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Yup and Atlantic City somehow cashed in too.

Those were two of my favorite winters-- 2014-15 reminded me of 1966-67! 2017-18 was displaced to later (March into April instead of February and March). It's hard to imagine it hit 80 for some areas in February that year.

That explains our snowier March patterns very well....I wonder if this is a cyclic thing, because we had those snowy March patterns back in the 50s too, when March was our snowiest month. You know how the old saying goes.... "If March is your snowiest month it means you haven't had much snow in the winter."

Looks like we will have highs in the 50s for over a week starting today, Don?

Isn't this a normal winter pattern though? All winter patterns are gradient patterns, it just depends on where the frozen gradient sets up. This is the kind of pattern I'd expect in over 50% of our winters.

Wow nice.... I think the one I was thinking of is called the Caspian Ridge, but Siberian Highs are nice too-- I believe the record for highest air pressure ever recorded on earth (32.00 inches) was actually set in Siberia? It's the coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere so it shouldn't surprise anyone.

Isn't there a ridge in central Asia somewhere that correlates to blocking for us? I forget what it's called.

Which do you think will prove to be right, Chris? I see our locals are going with the several rainy days solution.

They truly are omnivores lol, they'll eat anything. I saw a video of them raiding the places where squirrels leave nuts.

Interesting if we could trace all this back to the blocking we had in October lol

Don, lows in the 20s throughout the area?

Yes, that was some first week lol. It wasn't historically cold in October by any means but it felt like it with the way recent Octobers have been.

Didn't we have this in December in 2020 too? Something that both December 2010 and December 2020 had in common is that both were la ninas after el ninos, so that may have been a big influence on the high snowfall totals in those 2 la nina winters. Seems like we need either that or a major SSW event like we saw midwinter in 2018 to get big snows in La Nina winters. I saw that an SSW like that might be possible later on in December?

Based on the statistics you quoted, we'd better get snow in the first three weeks of December since the last 10 days have been pretty poor over the past decade.

any tropical or subtropical connection with this, Chris?

well major snow in November is rare anyway and for the second half of November the only thing I remember offhand is the historic Thanksgiving 1989 snowstorm that dumped double digits on Long Island. What a dry and powdery snow that was with temps in the twenties! It stuck to the roads right away too.

I had to do a double take-- 85% chance of a warmer than normal November after how historically cold it was lol. I guess it doesn't take much to wipe out a historically cold departure the first half of the month? And wow those 80 inch plus totals, are those the finals totals from this event? Has to be at least a couple of state records in there-- at least for 24 hour totals?

Yes, it's going to be a real hard freeze tonight (temperature at 28 or below). Last time this happened was March 30-- so the growing season ends tonight.

omg is he or she carrying the trash away? your new sanitation engineer is here ;-)

lol they're awesome as long as they don't come around when people are there on a side note, that snow looks pretty awesome too

Yep that's what that DuPont coverup was about. It only got found out during discovery for that class action they lost. Same as what the chemical lobby did to keep toxic pesticides like chlorpyrifos legal for so long (Dow manufactured that and now that they've merged with DuPont, we can expect more toxic goodies from that unholy union.)

PFOA at the Dupont facility in West Virginia was responsible for children being born with birth defects as well as farm run off that caused cows to bleed out. DuPont illegally dumped a few million tons of the stuff into the waterways there. When they lost the lawsuit all of that came out and the fact that they had a safer alternative but choose not to use it because it was more expensive. PFOA have been found in 90% of all life on the planet and there is no safe dosage for it. We're finally now starting to test for it in our water too.

it's analogous to mixing. Last night was colder than this.

Don are these going to be considered statewide or even national records?

How is that even possible? It's supposed to be below freezing everywhere tonight. You must be measuring the temp near a subway station or grate.