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Snow Anus of the East Coast. Atleast compared to average.

Year 9 and counting.

What about Jan 26-27, 2015 there? You are pretty close to 495 so I thought that band that gave 30"+ from near or just south of ASH to Westford to ORH would have gotten you....but maybe you were just shy.

I think we enjoyed last year more. More powdery and lots more sledding. This time it was tough, hard/fast sledding and my daughter got a bit scared. We did make a killer igloo though!

Your kids finally got a significant snowfall! Did they enjoy it?

How far did this actually track outside of the Benchmark?

Yeah, we had cold and no real torch this winter. Snowcover was great. And the atmosphere threw some HECS, but they both missed. We only needed one direct hit, and it would have changed the entire picture.

Also, I don't believe DC, Baltimore and northern Virginia received at least 4 inches of snow

March looking toasty on the Euro weeklies... pivotal-weather-eps_weeklies_mean-850t_stdanom_wkly-conus.mp4

Looked and felt like a real winter, but definitely not enough snowfall.

You are right it’s very strange that on a message board dedicated to Weather in a thread specifically debating what happened at a given location someone who was at that location and has pictures and documentation of the events that occurred there would show up to shed some light on what happened. That is very weird stuff.

This is what I've been thinking too. But NE will, of course, be favored. Plus, we've had how many BN months in a row? Has to change at some point, but I'm not sure a fading Niña will do it.

Before there was a National Weather Service to keep careful records, the function of recording local weather statistics was left in the hands of interested individuals. William Whitehead furnished meteorological information to the old Newark Daily Advertiser, which printed it in a column from 1843 to 1884. Later, William Wiener, principal of Central High School, assumed this function. Eventually the task was taken over by the Department of Agriculture. In 1924, the Weather Bureau began recording local data. By 1931, the federal government established a full-time agency for this purpose. But for a brief time, weather observations were made on the roof of Kresge's department store. Today, climatological data sheets provide detailed weather information for Newark and weather stations through the state. Copies can be found in the Newark Public Library's New Jersey Information Center as well as in federal document depository collections. In addition, clipping files are available in the New Jersey Information Center. The first half of the 20th century saw several extremely dangerous storms in 1914, 1917, 1937 and 1947. The year 1914 was characterized by a general paralysis of business, with the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars and untold suffering. https://knowingnewark.npl.org/from-mere-dustings-to-blizzards-snow-has-affected-newark-history/#:~:text=Before there was a National,of dollars and untold suffering.

Yeah in a lot of places it does, that was an extremely cold winter...it was a full degree colder than this winter was and this winter was no slouch...top 15 coldest at ORH airport since it went online 1948. I don't think it quite beats this year right near here though for snow cover. Though it's close....this year also beats that season for having a lot of days with pack >= 18".

Nine out of the last ten years Eden has seen the temperature drop below 30° in April. 28.4° April 9, 2025 28.4° April 7, 2024 29.7° April 11, 2023 28.6° April 20, 2022 29.4° April 23, 2021 28.8° April 12, 2020 29.1° April 3, 2019 28.6° April 9, 2018 26.6° March 10, 2017 26.3° April 11, 2016 The latest date the temperature fell below freezing during this ten year period was May 11, 2020 when it dropped to 30.3°.

Can’t give a winter grade when big dog season is upon us in MN. I love the active look even it means rain imby with a footer a few counties north.

I think your being very generous with your grade lol. I give no higher than a D+. If no more snow happens I'll end up with 17" in my yard which is only about 60% of climo. 5 years and running for under 20" for the season. It's just been a brutal stretch for the western and Northern areas. Some people love Cold but without snow it's just meh to me. Outrageous heating bill the last 2 months lol.

We will be luckily to see it growing by mid-April. Thankfully, because I have too much work to worry about mowing twice a week until May. Also, we have Banana Ball tickets for Yankee Stadium in late-April. I fully expect that game will be 33 with a light mist or 90 with a dew point of 88. No in-between.

Ya that 6”/hr was biblical to say the least…what a total beast. 33+ in that one. No forgetting that. And absolutely positive that United is correct with 78’s measuring. We had two feet plus very easily..with drifts that were absolutely mammoth. Those measurements are so off..it’s a shame.

Plant those pumpkins and watermelon the 2nd week of March. Call me risky. SSWs have not correlated with cold in March-April the last few times. Experiment to see how they do, they are thick plants.

50 at MSP, whiplash tomorrow with 1-3” of snow possible, although each model run bumps it further north.

I've been converting the radar loops from GIF to MP4 files using Handbrake. It's free. You set the GIF file as the "Source" and then I use the preset "Social 25 MB 5 Minutes 360p60". Seems to take the largest GIF's and get them below my rather low attachment limit size. You can play around with the presets to see which one works best for what you want to post. GIF's are very inefficient for showing motion graphics, they just happen to be an open standard that's been around forever, so if you don't have a file size to worry about they work, especially since it's easy to take one still image and make it a frame in a GIF.

20+ days with significant snow on the ground is good. I feel like it was a real Winter. Of course at 39N/90 we aren't always going to get sustained cold like it was.

And now you all know why I kvetch about the lack of snow (admittedly more than I should and not in the banter thread often enough). This winter gets no higher than a B- imby. Glad the snow mounds are on their way out and spring is on its way in.

March 6-7, 2018 smoked me here, as did December 30, 2000; I just don’t recall if they hit CPK. .