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Just try being a little less triggered be me pointing how our winters have been changing as our climate has been warming. I am very happy how this winter has turned out as it matched one of my scenarios issued a while ago about a potential rebound winter coming after the series of duds that we had in recent years. So far my guess that it would be a struggle to reach 50” in NYC has turned out to be correct. Notice that NYC, LGA, and JFK are all in the 43-45” range and places like EWR and ISP are over 50”. Also mentioned that ISP reached over 50” in 2017-2018 and that it would be easier for them to do it again in the future which happened this year. Also pointed out how the banding effects with major benchmark snowstorms and the heat island contribute to give areas east and west of NYC more snowfall. I also believe it’s related to the terrain effects in the NY Bight allowing a snowband over NNJ and across Long Island. I also said that we haven’t had a winter near 32° since 2014-2015. So I am happy that we finally got one this year. But you will notice that we had 4 winters around 32° during the 2010s and 50”+ of snow and only 1 during the 2020s so far. So winters like this have been declining in recent years with how much warmers our winters have become Was also pointing out how after the 2015-2016 jump in winter warmth it would be a challenge for our region to rival 1995-1996, PA to see their all-time snowfall matched again like in 1993-1994, places around Detroit and the Great Lakes to match 2013-2014 snow and cold, DC to Philly to match 2009-2010 snowfall, and Boston to rival their 2014-2015 snowfall. My guess why none of these locations could even come close with the extended cold this winter is due to how small the geographic area of the cold was during this winter. This was the first time a cold and snowy winter like this in the Northeast occurred against the background of one of the warmest CONUS winters and Northern Hemisphere winters. So it put one of those legacy winters out of reach due to how small an area was covered by the shrinking cold pool. Since I am a big winter weather enthusiast, it would make me very happy for NYC to go over 50” before the season ends. By mentioning that it would be a challenge to reach 50” isn’t the same thing as saying impossible which I would never do. The reason that I even started this discussion years ago was due to the fact that at least in NYC, they need a winter near 32.0° as a prerequisite to reach 50” of snow. I also pointed out to you that this wasn’t the case for other stations outside the heat island So it’s necessary for NYC to average near 32.0° to have a shot at 50” but not always sufficient. The fact that we get fewer winters this cold in a warming climate shrinks the number of chances NYC gets to reach this winter milestone. We don’t really know how long we will have to wait again to see another winter this cold and snowy again since the last one 11 years ago. Since we are all getting older hopefully the next chance won’t have to wait until the mid 2030s.

^ firehose

Monday or Tuesday could be last freeze at DCA??

I remember April 1982. I had barely any snow here (being I live down in the valley) elevation 460. I remember going through a little town of Hebe, Pa. elevation 661ft. and there was about 6 inch of snow, there were plows out plowing.

I can't believe that storm was virtually a carbon copy of January 22, just more severe....WTF weather god did I piss off...holy shit. WTF is up with this single-band blizzard just parking over that Steve-Bret=Scooter corridor....fu(king man alive....

Yeah, it could be something. Needs some help though. With the HP kind of retreating after it blocks the Monday SW, we are gonna be fighting some warmth trying to surge in, especially in SNE. Berks could rock though into SVT

Foggy and frosty this morning.

Sounds about right. I think we might get one more window at something significant not long after mid-month. Seems like PAC reloads and that PV starts pressing into Hudson Bay…if PV was on other side, I’d prob nearly throw in the towel but that can cool us off again quick which is what we’d need fighting second half of March climo.

I had 1/2" on the driveway when I got home around sundown, but that was after some melting...I'll just go with an inch.

Watch, the messenger shuffle that robbed me of a '78 redux will be nowhere to be found next week....I'm sure the snow will be 10 mi north of me in NH.

IDK, I wasn't home...that's why I'm asking.

Want to see the cold press just a bit more for more snow next week. Otherwise prob some icy mix inland with cold rain south and east of that. Euro suite is prob the coldest right now.

you'd have to be reaaaalllyyy short, like a child. Floor to waist area for an average adult male is about 30-36" That pic says it all. And the gas station was actually open to make a chocolate milk run LOL

6z Euro AI is very meh with the warmth.. maybe a couple days but that is a stormy look for us

As we wake up this foggy morning we can at least be thankful it's not the fog from way back in 1940 in which Harrisburg reported fog so thick it spent 29 hours with visibility a quarter mile or below. Sent from my SM-S731U using Tapatalk

That high is a beast.. huge temp contrast.. Hopefully we can get a ton of precip and keep temps cold enough

18 this morning.

DCA has hit 32. Frost has formed on cars and grass in Arlington.

Hammer rubbing off on him

It does on Euro suite. Snow to icy/ mix

To short guys sure

Maxon just used the term Morch. I loled

Doesn’t look too snowy to me next week in SNE, icy perhaps. CNE looks good for snow though

I have forgotten what 50s feels like .