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39 here in North Providence, RI. Dew Point is 38.8. This whole winter has sucked for Rhode Island. We've missed just about everything. I'm not holding out much hope for this one. I can see us at 34 and rain the whole time, maybe with snow mixed in. I knew RI was warmer, but I never dreamed it could be this different from Worcester on North.

Thought I'd chime in from Rhode Island. I'm in Pawtucket, but my weather station is over in North Providence, about 2 miles and 50 feet higher in elevation. It is 32.4 there right now. About 1.0 of snow, maybe. It was very wet and just above freezing for most of the early part, so even though it was snowing fairly well, it really didn't stick. It's moderately snowing right now. (I live in an old mill building in Pawtucket, no where to put my weather station. So I keep it at my sister's house in North Providence). It does everything but measure snow).

7.93 inches as of now in North Providence for the 2 days. Most rain I have ever personally measured in this amount of time.

I’ve had 5.23 inches as of 11:40 pm. North Providence. So weird to see the airport at quite a bit less. It’s not that far south.

9.5 inches here in North Providence, RI. What a great day yesterday. Snow from morning till night.

Actually, I think you are correct. Dec 92 does sound right. I'll have to look it up. I lived in Russell from Feb 86 until June 1996. (With the winter of 93-94 away in Arizona. Of course!, but at least I was there for 95-96)

I know what you mean! I like the first order station to show the high totals, for the record books. (Although I hate it when they get way more, even though the forecast was I would get the same. Dec 2020 when I was living in Nutley, NJ. Newark Airport and Central Park both had around 11 inches of snow. Just 8 miles away in Nutley, I had 6. So Weird).

This is what happened to me back in the late 80's. I was living in Russell, MA on top of a high hill, about 810 feet up. Big storm in Dec. All day it was beautiful, large flakes, got to about 14 inches, and then it changed to a mix of snow/sleet/slop all night. Next morning had about 16 inches of pocked marked snow, and all of it was melted off the trees. But just 10 or so miles away and another 500 to 800 feet up, Otis had 36 inches. I'm still smarting from that one, all these years later. Can't remember the year....1988 I think?

I had 143.5 in Russell, MA at about 810 feet in elevation.

I did a double take when I saw the Palm Trees here in Rhode Island. Very close to me, but I think it's the town of Lincoln. It looked so odd!!

Interesting. I live in North Providence, Rhode Island, and just down the road there is a house with Palm Trees in the front!! I can't wait to see what happens to them in the winter, but scary they are growing here at all.

I thought I'd do an unscientific study of the departure from normal over the last 2 1/2 years for locations found in the Local Climatological Data section of the NWS Websites. I'm using the unedited data that is showing there. Here are the departures from normal based on those pages for the following stations: If I'd hazard a guess, I'd say someone thought maybe Albany was reading too warm, so they tried to fix it, but they went too far. The problem starts in Aug of 2020, about a year ago, just like TugHillMatt said. It also appears as though Syracuse is reading too warm this year, while Binghampton was a bit on the cool side in 2019 and 2020. 2019. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Average Albany 0.7. 1.7. 0.1. 2.0. 0.2. 0.8. 4.4. 1.6. 1.9. 3.9. -3.0. 1.3 1.2 Poughkeepsie 1.9 2.3. .0. 2.4. 1.1. 0.1. 3.8. 0.9. 1.6. 3.6. -4.3 0.2. 1.1 Glens Falls 1.7. 1.0. -0.5. 0.7. 0.4. .0. 3.5. .0. 0.5. 2.9. -4.6. 0.5. 0.5 Bennington. -0.5 1.9. -1.2. 1.3. 0.3. -0.3. 2.8. 0.6. 0.3. 2.9. -4.8. 0.5. 0.3 Pittsfield. 0.6. 2.2. -0.1. 2.3. 0.9. 0.7. 4.3. 1.2. 1.8. 3.6. -3.8. 1.5. 1.3 Binghampton. -1.9. 1.1. -2.1. 1.5. -0.1. -1.2. 3.0. -0.6. 1.4. 2.3. -5.5. 0.5. -0.1 Burlington -1.5. 0.7. -0.6. 0.7. -1.4. 0.2. 4.3. 1.4. 1.5. 4.0. -5.2. 1.6. 0.5 Syracuse -2.2. 0.7. -1.8. 1.2. -0.6. -0.7. 3.5. -0.1. 1.9. 2.9. -4.6. 1.1. 0.1 2020. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Average Albany 9.2. 5.6. 7.3. -1.2. 1.5. 3.6. 4.1. -1.3. -2.2. -0.8. 1.3. 1.4. 2.4 Poughkeepsie. 7.5 6.0. 6.1. -2.8. -0.7. 2.5. 5.2. 3.0. 1.1. 2.6. 4.2. 2.1. 3.1 Glens Falls. 7.8. 2.5. 5.4. -2.0. 0.4. 1.3. 4.1. 0.9. -0.4. 1.7. 3.2. 2.6. 2.3 Bennington. 7.8. 3.0. 5.3. -2.3. 0.9. 1.9. 4.5. 1.8. 1.2. 2.5. 4.4. 2.9. 2.8 Pittsfield 9.0. 5.1. 6.2. -1.6. 0.4. 2.8. 5.8. 2.2. 2.1. 2.8. 4.8. 3.9. 3.6 Binghampton. 6.2. 3.2. 5.3. -4.1. -0.7. 0.8. 4.4. 2.0. 0.5. 1.2. 4.5. 1.8. 2.0 Burlington 7.4. 3.3. 6.3. -1.4. 1.6. 3.1. 6.2. 2.2. 1.6. 2.0. 5.1. 5.5. 3.6 Syracuse 7.4. 2.6 6.1. -2.5. -0.8. 2.6. 5.8. 3.2. 1.8. 1.3. 5.0. 4.4. 3.1 2021. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr May. Jun. Average Albany. 0.7. -2.2. 1.4. -1.1. -4.0. -0.2. -0.9 Poughkeepsie 3.4. -1.4. 4.2. 2.1. -0.8. 2.7. 1.7 Glens Falls. 4.1. 0.4. 2.8. 1.2. -0.7. 2.9. 1.8 Bennington. 2.4. -1.0. 2.7. 2.0. -0.5. 3.3. 1.5 Pittsfield. 3.5. 0.1. 3.0. 1.9. -0.6. 3.3. 1.9 Binghampton. 2.2. -1.5. 3.0. 0.2. -1.1. 3.4. 1.0 Burlington. 2.1. -1.1. 2.8. 2.4. 0.5. 4.3. 1.8 Syracuse 3.6. -0.8. 4.4. 2.3. 0.8. 5.5. 2.6

Yes, you would think the Met's there would have noticed they were consistently reading colder, but I'm guessing no one has the time to compare Albany with the other stations. I have a friend who works at the office in Columbia, SC. I'm going to ask him if the staff every notices things like that.

I knew I wasn't crazy. I lived in Albany from 2001 to 2008. My own temps weren't that different from surrounding areas back then.

Speaking of instrument error, has anyone else noticed that Albany, NY has been reading quite low recently? I've noticed they seem to always be below normal for the month, even though all the stations around them are above normal.