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Certainly feel the same about March. Way too much very warm weather way too soon.

MU Weather adds this: (an actual preview of summer as we transition from March to April) A well-defined warm front will move through the Commonwealth from southwest-to-northeast Monday night and be accompanied by a few showers. Behind it, temperatures will likely be "off to the races" on Tuesday and Wednesday and soar back into the upper 70s to perhaps mid 80s. Record high temperatures on the last day of March and first day of April are generally in the low-to-mid 80s, so they may be challenged during the middle of next week with enough sunshine. Overnight lows will also be ridiculously high for this time of the year (50s/60s) and more typical of June. Temperature departures on Tuesday/Wednesday will be 20-25°F above normal.

Thank you for sharing! I can't and won't argue any of that. And as I mentioned I think twice in my post, recency bias is something that I can struggle with. Sounds like our perception/opinion for the "true" winter months of December through February are quite similar, it seems like March is the month we have differing viewpoints of. As you mentioned, it can and hopefully will be a great discussion.

I guess I could have made this post weeks ago, but with respect to @Blizzard of 93I decided to wait despite having strong feelings that winter was essentially over at the beginning of March. I guess there are 2 distinct ways in which one could grade this winter: "Grading on a curve" - grading the winter based on the pattern heading into it and on a lot of met's projections for the season Grading it "straight up" - based solely on what happened regardless of expectations No one opinion is wrong or right. We're grading on our own observations, perceptions, expectations, etc. While there certainly is objective (data) information available, it's still a subjective call for each poster. That said, here's my thoughts - I'm giving winter 2025-26 a final grade of B-. I considered anything from a C+ up to a B and landed in the middle. Main factors that I used to arrive at my final grade: Snowfall: snowfall was slightly below normal at 22.4". It's hard for me to grade snowfall higher than a C, which is average, when my total was below normal. Still, we had weeks of deep, solid snow cover and that created a very memorable stretch of true winter weather. Final snowfall grade is a C+ Temps: temps were below normal, often well below normal during the heart of winter. And those temps helped maintain our snow cover. Unfortunately, the pattern flipped on a dime in late February and March has seen some ridiculously warm weather. Since it's a part of our winter season, I'm grading the temp at a B+. March: March has been awful. And I need to be careful of recency bias, but while it's been a wild month with Tornado Watches, Severe Thunderstorm warnings a plenty, sharp cold fronts that resulted in snow flying just a couple of hours after being in the 60s...there has been very little in terms of snowfall and the month has felt more springlike than anything else. There hasn't really been any legit threat of snowfall now for weeks on end. The dud that this winter has ended on brings down the overall grade somewhat. Personal perception: See above regarding recency bias, I will say that coming back from Florida on January 28th at midday with temps around 10 degrees, deep snow cover, snow blowing all around despite the storm having occurred 3 days prior and then enjoying the snow for the next few weeks...we had an amazing stretch of winter. One that we very seldom have any more. It was a lot of fun in here in December and January and right into early February. Factoring all of that, I'm at a B-. Curious what others have to say...

Finishing up with .63" of much needed rainfall. Next post will be my 2025-26 winter synopsis/grade. @Mount Joy Snowman - my high for today will be 72...

1 down, 161 to go for the O's perfect season.

I looked at my temp about an hour ago and it was 67...and now it's already up to 75!

Happy Opening day to any and all baseball fans. I have tickets for exactly 35 games so far between Baltimore, Philly, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago. Gotta get my fix in now with the lockout looming...

Something else that hasn't happened much at all recently...the rainfall amounts for tonight have actually trended upwards over the past 24-48 hours.

That's an interesting point and something I was thinking about last week - very rarely does SPC scale back on their outlooks until the event has passed any given area of the country. I honestly can't remember it happening though I'm sure it has. Very high percentage of the time the map gets expanded, though.

32.6 was my low. Currently a pleasant 62 inside and 43 outside.

Temp down to 43 in Maytown. Was 59 at midnight. Still some upper 60s to around 70 degree readings in northern VA.

Me thinks there's going to be a lot of active weather in the coming months.

As a weather geek I thought yesterday was kind of neat - my temp was in the mid 50s at 11am and I still managed a high of 83. I was able to watch the temp steadily rise on the station which doesn't happen often.

I saw several hail videos on Facebook last evening from State College.

Picked up .71" of rain overnight. Pleased.

I just want rain. Just some wet weather. I don't need anything else. First storm dropped a whopping T here. Sigh.

Radar looks a little more scattered than the scattered I expected at this point.

I'm here! Just got home from lunch out with my wife. Temp here is 81! All eyes on the radar...

Finished Friday with .36" of rain

With wintry weather essentially finished, the thread has really morphed into spring mode posting. Shoot, Blizz hasn't posted in days. Tis the season... For anyone left who lives and dies for winter, I do have this to share - 93 days until the hours of daylight start to decrease.

This might be the year it just wants to storm. On Wednesday's 1730 update, SPC specifically said that they anticipated no severe weather threats over the next 8 days. The very next day they issued a MRGL for the Ohio Valley, now this morning it's been upgraded again to a Slight. This might be a very active spring.

Top gust at the Maytown Parachute Club was just 42 mph. At the very top of Kinderhook Road there are a couple of yards that are still almost fully blanketed in white from Monday night's snowfall.

I'm nowhere close to that.

Temp here is already down to 27. AC is currently silent but on standby for the weekend. No heat until next November or December.