Volcanic Winter

I thought only coastal sections / parts of the Delmarva and VA exceeded climo? I linked a chart from Feb 20th that showed many areas of the MA were still below average, and from reading the MA forum - many weren’t all that thrilled with the snowfall this year. I mean for sure they appreciated the lasting snow in Jan, as did we - it certainly wasn’t a bad winter for most of them. But it seemed like the repeated snows were mostly odd coastal sections. I’d have to look again, but I certainly didn’t garner the impression it was some blockbuster winter for the broader MA.

I honestly really enjoyed this winter, especially in relation to the past several. That said, I’m truly someone who loves cold weather - it makes me feel alive and invigorated. I’m an avid winter hiker and outdoor enthusiast, my wife and I mainly travel in the winter to go to snowy places and get outside (injury reasons for both of us sadly are why we don’t ski / snowboard). That said, I’m really earnestly disappointed we couldn’t cash in on one big region wide storm. It did feel like it was our time, it felt like that last threat was the one, and I allowed myself to get invested even vividly recalling how many recent rug pulls we’ve endured. It sucks. But at least we had a winter that felt like winter, and snowfall that stayed around and didn’t generally melt the day after in 60 degrees. Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come going forward if the PDO begins to relax, but we still definitely need Pac help (that damn jet needs Xanax). Was a pleasure.

^ Beautiful, man. @MJO812 Here’s 1/29/22 for me, beast of a storm down this way:

Down to 13 overnight, don’t think this was forecasted (I saw like 20-22). Good radiative conditions?

Northern Ocean Co was a screw zone this winter and a partial screw zone in 2022 in that the early Jan event that gave ACY like a foot down to Cape May gave us nothing but virga with a hard northern cutoff. This year I have ten inches, storms missed south repeatedly and north. Thankfully 1/29/22, I had the Jersey jackpot with 16 inches (I think our poster from Barnegat beat me at 18 though, still I’m not complaining). I would be much …pissy-er without that storm. Cold smoke, 22f, windy, … was a good one.

Not caught up in our thread yet so forgive me if this has been posted recently, but I saw this and found it interesting (in a painful sort of way ): The Delmarva and VA/NC coasts on south really did unbelievably well, not so much inland or north of VA.

I now have 10 inches on the season, the upside here is it oddly fell across like 5-6 separate “events” so there were at least several ‘wintry’ days and melt happened way slower than the past few winters. I’ll take it as someone who loves and appreciates cold weather, winter at least has felt like winter and that counts for something. This works for me:

Got a nice .25+ so far, had to drive up to EWR to pick my parents up for the airport. Cold, wintry drive! I’m at, let’s call it 10 inches on the season with today / tonight.

Flurries in TR, 26F.

Was one of the first old threads I went back and read through when I first signed up at American WX a few years ago. I really think Boxing Day was my favorite storm of all time despite living through multiple HECS. I lived in North Brunswick then which was near one of the maxes in NJ. Especially coming just after the holiday was the perfect chef’s kiss on the whole thing. Sadly the only big storm I’ve been able to experience live here was 1/29/22 and that was only a real big one for like myself and LI, but was still exciting overall.

70ish mph gust went right over my house. Might have been the strongest wind I’ve personally been in my home for.

So happy this gave many at least something. Do we know totals out of ACY - Cape May? They looked to have been in the heavier bands.

What’d you finish up with? I appear to be about 4.75 - 5. I don’t have a perfect measuring surface but that’s a good conservative measurement for me.

Just under 5 inches for 9-9.5 inches on the season. Needed this today. Was a pleasantly steady light to moderate snowfall since 5-6pm last night.

Yep, and here the WWA was lowered from 3-5 to 2-5, which lately made me think “expect 2 or less” - nah, this has performed nicely for me. In the 4-5 range with snow still to come as the radar still has decent returns for a bit yet. If only this amplified just a bit more.

Around 3+ inches here in inland Toms River. 30F 28Dp. As is gets me to about 8 on the season.

Yeah, the metro is a large region. “Northern crew” I think Sussex -> east across the LHV and into NYC metro areas of CT. That map as depicted was an improvement for CNJ. It doesn’t help that nobody can agree on what constitutes NNJ, CNJ, and SNJ either . Truly one of the great debates of our time.

Yeah - Toms River is normally the furthest south marker for the NYC metro and is why Ocean county gets included in the metro maps (you usually see a Toms River marker on media maps but not Brick, Jackson, etc). I live a bit northeast of the marker you have in north / central ocean that’s by itself. Edit- I’m referring to your Feb 8-9th Snow to Mix Storm map.

This is amazing, thanks very much! I’m at about 4.5 inches on the season, Toms River but away from the water & well inland. We’ve been a bit of a snow hole this winter with storms missing both north and south.

WSWatch here 4-6, up to 8. Mt Holly went fairly aggressive imo for me, was thinking this would be predominantly south of me but we’ll see. I’m at 4.5 inches on the season, will this get me to double digits?

Very happy for the city, glad they picked up something tonight! Will probably fare better here on Tues, maybe.

Where in TR are you? I’m at the Manchester border, inland. Definitely a cold spot in TR and very slightly elevated relative to the rest of the town closer to the bay / river. My grass is coated in mixy sleet / ice along with our cars, but p-type appears plain rain.

Nothings more frustrating than being at 31-32 degrees and raining with some sleet. I haven’t looked at this event too closely but must have warm 825’s down by me? Still below freezing and raining. But wasn’t expecting anything here anyway. Enjoy guys! Edit: Currently 31.3 on the tempest and straight raining lol.

Definitely some icing down here at TR / Manchester border. Just ticked up to 33F, was below freezing most of the night here.

There’s a bit of an ongoing seismic crisis at Santorini / Kolumbo volcanoes in Greece (Kolumbo is a neighboring system of Santorini, only a few miles northeast - and is also capable of powerful eruptions and has done so in historic times). The resurgent dome of Nea Kameini in the middle of Santorini’s caldera has effusively erupted numerous times in recent history, but this doesn’t appear to be that as the locus of quakes is between the two systems. This, IMHO, is very unusual. And appropriately, Santorinians are quite nervous at the moment. It’s unlikely any major eruption is about to begin just because, as always, large eruptions at any given system are rare. But something is going on and this warrants considerable caution. I’m seeing daily large magnitude quakes … mag 4-5. I have actually been to Santorini in the late 2000’s, I dated a young Greek woman when I was just starting college and I traveled with her there. Santorini is unbelievably beautiful, but also the size and magnitude of the caldera is incredibly apparent - the whole area is born of extremely powerful volcanism. Edit: 9000 evacuate Santorini https://watchers.news/2025/02/04/over-9-000-people-evacuate-santorini-as-seismic-crisis-worsens-uk-issues-travel-advisory-greece/ If the seismic activity continues to escalate and doesn’t begin to peter out relatively soon, the chances of an eruption increase. However they’re also talking about this as a potential tectonic event or prelude to a large earthquake. Part of why is because the locus of quakes is between the two magma centers of both volcanoes which is part of why this whole thing is odd in the first place. No idea what’s going to happen, I wouldn’t have thought this type of seismic crisis as foreshocks to a large earthquake (this seems volcanic for sure, IMHO) - but I overall agree in getting people out of the area. Something is definitely going down right now.