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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.

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.

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.

In March 2012 Chicago had a nine day stretch in the middle of the month where they hit 80 or above 8 of the 9 days. The one day they didn’t it hit 79. I always wonder what that stretch would have looked like in mid July. Scary thought.

Don’t you live in the LHV in NY? Look at a map geographically that’s not the mid Atlantic. WDC, Delaware Virginia that’s the mid Atlantic.

If you run a line about 30 miles south of Binghamton and Albany to near the MAss/NH border to the south shore of Maine, to about 30 miles north of NYC and 20 miles north of the LI sound you've had a bad winter, but at least a storm or two or three. I had 12 inches from the December 2-3 storm and a grand total of 8.5 inches since. Anywhere south of that line you just haven't had anything worth even mentioning.

A fair assessment considering the tone of the last couple of hours of conversation. I’m still stuck at 20.5 inches on the season and looks like I’m not adding anything of significance any time soon. Throw in the ridiculous temps since Dec 22 and this now ranks in my bottom three winters of all time. This will also be the first winter I’ve never gone below 5. Other than the first two weeks of December what was even the point of having winter?

I checked the records at Poughkeepsie airport yesterday which go back to 1933 for temperatures. There is only one winter since 1933 that the temperature did not go below 5° and in that winter (1952/53) it got down to 6°. We are in pretty uncharted waters here regarding the mild winter temperatures.

Bluewave posted this a couple of days ago. If NYC doesn't get another measurable snowfall this season it will be the earliest end to the accumulating snows in a season ever. That sounds about right, this has been historically bad, why not set the record.

My low so far for this season is 5.1°. I believe this may be the first season ever the temperature never got below 5°. If it doesn't happen by March 15th it's not happening, and I don't see anything upcoming to make that happen.

I forget who it was that said several days ago that the Tug Hill was having a bad year. My response was 150-200 inches in a season is a bad year for them. Looks like their season will be improving. Just checked back a page. It was Animal, the man who declared, it's over. I wholeheartedly agree.

I received 24.9 inches in 15/16 but probably all of our difference there was the 11.2 inches I received being on the northern fringe (for 3-4 hours until the heavier bands rotated out) of the Jan 23 2016 storm. I know places 25 miles north of me received 0 from that storm and one of my kids 30 miles south in NNJ received 30 inches. In 2011/12 it was 29.2 inches, 16 of it from the October storm, 4.7 on Jan 21, 3.0 on Feb 24 and 2.7 on Feb 29th. All other events were an inch or less. That was very close to this season on the stinker scale, along with 2015/16

I'm currently at 20.5 so this would now rank as my worst winter accumulation wise in the ten years I've kept complete records. Add in the abnormally high temperatures and so far it has to rank as a top 3 stinker of all time. However as Julian alluded too, I'm pretty sure there will be several inches somewhere along the line in March or April that will take me above my all time recorded low of 24.9 in 2015/16. Anyone have records from 2001/02? I'm thinking that season had to be less than 20 inches around here. I blanked that season out completely, as I hopefully will do regarding this season in time.

What's the rush, it's 8 days away. This is a little like seeing Christmas decorations on Labor Day.