LibertyBell

This doesn't sound like a snow pattern at all....it sounds like a more typical spring pattern with rainy and 40s and sunny and 60s.

Must be a mid island and points east thing, it's just sunny and windy here lol

12-13 was pretty lackluster here, Nemo was actually less interesting here than the storm we had this February. The Groundhog Day storm as I'll call it dropped more snow.

wow thats how close we were to a foot of snow...ended up with 5 here in SW LI....about the same in April 1996 when we were supposed to get like 8-12 lol, up to 16 in Suffolk County and eastern CT. April 1997 was another big bust, we were supposed to get 8-16 and the joke was on us with only 1-2 with 8 inches or more both to the south and to the north.

Ironic thing is with how cold this February has been purported to be, March 1960 was colder than this...... Back in the 80s this would've been considered an extremely snowy month with slightly above normal temps (or right around normal, since normals back then were 31 in Jan and 33 in Feb.)

Ant, where's your shovel?

I think this should be classified as a bookend winter with December and February both being very good.

no but he might be planning to

March 2014 we missed snowstorms to our south that hit DC to PHL, we made up for that in 2015

it's been categorized as an "extreme" winter for NYC on the WSI

welp I guess it's time to shut the heat off then you know who is probably going to say it lol

Chris why are there two sets of numbers?

April 2003 and April 2018 were both very decent all day snowfalls, did you shovel either of those?

When is Easter this year?

I wont forget 2015 either, best March I can remember and February was amazing too with record long lasting cold through both months. I actually rank it above 2013-14 although they're both As in my book,

holy hell your Januarys sound like what ours were back in the 80s....we had cold and dry Januarys back then avg temps in the 20s and no double digit snowfalls. Do you have any records from the 80s for your area for January?

You've been getting a lot of weenies lately lol

Thats what lowers this winter in my book.....if we had our regular big storm circa Jan 20th this winter would've been a lot better even if we get shut out in March. Based on my own criteria I'd give this winter a B, if we get one more moderate snowfall in the 4-6 range I'd raise it to B+

the weird thing is these warm springs seemed to be much more common during the 90s up to 2002.....remember 1991 (earliest 90 on record up to that point, later broken by 2010), 1993 also had a very warm spring and both years are tied as the years with the most 90 degree days (should've been broken in 2010). And 2002 had that amazing three day heatwave in April to match 1976 but unlike 1976 we had a very hot and dry summer that lasted well into September! Weird that summer is heating up faster than spring is (maybe because of warm mins) since theoretically summer anomalies in the positive direction should be the most difficult to obtain.

hopefully this wont be one of those stupid cool/rainy springs and be much more like 2010

wasnt that the coldest march on record by a wide margin?

wow 1980 really stands out there- if i'm not mistaken didn't that have a 60+ day 80 degree average (covering both July and August)?

yeah but the truly historic summers have had 100 degree temps plus humidity, IMO we cant consider a summer to be historic without 100 degree temps and at least 30+ days with 90 degree highs

that was a much more violent black out than the one we had in 2003 in August (did I get the year right lol)

I always wondered what started that cycle lol. If you look at 1944.....it really stands out with the number of 100 degree days compared to the rest of that decade....likewise with 1966 and 2010 of course. 1999 had most of them confined to July (similar to 1955). 1988 was more of an inland heat summer. 1977 had that one historic hot stretch and the big blackout Scorchers outside of this pattern include 1948, 1953, 1980, 1983, 1991,1993, 2002...... 1983 must get special mention because its combo of heat and humidity is unparalleled (as well as late season heat). 1991 and 1993 set the 90+ degree record at NYC and 1993 especially I remember as being wall to wall heat! and that three day super heat wave of course which I experienced again in 2010. I'm also going to include 2011-13, they were all super hot and reached 100 degrees and July 2011 had the hottest day I've ever experienced bar none. And then the big deluge came in August lol. Cant forget 1995 either with the astonishing 130 heat index in July and then the wild fires in August.