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B+ is my grade. A good mix of colder/warmer wx, and lots of little snows (and some rn). 2 snow events that were very cool. 1st was the LES dump of 6" in 3hrs on 11/29, and of course the blizzard of 2/18 which netted 18", and shutdown Hwy 61 along the shore from DLH to the border for a good part of the day. Depending on what comes in the next couple weeks could bump it up into the A grade.

Need that high to back off the end of next week for any big warmth. Gonna be hard to scour out if becomes entrenched. 12z gfs nearly kills the entire window with CAD for eastern areas. Euro AI has been doing it too at times.

I say this every year, but I don't grade til April. Its minimal, but March/April does have a slight impact on my grade. It will likely be in A-/B+ territory, and certainly no lower than a B+ I love the endless cold/snowcover as you know, so it was really an excellent winter. No huge storms (biggest mby 6.2", biggest DTW 6.1") and an almost comical no white Christmas (considering the continuous snowcover that began in late November) are the only real mars on the grade. I wouldve liked to kept the snowpack into March but deep winter started unusually early, so wont dock for that. AWSSI still has Detroit in an "extreme" winter. A mild March would likely knock it down to "severe" but no further. https://mrcc.purdue.edu/research/AWSSI/chart?stn=DTWthr Side note, and I never count this into grades, but it seemed locally that the models had an atrocious winter performance. There were both rugpulls and last minute surprises.

As I get older I'm all about anomalies. As stupid as this sounds, it's a bit deflating to miss it by 10-15 miles. That is the shit we live for. Not 1-3" refreshers over crust.

Sweet!! Love it. Where are they going to be located, if I may ask? Also, gotta find a time to meet for lunch one day and chat meteorology and learn more about the Mesonet program. I was actually shadowed by a student at UMD this past Friday that knows you. She was incredibly bright and has interest in WPC. Small world!!

Fair point-I thought it was aggressive for timing even in a normal winter.

Yea as long as every becs doesnt strike the same area cuz of fast flow, etc…sematt.

Tradeoff I am willing to make TBH...give me a decade of shit winters if we get an event like that.

Well, that April storm was easy to remember because I was 22 at the time and about to graduate from Rutgers. The anticipation for the upcoming snow was intense. The day before, Monday, was in the upper 40's. The storm dumped 9" with frigid temperatures and wind. That arctic airmass brought down a 510 thickness to PA/NJ. With the snow on the ground my low temperature dropped to 16 degrees Wednesday morning and with full sunshine my high stayed below freezing at 31 degrees. Truly a rarity and the largest April snowstorm of my life still to this day. Also, Central Park broke their record lows for both the 6th and the 7th with 21 degrees at midnight going into the 7th, so it caught both days within a few minutes.

12z GFS and CMC. 6z Dr. No is still pretty much a no.

Yup. That’s more water vapor into the atmosphere in a nutshell…

We hit 30 that morning. Much of NC away from the coastal areas were in the 20's on that morning.

I had to go back to 2021 to find an April freeze. Most of NC had a hard freeze back early April of 2021.

I meant we went a month practically without snow. Jan 25th-Feb 22 in the heart of winter...so no +.

That’s not the worst thing haha. Spring games can suck.

COME ON MAN! You call yourself a sledder!? JK but seriously, I've been out at 45 degrees below in central Canada... THAT was chilly, but we were dressed for it. We ended up coming in late for dinner to our hotel that night because of a problem Arctic Crap sled. We would sled from hotel to hotel for 6 nights, it was awesome!

Weather weenies trying to reassure me that 37.9" is actually too big, and PWM's 31.9" is perfect.

12z ggem much milder for 3/5-8 than gfs

My Grandfather was Director of H.E.L.Co. Simsbury facility (Hartford electric light company... before Neversource) and they had several measurements taken from different areas around the valley that blow away the official units. I was living in Granby CT at the time, we had approximately 26 inches. It for sure WAS hard to measure... but no where near the 17 or so I see at times. I feel like some just gave up with the winds

Haven't heard from you in awhile! Welcome back!

We should had a soccer tournament in LI canceled as the fields wont be playable by next weekend...

What are the odds that PVD holds the record for all first order New England stations regarding snowfall lol. Seriously.

advisory level mostly north of CT/RI border on the GFS .. looks like a beefed up version of what we had on Wednesday morning

You guys have a legit shot at snow Tuesday it aint dead yet,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I will be away LOL

it looks like we had a 10" at most