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Oops sloppy fingers I meant to hit 4 so about 40" in March unless I'm forgetting something in the last week and a bit over 60" for the winter season.

Hey where's our winter thread? I want to go back and look at something. My search-fu is weak

I had ~60" in March, a decent storm in early January, below 0 a couple of times and days that barely reached the mid-teens but somehow it just didn't seem like an A winter. Yup that Feb storm was quite the fluke in a sea of warmth, I think I got something like 8 or 10". I also only used about 2/3 the amount of heating oil that I expect to use but we were still running the heat much later into the year than we usually do which is part of why I don't have the warm fuzzies for the winter as a whole, it was warm overall. 10/11 was a good winter, would have been really great if it hadn't ended so abruptly (or was that 9/10 that just shut off?). I think it was 03/04 that was a wall to wall winter, didn't end up with outrageous totals but it started strong on 12/5 and just kept going right through the end of March. I didn't get back here until April 96 so I missed the best of it but I was here for 93/94 and remember that as the first of the great winters in the modern era. I'd also put 77/78 in as one of the good ones. I like winters with a long lasting, solid snowpack that gets refreshed regularly even if it's just a couple of wispy inches at a time.

We got that here too but it still felt like mostly wasted cold because it was dry for the first week or so. I dunno, it just felt like a half baked kind of winter that was frustrating because of the early March disaster when we lost power for a week.

I have a hard time with last year being a great winter. Yes March was pretty inspiring and that early January cold shot was significant but as a whole I have a hard time giving the winter a higher grade than a B+. That warm 6 weeks and the warmth in between the snows in March just killed it for me. Today turned out to be an ok day, a bit too muggy for my tastes this morning and not enough sun but temps are reasonable.

It's so uncomfortable out there, muggy ugly dead air

It's looking like a mostly dry week around here but you don't have to go far and it's all about wet. I need to spend a few days on the road this week and was hoping for nice fall traveling weather and early leaf peeping.

This makes me sad

End of January through February was crazy warm and we lost all snow cover.

I was out on eastern LI yesterday and it was significantly more green than just a few weeks ago.

Radar cleared a while ago but it's still drizzling/misting. It's cold and raw, pretty much like fall days of old I'd rather it was cool, sunny and breezy

Could it be any more soggy? This is getting really old. #bringbackthedrought

It sure doesn't seem like it has been warm. The lack of sun for 3 weeks straight will do that though... These warm minimums are killing me because they don't really tell the whole story, stats are what you make of them I guess.

Obs thread right? That's called an observation.

And it's raining again...

I had some rumbles and heavy enough rain to make the gutter overflow but nothing too terrible, ~.35".

Wouldn't want the sun to get in the way of a rainy afternoon. Again

So much for heating things up, it just rained for a bit and now it's super muggy and overcast.

Looking through the list that Don posted above it's strange that all around me reported over 2" but the closest station on the list in Croton Falls was only 1". Looking through a variety of other sources everything was over 2" also so I guess that one gets tossed...

Sun is out now. The wind is up a bit so there's plenty of air movement mixing things up. The ground is steaming from all the rain yesterday. Lets heat this place up and add some fuel for the storms later.

Stats are what you make of them. Gotta start somewhere. Sun is out now here, lets heat this place up and build up some fuel for the storms later

Take that back No more, just no more...

I guess they should have put the parkways somewhere other than over and next to rivers. I'm at ~1.8" so far for the day.

1.8 and still raining steadily, looks like another 2" day today. I wonder what the record is for days with 2" in a calendar year.

Up to 1.6" here now