Mount Joy Snowman

This is fair, and as you've said, it's all subjective. I would go a bit higher though. I believe you've talked before about grading on the "how often does it look and feel like winter" scale, which I completely agree with, and for me this winter just looked and felt a lot like what winter is supposed to be. Even going back to some of the cold around the Thanksgiving time period and then the relentless cold through the first half of December and again from mid-January through mid-February. The staying power of the snowpack during that stretch was something to behold, plus a number of days where snow was at least in the air. While I agree my 22.3" of snow was nothing overly impressive, it just felt like more, and given expectations and some recent winters, I was pleased. Now, is it fair to grade on that type of curve? Probably not but everything is relative. You are right that March has been mostly a dud but there have still been some very potent cold fronts that have brought about some cool events and it hasn't lacked for feeling like March, despite the positive temp anomaly (some of that may have to do with those aforementioned midnight highs distorting our daily summaries ha). In any case, I thought it was a rock-solid winter pretty much from start to finish -- one I would sign up for again next year if I could right now -- and for that reason I'm going with a B+. Great discussion.

Current temp of 53 is the low with .49” of rain. Midnight highs have been killing us this month.

Low of 45. Nice day today, followed by another solid rainfall tonight, and then some downright cold days tomorrow and Saturday. Onward.

Low of 32. Looking like a chilly day for the neighborhood easter egg hunt on saturday.

My temp dropped an additional 3 degrees to 29 after I left the house this morning.

32 as I leave the house, may go lower. Happy Tuesday.

Snow is beautiful. March in PA is crazy. We are like 4 degrees above average with mean temperature this March. Try to roll with the punches and enjoy it.

Temp has dropped to 45 here.

Current temp of 50 is the low and .52” of rain.

Low of 46 with .37” of rain. Off to Strasburg with the kids. Have a great one!

Low of 32. A little rain tonight and then a beautiful weekend. Onward.

Looks like it'll be late evening that it moves into NYC.

Low of 32 but I was lower prior to midnight. I think 30 was the true overnight low. Shaping up to be a beautiful weekend.

This is incredible stuff JNS, just outstanding. I’ve known about the MDT/CXY seasonal and diurnal temperature differences you outlined but never laid it out so eloquently and obviously didn’t have the data to back it up. The other data you put meaning to is fascinating as well. Excellent work all the way around. I did want to mention that we’ve had several discussions over the years about the Harrisburg climate site changing locations but no one has ever done a deep dive on the data as you have here. Tremendous work and extremely informative. You have a real talent for this. Bravo, good sir.

I know it was discussed a bit how things were stronger east of the river with the frontal passage Monday night but not sure if it was pointed out that LNS saw a peak gust of 66, while I believe the next two strongest were MUI and MDT with readings of 54 and 52.

20 when I left the house and a T of snow last evening.

You are a damn polar bear! A nice little snow shower just rolled through here that dropped the temp to 28, got the treetops moving, and had some heavy flurry action. Fun.

Actual low here last night was 28 and some residual snow and ice melt brings my total tally to 1.7”, which I believe puts me amongst the highest totals in the state for yesterday. Neat.

Obligatory cabin pic this morning from the upper terrain of the Tioga/Potter line.

A lot of coworkers mentioning how surprised they were to find their cars encrusted in sleet and snow thi smorning. I told them I stayed up to watch it haha.

29 when I left the house. 1.63” of total liquid but still waiting for some encrusted sleet/snow to melt off the funnel of the gauge, will report back later. Probably going with .2” of snow/sleet as things were decently covered when I went to bed last night and it was still snowing. Nice little event and today should be a heck of a winter day. Curious to see how far east some squalls can make it later today. March, always a trip.

Temp down to 33 with borderline heavy snow but the fun appears to be over soon. Still cool to see.

Had a period of steady sleet with a temp of 37 and now it appears I’m transitioning to snow as the temp has dropped to 35. Glorious. I need to go to bed but…..snow.

Well this is a first for me, someone on mPing has reported a mudslide down near the border just west of Shrewsbury. Also looks like snow has already moved into Cumberland Co.

The front is moving through here with some pretty impressive gusts. Nothing too crazy but we did briefly lose power. Temp plummeting as expected.