>>2804231The climate operates in cycles that are still poorly documented and understood because accurate records only go back 150 years tops, which is entirely within the modern warm period (started c1800). Here in Arizona we are also in a near record breaking drought and have record warmth. Pulling up historical years there are numerous 5-6 month long droughts in the last 127 years of records for this state, *most* of them preceded a record breaking wet spell (intense flooding and all time record snowfalls), the rest were average months and years after the drought broke.
A very important pattern here in AZ, is the last two times droughts were this intense in winter (our 2nd wet season, we normally see as much snow as the Austrian alps), both times came before record breaking or tying season (1972-1973 winter 500 inches of snow and 2002-2004 droughts followed by record tying 2004-2005 winter 459 inches of snow tied with 1992-1993 winter 459 inches of snow). The jetstreams seem variable during solar maximums and minimums and this year is a solar maximum. As a correlation to this, intervals between mins and maxes can be somewhat correlated.
1951-1952 (about 4th year after maximum) - average snow about 250-280 inches
1961-1962 (about 4th year after maximum) - average snow about 250-280 inches
1972-1973 winter (about 4th year after maximum) - absolute record snowfall ~500 inches
1982-1983 - no correlation, average year about 280 inches the year after was a very low year, but 1981-83 were average or slightly above
1992-1993 winter (4th year after maximum) - record tying snowfall 459 inches
2004-2005 winter (4th year after maximum) - record tying snowfall 459 inches
2019 spring and fall (4th year after maximum) - above average snowfall 336 inches
Romania seems to go through somewhat similar but not in sync cycles (2012 snow) as Arizona in relation to snow, you get some near record years about every decade. Pic related, an AZ average winter snowpack for June.
