LibertyBell

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.

omg that fiasco is why I have such a bad memory of that winter! People don't understand why I like 2014-15 so much more but it's because of that storm and how cold February 2015 was (and March was also much better.) There was another storm....it could have been in February 2010.....where I remember Long Beach was mixing and Valley Stream was snow. It was something like 5" of snow here.

I saw a 5.6" measurement on the PNS from there so just about right! ...Bronx County... 1 NE Fordham 5.6 in 0650 AM 02/28 Public

wow so less than here-- and I'm just 2 miles north of Long Beach! The temps at JFK during the storm were 32-33 though and it was mostly snow, with a little white rain mixed in during the lulls.

No I mean just for the northern part of the city, like if we had one official measuring location in each borough lol.

I didn't hear any pinging, if anything it was a little white rain during the lulls. It kept melting when the snow got lighter too.

How much did you measure?

Thanks, I take it that 2.0 from near JFK is our fellow forum member from Howard Beach!

That actually reminds me a bit of 2010-11, was it also a La Nina? We were so close to going below zero in January. February 2015 beat it for cold and snow, but before then I think January 2004 was the coldest month here since January 1994.

That December pattern was never going to work out, December is not a good month for this area for snow, March is better.

wasn't February 1991 when we had the 30 hour surprise snowstorm with 8"?