LibertyBell

Did you see his next post where he said that Boston could get 54 inches of snow next week?

1920: An intense nor'easter dumped 17.5 inches of snow over three days in New York City Central Park, New York. Boston, MA, saw 12.2 inches of snow on this day. Tony is this the infamous 18 inch sleet storm that gave us 5 inches of LE over 3 days? Why don't we get these kinds of multiday events anymore?

This storm will forever live in infamy up here, but I don't get why they call it one of their *worst* blizzards in DC instead of one of their *BEST* blizzards in history. 2010 - A mega-snowstorm, which President Obama dubbed Snowmageddon, buried the Washington D.C. area with more than 30 inches of snow in some areas. At American University in Washington the official snowfall was 27.5 inches. Snowfall totals in the Washington DC area range from a low of 17.9 inches at Ronald Reagan National Airport to 40 inches in the northern suburb of Colesville, MD. Dulles Airport reported 32.4 inches, which established a new two-day snowfall record. The Baltimore-Washington International Airport, MD, measured 24.8 inches from the storm breaking the record for the largest two day snowfall there. It is one of the worst blizzards in the city's history. also, Tony you missed the record high for LGA from 1991 (which became one of our hottest summers to be tied two years later in 1993 for number of 90+ degree days). EWR: 69 (1991) NYC: 70 (1991) LGA: (1991) JFK: 66 (1991) Lows: EWR: 3 (1996) NYC: -6 (1918) LGA: 6 (1995) JFK: 7 (1996)

Best thing is this is happening in February, not March. (March 2018 pattern would have been much snowier in February.)

24 hour plus snowstorm?

wow Boston guys must be really excited, 21 inches there? Never saw that before on the EPS or any ensemble means for that matter.

I remember 1993-94 was pretty unsuccessful for us in January, we had a lot of rainy or snow to mix storms and even a historic ice storm that month sandwiched in between two subzero arctic outbreaks, but then we had a big thaw at the end of January and all the ice melted and that reset the pattern for the snowy pattern in February and March. Both of those February events were predicted to change to rain but came in with such a heavy thump that they either didn't change over at all or only did at the very end. I personally enjoyed that first storm in February 1994 more because it was my first experience with thundersnow and absolutely amazing snowfall rates of 4 inches an hour from 10 am to noon and the ground went from bare to heavy snow cover! It's probably the heaviest day time snow I'd seen until January 2016 and January 2018!

Tony, is this the winter with one of the fewest number of 50 degree highs?

Thanks for reminding me Tony, February 1961 was another HECS in a pattern very similar to this and it was JFK's biggest snowstorm (24.1 inches) prior to PD2 2003.

Many historic storms have occurred in a set up just like this February 1983 January 1996 PD2 February 2003 January 2016 all our greatest hits....

it also makes the weather a lot more fun and exciting to have record dry periods and record wet periods-- instead of just record wet periods like we've had for the last two decades.

we'll go back to very dry in time for Spring and Summer. The last two Springs have been dry so count on it getting dry April and beyond.

Chris, do you think if we get enough snow in these first couple of events that will make the track for that one sink farther south? 2/11-13 is the peak of snowfall climo around here, many famous snowstorms occurred in this time period!

Mixing only for Belmar and points south.

we can just use the euro for all our forecasts right? I wish I could get all my food from europe too, since it's much healthier.

snow begets more snow?

plus that was a much snowier winter

it's also because of that darned wind, it feels much colder than it really has been.

but doesn't every storm have a gradient?

congrats you managed to upset both snowman and mjo in the same post-- now that's what I call talent!

pattern reload after that?

well according to many, we're part of the midatlantic.

I hate the wind

it's seemed like a very long winter regardless of how much snow fell or not. We do define our winters by temperatures and not the amount of snow that falls.

It makes me wonder why multiday storms have become so rare. Going back through history they used to be much more common (from the 1920s through the 1960s).