LibertyBell
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Coastal water temps isn't a concern, getting snow to stick in urban areas is the concern.
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I'd look through past history and what happened in 10-11 and 17-18 and that pretty much maxes out what is possible in our region. Two twenty inch snowstorms plus a couple of moderate storms......we need to be realistic
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Of course it can snow in March, just not 20"+
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Yeah 10/11 maxes it out for us....we aren't in Boston's league, it's like comparing a minor league team to a major league team.
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Yeah, big difference between 10 and 20 though. 10 is doable
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DC is much further inland...if you want to look for ideal patterns look at March 2018-April 2018....that is probably the best that can be done in the modern era that late in the season.
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you wont break that record without at least one 20"+ HECS
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again Boston is a completely different climate, we may be sports rivals, but we're not climate rivals.
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The record is close to 80, I don't see that happening in a short time span...it's pretty much unprecedented and not part of our climate. Actually if you go back in history, our record is closer to 100" according to Ludlum.
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you'd need 20 inches in March, that's very difficult now with extreme UHI. I don't expect a lot of snow in March anymore.
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we dont have that kind of climate though, at that latitude you can have that sort of thing happen....Boston is like the arctic compared to NYC...10-11 is the best this area can do in a 6 week timespan We'd much rather have a wall to wall winter anyway
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02-03 was wall to wall too
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too much mixed precip in 13-14 that was more like 93-94 coast wont break records in that pattern
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to break the record you need a wall to wall winter like 95-96 or 02-03
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This is why 50" is considered historic. 40" is very good but 50" is a whole other level we got 50" in 02-03 too, I loved that winter....I think JFK got to 56-57 inches of snow.
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so that 40 mean for February could come to fruition and aside from 97/98 the only other season with both January and February above 40 mean temperature?
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well yeah if it won't snow....it's a lot better than cloudy rainy days
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The benchmark snowstorm of my childhood! 2 feet of snow at JFK!
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1983 blizzard dropped 2 feet of snow at JFK, the benchmark storm of my childhood!
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I wasn't going to do 20, that's an unlucky number for me.
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it's not bad at all, if you like huge storms that define the entire winter
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Not that fast though, I type with 2 fingers
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and only 60 at JFK? you'd think they'd be warmer with a westerly wind.
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Yeah.... I actually thought the first one was better than the second one but they were both really good and both were a surprise. the first one was predicted to be 4-5 inches and then a changeover to rain. instead we had an immense outburst of thundersnow right off the bat at 10 AM (I still remember it-- the first time I've ever seen such intense lightning in a snowstorm and true white out conditions) that lasted for about 4 hours where we accumulated 2 inches an hour and peaked out around 4 inches an hour and ended up with about 8 inches of snow before it ended as drizzle late in the afternoon. We went from bare ground (which was rare that winter) to plowable in less than 30 minutes-- I'll never forget that! That was supposed to be it but a second storm snuck up on us, came a little bit further north with each model run and we ended up getting 11 inches with the second storm before it changed to sleet here on the south shore (a disappointment but we somehow still ended up with more than NYC, while EWR jackpotted with around 17 inches, and they had 14 inches from the first storm, so that was a total of 31 inches of snowcover from the two storms, while for us it was more like 8+11=19 inches of snowcover with a layer of sleet on top.) After that we had a freezing rain event over the weekend and then another big thaw....but then winter came roaring back in March.
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and early April, that was my favorite storm in that pattern
