The 4 Seasons

Winter 1995-1996 is complete in the Winter Storm Archive. 23 events that season, 15 of which made into the WS Archive as 3"+ events and 66 total maps. Winter 94-95 will be the complete polar opposite with the least amounts of events in any season - 3. And two of those are pushing it, it really only snowed once that season, of any real consequence region wide. https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/storm-archive https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/sne-95-96

The first 3"+ event of the season is now up with snowfall maps radar/sfc/h5 https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/dec-2-2025

Most of them verified but there has been only a handful

@Sey-Mour Snow 0 - 6"+ events and 3-4 watches/warnings? NWS gonna bust or downgrade every watch/warning this season? Sounds awful.

Hey, I use that browser!

gotcha, i didnt see any reports from Suffolk county. I always include the climo sites EWR, NYC, LGA, JFK, ISP, BDR...regardless of snowfall amount even if its 0. Otherwise, all other reports are at least a T or higher.

GREENFIELD NO. 3, its been around since the late 90s at least. i see it everytime im looking for COOP reports for all the past storms. Back then all there was, was COOP data, cocorahs didn't exist yet.

As in ISP in Suffolk? I went by the CLI from Dec 2nd which had 0.0" they apparently reported a Trace on Dec 3rd. I updated the map, btw if anyones watching this thread, i changed it in the original post above.

updated. i pushed the 1-3 line up a bit to the NW out of Tolland but kept the 1.3" over vernon with a localized area of light blue shading.

all good, should i use 0.3 (0.25 rounded) for your total? and where abouts are you in tolland (miles from center) i used 8 (Greenfield COOP) and 6.5 respectively for those. Hard to fit everything in but they were in the >6" range

1.3" is for Vernon, there were no reports i saw from Tolland. The 1.3" vernon report was to your WSW and there was another report from Bolton of 1" south of that. There was a very sharp cut off as you can see from Somers 1.9" to Staffordville 0.3" There was several hundred reports to go through i can't exactly verify every single one and based on the surrounding reports it looked reasonable gotcha thats the only report i saw from Thomaston. Thomaston Dam COOP

SNE/CT Snowfall totals. All snowfall maps for the 25-26 season are up here. *Updated.

Snowfall totals from yesterdays storm. You can find all events from the 25-26 season here, this is the first one i've done for tri-state. *Updated

3.2 is correct.

which was what storm?

Thanks, i never posted it in the NYC forums because i figured most would catch it in SNE and didn't want to be redundant. But yeah we got a whole Tri-State section and all the storms in the Winter Storm Archive have Tri-State Area snowfall maps included, as well as radar, sfc and upper air animations. I'm currently in the middle of the 95-96 season which should be done in the next couple weeks. I remember telling @LibertyBell that season would probably never happen but i decided to go back to 94-95 since i can get radar back to Jan 1 1995. I'm working on this past storm atm so if anyone has any reports let me know and ill include them.

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.