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There was snow with that storm in S NJ and it occurred 11 days after this storm is supposed to. Low pressure tracked near JFK didn't it? It was the Tax Day noreaster.

Thanks Roger, do you have JFK data for that date? I didn't see it in the report.

I really wish they made these maps more intuitive and didn't have those ads hiding the color key. One associates blue with clear skies and white with cloudy skies-- not the reverse!

this map is so confusing, especially with that annoying ad at the bottom that hides the color key. So white actually means clear skies? It should be the reverse-- we normally associate white with clouds! I thought Texas was in the clear and New York was mostly cloudy, but it looks like the opposite is true.

wow this is absolutely amazing! where do you find maps with so much detail? the media never shows a map like this. what do you think of Syracuse as a place to go to? Are those holes in the clouds up there or should we not look at such fine details this far out lol

1945 - Providence, RI, hit 90 degrees to establish a March record for the New England area. (The Weather Channel) wow how did it hit 90 degrees this early in the season in Providence and yet it's never happened in March in NYC? NYC is much further away from the ocean than Providence is, not to mention also further south!

Sounds like you're thinking that April 1997 is a decent analog, as opposed to any late season snowstorm that got NYC or Long Island.

where are they getting 4/6/82 from this? That winter was much colder than this one we just had and no amount of -NAO is going to generate the amount of cold our entire continent had that winter! Sheesh and I thought I was going out on a limb trying to see if April Fools 1997 was a proper analog for this....

I wonder if this can get snow down to the Poconos like April 1997 did. Obviously not much for us here at the coast, but the Poconos could get something like they did in that storm.

There were numerous other early April snowstorms that happened after that but this isn't any of them either. Maybe April Fools 1997 could be an analog but this isn't good enough to do what that did down here (which wasn't much.... 1-2 inches of snow, but a lot more in the mountains and in New England.)

Yeah this isn't even good enough to be an Aprils Fools 1997 repeat for us.

I'm rooting for 80s, onshore flow would suck.

JFK went over 1" too, the lower totals were from Manhattan on west.

didn't get to 10" of rainfall here, but JFK came close (9.86")-- their rainiest March on record.

we'll have a lot more winters like 2015-16

good just in time for the eclipse

even when we had very snowy winters, it was rare to get meaningful snow this late..... 1996, 2003 and 2018 were it. As long as we get snow in January and February it's okay, anything outside of that has become very rare.

omg I guess if you want to avoid the traffic and the high costs of airfare, you could always travel by Amtrak. But that has logistical issues also.

a south based block again?

Thanks, I take it we can talk about the eclipse here too. From the medium range forecasts I've seen, the further north you go the lower the chances of clouds now? So basically all those people who were saying go to Texas or Arkansas or Indiana or Ohio are going to be wrong because that's where the most chances of cloudiness is predicted to be as of now? And once you get to Buffalo or Syracuse or northeast from there, the chances of having sunshine that day are higher? Down where we are, I'm still seeing "mostly cloudy" but at least it looks like it might be more clear in the path of totality in the northeast?

the question is if the block is so strong, why dont we see snow all the way down here? whats the difference between this and say, April 1996, 2003, 2018.... other than the obvious fact that the winters preceding them were much colder lol

the question is if the block is so strong, why dont we see snow all the way down here? whats the difference between this and say, April 1996, 2003, 2018.... other than the obvious fact that the winters preceding them were much colder lol

That's okay you can cover the 12% left over with your pinky finger.

Don I noticed you said that the average last freezing day is March 29th. When did this move from April to March? For the longest time I remember that the average last freezing day was around April 10th. Our first freezing day has not moved that much from November 10th. I wonder why?

wow even today the sun came out unexpectedly in the middle of the rain. Imagine if something like this happened on the 8th during the middle of totality lol