LibertyBell

Don can you make a similar chart for all these locations for all of met winter? Thanks!

I guess if you count the entire area, though I am going with the 10" in New York City definition. We could switch that to MECS for NYC in which case that would still be valid lol

by the way two nights of northern lights, did you see anything last night?

anywhere where it was 4"+

Is KU measured by area of 10" snowfall plus the population under that area? I guess you could use the MECS definition and link that to 10" for any individual location and then keep HECS for 20" plus.

as you know I'm going with the lowest number for low records and the highest number for high records. As long as JFK remains below the record it's going to be historic, at 1.7" currently.

There have been no KU in March since 1993

thats not a snowstorm lol

I'm going with JFK numbers, 1.7 for JFK. For record lows always go with the lowest figure, for record highs always go with the highest figure.

You can also have a KU event for an individual location, which I would say has to be 10" or more. For example, a 10" event for Long Beach is a KU for Long Beach. 20" is HECS, so a 20" storm for Long Beach is an HECS for Long Beach.

Mt Pocono's record warmest winter was still below freezing lol

If you lower your expectations to 4 inch to 6 inch storms there's plenty of examples between mid March and mid April

I would bet against anything historic though 6-8 inch storms are just fine

I thought you were Nosnow this year lol

we aren't really safe from it-- I expect we wont get any accumulation from Friday's event and we'll then have to depend on March 10 and beyond.

It's worth noting that it didn't give us an extremely snowy winter though (unless 93-94 counts for a delayed impact, as some claim.) El Chichon was another one in 1982, which was claimed to have been a reason for the February 1983 HECS although as we have seen, very strong ninos can have those huge snowstorms even if it's the only one that winter. The biggest impact I have seen from volcanoes are amazingly dark total lunar eclipses. The one in December 1982 literally looked like a black hole hanging in the sky at 4:30 am. And that was after the July 1982 total lunar eclipse which was one of the brightest of all time, the moon was a bright orange at 3:30 am!

8:1 do you think? Imagine what this would have been like in very cold weather and 20:1 ratios that would be a foot of snow lol. 15 inches at 25:1 which is usually the best we see around here.

Yeah because on the south shore we get nice wintry scenes even in April when it snows hard (1996, 2003, 2018). Imagine living near Times Square with all that heat and all those lights lol and traffic too.

let's hope we can get another 2 foot plus snowstorm sometime this decade and you're here for it to make up for January 2016 lol As far as I can recall, 20"+ at Long Beach has only happened in February 1983, January 1996, PD2 2003, January 2016. So in spite of this new era of big snows, it still only happens once a decade.

you do love your volcanoes dont you lol

plus -PNA I think, those were some really good years on the west coast

doesn't that lead to cold and dry a la the 80s?

40.8 doesn't sound that cold though Don. I figured it would have to average in the 30s. I'm surprised March 2018 wasn't that cold?

Yes and this same thing in the summer sends the most anomalous heat into new england and southern canada and why we see TC tracking farther north closer to the coast too.

This is correct, the -PDO was forecast back in the 00s when we went through our big snowfall period. The last time this happened was in the 50s. Back then March was our snowiest month too and there was an uptick in tropical activity along the east coast especially. It happens in 30 year cycles if I remember correctly.