Arctic Hounds Unleashed: Long Duration Late January/Early February Cold Snap

[BrianW]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

-9F

Not bad with OVC029… but we left a bunch on the table the past two nights with wind and/or clouds.

I think you were up in BTV back in the early 2000's?

I spent a few years up there when my wife was finishing up school at UVM. 

I remember this January cold shot of yore..

 

[dendrite]

Jan 04 had yore airmasses. -35C 850s dropping straight south over us.

[mreaves]

57 minutes ago, alex said:

-18.4F here. First night without much flakeage 

-9.7° and another light coating of snow. 

[BrianW]

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Jan 04 had yore airmasses. -35C 850s dropping straight south over us.

Yeah. I remember the thermometer in my car reading-25 one morning.

 

 

[AstronomyEnjoyer]

-9.8°. Coldest morning this winter here.

[powderfreak]

52 minutes ago, BrianW said:

I think you were up in BTV back in the early 2000's?

I spent a few years up there when my wife was finishing up school at UVM. 

I remember this January cold shot of yore..

 

Yup!  That was brutal going to and from classes all month.  And BTV doesn’t do calm cold, the wind is always blowing up there on the hill.  Those were rugged days.

[Ginx snewx]

My brother in law in New Port Richey Florida reports flurries low of 25

[CoastalWx]

Friend on the water right on the NC/SC border 

 

 

[Hoth]

Just brutal with the wind this morning. Short walks are the order of the day. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

-2F for my daily low.   Again, nothing earth shattering or unusual.  Just the length of this cold spell.  Impressive to me. 

[tamarack]

Temp got over 20 today, first time since Jan 22nd.  Nine straight maxima in the teens or singles - been a while since that happened.

[WxWatcher007]

Man big cold all the way to Florida. Snow in Naples. It’s not 1899 but this is legit stuff. 

[ORH_wxman]

12 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Man big cold all the way to Florida. Snow in Naples. It’s not 1899 but this is legit stuff. 

Gulf coast has been getting some ridiculous cold the last couple winters. Also 2 big snow events in the far southeast. Last year it was the FL panhandle getting a blizzard with like a foot of snow and then this year we had this weekend’s storm in SC and NC coastlines. 

[512high]

23 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Gulf coast has been getting some ridiculous cold the last couple winters. Also 2 big snow events in the far southeast. Last year it was the FL panhandle getting a blizzard with like a foot of snow and then this year we had this weekend’s storm in SC and NC coastlines. 

Good in Destin Florida, woke up to 24F this am.....

[VivaManchVegas]

Goose egg here this morning.  24 for a high.  There are power outages in Florida.  Fortunately my parents have not lost it but many neighbors have. I asked why and they said power grid is "stressed". 

[Roger Smith]

A severe cold spell you may not know about happened in Feb 1855. Caswell's weather diary from Providence RI states that on 6th and 7th, mins were -14F and -15F with max barely above zero. Then on 8th-9th 12.5" of snow fell at his location (within walking distance of Brown University where he was a professor). At that same time, Toronto had lows of -25F (on 5th and 6th) and daytime highs below zero (-6F on 6th). Caswell's diary runs from late 1831 to early 1860 with very few interruptions. The winter weather from 1854 to 1857 was exceptionally cold and snowy, an even colder version of 2013-16 for snowstorms of note. 

I don't know of any other N American data from 1855, sure there would be some though. Feb 1855 was also very cold in Britain, their third coldest February of 367 years of record (mean -1.7 C) ... only 1895 and 1947 were colder. The coldest part of the month in Britain happened mid-month to 20th.  

[Ginx snewx]

9 hours ago, dendrite said:

Jan 04 had yore airmasses. -35C 850s dropping straight south over us.

Enjoy 

[Ginx snewx]

9 minutes ago, Roger Smith said:

A severe cold spell you may not know about happened in Feb 1855. Caswell's weather diary from Providence RI states that on 6th and 7th, mins were -14F and -15F with max barely above zero. Then on 8th-9th 12.5" of snow fell at his location (within walking distance of Brown University where he was a professor). At that same time, Toronto had lows of -25F (on 5th and 6th) and daytime highs below zero (-6F on 6th). Caswell's diary runs from late 1831 to early 1860 with very few interruptions. The winter weather from 1854 to 1857 was exceptionally cold and snowy, an even colder version of 2013-16 for snowstorms of note. 

I don't know of any other N American data from 1855, sure there would be some though. Feb 1855 was also very cold in Britain, their third coldest February of 367 years of record (mean -1.7 C) ... only 1895 and 1947 were colder. The coldest part of the month in Britain happened mid-month to 20th.  

1857 was-50 in NH 

[Roger Smith]

1857 must have surprised and perhaps shocked people, it went from brutal cold all through January (which had also been the case in Jan 1856 and Feb 1855) and it stayed cold a few days into February, then it turned right around and went to the other extreme. I think I read about severe ice-jam flooding in CT and MA around mid-February. There was heavy rain and temperatures in the low 60s (after the record cold 17th to 24th of January that included one heavy snowfall). The rest of that year was largely near record cold too.