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Nine out of the last ten years Eden has seen the temperature drop below 30° in April. 28.4° April 9, 2025 28.4° April 7, 2024 29.7° April 11, 2023 28.6° April 20, 2022 29.4° April 23, 2021 28.8° April 12, 2020 29.1° April 3, 2019 28.6° April 9, 2018 26.6° March 10, 2017 26.3° April 11, 2016 The latest date the temperature fell below freezing during this ten year period was May 11, 2020 when it dropped to 30.3°.

Can’t give a winter grade when big dog season is upon us in MN. I love the active look even it means rain imby with a footer a few counties north.

I think your being very generous with your grade lol. I give no higher than a D+. If no more snow happens I'll end up with 17" in my yard which is only about 60% of climo. 5 years and running for under 20" for the season. It's just been a brutal stretch for the western and Northern areas. Some people love Cold but without snow it's just meh to me. Outrageous heating bill the last 2 months lol.

We will be luckily to see it growing by mid-April. Thankfully, because I have too much work to worry about mowing twice a week until May. Also, we have Banana Ball tickets for Yankee Stadium in late-April. I fully expect that game will be 33 with a light mist or 90 with a dew point of 88. No in-between.

Ya that 6”/hr was biblical to say the least…what a total beast. 33+ in that one. No forgetting that. And absolutely positive that United is correct with 78’s measuring. We had two feet plus very easily..with drifts that were absolutely mammoth. Those measurements are so off..it’s a shame.

Plant those pumpkins and watermelon the 2nd week of March. Call me risky. SSWs have not correlated with cold in March-April the last few times. Experiment to see how they do, they are thick plants.

50 at MSP, whiplash tomorrow with 1-3” of snow possible, although each model run bumps it further north.

I've been converting the radar loops from GIF to MP4 files using Handbrake. It's free. You set the GIF file as the "Source" and then I use the preset "Social 25 MB 5 Minutes 360p60". Seems to take the largest GIF's and get them below my rather low attachment limit size. You can play around with the presets to see which one works best for what you want to post. GIF's are very inefficient for showing motion graphics, they just happen to be an open standard that's been around forever, so if you don't have a file size to worry about they work, especially since it's easy to take one still image and make it a frame in a GIF.

20+ days with significant snow on the ground is good. I feel like it was a real Winter. Of course at 39N/90 we aren't always going to get sustained cold like it was.

And now you all know why I kvetch about the lack of snow (admittedly more than I should and not in the banter thread often enough). This winter gets no higher than a B- imby. Glad the snow mounds are on their way out and spring is on its way in.

March 6-7, 2018 smoked me here, as did December 30, 2000; I just don’t recall if they hit CPK. .

Shocking. Roll with 1-3 for now

I can't wait! I'm going to do garden work.

I think it was the ENSO subsurface that I liked about 2012, if I recall correctly...

@WinterWolfYou remember when I mused to you last fall about how I almost included 2012-2013 as an analog, but didn't due to ENSO? Ha......there was indeed some value in that season after all. 2014-2015 was actually just about as perfect a QBO/solar analog as you will find....so the manner in which this season has unfolded isn't too surprising, even though I kind of gagged om the monthly composite this month. It's astounding how much you learn through the trial and error of actually doing this seasonals...can't teach that in a class.

You must have a huge pants tent.

Why would anyone want that in NYC for April?

Yeah, I’ve commented on their measurements before. I’m not gonna dog them because obviously they are a well respected observatory… But many times with less moisture they’ll come in with more than I have.

It's nice to not be in the snow hole for some of these bigger storms.

They have to measure differently up there because of the elevation and wind. MWN has to as well….they obviously get a ton of snow but it all blows into the ravine.

Torching at 67

With the SSW event I suspect we’ll see some -NAO showing as we head towards mid month. Just a gut feeling. We’ll probably have BN period second half of month. If we’re lucky maybe even a freak frozen event. Never know

So, I live just south of the "6-8"" under Newark. Boy did it come down that hour!

I've had an average Winter. Pretty good. I do wish there were more Clipper storms though, they are my favorite.

Re-enforced by -PNA pattern though. We need that Pacific High pressure to change. Some lite signs of -NAO loading pattern setting up... New El Nino's certainly don't start leading the pattern in March.