February 2026 OBS & Discussion

[deathstar9]

4 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

On the Jersey shore I'm sure it does. To those of us to the north of NYC latitude I've always looked at the first two to three weeks of March as just another winter month. After the 20th or so I agree.

Absolutely, mid-March 2017 was probably my favorite storm in the last 10-15 years, solid cold during and for several days after. March 2018 had a bunch of storms including one big one and 2019 was very solid as well.  Prior to that March 2013 and 2015 were great.  Lately it’s been much worse but 2022 and 2023 had some decent events.

[IrishRob17]

3 hours ago, weatherpruf said:

because people there actually pay attention to the winter olympics.....my wife is colombian; never heard of the winter olympics before she came here.

Just watched Curling earlier this evening, good day for the USA. 

2 hours ago, weatherpruf said:

ask anyone irish....it's always cold on st patty's day....i was down in monmouth co i think it was 2003 in march, we were at a meeting at a school in matawan and it started snowing. it started coming down heavy and our district called early; but we were already stuck at this meeting. it got very bad quickly going up the gsp; heavy wet flakes.

It's St. Paddy's Day, Patty is short for Patricia   I've had St Paddy's Day parties when I had to move snow banks for parking and I've had them where we all hung out on the deck. 14/8 here currently. 

[weatherpruf]

12 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

Just watched Curling earlier this evening, good day for the USA. 

It's St. Paddy's Day, Patty is short for Patricia   14/8 here currently. 

since 'Paddy" is a british ethnic slur, some reject it and use the American St Patty's or St Pat's.....or in my house, el dia de san patricio....patron de irlanda....if you're not asleep from watching curling.....

[MJO812]

[Roger Smith]

In case you missed the post I made in western subforum, highs in 70s today in coastal Oregon and in chinook zones of Montana, and near 60F in Vancouver and Seattle. The clipper coming southeast tomorrow will not pull any of that in but right now it is above freezing in southern Manitoba so you may get a brief spike in temps Friday afternoon or evening before the arctic cold front arrives. It quickly falls to -30 F (-34 C) as that front passes through northern Manitoba. The source of the cold air is transpolar but more from Greenland than Alaska or Siberia. 

[Nibor]

45 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

since 'Paddy" is a british ethnic slur, some reject it and use the American St Patty's or St Pat's.....or in my house, el dia de san patricio....patron de irlanda....if you're not asleep from watching curling.....

It's Paddy because in Irish Patrick is spelled Padraig. There are way worse "ethnic slurs" used by the Brits and their collaborators. 

[jm1220]

16 already. Tonight should be in the single digits here. 

[Prue11]

13.6

[Northof78]

Tomorrow will mark 21 days (3 weeks) of straight snow cover across most of the region. Currently it appears likely we will hit the full straight 1 month mark by next weekend with cold temperatures remaining and some chance of additional snows in the period. Fairly rare for N/C NJ and NYC Metro, we get a 1 month (or more) straight of snow cover roughly every 5/6 winters. 

[RU848789]

13 minutes ago, Northof78 said:

Tomorrow will mark 21 days (3 weeks) of straight snow cover across most of the region. Currently it appears likely we will hit the full straight 1 month mark by next weekend with cold temperatures remaining and some chance of additional snows in the period. Fairly rare for N/C NJ and NYC Metro, we get a 1 month (or more) straight of snow cover roughly every 5/6 winters. 

Easily, especially since the pack for most started with 1-2" otg from 1/17-18 and most of us got 1.5-1.9" frozen QPF on 1/25, even if it might've only been 11-12" in depth, since 3-4" of that was sleet for many.  That's a lot of frozen QPF to melt (and not much of it has melted yet) and with temps only getting to around 40F late next week, I'd think most of the pack will still be here on 2/17, especially if we top it off tomorrow and a bit next week.