[ahawes]

It's my family's first winter in Omaha and I am a bit surprised at the lack of snow to date, and now freezing rain? Is this winter a bit atypical or does the snow generally come later?

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by ahawes

It's my family's first winter in Omaha and I am a bit surprised at the lack of snow to date, and now freezing rain? Is this winter a bit atypical or does the snow generally come later?

Typically, Omaha averages over 30 inches of snowfall a season, but with a good amount of variability as weather in the Great Plains will feature a good amount of variation and extremes. However, Omaha is not at all like the Great Lakes region of the Midwest that features reliable snowfall of sizable amounts each winter.

[iamjacobm]

Originally Posted by ahawes

It's my family's first winter in Omaha and I am a bit surprised at the lack of snow to date, and now freezing rain? Is this winter a bit atypical or does the snow generally come later?

This hasn't been a normal winter. Both this weekend and the rain on Christmas would be snow 9/10 years. Seems like our precipitation is hitting during warm patches this winter. If it was 5 degrees colder these past few days we could have seen a bunch of the white stuff.

Still a lot of time though, we have had huge snow storms anywhere from October to March in the past. I would still bet on at least one good blanket before spring hits.

[ABQConvict]

I believe it is a La Nina year which is a weather pattern that brings warmer and drier than average weather to the interior West. Certainly here in New Mexico the whole winter has been more like a perpetual November than anything else.

We have had a couple rain events that, had we had normal temperatures would have made it a pretty snowy year. I imagine the weather pattern affecting us is persisting up into the Plains states.

[rayman29]

Weather fluctuates. This year has been atypical year when it comes for snow, but you will see it before the winter is over. Some years there's lots of snow, others, not so much. More often than not there is a fair amount of snow throughout the winter, but so far, not so much this year. It will come, don't be alarmed. If anything, the lack of snow this year will somehow show up next winter in addition to the average amount of snow. It will even out somehow.

[Chocoladefabriken]

It all depends on which way the wind is blowing when the precipitation comes across the country.

[saltine]

Careful what you wish for.

[Omahahonors]

The average snowfall in Omaha per year is 26 inches.

[Volvo Driver]

This year's winter was VERY unusual. A lot of precipitation, but virtually none of it in the form of snow.

[ben young]

Originally Posted by Omahahonors

The average snowfall in Omaha per year is 26 inches.

A good size snowstorm in the North East .