32-Year Winter Storm Archive

[The 4 Seasons]

1 hour ago, vortex95 said:

There were significant issues at many climate sites when ASOS was installed in the mid 90s concerning snowfall.  Some sites like ORH have big gaps in the record b/c of this.  So I would avoid F6 data when it is obvious it does not jibe w/ surrounding reports.  And even when snow observations were set at climate sites were set post-ASOS, we know just from BOS the issues were still rife.  And how about DCA official snowfall for the Bliz of '16?, what a joke when you look at other reports in the metro area.

Well thats whats in the official, set in stone records so i have to use it if im going to highlight the airports on the map. A lot of them are wonky, not just BDL, and not just for the late 90s or 00s. People claim a lot of the NYC data is low, as recent as the blizzard of 2026, but it kinda is what it is. And BDR is notoriously low. 

yea i remember the blizz of 16 was very low for DCA.