh winter predictions I made back in November for the 'first cycle' are located farther down in this entry. The climatology summary for Decemeber is below and the summary for January can be found here . ( OSNW3 Weather Brief ) ( OSNW3 December Observations ) (OSNW3 December 2011 Summary) (click on graph for the month summary data - it will open a new tab/window) ---- Is It Winter Yet? Nope, not by the standards we follow here at OSNW3. The definition of a 'Winter Seaso...