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well... given another 70 years of unabated CC and maybe that will have become common March practice.

You may be onto something? Lol. It makes it sound like folks are out there filling their pools and watering their gardens on March 18th...

Looks like 37 will be the high here after a low of 25. Feels quite cold despite the strong mid March sun. This would have felt refreshing a month or so ago. A guess those super warm days effed me up.

I hope we're done with single digits out there. Looks like about 1" of snow overnight too.

Trees aren't an issue for me as it's a rowhome right downtown. But you're probably on to something regarding snowcover. Last year and this year saw significant stretches of snow on the panels so that probably explains the drop vs. 22/23.

The crazy part is, this nearly verified.

they'll try to use that as another reason to cancel school lol

Clipper/WAA snows dusted the area last night/this morning, with 0.4" at ORD and 1.1" at RFD. …2025/26 Season Snowfall... 34.1" - ORD 30.8" - RFD

Those ridiculous drought maps lead to a whole new form of hype.

I think though that was more in the Sierras where that happened (2022-2023 winter?). But outside of that winter I think the West has had some serious "snow droughts" over the past several years. I say that kind of loosely because below average for some of the ski areas still can produce 200" of snow lol but I'm pretty sure many of those areas have been hurting YoY.

I was literally about to post this. Funny thing (not funny) - this is officially the snowiest winter I've had since I moved to my current home in McHenry.

Snowcover made a huge difference to this winter’s production as well. I bet that’s the bigger factor than clouds.

Reading the critical drought story on 25 Boston makes me wonder if they think we are in the middle of a severe summer drought! Not mid- March? Banning outdoor water use, etc... Sounds kinda crazy! https://x.com/i/status/2034340337364218330

Agreed. But the point was they were so completely buried beyond belief, so having almost nothing almost makes sense to average it out. But ya, feel sorry for them.

An in depth but sadly accurate description of the principle …. ‘Sin Begets Sin’ ….. As always ….

Yep that changed everything along with a persistent-WPO and -NAO.

There were many on here who also predicted close to those amounts for NYC.

Still haven't hit 40F in Cville despite having full sun since about 9am. This is one of the coldest late March days I can remember

I was one who thought this would be another lame to maybe average at best winter. We really lucked out with the Nov SSW and somewhat slowed Pacific Jet.

EPIC bust for sure for the northeast

it's just they release these to the public whom take this very literally.

Yeah...without the EPS supportive at < 108 hours I'm thinking this is just another GFS endless winter sell.

Long range predictions are fickle. Take them with a grain of salt.