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More on the 1717 Great Snow https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-snow-1717/ https://history.lanememoriallibrary.org/hampton/history/oral/cram/blizzard1717.htm

It was a wild and fun ride this winter . One of the best . But all good things must end and this winter is over. Summer is just about here

I think we’ve had 5 sunny days here out of the past 20.

Also, my annual general hibernation time on here is coming up when snow chances end. I won’t be involved in the drought talks… I might come on here to complain about high dew points… Maybe check in during thunderstorm chances…

Don’t read the mid Atlantic thread when Chuck is posting all the time. Actually, Voyager would love those posts. Haha

I just tire quickly of endless drought talk like the sky is falling or something. We will survive, promise…

Gonna miss these last two winters when we torch the next 5 winters.

Tuesday might be interesting around here. Will higher dews make it north is the question though.

Nope, I am feeling it for a nice moderate hit chance for all us next week. The advertised pattern on the better models support it.

Was better when the clock change was in early April-more like spring then. Not to mention back to 7:15am sunrises for a awhile. Of course the argument continues twice a year whether to discontinue the practice but it never goes anywhere.

All 3 ensemble snowfall forecasts are pretty decent for any time of the year, and especially for mid March. The only issue for consideration is that the ensembles are 10:1 and Kuchera on the operationals is less than 10:1 in varying degrees depending on surface temps.

Yeah we have an extra hour of daylight tomorrow to melt the snow.

5th straight day of clouds - ugly - and another likely tomorrow - hope we can get some breaks before spring arrives Monday.

Records: Highs: EWR: 76 (2022) NYC: 74 (2022) LGA: 74 (2022) JFK: 70 9(1987) Lows: EWR: 11 (2015) NYC: 7 (1890) LGA: 14 (2007) JFK: 13 (2007) Historical: 1717 - The Great Snow, a composite of four winter storms to hit the eastern U.S. in nine days, finally came to an end. Snow depths averaged 60 inches following the storm. Up to four feet of snow fell around Boston MA, and snow drifts 25 feet high were reported around Dorchester MA. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1717: Long Island, New York: On Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, 1200 sheep are discovered buried under a snow drift for four weeks. When finally uncovered, one hundred sheep are still alive. (Ref. WxDoctor) 1932 - A severe coastal storm set barometric pressure records from Virginia to New England. Block Island RI reported a barometric pressure reading of 28.20 inches. (David Ludlum) 1932: A severe coastal storm set barometric pressure records from Virginia to New England. Block Island RI reported a barometric pressure reading of 28.20 inches. (David Ludlum) Other barometric pressure records recorded at Atlantic City, NJ 28.37 inches, Norfolk, VA 28.35 inches. (Bob Ryan's 2002 Almanac) 1947: On March 7, 1947, not long after the end of World War II and years before Sputnik ushered in the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful in this grainy black-and-white-photos - the first pictures of Earth as seen from an altitude greater than 100 miles in space. 1970: Last near-total eclipse of the sun in Washington, DC, in this century. Sun was 95% eclipsed. A total eclipse passed over NASA's Wallops Station (now Wallops Flight Facility) on the coast of Virginia. 1987 - Forty-five cities in the north central and northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Huron SD hit 80 degrees, and Pickstown SD reached 81 degrees. Rochester MN and Rockford IL smashed their previous record for the date by sixteen degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - High winds along a sharp cold front ushered snow and arctic cold into the Central Rocky Mountain Region and the Northern Plains. Snowfall totals in Utah ranged up to sixteen inches at Brighton. Winds gusted to 66 mph at Rapid City SD. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Blustery northwest winds ushered arctic cold into eastern U.S. Burlington VT reported a record low of 14 degrees below zero. Snow and ice over the Carolinas replaced the 80 degree weather of the previous day. High winds and heavy surf caused five million dollars damage along the North Carolina coast. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - A major ice storm left much of Iowa under a thick coat of ice. It was the worst ice storm in at least twenty-five years for Iowa, perhaps the worst of the century. Up to two inches of ice coated much of western and central Iowa, with three inches reported in Crawford County and Carroll County. As much as five inches of ice was reported on some electrical lines. The ice downed 78 towers in a 17-mile stretch of a high voltage feeder near Boone costing three electric utilities fifteen million dollars. Damage to trees was incredible, and clean-up costs alone ran into the millions. Total damage from the storm was more than fifty million dollars. (Storm Data) 1997: The worst was finally over for states hit hard by the flooding Ohio River. The river crested on the 6th at Louisville, Kentucky, 15 feet above flood stage, after topping out at nearly 13 feet at Cincinnati, Ohio, and more than 7 feet at Huntington, West Virginia. 2018: A teacher was struck by lightning outside an Ocean County, New Jersey middle school during a rare weather phenomenon known as thundersnow.

