March Madness

[JACKASS]

5 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Hit 57F here today… mostly sunny afternoon was glorious.

Spring skiing at its finest.

Taking the sunny torch award up here.

 

So Jealous!

[George001]

Looks like we may have one more brief window and then that’s it, but it would be more of an early spring storm than a return to winter. Seems like a long shot. Regardless, we had a great run, easily the best winter since 2014-2015. Easily an A winter in my book. 

[kdxken]

28 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Hit 57F here today… mostly sunny afternoon was glorious.

Spring skiing at its finest.

Taking the sunny torch award up here.

 

I'm jealous as well. Stowe was usually the last gasp of my ski season. Sometime between now and St Patrick's Day. Either that or Cannon . 

[kdxken]

4 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

18z NAM lost the Tuesday warmth

 

[ORH_wxman]

17 minutes ago, George001 said:

Looks like we may have one more brief window and then that’s it, but it would be more of an early spring storm than a return to winter. Seems like a long shot. Regardless, we had a great run, easily the best winter since 2014-2015. Easily an A winter in my book. 

I think the window will be about 10-12 days. Well see if the pattern wants to try for an early April bomb too, but I think starting about the 16th is when that final period of favorability starts.
 

I agree that the cold won’t feel that bad. There’s going to be some mild days mixed in when one of those systems cuts west.  

[Typhoon Tip]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/climate/warmest-winter-us-east-versus-west

[40/70 Benchmark]

My ultimate orgy-scenario is rapid-fire events in fast succession, which is really what this season was missing....I would gladly give back some of the cold to get that. The pattern should be much more conductive to that next year, but of course the issue is likely to be the cold....trick will be to get it just cold enough for a couple of weeks consecutively. Obviously we aren't going 50 days below 40 degrees again, or whatever it was....especially assuming a higher-end El Niño. 

[Torch Tiger]

2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

My ultimate orgy-scenario is rapid-fire events in fast succession, which is really what this season was missing....I would gladly give back some of the cold to get that. The pattern should be much more conductive to that next year, but of course the issue is likely to be the cold....trick will be to get it just cold enough for a couple of weeks consecutively. Obviously we aren't going 50 days below 40 degrees again, or whatever it was....especially assuming a higher-end El Niño. 

Yeah, no way I can give a winter an A-grade without that nice stretch like you're talking about.  But imagine we didn't get one of those major storms ; this winter would be one of the most frustrating ever

[40/70 Benchmark]

I'm also pretty sure the days of -2 to -3 PDO values are over because this El Niño is likely to be the catalyst for change in that regard.....we just had a -PDO strong El Niño and highly doubt we are doing that again. This event should begin the transition to warm phase in the Pacific, which likely completed around the turn of the decade.

[40/70 Benchmark]

10 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

Yeah, no way I can give a winter an A-grade without that nice stretch like you're talking about.  But imagine we didn't get one of those major storms ; this winter would be one of the most frustrating ever

Yea, it's a good winter....not complaining....just stating why it isn't an "A" for me....I value precipitation a bit more than cold, which the stats back up at this latitude....that is why I grade a year like 2004-2005, which wasn't every cold and had a lot of melting, but also a ton of snow, higher than this.

[Torch Tiger]

2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yea, it's a good winter....not complaining....just stating why it isn't an "A" for me....I value precipitation a bit more than cold, which the stats back up at this latitude....that is why I grade a year like 2004-2005, which wasn't every cold and had a lot of melting, but also a ton of snow, higher than this.

If we did get that 18-22" type storm again with the "blizzard", would satisfy enough to go as high as A-, jmo.  lol  sucks

[40/70 Benchmark]

14 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

If we did get that 18-22" type storm again with the "blizzard", would satisfy enough to go as high as A-, jmo.  lol  sucks

Yes, definitely...that failure kept it as a "B"....I need one more high-end event next week to go with an "A".

[MJO812]

Euro is stormy and has good cold shots. Hopefully we cash in on one of the waves. 

[WinterWolf]

Good chances. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

14 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Euro is stormy and has good cold shots. Hopefully we cash in on one of the waves. 

GFS and EURO suck verbatim....only good outcome is EURO AI.

[8611Blizz]

1 minute ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

GFS and EURO suck verbatim....only good outcome is EURO AI.

Yeah that looked pretty good but the rest is pretty shitty.

[MJO812]

Ugggh models come out an hour later now. Depressing times.

[The 4 Seasons]

14 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Ugggh models come out an hour later now. Depressing times.

Only 8 months till November. 

[ineedsnow]

Snow eatting fog was ridiculous this morning on rt 2.. some points i could barely see one white line in front of me.. once I got into leominster it cleared up quick though.