LibertyBell

Yeah I was thinking Syracuse too because it's a larger city. You will just have to give up tracking tropical storms and hurricanes in the summer and fall though unless you're willing to come back to the city for those seasons. The city's better during the warm season anyway.

they're both actually good- Syracuse is the city with the highest snowfall average and gets snow both from lake effect and coastal storms (see Syracuse totals from Dec 1991 and Mar 1993)! Caribou gets more snow from latitudinal storms, Maine has had a banner November. I'd probably put both cities on my shortlist.

the anomaly (whether positive or negative) really doesn't matter in this pattern, all we'll get is rain storms or snow changing to rain. I'd much rather have a milder pattern with actual snowstorms. It can be 30 degrees on the days it snows and 50 every other day for all I care. That's actually better for getting around and snow removal anyway.

coastal storms are quite exciting in coastal Maine, it best resembles the climate of Maritime Canada. You even get the occasional hurricane up there. Allergy levels are quite low too, especially around Caribou.

we seem to have returned to our normal pattern lol.

our new wetter climate has also increased allergies (especially mold and mildew) and raised humidity levels. It used to be only very strong el ninos that made our climate this wet, now it's everything!

what about in years when we have a broader trough (cold air all across the US, including both coasts.)

So it's true in fact, there are many many more bad patterns than there are good ones. Based on past winter experiences, I'd say the bad patterns outnumber good patterns for snow by something like 80% to 20%

looks like it's mixing with snow here also

we've had all sorts of amazing storms over the past decade and more, but they'll never be satisfied lol.

summer temps got less accurate after the asos was put in lol and wind too

Hi, do you also have snowfall data from the early and mid 1800s? 1826-1864 from Jamiaca N.Y...1865-1868- Central Park... years.................ave..........lowest........highest 1826-1835.......37.95"........28.78"........55.67" 1836-1845.......36.67"........32.13"........44.57" 1846-1855.......39.50"........30.08"........46.40" 1856-1865.......41.30"........31.08"........59.68" 1866-1869.......48.57"........38.26"........57.40" 4yr ave...

Yes thats what put it 3rd on my list, I have Jan 2016, Feb 2003 and Jan 1996 in that order. The second day of the storm was a bit of a disappointment.

Yes, I think this storm is being underplayed. 1-3 inches on top of wet roads can be hazardous, most accidents happen during and just after light snowfalls.

Our locals are going for 2-3 inches for the city and long island and 3-5 inches north and west of us, with accumulating snow between 5 AM and 2 PM

The weather sure isn't boring. I'm looking forward to the event on Wednesday.

Snow pack doesn't matter much for the heavily populated areas since it all gets dirty pretty quickly anyway. For the mountains it matters, and it seems like the mountains have been having a pretty good snowfall season. The ideal scenario is probably long duration snow cover for the mountains and transient snowfalls for the coast. If we get one 1-3 incher every week, those add up. The 6+ or even 12+ inchers can wait until January and February, we dont want to cripple traffic during peak holiday travel and shopping season lol. If we get 3x 1-3 inchers in December, a few more of them in January and February, plus two or three 6+ inchers in January and February and a few 1-3 inchers in March, that will get most of us to at or above average snowfall.

Average out the two and see what you get.

the winds must have been amazing! higher LE directly correlates to the difficulty in shoveling it lol

I always forget that March 1914 storm, wasn't that a triple phaser? And of course, Dec 1947 belongs on this list. Wow we had another big LE wintry storm almost exactly a year after Feb 1920.

Chris is that drop actually going to occur during the storm? That might be another two part storm!

Yes! I like to put the 3" LE all frozen storms in a category of their own. The only one I had like that which was all snow was Jan 2016. Looks like you had even more with Feb 2013. The highest snowfall totals I read about were around 40"! Feb 1961 and perhaps the snowicane in Feb 2010 belong in that list too. Two ancient storms that probably also belong on that list are the blizzard of Mar 1888 and Feb 1920.

Wow, some things dont change, remember when the LIE was closed for miles after the February blizzard in 2013? Would you say the impact of Feb 1978 was similar to that?

I think so! I remember seeing it in a scientific equipment catalog years ago.

where did you get accurate analog stuff? none of mine seemed to work right until I went all digital.