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What he said was perfect, and spot on. Sorry if you don’t like it. Get your mouth off of the warminista weenies. And all kidding aside as well, that’s cool that you’ve contributed to getting the ASOS fixed…I honestly think that’s great.

33° cloudy. .91" for the event

3k tries to get Ditty his inch. 69.9” final?

Looks like the cold front is hung up on the mountains so that's great. May warm up more than forecast.

There's been a BN pattern that's been pretty specifically attacking N/E of the Mason Dixie line latitude. One that is unrelenting. It's really just a variation of the same aspects that brought folks cold and snows through much of the winter. However, the last three weeks lost much of the high latitude blocking - as we move through March toward April it is more and more required that there be a direct cold air feeding into a snowing scenario. It's really as though the pattern is BN but not BN enough without that sourcing.

I just hope we don't ride the boundary all summer long where we get a nice day or two followed by 2-3 muck days, then a nice one again, and so forth and so on. I'm delivering Hazleton today again, and it's cloudy, drizzly, and 36 outside. Nasty, depressing stuff.

Kidding aside. For the last decade plus, almost every met in here has called out ASOS/AWOS sites when they are starting to run out of line. We overanalyze temps and dews in here daily so we notice when a site starts to report data that is out of place with the norm. I think we have personally contributed to some of these sites getting fixed earlier than they would’ve otherwise been. I have mentioned many times about how ASOS is very responsive and that they had to go with 5 min running means to better mimic the slower response of liquid thermometers. We’ve all mentioned how it’s difficult to thread all of the site’s records with changes in instrumentation, shielding, and siting. It is what it is. But this was just about throwing “UHI” out there because of heat records when every site out there in tumbleweedville is breaking records by 10°F.

Yea, weaker just allows for other influences to have more impact...which isn't necessarily a cold influence. Weaker events are just colder on average because they aren't overwhelmingly strong east-based events and this have greater variability.

Not great

March 23 1966: A snowstorm brings a foot of snow to southern Minnesota. For Monday, March 23, 2026 1913 - A vicious tornado hit the city of Omaha, NE. The tornado struck during the late afternoon on Easter Sunday, and in just twelve minutes cut a swath of total destruction five miles long and two blocks wide across the city killing 94 persons and causing 3.5 million dollars property damage. (David Ludlum) 1916 - Pocatello, ID, received a record 14.6 inches of snow in 24 hours. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - A blizzard raged across western Kansas, and the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma. Pampa TX received 21 inches of snow, and winds gusted to 78 mph at Dodge City KS Altus OK. Governor Hayden declared forty-six counties in western Kansas a disaster area. In southwest Kansas, the storm was described as the worst in thirty years. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms developing along a strong cold front spawned tornadoes near Roberts ID and Bridger MT. Strong and gusty winds prevailed in the western U.S. Wind gusts in the southwest part of Reno NV reached 89 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Charlotte and Wilmington, NC, reported rainfall records for the date as showers and thunderstorms prevailed in the southeastern U.S. Freezing rain glazed parts of North Carolina and southern Virginia. Gale force winds produced a heavy surf along the coast of North Carolina. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - An upper level storm system produced heavy snow in the Lower Missouri Valley. Snowfall totals ranged up to nine inches at Kansas City MO, with eight inches reported at Falls City NE, Columbia MO and Saint Louis MO. Thunderstorms produced heavy snow in the Kansas City area during the evening rush hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 2007 - A trailer is thrown through a bowling alley as a tornado moves through Clovis, NM. About 100 homes and businesses are destroyed, at least three schools are damaged and telephone poles are snapped. Thirteen tornadoes struck a dozen communities along the New Mexico/Texas border. Two people were critically injured. 2011 - A series of tornados are spawned from severe thunderstorms in Pennsylvania. In Hempfield Township dozens of homes and a high school auditorium where students are rehearsing a play are severely damaged.

oh man what is this coming nino going to do to our climate baseline

Just take your mouth off of vortex’s before you do it. TIA

Always a chance..except it’s like 1%. Or Maybe .5% there. Enjoy the milder weather when it comes Ant…it’s not all bad.

Me thinks there's going to be a lot of active weather in the coming months.

As a weather geek I thought yesterday was kind of neat - my temp was in the mid 50s at 11am and I still managed a high of 83. I was able to watch the temp steadily rise on the station which doesn't happen often.

Still have some patches in my yard (not including today's minor amounts).

91-92 was probably the 2nd strongest that was basin-wide or more west-based. RONI was +2.3 for 91-92.

The super Ninos over the last 50+ years have all been east-based/East Pacific (1972-73, 1982-83, 1997-98), with the exception of 2015-16, which was basin-wide. There are no Modoki super El Niños

23-24 didn't have super negative anomalies in the Pacific like other Strong Nino's, but ENSO mainly effects the North Pacific High 23-24 cold season did have a NPH negative anomaly, which is El Nino. I see why RONI was +1.5, as the total N. Pacific pattern wasn't very influenced by ENSO seemingly:

Any chance of April snow?

Defintely with the sun angle

Brian, I’ll be sure to weenie your posts a little more often now too.

Yes, which is The Best way to remember things…by association.

Exactly. It's because the stronger ones tend to be significantly more east-based.