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Gotta be a top 3 or 4 worst March Warm when we wanted it cold. Cold when we wanted it warm. And mostly snowless

This record cold March at Fairbanks is even more amazing when you consider how much above normal it was in the Arctic (80+N) in March: You can see evidence of this stark contrast of cold anomalies to the warm anomalies to the north in the Arctic as well as to the south in the lower 48 on this for March 1-17:

I’m planting peppers and tomatoes outside today

Meh, we still will ebb and flow between kinda nice and kinda shitty for a time.

I'm curious to see if the N. Pacific PNA pattern corresponds with this April Kelvin wave. Research I have done in the pasts says there is some time-0 correlation.

May, but yeah we can sometimes hit those super dry heat max temps before vegetation is really out.

“Epic reversal of winds in the equatorial Pacific immediately east of the 180° line. This condition, which would extend until completing the second half of April, is and will continue producing a massive warm Kelvin Wave that will arrive at the South American coastal edge toward the end of autumn. It's the stuff of legends. It could compromise the winter season on the Peruvian coast. By warming it. #ElNINO”

22 here

Did someone forget to turn off the GFS 10-day snow machine? I bottomed out at 28 this morning (good radiational cooling although I have flowering things budded up) and 30 yesterday morning. They keep threatening about "the heat dome" coming this way but that forecast seems to be jumbled at our latitude. Anyway... currently 46 with 27 dp.

25 was my low.

500mb ridge maxed out >5970dm. Combination of that and lack of snowcover in the southern Rockies made a seemingly very anomalous situation more possible. Not saying it wasn't a big pattern break though.

23 here. My tulips are toast. Too many frosty mornings since they first popped out of the ground.

Asspril followed by Mehy

Get out the patio furniture

Swampass season incoming?

Mid week, with big Canadian surface high but it’s locked up north thanks to the mid level jet. Winds aren’t out of the north so should sell the severe cold anoms and just plan for low 40’s…

Asspril?

I’m seeing the leaf buds on pretty much all species of trees around downtown here so looks like commitment is in for the early leaf out.

Low of 41. Seven degrees higher than forecasted.

25 here this morning

Using a chart inspired by Jeff Berardelli's return-time charts, here's how Fairbanks would look for March 2026: And December-March (cases prior to 1911-12 were excluded due to the number of missing days during the 1905-06 through 1910-11 period):

Banking on some crap weather but also that the near freezing temps are bogus. expecting upper 30’s to low 40’s. I’m good as long as then greening up of the landscape can proceed.

Break out the banana hammocks.

Brunt of the heaviest rain falls west but still a warm / cloudy and wettish week once to Wed - Easter Weekend.

Records: Highs: EWR: 89 (1945) NYC: 86 (1945) LGA: 86 (1945) JFK: 82 (1998) Lows; EWR: 23 (1959) NYC: 10 (1923) LGA: 25 (2022) JFK: 24 (2022) Historical: 1886 - Atlanta, GA, was drenched with a record 7.36 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The Weather Channel) 1920 - Clear Spring, MD, received 31 inches of snow in 24 hours to establish a state record. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987) 1921 - The temperature in Washington D.C. dropped from 82 degrees to 26 degrees thus ending an early spring. (David Ludlum) 1935 - A severe duststorm blanketed Amarillo, TX, for 84 hours. During one six hour period the visibility was near zero. (28th-31st) (The Weather Channel) 1945 - Providence, RI, hit 90 degrees to establish a March record for the New England area. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Thunderstorms spawned tornadoes in Mississippi, and produced high winds and heavy rain in Louisiana. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 92 mph at Houma LA, and caused a million dollars damage in Terrebonne Parish. Avondale LA was deluged with 4.52 inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Severe thunderstorms in the Lower Mississippi Valley spawned a tornado which injured two persons at Bunkie LA, and produced high winds which down a large tree onto a trailer at Bastrop LA claiming the life of one child and injuring another. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thunderstorms produced torrential rains in northeastern Texas and southwestern Arkansas. Longview TX reported 14.16 inches of rain. More than eleven inches of rain at Henderson TX caused a dam to give way, and people left stranded in trees had to be rescued by boat. Total damage in northeastern Texas was estimated at 10 to 16 million dollars. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather in southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana. Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, including one which injured seven persons at Gray LA. Thunderstorms also produced golf ball size hail and wind gusts to 70 mph at Port O'Conner TX, and produced up to six inches of rain in Beauregard Parish LA. (Storm Data) 2007 - Eighteen year old Corey Williams is killed by a lightning bolt in Carbondale, IL, at the Community High School's first home track meet of the season. 2011 - A record 766 inches of snowfall at Boreal Ski Resort and nearly 59 feet at Squaw Valley in California's Sierra Nevadas are just two areas where snowfall records have been broke.