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35.6° light rain, some wet flakes. If this pattern switched even a month earlier it could have been a memorable last two weeks of March. The last of 100 other reasons to make this winter season a top 3 stinker of all time.

I would have expected all of those seasons to have warmed even more than what you show here. When you give the deviations here, are they increases for the last decade 2010-2019 vs. the 30 year averages 1951-1980?

38°, high winds and sunny skies at high noon on April 22nd. I repeat where was this pattern January through March when I would have enjoyed the cold. Anything that flowered three weeks premature is pretty much dead from the last several days.

Good Lord one month of normal temperatures after Several months of way above normal and people are complaining. It just reinforces my thoughts from several posts previous.

Bottomed out at 27.8° this morning, the third day in row below 30.

Amazing that so many seem to be complaining about how cold April has been and most stations are now within a half degree plus or minus normal right now for the month (NYC -0.2° through the 18th, Newark +0.2° and Poughkeepsie +0.5°. We've grown so accustomed to above normal temperatures we've forgotten what normal feels like, or at least what use to be normal as the planet continues to warm.

Bottomed out at 27.8° this morning. Definitely looking forward to 60° later today. Where was this pattern December 15th through March?

Did you get any accumulation last night Rob? I heard reports on other boards of 3-4 inches in the vicinity of Middletown.

33.6° and snowing, no accumulation. Went back and forth between rain and snow all night, nothing sticking, ten to fifteen miles to my NW 3-4 inches. The final parting insult to the worst winter ever.

33.6° and snowing, no accumulation. Went back and forth between rain and snow all night, nothing sticking, ten to fifteen miles to my NW 3-4 inches. The final parting insult to the worst winter ever.

22.1 inches, also my worst season since I've been keeping records. The winters low temperature of 5.1° is also my highest low temperature for a winter season. From my research, it looks to be only the second time in the last 87 years of records in the HV that we did not go below 5 degrees. An F of a winter if ever there was one. Of course with everything going on right now regarding the virus in hindsight it's insignificant.

Peak depth so far today is 1.3 inches but begins to compress and melt when precip lightens. Back to 32.4° with a light mix.

Had some heavy snow move in about an hour ago and temp dropped from 32.6 to 31.4. It actually began to stick to roads and cover driveway. Peak depth so far today is 1.3 inches but in areas that would be exposed to sun that begins to compress and melt when precip lightens. Back to 32.4° with a light mix.

30.6° moderate snow, grass getting white and nothing on the roads and driveway. With everything going on right now this is a nice diversion.

30.6° moderate snow, grass getting white and nothing on the roads and driveway. With everything going on right now this is a nice diversion.

Sullivan should be the ideal spot for this in the NW, NE suburbs of NYC, especially above 1,000 feet which is a big part of the county. Enjoy

That for sure, but also somewhat disturbing. Going on three months in a row of 5+ above normal temperatures is a little disconcerting. This is the first winter I've ever recorded that the temperature didn't drop below 5° and will be only the second in almost 100 years that doesn't happen in the HV. I have a streak of 12 winters in a row below 0° which will obviously come to an end.

A player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the virus. The season is suspended as Rob said, so they are leaving open the possibility it may resume at some point.

I was talking about his biblical reference, must I really explain that.

I must have missed the part about stocks tanking. You gotta give it a rest man.

I never said it did. Observing the last 40 years in the HV and the Northeast in general makes a good case for it though. You can throw in all of the thousands of examples in the rest of the world too during this time period. Yet there will always be people like JB that insist it's all in our heads.

Perfectly normal temperatures for the first week of May. I loathe climate change.

If you use the 1981-2010 averages, which is all we will have until January 2021 when everyone in the Northeast will go up several inches at most locations as the 1980's are dropped and the 2010's added, you'd have a hard time arguing that Foxborugh averages 45-50 inches of snow per season. Taunton Ma 16 miles south of Foxborough averages 28 inches and Franklin Ma. 12 miles to their NW averages 41 inches. That would put Foxboroughs average closer to 35-37 inches, extrapolating the difference in miles from each. Sussex has a 40.7 average in the 1981-2010 period so that's a higher average than Foxborough but close enough that it's not worth a prolonged discussion, yet I made it one anyway. Just bored with this pattern and nothing much else to do. WTS I usually take 30 year averages with a grain of salt at most locations. My observations through the decades of following this is how notoriously bad many locations are at recording snowfall totals. What's 3-5 inches per season difference? It could be as little as an observer that just doesn't bother to measure the less than 1 inch totals or not take a peak measurement until a storm has settled and compressed.

That wouldn't be odd at all. NWNJ (Sussex specifically) actually averages more snow per season than Foxboro, although I'm sure there are several in the New England forum that would take offense to that fact.

There was no sudden warm up, different time, different climate. Snow actually stuck around in NYC back then, not like the 2000's, big storms (except for the last two years) and mild winters. The month of March 1888 the average temperature in NYC was 29.9° for the entire month. Consider that against the current January 30 year average in NYC is 32.6°. Also consider that it's been over two years since NYC had a month that averaged below 32° which was January 2018 at 31.7° and before that you'd have to go all the way back to February 2015 23.9°. Several high impact snow storms mask the truth, but for NYC it's been a horrible stretch of above normal and way above normal winter temperatures.