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Climo snowfall varies quite a bit across our region as you know. 20 inches here is a pretty good winter, but not so much for places N&W. That said we probably all should have more "reasonable" (lower) climo standards for what qualifies as a good winter.

I know I pretty much said near the beginning of the month I was at a C- if nothing else happened and no better than a C+ unless it was a 2018 type ending. Since the 3/15 event delivered 2.5” and thundersnow plus an extra half inch or so of squalls the following day I’ll take the minus away and make it a plain C grade. I just can’t grade it any better than that here despite it being consistently cold. The 3” this month puts me at 31.7” which is still roughly like 10-15” off of getting into what would be considered average at my location. The rest of this month has been decidedly more Morch than March with multiple 70+ days and an 84ºF on 3/22. I went nearly a month between measurable snows from the main headliner 1/25 storm to the 2/22 event that was a big bust here and a main headliner for other folks. Didn’t do well with northern branch stuff (Clipper type systems) this winter either as a lot of them tracked the low north of PA, continuing that trend. Completely different story on the non downslope side of the mountains. Pittsburgh is at about 52” for the season, nearly 10” above average for them. And to make this post sound less like a 1 star review I will say this winter did do well in timing its best deep winter period right with mid-late Jan climo and being overall cold from December thru most of Feb.

Found a tick crawling on me while doing some yard work today. Was hoping they would come out until April

Monadnock off in the distance in that pic.

Skiing at Wachusett was actually very good. Firm. Bare spots showing up but still a lot of snow.

Yes for NNE

Some flurries overnight. Few areas north of Detroit got a dusting. 24° this morning as the roller coaster temps continue.

Neither am I. And after 2 cold winters (even though the cold surely would've been colder if this was 15+ years ago) its bound to be at a fever pitch.

This wasn't a typical la nina at all, but when looking at the season as a whole, it definitely was front-mid loaded here. It was great to have plenty of snow/snowcover right at kickoff during the coldest, darkest days. But I could've used one more snowstorm in late Feb/Mar, sun angle be damned.

Up to 34!

If you'd asked me in 2017, I'd grade this winter a C+, but after this last decade of crappy winters, I give this winter a B+ in Germantown

The Stormsurf link that I included in my post the other day has just added CFS2 Relative Nino plumes to its links, both raw and bias corrected. They are a little past half way down. Updated daily, they'll at least give us trends, which should make for a nice roller coaster ride over the next 9 or 10 months. Lol https://www.stormsurf.com/page2/links/ensocurr.html

This would be a fine January day.

Flagstaff has an altitude > 2,100 meters or about 7,000 feet ASL.

I have one of those.

1.) If you're referring to the WGAL radar, it went offline due to a variety of issues. 2.) If you're referring to the Climavision radar at Millersville University, it's not available to the general public. Millersville University and the National Weather Service have access to it. Press release: https://climavision.com/news/new-radar-at-millersville-university-to-help-bridge-data-gap-in-central-pennsylvania/

Don’t forget the thin gold necklace, parachute pants and K-Swiss kicks.

Who needs late January when you can have late March.

Yeah.. I mean Flagstaff never goes higher than 73 in March, then it hits 84 and has 4 days 80+. At 35N latitude I don't see why it can't do that, but still.

38 now. This blows. Hard to do real yard work when it’s this cold

Yep, BDCF season. Warm up for a day or two & then back to onshore flow.

Cold today but the sun is strong

Many cities in the Southwest and even California will have experienced their warmest March on record, some by large margins.