LibertyBell

True, I remember the ones from the 80s, especially when they occurred during the day time, Twelve hours of snow, 3-5 inches of snow with temperatures in the 20s and with high winds, they were really fun to watch.

There was also one in February 2021 if I remember correctly, the Groundhog Day storm (it lasted 3 days)..... Binghamton got 40 inches of snow but we still got 18 inches even with mixing.

You can get a lot of snow and even jackpot with mixing. See February 1961, JFK changed over to a mix during the middle of the storm and still managed to get 24.1 inches of snow on 2.7 inches of liquid.

Chris, does this mean that the differences for those south of us vs us will flatten out so for example the average snowfall differences between DC, Baltimore, Ocean City, Atlantic City and New York City won't be that much? So I could see DCA average snowfall go down to 10 inches, ACY to 12 inches and NYC to 15 inches.... PHL and NYC could have very similar snowfall averages.

Sometimes it becomes hard to tell if snow fell (especially if its an overnight storm) if there is already snow on the ground. Sure, you can look at the trees, but looking at the ground, you probably won't be able to tell much of a difference since we still have 2 inches on the ground here from the last storm.

It's probably best to focus on February. By March 1 snowfall becomes much less likely. Even yesterday, with the sun out all afternoon it really felt like spring. I've even noticed budding on some of my trees. What we get March 1 and beyond is usually a wet snow that melts the same day or the next day. Which I'm utterly fine with, since that is the nature of spring snow here.

Did you ever watch the documentary about the true life story of that crazy scientist/professor who adopted a chimpanzee and farmed him out to his female students to raise? I can't remember the name of the documentary right now, but this guy had very questionable ethics. He had two of his female students breastfeed the chimpanzee and he also ended up having affairs with both students (one was married and the other one was an 18 year old prodigy.) When he dumped the 18 year old she went into a tailspin and quit his program. But went to a different school and decades later became one of the world's most pre-eminent behavior biologists!

Hey I always wanted to bring back the quagga and the wooly mammoth! I've been absolutely fascinated with the quagga since I was 12 years old.

2002-03 was great at Baltimore and JFK, my second favorite season of all time after 1995-96.

an inside runner it means inside of the benchmark but does the low pressure does not make landfall here

clippers don't get any moisture from the ocean the reason they are moisture starved is because of fast Pacific flow. I dont care about clippers so much, who would be excited over 1-2 inches of snow?

we've not even had more than a few days 50 or above.

It was very rare not to have at least one 4" all snow snowstorm. That was my barometer of a decent winter back then, just get one 4" all snow snowstorm and I was fine with it. It's why I consider last winter a decent one, we had a 4 incher and a 6 incher in the same week. I dont care about seasonal snowfall totals as much, if we get at least one or two moderate all snow events, it's a good winter.

why does Ocean County have such a weird shape? it looks like an anvil to me lol

got 3.5 from the last event and expecting 2 from this one, not a bad week. This storm will get me to double digits and closer to last season's total (13 inches)

maybe he means coastal hugger or inland runner

So if we just focus on 10.0 inch snow events at Central Park, what's the average snowfall in a season that has them vs one that doesn't have them (if we go by decade.)

To be fair, if inland areas had a 15-20 inch snowstorm and coastal areas had a 5-10 inch mixed bag, that would still be a KU event.

One thing this winter made me realize is you don't need a certain number of *inches* of snow to get a winter feel. Remember folks, the South Pole station in Antarctica gets less than 1 inch of snow a year and it is one of the most wintry places on the planet! So instead of measuring winters by snowfall inches, we should measure it by duration of snowcover and average temperatures. Whether it's 10 inches of snow or 50 inches of snow matters much less than 1) having many days below freezing 2) the lack of a thaw-- temperatures above 50 degrees 3) duration of snow cover 4) number of snowfall events. The actual amount of snowfall does not really matter. It's felt like a long winter because it has been.

This was the only KU event from that winter for us KU event = at least one of the 4 major reporting stations near the city got 10.0 inches

People downplay February 2024 but we had a 4 incher and a 6 incher in the same week.

February 2024 was pretty good, a foot of snow in one week, can't complain.

Maybe we could come up with a more statistically objective metric. How about this-- instead of *KU BENCHMARK* track, let's calculate the average snowfall by decade when the largest single snowfall in NYC is 1) 10.0 inches or more 2) 8.0 inches or more 3) 6.0 inches or more 4) 4.0 inches or more 5) less than 4.0 inches

March 2001 would have made that season historic

so the warming climate is enhancing the la nina base state