LibertyBell

2010-11 was an extremely snowy winter, but I guess not for them.

it makes me wonder why the Deep South didn't get snowstorms when it got down to the single digits the last few years. The moisture has to hit someone somewhere right?

and with under 10 inches of snow lol?

Yep, and that's a really small list that doesn't include anyone in the midatlantic or northeast. The gulf coast is the furthest north a Cat 5 has ever happened.

at least it's February and not March. We can get a decent snowstorm even with a milder than normal February.

I wonder how far below zero KFOK, KMJX, KMVY got?

I know why, they are only including 12.0 inches plus for KU events. I'd argue that it should be lowered to 8.0..... storms like April 1982 and March 1993 were most definitely KU events! Your list prompted another question, among the big east coast cities (DCA, BWI, PHL, NYC, PVD, BOS), which has the most 20"+ snowstorms? I'm including PD2 because 19.8 can be rounded up to 20 and it was 25.5 at JFK anyway.... so that means NYC has had 8 20" snowstorms. (JFK has 6 but their records only go back to 1960.) I know at one point Baltimore had the most, is this still the case?

what, this airmass isn't cold enough for that. You usually need a high near 10 to get below 0 at night here.

awesome, they have become one of the few locations to experience both a hurricane and a blizzard!

and right on the Gulf Coast to boot!

Is this comparable to December 1989 Chris? From my recollection, December 1989 was even colder than this and had even less snow. December 1989 had a big Deep South coastal snowstorm too. Charleston SC 8 inches of snow!

There's a blizzard warning from near Houston to near New Orleans, up to 8 inches of snow!

Going back through history of the 1800s and even the 1700s (some records go that far back, particularly in Philadelphia and New York, though unofficial), is there anything like the February 1899 snowstorm in the record books either before or since, Don?

Same old story from the 80s repeating itself; two tracks, one to the south of us, the other to the northeast of us.

Monday seems to be borderline but the more it gets pushed back (originally it was supposed to be Friday and then Saturday), the less likely it becomes.

be interesting to see if they go below zero

I love these things! I had a no brand version of one of these back when I was in high school, sitting in the ground in my back yard, but unfortunately someone stole it (or the garbage man threw it out thinking it was trash....) Where can I buy one of these things, on Amazon? I never mount them I just sit them on a box or something on the ground. The digital weather stations I've had since then never gave me the same joy (although I love digital thermometers, they are much more accurate than the old analog ones.)

There was a 2.8 measurement just to the east of the park, that seems to be more in line with what actually fell. As far as ranges are concerned, 1.6 averages to 2, so if someone were to ask me how much snow fell, I would have said 2-4 inches for the city and coast and 4-8 inches inland. Those ranges cover pretty much everyone.

February 1899 came from a completely different era though, right, Don? I don't think that kind of widespread extreme snowfall event is possible anymore, as we don't get those kinds of extreme ridges and troughs anymore and such a deep layer of extreme cold air on the east coast. What was going on that winter- an el nino? That storm almost behaved like a really cold triple phaser. Cape May's record of 34 inches from that storm is still the state record. I put that storm right up there with March 1888, December 1947, March 1960, February 1983, March 1993, January 1996, PD2, January 2016, etc., as some of the greatest storms that have ever struck the east coast.

There's always a nice competition between KMJX, KFOK and KMVY to see which Pine Barrens get the coldest temp, I think KFOK wins most of the time, but sometimes one of the other two is colder and they can each be colder than even our coldest inland locations, like Monticello or Mt Pocono.

Yet another comparison to December 1989, when Charleston, SC had a historic snowstorm that dumped 8 inches of snow there. December 1989 was much colder of course....

Don did the pattern produce in Philly? I ask because it seems like there was a donut hole from NYC to Philly because we were sandwiched between two tracks-- neither of which benefit us-- and this is something that seems to happen quite often with a fast Pacific flow.

Don't you have a Jersey Devil creature living in the Pine Barrens? It would be interesting to go on a monster hunt one of these days ;-)

Yes it looks gorgeous outside and it will for the entire week. As long as it doesn't rain I'm happy.

Crazy to see 1995-96 on this list lol. 2010-11 doesn't make this list? PS can you extend this back to the 70s and 80s and see if we can find any winters similar to this one, Chris?