that three month period in 1869 might be unmatched-- it's within a degree across 3 months lol
1871-72 is only off by 0.1 from it but
1871-72 is even more remarkable for having three months in a row average in the 20s and 4 months in a row well below freezing!
1871-1872 was probably a big snowfall and snowcover winter.
The most interesting thing is that the three months of JFM will all have an average temp within a degree or two of each other, I wonder if that's ever happened before.
Even JFK got over 46 inches of snow that winter, so we can't even say it was an inland winter, that winter was full of historic cold and big snowfalls too and a historic ice storm to top it all off.
I like this ice method! It measures the actual amount of snow that fell from the sky, which is the real experience of seeing snow fall, who cares whether it sticks to some surface or not!
You definitely want the Pacific on your side, you can get a blockbuster winter with a great Pacific and a bad Atlantic, but not vice versa-- the best example of this is 1993-94 !
wow they have increased even more than NYC has. I wonder if they had a similar dip in snowfall average in the 70s and 80s like NYC did, and a higher peak back in the earlier decades (when NYC was averaging 30 inches or more of snow every decade.)
wow interesting, I don't believe we've had many back to back el ninos (the only other ones I know about are 1976-77 and 1977-78)
what were the totals in 1918-19 and 1919-20 if you don't mind me asking, Don?
I think your area should have around a 35 inch average basically between Huntington and Wading River and down to about Upton.
SW Nassau is closer to coastal NJ in climate I always look at that area to see if we are going to do well with snow more than I do either Suffolk County or NYC. North coastal NJ though, not a place like Toms River or further south.