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Everyone wants to assume that forecasters never get it right with regards to snow.

Well, I tell you what. I will give you the keys to that car. I will let you ruminate over the black ice and freezing rain. If you get to the top of that hill, you better be on the right summitt.

Otherwise your car slides down, unceremoniously to the base of that incline. While you are there, you stubbornly find yourself unable to get it right. Maybe you have no interest in why, but still you have to get up that hill and I need my car!

So, we have plenty of questions and I have a few questions of my own. Or some observations. In regard to snow, we have thickness. At 5,400 feet (540mb), we do not have enough cold air but our surface may have temps of 33F. And it is raining! Or it may be 31 and still we get rain. Wait a minute, where is the snow? Dayton is getting snow and it is 34. Heavy snow at that!

I gave you my keys! Where are you?
1,000 to 500mb thickness says something but so do the forecast models.
What are your suggestions?
There are so many riddles and a few clues but where do we start?

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