LibertyBell

We had a historically snowy March in 1896, over 30 inches of snow (still the record for NYC.)

a really bad severe season then?

But Atlanta didn't get that much snow they were fringed too. Maybe we could instead look at a city that got more than 3 inches of snow, for example Savannah.

Yes I see the projected monthly temperature for January at NYC has warmed well above 30.0..... the projection was as low as 29.4 just last week.

Thanks, I see large areas of warmth over Canada and Europe too. For a few years they've been talking about decreasing snowcover in the Alps and a shortage of water there because of it.

Siberia has been getting big winter heatwaves for a few years, +10 or higher departures (in C!). Was this heat wave on the same scale as the one they had a few years ago, Don?

How is it so warm when its been so cold and historically snowy in the Deep South? Do we have a population weighed temperature statistic for how the temperatures performed where people actually live (versus, let's say Siberia or Antarctica where virtually no one lives?)

but what exactly is *normal*? we have been anomalously wet for many decades and I would argue the dryness is a correction to normal rainfall for NYC which is around 40 inches per year. We are not the Gulf Coast and should not be getting 50 inch rainfall years.

I hope this is a sign for a lot of westerly flow for the summer We could use another summer that's hot and not humid a la 1966 and 2010.

Some people like this kind of weather over cold and dry. I'm not one of them but there's probably a lot of people who just want to see precip, regardless of what it is.

He's probably just saying the weather is more interesting when something is falling even if it's rain vs useless cold and dry.

If the ridge is so strong how did it magically speed up this storm to bring it on Friday? Every time I've seen a strong south east ridge, it holds a storm off to our west and doesn't let it come here for days.

This is what I dont understand, how did this storm magically get sped up 24 hours and ruin our historically dry January? With a strong southeast ridge, shouldn't the ridge block the storm from being able to move east?

The Middle Atlantic did very well in snowfall so far this winter though, they got theirs lol.

Question, why are hugger tracks more likely with a fast Pacific Jet? Is there some reason a BM track becomes less likely than a hugger track? Or are we talking about thread the needle events and there are simply more ways to get screwed than there are to get hit? Also, in the past with a fast Pacific jet (like 1993-94) we used to have bowling ball lows go just south of us instead of completely suppressed. What happened to what were once common lows that would cross the country west to east and exit off the DelMarva up to South Jersey? Those used to be good for 4-6 inch snowfalls and we used to get at least a couple of those every month between December and March. What happened to them?

the 90s had some nice March snowfalls, even during the early 90s snowfall drought.

But I am confused, why are looking at Atlanta's snowfall numbers?

What was the winter when we had an additional 43" after this point?

Even February 2018 which was a proverbial torch la nina February had a 4" snowstorm right in the middle of the torch. We might not get a big KU event but two moderate events are just as good as a low end KU event. In some ways even better.

This is exactly why our subforum is the best!

People just focus on Central Park but if you look at JFK from last February, we had two moderate snowfalls in the same week 4.5 inches and 6 inches just a few days apart.

Those were two good snow events here, a 4.5 incher and a 6 incher in the same week!

wind direction might have something to do with it too. If we had more of a northerly wind rather than a westerly wind, we would have much less downsloping and a direct shot of arctic air.

So much better than this winter though.

Yes, you can go snowboarding one week and surfing the following week lol.