ORH_wxman

A lot of home stations run a bit warm though this time of year because so many of them don’t have proper solar shields and foliage isn’t on the trees yet to make up for it. ORH has been consistently too warm in MADIS for a couple years now. Best way to test it is during well-mixed atmosphere without solar contamination (which we did during that cold shot in February)…and we saw the indisputable results.

2009 that happened. I think a few years later we had our warmest day in May.

It’s fake anyway since it’s running like 3F warmer than the real temp. It will officially go down as earliest though…previous earliest were 90F on 4/17/02 and 4/19/76

Irrelevant for me personally since I have central air, but back when I had to use window units, I never installed prior to June because you just had way too many cold outbreaks before then and an AC window unit lets a lot of cold air in, so you end up having to turn heat on when you might not have otherwise. Try seeing how cold your room gets if you have a window unit in there with the heat off and you get a wheel 'o 'rhea for 3 days at 44F.

Don't need AC when dews are like 15F....lol.

That’s the one big negative with such an epic snow season out west…you get the avalanche risk ramping up almost exponentially. Been a lot of that type of stuff reported recently. It’ll be funny though seeing a lot of places skiing into July this year though. Baker and maybe a few places in the Sierras like Mammoth or Alpine could probably do August if they wanted to. Esp if they get some late spring snows to reinforce. (Which seems to happen a lot in epic seasons)

Incredible how cold that storm was too for April. Very powdery snow. Only the 4/4/16 event rivals it for cold with snow falling…but ‘82 was a much heavier event.

Actually has a very well-placed sfc high....that's how we know it won't verify in this season.

Yeah we better get rid of that block....otherwise I foresee some wheel o'rhea in our future.

Nice look in time for mid-April

I was still going to school in western NY in the 2001-02 winter and that BUF storm was pretty epic…basically a stalled low over James bay kept SW flow over Lake Erie and firehosed them for about a week straight with lake effect snow. I think they had like 82 inches in that one event. We visited Buffalo less than a month later on our way to Niagara Falls (we used to hop the border there because the legal age was 19 instead of 21, lol) and most of it had melted amazingly…but that’s what a torch will do…esp out there. They get a lot of snow but there’s no CAD so it warms up easy too when the pattern isn’t great.

Alpine meadows at 8k up to 695" on the season....just 12" shy of their record of 707"...they'll prob blow that away over the next couple weeks.

The whole "march is more of a winter" month narrative didn't come from a bunch of 1870s weenies....it came from people experiencing March in the past 3 decades who post on here.

Yeah I really miss those 1870s Marches I experienced as a kid. It's a bummer we don't get those anymore.

There's a reason they call it "The Spring Barrier".....our ENSO forecasts are really bad prior to early summer. Though at least in this case, we have a historical precedent that La Nina is extremely unlikely.

You are remembering incorrectly...that looked like a strong Nino pretty quickly once we got past the spring barrier.

Wow, had no idea how mundane it was there...ORH had 97.5". I assumed you were at least 80-85".

Boston has two storms that are similar too....they had 19.8" in the 3/3/60 storm and 19.4" in the 2/16/58 storm.

57-58?

You are correct...I double counted 2003 for some reason.

If we're lucky, we'll break into some clearing in the afternoon....but right now, looks pretty rainy in morning and then again when the front comes through later in evening.

That area typically has a very early onset of winter too....it's not like here where big November snows are rare....they usually enter December with already deep snow pack. This year has been pretty ridiculous though...I noticed they have a 62 inch pack currently.

Pretty sure BWI And BOS both have 10 storms of 20"+. Baltimore used to have more but Boston caught up with 4 in the last 10 years to Baltimore's 1.

Strong Nino is fine....you just don't want a Super Nino.