LibertyBell

Bright and sunny here with the sun in the south :-)

Has the sun come out there yet? It's pretty sunny here, really nice after 2 days of dreary weather.

That's yet another 1"+ of snow with temperatures of 35 or higher, it seems to be pretty common in April. What's the T at the end, the amount of snowcover left at the end of the day, Chris?

Chris was the negative temperature anomaly greater in February 2015 than it was in January 2004 and January 1994 and December 1989 (I know that's going back aways lol)?

so close to 90 on this date just two years ago Records:Highs:EWR: 92 (2023)NYC: 90 (1923)LGA: 89 (2023)JFK: 85 (2023)

Good news, Tony, over the past hour the sun has been coming out and I see patches of blue skies

Interesting no 4/20 or later freeze since 1930 lol We don't get many October freezes anymore either. When was the last time we had a freeze before 10/20, Chris? Not in my lifetime either.

wow so that 1-1.5 inches (AT JFK) snow event we had on 4-19/20-1983 happened with the temperatures above freezing, Chris?

wild so no 70 degree temperature at all in April 1875 (similar to April 2020 in that respect) and the warmest day of the entire month was on the last day? Also, note 3 inches of snow with a low of 34.....kind of reminds me of April 2018, but more than 3 weeks later lol. 1875-04-25 51 34 42.5 -14.7 22 0 0.44 3.0

Thanks Don, and is the 3 inches that fell on the 25th in 1875 Central Park's latest recorded accumulation of snow?

If we ever get a February 2015 type anomaly in April it could happen again one day....

wow four days of accumulating snowfall (not to mention the 3 inches on April 25th-- the latest accumulating snowfall at the park on record?) are both absolutely amazing! 4:1 sounds about right for what might have been the highest temperature for accumulating snowfall the city has ever seen-- has the city ever seen any accumulating snowfall with a temperature of 40+ Don?

I just don't remember it being all that cold this late aside from the May 2020 event. We don't even get a freeze after April 10th anymore aside from the April 16th very late freeze in 2014. I think JFK's latest freeze on record is either April 19 or 20th.

That giant one prior to 1885 really sticks out, how much did we have in that one and what year was that in, Chris?

The only year when we might have possibly have had a later freeze would have been April 1983 when we had 1-2 inches of snow on April 19-20.

Thanks Don, I also remember this happening in April 1996 and April 1997 (both were la ninas) Trying to remember other la ninas this might have happened in.... April 1956? and April 2018?

Highest amount I found in our area was 6 inches at High Point, NJ

Don why is the media calling this storm a coastal low instead of a noreaster? All coastal storms with a northeast wind should by definition be referred to as noreasters Maybe if the NWS started naming noreasters this would force the media to start calling them noreasters.

I'm shocked they got half an inch of snow at 38, what kind of rates was that with and was that at night? I thought accumulating snow could not occur under 36 degrees, Don!!

so halve the snowfall amounts like we do with the NAM.

Wait we had 2 late season snowfall events in 2020? I don't remember the one in late April, I thought that was a warm winter overall lol. In 2020 did the park and all the city airports get a T of snow in both late season events, Don? I don't remember the one in 2021 either, was that only for LGA or all the city airports and the park too, Don?

4-16-2014 was our latest freeze in a VERY long time, we might not have had a later freeze in my lifetime, can you check to see when we had a later freeze than that, Chris? And since LGA is the local hotspot, I'm sure the lows at JFK, NYC and EWR were all colder than 32!!

1 inch of snow in Brooklyn and 8-9 inches of snow in the southern Poconos just south of I-80? I don't think so lol. The actual written amounts might be right though, are they from the PNS?

It's become very rare now, but this happened three times in the 80s (82, 83, 86). April 1982 everyone who was alive then remembers, but we also had 1 inch of snow a week after that. April 1983 on the 19-20th we had 1-2 inches of snow April 1986 a T of snow on the 23rd Nothing in the 90s after April 10 (4/10/96 was the latest 4" at JFK) 2000s-- nothing after April 10th (April 7, 2003 4-8 inches, April 4, 2006 1 inch JFK). 2010s April 16, 2014 (1 inch), April 2 2018 (4-6 inches). 2020 Trace on May 9, 2020 So very few amounts of even a T after April 10th.

The big deal was this kind of weird late season cold/snowfall isn't supposed to be happening anymore, so this is likely a one in 20 year event we just saw. It's very rare to even get a T of snow after April 10th.