LibertyBell

Thats wonderful- we get most of our snow in January and February anyway, so dry weather is preferred in December :-)

Some of America's greatest writers hailed from Maine.... I'm thinking John Updike, Stephen King and Robert Frost (?). It is indeed a refuge for intellectuals and inspires creativity.

the airport should have been closed...we've had some pretty bad incidents in this kind of weather

so JFK didn't get above freezing until 6 am?

my favorite March for snow was 2015, it was an extension of February. March being snowy by itself really doesn't do anything for me, it has to be an extension of a snowy winter for it to "feel" like a real winter.

thats indeed a strange situation, but Central Park still retained freezing temps longer.

This reminds me of the snow squall we had last winter

as long as it's dry I dont care- I've had enough of this dreary weather.

Our winters are contracting.

well if you look back to the 50s, when March was the snowiest month, it seems that the pattern is that when March is a snowy month it means that the winter was not all that snowy.

I'll be ecstatic when we get that break and have some dry weather that lasts a week or more.

at some point humanity will need to attempt climate regulation. There is no way around it. In every other science (except for astronomy of course, since we cant reach the stars yet), we are more than just observers, we are experimenters. Climatology is no different.

what happened to the climate shifts thread?

Well it's their funeral. Whatever happens it's what humanity deserves. I feel bad for the younger generation, but until the older people die off, this wont be solved.

actually if we want to technically define winter as the coldest 90 day period of the year, it would be from about December 8th to March 7th.

Heck, the solstice isn't even the shortest day of the year!

what would it take for that southern stream low to come north ;-)

I remember years ago burying myself in the New York Public Library and coming upon a "weather almanac" (I forgot its name) that didn't have snowfall records, but had temperature averages going back to the 1700s and 1800s. Curiously, February seemed to be the coldest month back then and the mean temp for both January and February was under 30 degrees! Then I came across the Pennsylvania Weather Book which mentioned that during the 1800s there were a couple of occasions when both NYC and Philly accumulated 100" of seasonal snowfall and had snow cover extending from Thanksgiving to St Paddy's Day!

we've let it go to waste many times before..... if we capitalized on every -NAO/-AO then NYC would average like 80 inches of snow a year lol. An east-based -NAO and/or a bad PAC make snow much less likely. I wish there were graphs that depicted exactly what type of neg NAO this would be.

we have a decent chance at 3"..... it seems like we get over 50" of rain every year now.

But Chris, does the departure even matter in this kind of a pattern? We've seen plenty of so-called "cold" months that were predominantly rainy.

it's even more active when a historic heatwave is ongoing. I almost get the same rush when it hits 100 degrees at the coast as I do when we have 20 inches of snow!

isn't it an el nino? I thought the Pac was supposed to be great during el nino's (maybe that's after December.)

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.