LibertyBell

So somewhere between March 10-15 is when we switch into full time Spring Mode, Chris?

sounds familiar

I remember slipping and sliding walking to school a lot in the 80s and early 90s (I had to learn to walk carefully like a mountain goat so as not to fall in the ice) so there was definitely some snow and ice around, just not enough to close school unfortunately. What I remember the most though is the unrelenting wind, especially in January. I think the standards for wind chill warnings were different back then because we used to get wind chill warnings almost every winter with wind chills somewhere between -30 and -60. My best friends house was 2 blocks from me and I remember how hard it was to walk those two blocks in that biting icy wind every weekend.

Records: Highs: EWR: 74 (2017) NYC: 75 (1985) LGA: 73 (1985) JFK: 62 (2017) Lows: EWR: 4 (2015) NYC: -1 (1873) LGA: 6 (2015) JFK: 7 (2015) Historical: 1985 went from historic below zero cold in late January to historic mid 70s warmth in late February lol. This was very typical of the early - mid 80s! 2015 historic February arctic cold continues..... The snowstorm below in 1969 I've heard so much about, I wish we had gotten this, in addition to the Lindsey storm, it would have made for a historic winter! We didn't get any snow from the 100 hour storm did we, Tony? 1969: The famous "100-Hour Storm" began in Boston, MA. Snow often fell between early on the 25th and noon on the 28th. The 26.3 inches at Logan Airport is the 2nd most significant snowstorm in Boston's history. In addition, 77 inches fell at Pinkham Notch Base Station in New Hampshire, bringing their February total to 130 inches. Their snow cover on the 27th was 164 inches. Mt. Washington, NH, received 172.8 inches of snow in the month.

1989 - A total of thirty-three cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date, and an Atlantic coast storm spread heavy snow from Georgia to southern New England. Snowfall totals in New Jersey ranged up to 24 inches in May County, with 19 inches reported at Atlantic City. Totals in North Carolina ranged up to 18 inches in Gates County, and winds along the coast of North Carolina gusted to 70 mph at Duck Pier. Strong winds gusting to 52 mph created blizzard conditions at Chatham MA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) This was the infamous snow bust for us!

Yes I have a six stage filter too. The one I heard about was 1,4- Dioxane.

Yes but I remember people were even arguing then about 3 inches vs 4 inches and undermeasurement of snow lol.

wow we were very close this season, one more 2-3 inch storm would probably do it!!

I'm hoping we don't get them up here but I have bad news to report-- while spring cleaning yesterday I spotted mosquitoes....

In 88-89 and 89-90 too, some of our really snowless winters were pretty good down there.

or Milton, FL, a city I had never heard of until this year and found out they held the Florida record for snowfall and broke their own record with 10"! I think we need to add Florida snowfall maps to the KU book!! New Orleans too!!

It would be funny if it continued to snow more down there lol. Got to look into snowfall down there 70s and 80s, I know for sure there were several winters where DC had more snow than NYC, maybe Delaware did too ? Back in the late 80s and early 90s I had this portable radio that could get radio stations from distant cities, I got WBAL from Baltimore and WBZ from Boston and WMAQ (not sure if these are the right call letters) from Chicago. Late at night is when these distant signals came in and I would listen to snowfall forecasts from these cities while we were getting suppressed with cold and dry weather. (If it was raining it was more difficult to catch distant stations.) I tried to adjust the antenna on the radio to see what the most distant station I could catch was-- I think I got a station from Dallas or Houston once because they were broadcasting a basketball game from one of those cities. I did the same thing with my TV back then since we didn't have cable and I remember catching a TV station from Boston and one from Philly. One TV station I remember specifically was from Pittston, Massachusetts and another one was from Waterbury, CT.

Great another thing to worry about lol. There's already been a carcinogenic pesticide found in our tap water.

I have family there so I understand but I have been told the summers are not that good and there's rain almost every afternoon during the summer. I love boating too, I understand how short our boating season is, usually just June - September.

I think we should rename snow season to salt season ;-) (you know, because we seem to get more salt than snow!) So we can now finally say that salt season has apparently come to an end lol.

I wonder what the most snowfall is that NYC has ever had in a season with no snowfall of 4 inches or higher?

They are way over doing it. Also people need to learn how to drive in bad weather-- or just not drive in it.

I know that's what makes it ironic lol, but that seems to be the thing they listen to.

I would consider 2008-09 a better, colder version of this winter with a happy ending (coastal snowstorm).

But even people who normalize more recent weather should be cognizant of the numbers. I felt cold this winter and yet I know single digits were never attained and I've experienced several winter months that averaged in the 20s which we did not have at all this season (January averaged around 30.) Sure it was cold, but nothing extreme or historic. The wind made it feel worse than it was.

Yeah, we didn't even have that much snow here, only 13 inches, it was like a glorified lake effect event lol. I'm thinking more along the lines of January 2016 which was a massive 30 inch plus event across a large area.

Florida is boring though, no extremes. 100 degrees dry heat followed by a 2 foot blizzard and below zero is where it's at!

It would be nice if it stuck around for at least a week. Otherwise we'd have flooding problems with a 30 inch plus snowstorm.

What if that larger storm is 30 inches plus though? Is there a threshold where you'd take a multi day supersnowstorm regardless of what happened before or after?

Yes or 02-03 those were the only wall to wall winters in my lifetime.