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I never even heard it raining all that hard. I was shocked to see my rain gauge but all the creeks were almost out of their banks .

Starting to see some daffodils poke up through the ground! Can’t wait for wildflower hike season.

Laguardia, NY Year Rank Snow (inches) 1995–1996 1 77.9 1947–1948 2 63.6 1993–1994 3 58.5 1960–1961 4 56.5 2014–2015 5 53.8 2013–2014 6 52.4 2010–2011 7 51.6 1957–1958 8 51.5 2002–2003 9 51.0 1948–1949 10 46.7 2003–2004 11 44.1 1977–1978 12 43.5 2025–2026 13 43.4 1966–1967 13 43.4 2000–2001 15 42.2 2009–2010 16 41.3 2004–2005 17 40.2 2017–2018 18 38.4 2005–2006 19 37.5 2015–2016 20 36.2

My part of western NJ is completely covered; albeit less of a pack, maybe 4”-6” at present.

Difference in 3K over NYS at 60 vs 12k is stark.

Time is just a construct of man.

List of NYC death bands in the last 50 years. I might be missing a few. 2/11/1983 2/10/1994 1/8/1996 2/16/1996 4/7/2003 2/12/2006 2/25/2010 12/26/2010 1/26/2011 11/7/2012 1/23/2016 2/23/2026

Newark: 1 - 1995–1996 - 78.4 2 - 1960–1961 - 73.5 3 - 1867–1868 - 72.8 4 - 1872–1873 - 71.7 5 - 1906–1907 - 70.2 6 - 2010–2011 - 68.2 7 - 1977–1978 - 64.9 8 - 1993–1994 - 64.5 9 - 1866–1867 - 63.5 10 - 1947–1948 - 61.6 11 - 2013–2014 - 61.1 12 - 1919–1920 - 60.6 13 - 1957–1958 - 58.3 14 - 1855–1856 - 57.8 15 - 1922–1923 - 57.4 16 - 1966–1967 - 57.3 17 - 1874–1875 - 56.5 18 - 1915–1916 - 56.2 19 - 1904–1905 - 55.1 20 - 2025–2026 - 54.4 21 - 2002–2003 - 53.1 22 - 1892–1893 - 52.8 23 - 1856–1857 - 52.0 24 - 1916–1917 - 50.1 25 - 1861–1862 - 50.1

The 1996 record high of 60 is interesting because depending on one’s location up to another two feet of snow was yet to fall before that winter was done. The 1990 record lows are interesting because that was in that otherwise terribly warm January / February in a winter that turned on a dime for the worst after a frigid December.

Yeah quite the shift from 18z!

We built a new insulated coop with a solar door leading to a hoop coop that is covered during the winter. So far so good

Significant Stratosphere Warming event to occur in early March. Does a March SSW precede a later-in-the-year El Nino? No.

Torch!

Today's split EWR: 48 /32 (+2) NYC: 49/ 38 (+7)

Ryan Hanrahan posted this of a guy from Narragansett if that isn't enough proof...

NAM backed off at 0z. Significantly

What did you get? I heard it ripped for 3 hours

Confirmation bias, one of the most common logical fallacies and *rife* in society, as has always been, but the age of information overload has exacerbated it.

dont buy what these models say

Thanks for the info/input. The 2/2/1976 storm, yes 957 mb at CAR is their lowest pressured on record. BOS had 965 mb for its second lowest on record (has this been matched or exceeded since?). Bliz of 93 was about 963 mb when it passed over central MA (up from 960 mb peak over the Mid-Atlantic). What is the "OV Blizzard?" The Feb 1976 one? The Jan 2018 blizzard offshore SE of ACK was 950 mb. I seem to recall in the New England Wx Book (Ludlum) stated a storm SE of ACK in the mid 20th century was 947 mb. The "CLE Superbomb" Jan 1978 lowest was 956 mb in Mt Clemens MI. The New England non-tropical pressure record is 955 mb at BID set on 3/7/1932. And Canton NY had 955 mb in a Jan 1913 storm. These are the lowest non-tropical pressures for the CONUS, although very close is 955.2 mb at Bigfork MN set on 10/26/2010. The

So did the high winds knock the ratios down as expected? Never had realized that until it was brought up leading up to this past storm.

I’ve not been sold on this being more than melt and mud season. I don’t like the fact that the smeared out polar vortex is on this side of the north pole; it inherently means that we’re gonna have a compressed flow and fast flow in southern Canada. That’s a recipe for wedging… That’s always been there. It doesn’t mean we can’t get super warm but it just makes it really dicey wouldn’t feel comfortable going for that at this range.

You get *that* much "mashed potatoes," that's whats going to happen. Not often you get so much snow that is wet/high LEQ for the duration of the storm. Same thing happened in the DC area for the storm last month (plows getting stuck/equipment breaking), but for a different reason. 6" of snow, followed by 2-4" of PL, then a seal coast of FZRA! Then wicked cold after. It turned into a glacier quickly ("snowcrete" came up as a term, new one for me!) and made snow removal unusually difficult. This is why I say that I would take 3 ft of fluff over 6" of mashed potatoes any day, at least when it comes to overall impact and the hassle of driving in it and cleaning it up!