40/70 Benchmark

Past 3 weeks has sealed this season's fate as suboptimal for me....Blizzard grazing me at the last moment, and then March shitting the bed daggered any shot of an "A".

When I say "done"....you know what I mean...that may mean literally to some, but to me that means done with anything I'll give a rat's scrotum about.

Not going to be shut out technically speaking because most of the interior has snowed already this month.

It's over down here....as someone who spent hours upon hours concluding that March would be fruitful this season, it's abundantly clear where this is headed for SNE...different story up there.

Yea, we can't buy a decent December or March....at the risk of having the thread discussion gravitate towards "you know that"...

Agree on that....warmth is performing.

I agree, it will go faster today...yesterday the dews slowed it, which was my original point.

I had 23-25" depth at peak, now I have 13-15"...so have lost 10" off of peak depth....nothing to argue there; I took the measurements...it's ground truth. 30-50% loss in total, yes....about dead-on.

Yesterday alone? False...not where I am....I didn't lose 7".

Melting was less than I expected yesterday bc of the lew dews....no filtration, just a yardstick into the snow....still over a foot.

It sucks... as for accountability...yea, I blew it on March. Happens.

Yea, it's going to be just about the most least desirable month of March possible.......eeeeeveryone lean over and grab your ankles...warminstas, snow lovers, frigidairres....mother nature has got a butt-plug uniquely tailored to everyone's crevices, right down to each twist and turn of the colon.

He probably sees the writing on the wall and checked out, like I'm about to.

If isn't going to snow, may as well. I am really surprised March sucked...didn't expect that. The failed SSW in early February killed us.

KPVD was down to 11" Friday...must be down to like 4-5" now....39" cancel.

Guessing your folks have around what I do.

The only bare spot on my property is under the pine tree.

It was in the 60's, but my dew was in the lower 30s.

13-15" on the level... The drift that was 3' after the blizzard is still 19".

Spring Preview This Week Followed By Mid-Month Regression Cooler & Stormier Start To Astronomical Spring As the conclusion of the harshest winter in about a decade comes into focus, those beleaguered by the season begin to look forward to spring with great anticipation, and it just so happens that Mother Nature is obliging this week. Indeed, the progression of the MJO through the Maritime Continent is treating New Englanders to a bona fide spring preview this week, as temperatures soar through the 60s today, and even potentially past 70 degrees tomorrow across the forecast area. Note the similarity between the current pattern that is poised to bring near record warmth across the east. And the regime associated with passage of the MJO through phase 6 during early to mid March. One consequence of a mild pattern such as this is that the cold is afforded ample time to pool near the pole, which leaves the mid latitudes vulnerable to future incursions should the pattern permit, and in a season such as this not often will. Astronomical Spring More Akin To Late Winter This Year Mother Nature often refuses to abide by the calendar definition of seasons, which is but a mere artifact of Astrology, and at no other point of the year is this more evident in New England than the Spring. If one is in search for a deviation from that trend, then this is not the year to conduct a fruitful search. Last summer, Eastern Mass weather began making a case for why the coming cold season was likely to display a propensity for episodes of cross polar flow due to the expected configuration of both the polar domain, as well as the extra tropical Pacific. This analysis has proven very prescient in nature. It would stand to reason that "spring" 2026 may have one last bitter pill for the region to swallow and it just so happens that there are indeed signs that that will be the case. Note the progression of the MJO wave out of the MC and into phases 7 and 8. Although the wave is forecast to weaken markedly upon passage into phase 8, currently it is forecast to impress on the tropical forcing pattern, nonetheless. Here is the pattern that this type of forcing regime in mid-latter March, approaching the equinox would entail. This should look familiar. There is also a strong storm signal centered on the 16th, as a PNA judge flexes into existence for perhaps one final time. Obviously the cold will undoubtedly be less severe and more ephemeral in nature than it was during the heart of the boreal winter season, but one last winter storm can not be ruled out, especially across the distant interior between now and the "astronomical" start of spring. A cold rain likely on the coastal plain at this extended juncture; spring in New England, indeed.

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2026/03/spring-preview-this-week-by-mid-month.html

Yea, beyond St Paddy's Day requires a much great anomaly to get even a pedestrian snow event on the CP.

Well, it's not a climo-thing for me...it's a "the set up would blow in January"-thing....looks like we are going to have a 50/50 High.

Go draft

And I mean it, too-