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Yes, quite the season for sure…beginning to very late end. And even a huge screamer total melt out in mid January too. It Had it all.

More than likely the best winter of my lifetime....

Ya…quite the season. 14-15 didn’t even come close here to 95-96. 14-15 Was a very good season, but well short by probably 30-35”.

I’ve been looking back at the January 25, 2026 storm where MDT pulled in about 11" of snow. One of the most frustrating parts of that event was the "yo-yo" effect: we went from heavy snow to sleet, back to snow, and then back to sleet again. We often talk about Dynamic Cooling (where heavy precip "drags" cold air down or uses melting/evaporation to zero out a warm layer), but in this storm, it felt like the heavy rates were also doing the opposite. I’d love to get some thoughts on the Latent Heat Paradox from this event: The Cooling Phase: At what point does the "Melting Tax" (energy absorbed to turn snow to rain) lose the battle to the Latent Heat of Fusion (energy released when rain freezes into sleet pellets)? It felt like the very act of creating sleet was releasing enough heat to "insulate" the warm nose aloft. Altitude of Condensation: Did the transition back to snow mid-storm happen because the best lift/condensation shifted into the Dendritic Growth Zone (DGZ), or did we just finally "exhaust" the warm nose through pure melting cooling? The Disconnect: How do we reconcile the massive negative anomalies we saw on the 850mb maps with the persistent sleet pings we heard on the windows? Was this a case of the storm "cooking its own environment" through condensation warming at the mid-levels? Would love to see some sounding analysis or thoughts on which latent process were dominant at which times Sent from my SM-S731U using Tapatalk

Yea, same. 30 years and only 2014-2015 came within a foot. 2004-2005 is the only other season to come within 20".

@so_whats_happening

thurs evening looks similar

seems like it verified fairly well

Yeah, Quabbin still really low. Not sure why folks are poo pooing the MOD drought status.

16 days worth of rain on the Euro. This is bad.

There were some flakes mixing in up here in early May too. I want to say around 5/6?

Still the most seasonal snowfall here too. And I remember the Easter Nor Easter well too that season. 95-96 just didn’t want to stop snowing …well into April.

Man, idk how you deal with the humidity. When I’m in Florida surrounded by palm trees and stuff, I can live with it for a time. Outside that, just brutal. I am a cold to cool weather fan with a thirst for snow. I probably belong in New England and you belong in South Carolina! That sounds like the perfect spot considering your flavors of weather choices. If you want heat with less mosquitos, move west of 100°W. That’s where I was in Midland located west of that line. Not much in the mosquito department, but it was WAY too dry. One thing about the US is that we have all the weather types you could ever want. Go where life makes you happy!

90% of the SE is in at least moderate drought for the first time since the drought monitor data began in 2000. Other years had more coverage of severe drought (2012, 2007, 2002), but the overall drought coverage is unprecedented.

Man, I’m ready for a 6 month long Bermuda High at this point. I’m actually contemplating relocating south or west. Totally subjective, but I’ve realized that the weather just kinda sucks here in the winter and sometimes beginning as early as November and lasting through March. Just not my cup of tea anymore and doesn’t really serve my hobbies very well…mostly because the payoff in the snow department just is not there. On the flip side, I guess I’m one of the few that loves mid-Atlantic summers. Yea, it can get hot, but most of the time I still find the peak heat to be tolerable. Mosquitoes get annoying, though.

bust

fantasy snow threats more or less disappearing from the models, we done with snow until next season?

Thanks, Don! This tells me that Yellowknife won’t be as cold this month as it was in March of 1964. Unlike 2026, that month was post El Nino, opposite of 2026. That month was also quite cold further N, N of 80N (<-30C): Compare that to the current March so far, which is ~-20C or >10C warmer!!

This winter needed like one more 20"er to make high-end in my eyes. ...or at least a 1 foot, anyway. There were a few opportunities, but winter 2025-2026 kept missing the open net to seal it's place in interior SNE winter-lore. Instead it was winter-bore for the final month.

As I get older, I'm finding winter is a grind when there is nothing really to track...aka no snow. So a winter like that would certainly be appreciated by me. Just a prolonged cold season.

I feel like if we can dodge the super-status next year, we could holdover this cool east/warm west alignment and get a 2002-2003 type of season.

Yeah I figured you'd get it. A much needed good winter to sooth the soul, though.

Beautiful sunshine today. It’s amazing how much nicer 40 degrees feels when it’s not cloudy or too windy.

I mean stein relative to other areas...not that it's actually been bone-dry...but even the screamer was much less than areas to the south...I had well under an inch, like .74", I think.