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OES on the move, Special weather statement for up to 4”

It’s BS! Period.

Sorry buddy but this winter is done. I am usually the last one to hold out hope but there is no hope left. Nothing is pointing to snow and sustained cold coming.

March 19 2012: This is the 4th day in a row that the Twin Cities reaches at least 79 degrees, and the 8th record high in a 10 day span. 1977: An energy emergency finally ends in Minnesota. It was caused by the extended cold. For Thursday, March 19, 2026 1935 - Suffocating dust storms occurred frequently in southeastern Colorado between the 12th and the 25th of the month. Six people died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Up to six feet of dust covered the ground. Schools were closed, and many rural homes were deserted by tenants. (The Weather Channel) 1950 - Timberline Lodge reported 246 inches of snow on the ground, a record for the state of Oregon. (The Weather Channel) 1956 - The second heavy snowstorm in just three days hit Boston. Nearby Blue Hill received 19.5 inches contributing to their snowiest March of record. (David Ludlum) 1987 - A storm in the western U.S. produced rain and snow from the northern and central Pacific coast to the northern and central Rockies. Heavier snowfall totals included 13 inches at Clear Creek UT, 12 inches at Snow Camp CA and Glacier Park MT, and 10 inches at Kayenta AZ. Wind gusts reached 54 mph at Winslow AZ. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Seven cities in California and Nevada reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s and lower 90s. Los Angeles CA reported a record high of 89 degrees. Five cities in south central Texas reported record lows, including El Paso, with a reading of 22 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Six cities reported new record low temperatures for the date as cold arctic air settled into the Upper Midwest for Palm Sunday, including Marquette MI with a reading of 11 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Rather wintry weather in the eastern U.S. replaced the 80 degree weather of the previous week. Freezing temperatures were reported in northern sections of the Gulf Coast States, and snow began to whiten the Northern and Central Appalachians. Up to eight inches of snow was reported in western Virginia. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 2003 - Denver digs out from the second-biggest snowstorm in the city's history. Almost two and a half feet of wet snow over 36 hours shuts down the city. The month ends as Denver's snowiest March on record.

Just saw this...so sad. RIP

And this was an analog by many for this winter. Interesting.

The strength of the mid March sun did work yesterday. Down to just drifts already, albeit they are still big drifts. Low to mid 60s today should really shrink those by this evening.

The sun is as high in the sky now as late September. It’ll try to warm up when it can. I think most of us are in the 70s on Sunday. Of course that doesn’t apply to the south shore barrier islands that might be lucky to hit 50. Springs suck down there.

Yes, same. Genuine excitement. For Roger, it was definitely not just "an imby sport".

Agree

The Vostok cores are pretty accurate. But that’s only back about 380k years.

The storms did come just not cold enough-we had the big mid March windstorm here which knocked out power to some for 5 days. And a 2 day rainstorm at the end of the month. 1888 LOL-that's a good one.

I remember that well. The hype from JB in mid-late February was off the charts that winter. He was calling for a record-breaking cold and snowy March in the east, “March Madness!” and was using 1888, 1958, 1960 and 1993 as the analogs

I never stated my confidence level. I'm merely stating what the study indicated. The aspects about taut/tension in the system is pure logic after the fact. Having said that, it is based on elemental sciences like coring deep sediments, where trapped air extracts can be analyzed for atmospheric chemistry/volatiles ..etc, doing so in strata, knowing factually the layers downward are older as rudimentary fact ... this goes on quite a ways. It's clear that for some reason, these aspects of the world and research we live in escapes you for whatever reason. But that all enables a history with high confidence interval - see... you have to know how these things are determined. That might help the knee jerk tendency to doubt. There was a universe that existed, long before we were ever here. That does not mean we out of hand doubt what the universe had/or did.

I marvel at your apparent confidence in research that proclaims to cover periods of time stretching back 100's of millions of years. It's a bold stance and you do it with conviction.

And LA

Heat out west So Cal

The cold air disappeared that year--storms raged all of march was too bad some areas could have put up another 20-30 inches of snow had it been colder

Clouds moved in again and prevented us from bottoming out, only got to 34.3 here

I want a hit, even though it’d be inconvenient for me personally haha. I’m just shy of 150” in my first season here! The basement held together beautifully after the rapid snow melt so I’m ready for as much as we can get. It’s funny—in CT I’m ready for spring but up here I’ll be ready April 1.

I know that showing the sharp cutoff can be tough if you don't have enough reports but I only had .4 on the board for that one. Not 4" but .4, a terrible bust for my neck of the woods due to one of the sharpest cutoffs I've recorded.

Not in all areas. Philly and the mid-Atlantic got some good snow, and even the areas that got shut out of snow were still well below average temperaturewise. If you want a shutout March, look at 09/10. Winter just suddenly stopped once the calendar flipped to March 1. The entire spring and summer was well above average.

Good point although the good possibility of Phoenix approaching if not reaching 105, the hottest on record in April, during some point within the next 3 days is amazing. But Don, myself, and others realize that their rapid growth’s caused increasing UHI has also been a notable factor. Speaking of UHI though, isn’t that more of a factor for warm lows than hot highs?

I always go back to Will/ORH's logic from the past two decades... might as well enjoy the weather hobbyist excitement of snowfall and root for it, because it's not going to magically be 70F and sunny instead. If the alternative to it snowing is a 35.7F degree, one inch of rainfall, it's sort of why not go for snow, provided you don't have to drive three hours in it or something. It'll melt soon enough. Either way it's going to get muddy, be it during an inch of cold rain or after the snow melts, guess the cold rain it just is muddy sooner, ha.

Low of 36.