LibertyBell

What happened in March 1914? Did SW Nassau get snowholed that time too? LMAO

One also needs to consider the semirural nature of eastern Suffolk County. It's why you guys do better in March than we do out here in western Nassau.

Do you remember the severe wx event we had in Jan 1996 a couple weeks after the big blizzard? Kind of reminds me of that lol.

Chris, didn't EWR reach 70 on both days of the weekend? What was the reason Boston was much warmer (74) up there than we were down here? And what was the JFK max, I think you accidentally omitted that.

Wow that was their Feb 1978! Is it common for that area to get clobbered when we have a mild winter down here? Why are these storms much more common up there than they are at our latitude, Chris? Also, see my post about 30"+ events at coastal locations at sea level.

How many coastal/sea level locations have gotten 30"+ from a single event? The only official locations I can think of are Cape May 34" in Feb 1899, PHL in Jan 1996 and JFK in Jan 2016! I think Cape Cod got 30"+ in Jan 2005, but I dont know if that was an official measuring location (meaning airport or park lol.) Come to think of it, the Brookhaven NWS office may have gotten 30" in Feb 2013......

Consider the winters that came before that season (96-97, 97-98, 98-99, 99-00) and the winter that came after it (01-02).....makes 2000-01 seem like 1995-96!

one of them is supposedly a "doctor" lol- although he was the guy trying to temper down the enthusiasm a bit

I see waves in my backyard. I could go surfing in my yard in this kind of weather.

2000-01 was a really good winter that gets a bad rep because of March 2001. Dec 2000 gave us 16 inches of snow here!

We had one of those infamous nonevents in March 1998 too- 5 inches that melted the next day on the first day of Spring! Otherwise we would have gone the route of Philly and gotten shut out that "winter"!

The last couple of March's have made me hopeful for something after the peak of winter passes. But you know as well as I, our locations are not conducive to big March snowfalls. If we get 10 inches total in March I'll be extremely happy.

Yes thats why I listed as 2005-06 and 2006-07 as the best and worst case scenarios for this winter lol.

You could get a good pattern/track in this kind of weather and still end up with a rainstorm. Thats what we got in 1997-98 too.

Maybe this winter can end up like 2005-06 after all (we were talking about it even before winter began.) We got the one big storm in February but we had a cold March and April and barely missed on a few threats. Still ended up with 40" of seasonal snowfall after that one last event in early April. What can go right: 2005-06 One giant storm plus a few minor events. What can go wrong: 2006-07 It sure got cold but bad track resulted in mostly ice events. Awesome to have both extremes in back to back years lol.

I wonder if it can match what he got in March 2018 into April 2018....that was something (even if most of the storms were mixed precip. besides the last two.)

lol you should have watched the guys on TWC talking about a major pattern change, they said there is not enough cold air around for the storm next weekend (7 days out) but there will be for the one after that (14 days out) and the one after that (21 days out.) LMAO

wow let me know whats going on around Albrightsville and Lake Harmony

when the sea ice up there is doing well our winters suck. so i vote for more sea ice loss up there so we can actually have a real winter down here.

I actually dont watch any of them for news. Since I was in grade school, all I've ever watched is PBS for news, they always provide the most in depth level of coverage from everything from politics to the environment. I find them absolutely amazing (ditto for their documentaries.) BBC America is up there too.

if true that would explain November and March snowfalls being on the increase.

Yes I was thinking more like an inch.

I was just thinking of that! 8 inches in SW Nassau and only changed to drizzle at the end. Water temps are a lot colder in late Feb vs mid Jan though.

Go a bit further to the southwest and you'll get a better place to live in Halifax, NS. Good snowfall climo AND a good night life. Underrated spot for chasing tropical cyclones too.

The reason that they are so worried, I think, is that they are keeping track of certain "keystone" species that other creatures are reliant upon and whose numbers are reduced (one of them being starfish). Some species are more important than others as you probably know (this is why the reduction in pollinator species is so important.)