LibertyBell

So how many days were there between the SSW in 2018 and the first wintry event after that? Let's do some calculations and transpose that interval onto the projected date of the SSW this March and when the first wintry event may occur after that? Let's say it's 20 days.... so we're talking about right after the Equinox to the middle of April to get something decent....we could have two wintry events in that time.

We've had a good event in April every decade I've been around. 4 inches or more.

Yeah we were worried about him....thought he got lost in a snow drift lol.... he was gone for a few days.

we average around an inch of snow in April don't we? It's a once in decade event to get a decent April snowfall, so it's rare but not unique. October 2011 was unique. I think we've had one decent April snowfall in every decade I've been around. I'm just going by JFK numbers (snowfalls of 4 inches or higher) April 1982..... 8 inches April 1996..... 4 inches April 2003...... 6 inches April 2018........ 6 inches

Outside of Feb, 17-18 was really cold and winter extended into March and April.

Coldest since Feb 2015

Didn't NYC once have 0.8" of snow in May?

Can we use this to figure out what the exact temp was in a given location? Looks like there's an area NW of FOK that radiates even better than they do.

Surprising that ACY has 3 months with more snow than this. Were they all February Don and did any reach 40" of snow?

If it means early April snow sign me up.

Why does it take so long? And still thats enough time for it to snow here....we have until April 10th to get a decent snowstorm.

I love April snow

hey April snowstorms are FUN

One can argue that our memories are what give us our personality and make us human.

Proves my point that 20+ should be considered HECS. You've had 2 of them in that period, I've had 3 (I didn't have Feb 2013 in that list and you didn't have PD2 and Jan 2016, my number 1 storm, in your 20 inch list.)

Post the maps for next Monday, I want to see what Goldberg is honking about.

Goldberg mentioned a possible snowstorm for next Monday, what do you see on the models that day?

There's a higher than normal number of people dying of heart attacks from shoveling and doctors think it might be pandemic related....if people dont want to shovel I dont blame them.

wow so that was because of subsidence from being between bands?

Thats why you shouldnt shovel, I dont. Let the sun melt it

Furthermore February 1978 was a MUCH more widespread and MUCH larger storm, remember that Mt Pocono got 30 inches with that storm, it still stands as that location's storm of record and it was a crippling blizzard all the way down to DC. This event was like a grain of sand compared to the vast desert of Feb 1978

No this was nowhere near as great as Feb 1978 was and I talked to a lot of NE people last night who were very unsatisfied with this storm, there were quite a few people who are upset they didn't get 20 plus inches of snow. Also we must remember that snowfall totals in the current era are boosted because of the measuring method. Feb 1978 was a far higher impact storm than this one was.

Interesting, it sounds like the idea of a bigger storm actually had a higher chance of happening and what actually happened was a freak outcome.

This is why I hate banding lol, I just want a general area of heavy snow like we get in our less intense storms that throw moisture over arctic air.

hell no winds were way stronger, we had 12 hours of confirmed blizzard conditions at JFK. what about Jan 2018 since you were here for that? Did the LE match up with the snowfall measurement at JFK? I remember this also happened in Dec 2003, the first day of the storm with the higher temps and being 5 miles north of the mix line gave us much larger flake size, on the second day I was stoked because temps were supposed to be lower but we got this tiny flake size and the visibility didn't even drop much while it was snowing and it was Farmingdale that got the 20" and we ended up with 13"