CarlislePaWx

PAWeather, those maps comprise both the Saturday event and the Tuesday event. Can you comment on approximately how much of that total is from Saturday and how much from next Tuesday? Or, show a map that only covers through Sunday so we can subtract to get Tuesday? Finally, does TT offer maps using Kuchera instead of 10:1? Kuchera is most likely 33% less than the 10:1 totals show. (Just trying to be a realist, not a downer.) Either way I agree with you that's it's pretty exciting to be tracking 2 more snow events over the next 7 days.

Here's Pivotal's maps... first 10:1, then Kuchera. I'd focus more on Kuchera numbers as closer to what to expect, unless rates (banding) from either or both become intense, which would pull numbers up towards 10:1's higher amounts:

Just got a text from my friend in Paramus, NJ (Bergen county) who said he got 7.2" in less than 5 hours. It was crazy heavy from around 6:00am to 9:00am. So it looks like the storm may have strengthened a bit more near the coast than models originally thought? Second, I just melted down my snowfall and got 0.74" of liquid. With 2.6" of snow that equates to an SLR of 3.5 : 1. That's obviously too low because it includes the initial rainfall before it changed over, and I have no idea how much rain actually fell first. Also, based on others' measurements at bout this latitude it looks like 3.5 to 4.0" amounts were common. I probably got somewhere between 3.0 and 3.5" and it had melted/compacted by the time I measured...although I did measure before sunrise, but the temp bottomed out at only 32.4 degrees, so it was melting and compacting the entire time it was snowing. Great to hear MDT got 3.9". If they had gotten one more tenth of an inch it would have been #5 on the greatest one-day April events. But, today's daily snowfall record was only 0.3", so that record was obliterated. Year of previous record was 1911 !!!! So, it's been 107 years since it snowed this much on today's date at MDT. Nice!! My grandparents were teenagers back then...lol.

Just got up to measure 2.6" of snow on the board. I see some deer tracks in the snow near my front door....haha and just saw a deer walking through the woods out back, very slowly. Meanwhile, yes, the birds they are a-chirpin'. Temp 32.4 degrees with only very light snow (not accumulating) still falling. This appears to be it for this little event. Trees all caked up with what is/was obviously a very wet snow. I'll be back a little later with the liquid content.

After only 1 week away from the forum I checked back in last night to discover the upcoming snow opportunities. Some of the quoted stats for this winter for MDT are truly amazing. Like, I never would have thought that the highest temp for the whole month of March in MDT was just 54! That's about as incredible as one May back in the 90's when the temperature never touched 80 degrees the entire month. I think a bunch of us cracked 80 on the second day of the mini Feb heatwave. I hit 81.5. And then, to have the mean for the month of March colder than February, again quite a feat of mother nature. I think it's one of the many aspects of weather watching that keeps so many of us excited. There just always seems to be a record of some kind to be broken, whether it be to our liking or not. Regarding a post possibly by you, Maytown, about April 6, 1982, I want to add a little bit more from my memories. That storm took place on a Tuesday. I was only one month away from graduating from Rutgers and then heading off to Optometry school in August. Even though I knew nothing about indexes, or blocking or the like, there almost had to be some kind of negative NAO present at the time. An incredibly cold air mass for early April was plunging down from Canada. Thicknesses were forecast to be around 510, and the center was going to pass near the mid atlantic and northeast. Once again, timing was everything with that storm. While I don't know the type of storm, my guess is maybe Miller B? I can't remember the precise timing regarding when the storm was taking place...if it was late Monday to late Tuesday, or it started sometime Tuesday and continued into Tuesday night before ending. Again, I was in north Jersey, but it sounds like those out here got in on the storm as well. 2 Stats I do remember...the storm delivered 9.5" of snowfall by late Tuesday evening, and the temperatures dropped into the mid-teens Tuesday night and failed to crack freezing with full sunshine during the daytime on Wednesday. Central Park broke 2 record lows at midnight (April 6/7) Tuesday night/Wednesday morning when the temperature dropped to 21 degrees. It was, and has been for the past 36 years the biggest single April snowstorm that I have witnessed. The question I have for djr or others if you know, is what is MDT's snowiest April on record stat? How about the top 5 list?? If we get the goods both tonight and again next weekend, do we have a shot at the all-time April snowfall record at MDT???