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We still have a quite a few freezes until they are back. That is also the only positive of a late freeze. Sent from my SM-S731U using Tapatalk

I only have like 3" left on my deck from the 12" or so we got Monday. 45 today and 55 tomorrow should take care of the rest, but grass and piles will take a couple more days after that. By next week it will all be gone but agree the fields will be disgusting for a while.

Wow! In terms of light freezes, KSAV has had them as late as April 16th! But that 32 was way back during a colder era, 1962. However, we’ve much more recently in early April had 2 light freezes in 2007 and even a 32 on April 3rd just 5 years ago!

I wish for 115 degree temperatures and 80 degree dew points for you then.

We have 4 on the docket once we dry out a bit.

It’s slowly going north last 4 runs, it’s an outlier on timing though

A little more snow for us Sunday? After the melt today and tomorrow we're gonna need the refresh.

Current forecast from GYX has us at 0.5", with a 10% chance of 2". The midget march continues.

More mesonet stations on the way?

It looked like it worked out fine. Temperatures marginal but right at freezing. Nice stripe of qpf just to our north.

As I've whined before, that was the absolute worst double-digit "snow" event in my wx-aware lifetime (1950 forward). The 10.7" had 2.67" LE and was so wet that it would splatter on branches rather than sticking like the above pic. That mess was made even worse by the 1.14" RA at 33-35°, powered by the same NE wind that buried Central Park. Our snow blower was broken (probably would've broken anyway in the glop) and pushing a full snow scoop was a chore. The driveway had been bare ground, so the scoop was dragging thru the mud while holding 15-20 lb per square foot. A year earlier (Feb 22-23) we'd had a 24.5" dump of 12:1 powder that was far easier to move even though it fell atop a 27" pack and resulted in 7-foot banks by the time we'd finished. The cocorahs in Temple, 10 miles west and 830' higher, reported 26.4" in that event.

Point is - it's going to get quite warm next week. The vast majority of people will be in full-on spring mode. Quite likely for good reason... But don't completely bury winter. History has shown that it can roar back after it seemed like it was gone.

50s and dry is great concrete pouring weather.

already some grass showing in south facing areas here....

i am heading up to Pittsburg for some snowmobiling next week. wunderground has them at -13 Sunday night, and -6 Monday night. i won't be out on the sled in those temps, screw that.

We frequently get freezes into mid April in central NC. A few years ago during the first week of turkey season (second week of April) I woke up to 24 degrees in Louisburg NC, was absolutely not dressed for that. Long range looks extremely warm for first half of March, but I am confident there will be more sub freezing mornings before April

His point has merit though. Related to, the definition of extremes is getting diminished by increasing frequency of them. Some would like to hide in the cozy euphemism that it is just cycles of nature playing out, and the gaslight of that evasion of reality is that yeah .. nature does have cycles. But excluding that denial tactic ( which is either amoral, a straight question of competent intelligence/education/etc, or a mash up of all), the frequency increase graph is matching the CC graph... sort of like a Keeling Curve for events, not CO2. haha. Nice cozy fit. 'Sides, math has already demoed that extremes increase in a d(climate). Tongue in cheek aside... you almost feel better about getting a repeat of the "extraordinary" now, than you would living in 1990.

That one was sort of painful here. And somewhat reminiscent of what we just experienced. The Susquehanna separated the haves (east) from the have nots. (west) I lived in Centerville and measured 3.4". Areas to my east did MUCH better.

Warm-ish March is fine if we must. Torching March = mud + mosquitos. Terrible.

I think 60s is a good compromise for this time of year. Nice enough where you can comfortably wear no jacket but not so warm where it starts feeling uncomfortable.

You would have loved that storm. Imagine, the last week of April with legit SN+ in the middle of the day, temps in the mid 20s and howling winds. The rarest of winter days, and it came on April 6th. Snow was powder, too. I remember it was really cold after the storm but the snow had no chance up against the April sun. Areas that were drifted over held up for nearly a week but outside of that, it was toast the following day. School was closed the day of the storm and the day after. At least fine, rural and agricultural schools like Penn Manor were.

I just want 50's not 80's.

Oh please do let me know if you have any good wildflower hikes to go on. I've done the Bull Run Bluebells but otherwise just know about the Mountain Laurels across Shenandoah and WV. Got some hikes I've done in the winter (namely Cranberry wilderness) that I can't wait to do in the spring. Also have a patch of wild daffodils out next to a path near my house. Just hundreds of them.

Of course, I moved from here to Sandwich in 2020. and Of course, I wasn't in Sandwich for Jan 27, 2015 Missed both maxes due to bad timing. I won't complain much outside of those two storms though. For instance, 2/14/15 was epic in Acushnet

And honestly most bugs are more hardy than people give them credit for. You really need more than just one night of hard freeze to kill most. Many can just sort of slow down their metabolism and hunker down.