The 4 Seasons

Who invited the GFS to come and take a fat dump on my turkey?

That was one hell of a season for EMA and RI and even CT. It started out as a complete ratter. We were going into late Jan with virtually no snow and for many climo sites it was looking like a top 5 or top 10 worst winters of all time and did a complete 180 with Boston ending up with snowiest winter on record. Not only did we get a ton of snow from Jan 24-late Mar but it never rained or had a period of significant warming, Feb ended up being the coldest on record for many areas and we went nearly 2 months with a solid deep snow pack right down to the coast. I have mixed feelings about that winter despite picking up like 65". There were many busts, especially Jan 26-27 and the first half of the winter was awful. But there was certainly a lot to like as well.

Thank you! Might not beat his but im probably a close 2nd, especially after doing this. I saw a lot of your reports going back decades in all the PNS' i've been going through over the summer/fall Thanks appreciate it you can always tag me

God, just thinking about it sends chills up my spine. The amount of storms is ungodly. The area/towns/counties i'm unfamiliar with + wild elevation changes... At this point i think i know every town and county from Ocean up to Ulster and east to Essex, MA, thats plenty for me.

Wow, i did not expect this amount of overwhelmingly positive feedback. It makes it worth it to know how many people enjoy it and find it useful. I started this project back in late 2022 but only focused on Connecticut. At the end of last season i found two sites that archived radar, as well as the NCEP/daily weather maps site for sfc/h5 and with the recently made SNE/Tri-State maps i knew what i wanted to do. Got to work in February and this is where im at now, mid 95-96 season. I'll be adding a lot more stuff, including the current season and finishing back to 1994. Thanks man. That Cornell climod2 site is priceless especially since it pulls from cocorahs, coop and others. i recently found this upgraded version xmACIS2 that donsutherland1 sent me and im using that now. You can view the station type, station coordinates, elevation, county and more with this version, it's super helpful.

oh, wow thanks. This site is almost identical to cornells climodv2 that i've been using for snowfall amounts for maps since it pulls from coop,cocorahs and climo sites but this is even nicer and it tells you what the source is! thats awesome, i think ill switch to this one.

where did you get this data? and can you sort by other snowfall amounts, like 3" or 6" or 10"?

Thanks, one more thing i wanted to mention. The radar from 2003-present is from IEM (Iowa State) where you can create and save to a gif but 2002 and earlier is from NCEI interactive radar that cannot be saved and you can only view one still snapshot in time. So to make those i had to capture images, frame by frame import them into photoshop, crop and sort them and make an animated gif or .mp4 video file from those frames, which was the most tedious thing you can imagine....each storm is 100-200 frames (Mar 4-6 2001 is 400 frames). But i think it's really cool to see the radar of these old storms, that were once lost to time, in an animation.

I'm very excited to share this massive project i've been working on since the end of last winter. I was going to wait until it was basically done but Seymour Snow kinda let the cat out of the bag yesterday, which is totally fine...the site's been live. We now have a winter storm archive with every moderate 3"+ event from last season back to 1994 complete with snowfall maps for Southern New England, Tri-State and CT as well as a full radar animation and surface and H5 maps. There's over 270 storms in the archive. I'm currently in the middle of the 95-96 season and updating the site almost daily. Winter Storm Archive The significant (12"+) storms have their own page to easily view at a glance if you only want to see the big ones and don't remember when they were in the archive. I've added additional related images, satellite, radar and more to these larger events. Historic Storms Archive There's also a section for only the snowfall maps sorted by region then by winter season (back to 94-95). Just go to the area you want to view, Southern New England, Tri-State Area or CT then click on the winter season you want. There's additional snowfall maps here that aren't in the archive that are either less than 3" or ones that only affected northern MA or southern NJ. Here you can also sort by 12"+, 24"+ or early/late season storms. Snowfall Maps Archive 25-26 events and maps will be added to the archive as they happen for the upcoming season. There's already 2 minor events in the Southern New England section. Will was a huge help with providing some archive sites like NCEP and Cornell Climodv2. All maps use data from COOP, cocorahs, NWS PNS and here. Everything is free and we don't run any ads. There's a download button on the images if you want to save them. As i mentioned the site is continuously being updated and added to. I'll probably do a thread like last year for all the SNE snowfall maps for all events. This was a huge passion project that i started years ago but really ramped it up this year so i hope yall enjoy it and find it useful.

Record highs mon-wed and wed records

Mon, Tue, Wed record highs and Wed highs compared to old records for all 10 climo sites in BOX/OKX. I doubled checked everything this time so hopefully no errors

you're right, i made this right after the pm climo (CLI) came out and it was 85, the next update was at 1am and they changed it to 90, i didnt notice. Looks like they hit 90 really late (7-8pm) after the winds switched from E to S. ill update it, thx for the info. Still no record tho

typo, thanks fixed

Records yesterday and today for all SNE/Tri-State climo sites. *Fixed ORH typo **Updated BOS Monday high

For sure. Mar 4-6 2001 was one hell of a storm despite under performing a bit in CT. Still a solid 10-18 for most of the state. I was pretty much right on with my memory of that storm, snow began late Sunday AM and the last flakes ended just after midnight Wednesday morning. About 62 hours.

Hey @H2Otown_WX i just added a full radar loop of your favorite storm Dec 30th 2000 and Feb 5th, Mar 4-6th 2001 as well as Dec 2003 and Jan 2005. Even the blizzard of 96 is now up. All new snowfall maps as well. I cant link them here cuz the file sizes are massive.

The main archive that has all the storms is updated back to 2018-2019 so far and will stop at 2000 (probably take me till sometime in 2026) The historic archive has all 12"+ big/historic storms and 1996 and PD2 is there and about 20 others, which is also being worked on The big thing recently was adding radar and tri-state maps to all the storms

Hey everyone i just updated our Historic Storms page on our site to include Tri-State Area snowfall maps for every event as well as a full radar loop for all storms post 1995. There's a lot of new storms in there including Boxing Day, PDII, Feb 2006 Blizzard, Dec 2003, Jan 2005 and of course Mar 4-6 2001, Dec 2000 and more. I'll be continuing to update it with more new storms throughout the year. https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/historic-storms

There is now. I found two archives for radar. There is now a new section of the site that has radar loops for the entire event as well sfc and h5 maps for past moderate events (3"+) or higher. It's being updated on a weekly basis but i am back 5 years now to 2020. https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/storm-archive

I don't know if i've ever seen this map this empty before, for a second i thought it didn't load. It's quiet out there, a little too quiet

Nice. I saw that on the COOP but i think i just included the 4.4SW Jefferson 30.6". Some of these are so close together i can't fit them all but that 30.9 matches up pretty close to the 30.6, which was also in Mine Hill

Final seasonal snowfall totals for the 24-25 season. I added some stats on the side for the climo sites and compared them to normal. There's a snowfall progression animated GIF throughout the season as well as Tri-State/CT maps on our website under the 24-25 seasonal snowfall page.

Update for the 24-25 season totals FINAL.

Just finished the final seasonal snowfall map for the 24-25 season. I added stats to the side for the climo sites as well as a progression throughout the season which you can see on our site. Everything is updated in the 24-25 snowfall maps page.

Updated for 24-25 season snowfall final totals. CT/SNE/Tri-State/Northeast maps on our site as well as snowfall progression throughout the season and statistics for climo sites.