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Should specify on elevated surf.

Nice little snow to start the season.

First coating of the season. Here's to many more.

Just three of the top 5, 4 of the top 10 in all of New England! https://www.thefinancialword.com/10-wealthiest-neighborhoods-in-new-england/

Found the NAO forecast interesting. Large spread. Also the PNA looks like it's going to head positive again after a brief dip. MJO doing this?

Fwiw and it's not much, the cfs weeklies don't look too great.

Just looking at the stats without delving into the la Nina intensity of each bolded year, I am shocked that the distribution of above/below/average snowfall winters are even. I am thinking that this shows that we have a 50/50 shot of blocking establishing itself and determining our fate (as opposed to ninas where we can live without the blocking).

I know I mentioned before, but personally rooting for a warm December in hopes that it means the La Nina is not affecting us in the normal way (decoupled).

Perhaps this is a good thing for snow lovers, not ideal by any means but also not following the typical Nina response! Maybe better down the road for this reason.

This is why I am not too worried about this winter as of yet, blocking looks to be there to some degree even though the Pacific looks fairly poor. We are far enough north where a good storm track (coupled with a depening storm) will yield results. I can't remember the last time we had a winter of blocking with below average snowfall (I think 97/98 may have had great blocking but far below average snowfall).

Looking at your snips of this year vs. 2016, PAC looks a little worse however the Atlantic, blocking looks to be in a better position. Feb 2018 shows that we can get a decent snowstorm in a sea of 60s and 70s temps. Personally I HATE the cold but LOVE snowstorms (if it snowed in Florida I would be there already). So selfishly, the warmer times this century coupled with this being an extremely snowy time since 2000/2001 (only 6 below average snowfall seasons here this century) have made me a happy camper.

Thanks! Talk about polar opposite winters! Good to see we are closer to 2016 so far, two great storms that winter.

In my obsession with the blizzard of 96 and the Bridgeport report of 15.5 inches vs THE NEXT TOWN OVER FAIRFIELD reporting 27 (and of course Norwalk newspaper reporting 27) I looked at the BDR observations courtesy of the linked Ray's winter storm archive. Q. Can snowfall rate be determined by visibility? If so, what would .1, .3, .5, .8 be? 3, 2, 1, .5? If above is correct BDR would be wayyyy higher than 15. http://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/weather/1996/07-Jan-96-RegionalSurfaceObservations.html

I know it's the dreadful CFS. Monthly but one can still dream for January. Unlikely in a la Nina but whatever. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=cfs-mon&region=nhem&pkg=z500a

This is awesome thanks! I feel like the biggest difference is snow retention. Was watching old home movies from the 40s and my dad stated "we always had a white Christmas, you don't see that anymore", yet our snowfall averages are about the same. Of course in each home movie on Christmas day they had the year carved in the snow pack. Technically speaking of SW CT however I would imagine same general idea with a few more inches.

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NYC average rose from 27 In the 80s to about 30 now. Perhaps much earlier in the century it was more.

Peaked my interest with 17/18. Probably my 4th favorite winter of all time. 56 inches total snowfall with 28 falling from March onwards. Early season snowfall. Great warmth for hearting savings and outdoor activities.

I think western MD averages more snowfall than southeastern coastal CT, coastal RI. Probably elevation driven. Eastern MD far less of course (Baltimore etc). Your doing the opposite of what I want to do, which is move to somewhere warmer where I can boat/outdoor activities throughout more of the year. Love the Bethany/Fenwick area of Delaware.

Off of your response I looked up the annual snowfall records for NYC. It's amazing how much more snow NYC has gotten this century as compared to the past.

This was for SW CT. Definitely late November snowfalls on each occasion. Oddly enough I believe both years we had snow in April too.

Hey Walt I believe 1995 and 2002 saw accumulating snow in November, each of which became great winters overall.

Just hope the blockies last well into winter, and not fade as we hit Jan.

I think in Hurricane Bob all the leaves came down in parts of Rhode Island, then re-grew and came down again later in fall. Terrible.