heh, we gain an hour of light in the evening tomorrow. Days are getting longer enough that I think moving the clocks won't plunge the morning's back into darkness as the daylight's coming up sufficiently early to absorb that clock move. Of course, what use does an hour of extra light in the evenings actually provide if we continue being steeped in this shitty-shits degrees and soothing mist bs. This "event" ( or lack there off ...) yesterday was really not the material aspect for the period, it was this big high and what's turned out to be an inCREdible pernicious BD air mass...It's slammed all the way down past the VA Capes. The high pressure that set this vomit into motion's long gone and smearing it's guts out across the N Atlantic, yet the front keeps rollin S down there. We are utterly decouple from the deep layer tropospheric synoptics as today's -12C inversion between the sfc and 2500 feet coherently argues. Anyone still living New England right now that has a choice to leave, yet hasn't, must be suffering a masochistic psychosis

Looking at guidance today, seeing I do have a chance to get some sun. Would be a big win after this shit stretch, especially on a Saturday… Expectations low given the climo fuckery…I’ll call it a win if I can eke out mostly cloudy by 2 pm.

39 / 37 the cloud fest continues a touch warmer today near 50. Warmer but still mostly cloudy tomorrow with perhaps some breaks in the clouds and 60s (first 60s since Nov 25th) and then 70s in between mon - wed (first since Nov 5 / Oct 21). Front comes through latee Wed - cool back towards or below normal 3/13 - 3/16 then deep troug and much chillier 3/17 - 3/20 with the risk of a late winter storm. Beyond there moderation back near normal - back and forth.

Confirmed. With 4 fatalities it was the deadliest Michigan tornado since May 1980. I think lack of warning hurt.

The warm weather is going to be here soon. We should start feeling it tomorrow. .

Glad to see March reinforcing its position as the absolute worst.

I am fortunate that I can clear my panels really easy by just standing on my deck with a broom on an extension pole. Most of the time I just clear the bottom 2 feet and it melts or slides off. Took me quite a bit more work though in that big storm but I remove the snow regardless as I dont want ice dams. I definitely wouldnt be climbing up on a ladder or anything crazy like that to clear it. If I had a ton of land I would do a ground mount in New England. Production is really starting to ramp up with that increasing sun angle. Here is the production from my small 1.2 kwh system that really shows the increase well.

I'm beginning to think that we don't get out of the low 40's today either. Some warm up. Seeing that map absolutely maddens me. I really should have stayed out west and let the chips fall where they might with my wife and marriage. I'm so climate driven, that this has really had an effect on my overall physical health. I haven't felt well since Christmas.

It’s incredible how many times the more densely populated areas in the coastal plain narrowly dodge this bullet. It’s like at least a few times a season. We’re gonna get nailed one of these years very soon.

I’m out naked and shaking it

Agreed, and it's usually really good on this, but it can sometimes stay too cool if a bit of sun can break through on the cool side of the front. Regardless, it really looks like those of us on the east side of the river will get our max temp today at 11:59pm. Tomorrow could get sneaky warm ahead of the weak front sagging southward. The exact timing of the front is in question, which greatly affects the potential to get warm, but southern MD probably has the best chance of getting to the 70s.