NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[tamarack]

4 hours ago, J.Spin said:

That’s interesting – so certainly that January storm contributed, but what do you think was the cause of the record overall snow ratio?

The ratio of 16.95:1 here at our site wasn’t a record (2020-2021 was 17.25:1), but it was certainly up there – it took second place and was well above the 13.9:1 average. I wonder if ratios were generally high all around NNE this past winter.

My guess to your query - near continuous cold and most storms not having mid-level warm tongues to wreck aggregates and/or changing P-type.  We had some rain, not a lot, but almost no mixed precip or rimed flakes.  February 2026 was our driest with 0.76", but it was 100% snow, 12.5" for a 16.4-to-1 ratio.  Without looking thru the data, I can't recall any month that had nothing but flakes.   
Oddly, 2020-21 was our lowest ratio at 7.08.  It was our 2nd least snow, ahead of only 15-16, and almost every snowfall either had mix or was cornmeal.  The season's biggest storm, 9.5" on 2/2, was the latter, 1.32" of teeny flakes, ratio 7.2-to-1.