March 2026

[MJO812]

Euro doesnt have a torch in the long range after this cold shot coming up. 30s and 40s with some 50s.

[TriPol]

7 hours ago, WeatherGeek2025 said:

big thunderstorms and lighting sounds like the end of the world!

Interestingly enough, the end of the world won't happen with thunderstorms. It will happen when this planet is too warm to sustain life due the sun's increase in size. 

[steve392]

Insane thunderstorms last night.  Several ground strikes nearby woke me from dead sleep. 

[JerseyWx]

38 minutes ago, steve392 said:

Insane thunderstorms last night.  Several ground strikes nearby woke me from dead sleep. 

Had ripping downpours here, the rain alone woke me up.

The additional 0.4" overnight puts me just under an inch from this system, and we still have more to come.

[IrishRob17]

.95” with more showers moving in, temp and dews started dropping here a little over an hour ago, each down at least 10 degrees in the past hour, 52/47

[bluewave]

Parts of Florida also experienced some snow following a record 80° day back in January.

Climatological Data for Pensacola Area, FL (ThreadEx) - January 2026
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.

2026-01-01	68	41	54.5	1.1	10	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-02	71	51	61.0	7.7	4	0	0.03	0.0	0
2026-01-03	74	58	66.0	12.8	0	1	1.47	0.0	0
2026-01-04	65	51	58.0	4.8	7	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-05	65	50	57.5	4.4	7	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-06	76	60	68.0	15.0	0	3	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-07	77	64	70.5	17.5	0	6	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-08	70	62	66.0	13.1	0	1	T	0.0	0
2026-01-09	75	65	70.0	17.1	0	5	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-10	80	62	71.0	18.1	0	6	0.19	0.0	0
2026-01-11	62	43	52.5	-0.4	12	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-12	52	36	44.0	-8.8	21	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-13	58	31	44.5	-8.3	20	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-14	61	45	53.0	0.2	12	0	0.10	0.0	0
2026-01-15	50	32	41.0	-11.8	24	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-16	65	30	47.5	-5.4	17	0	0.00	0.0	0
2026-01-17	59	44	51.5	-1.4	13	0	0.03	0.0	0
2026-01-18	49	32	40.5	-12.4	24	0	0.10	T

 

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
145 AM CST SUN JAN 11 2026

...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT PENSACOLA...

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 80 DEGREES WAS SET AT PENSACOLA
YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 79 DEGREES SET IN 1957.

 

[nycwinter]

going to have to wear the winter gear today

[bluewave]

23 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

Hopefully a fast flow will help move things along and negate some back door potential that lingers for days?

We’ll see if the long range EPS is correct about the backdoor potential for later in the month as it has a return to some Greenland blocking.

 

 

[jm1220]

2 minutes ago, bluewave said:

We’ll see if the long range EPS is correct about the backdoor potential for later in the month as it has a return to some Greenland blocking.

 

 

Yep, don’t want a trough east of here in the 50-50 low position. 

[SACRUS]

56 / 51 cloudy showers with temps dropping to around 30 as we come down the coaster.  What many forecasts had as a dry week will yield another inch or > for many areas as suspected.  0.30 in the bucket last night and overnight.  Perhaps some snow mixed in today towards the end after showers/rain thunderstorms. Near normal the next few days and through this weekend.  A warmer monday is brief with the next round of rain / storms moving through.  Much chillier Tue/Wed perhaps highs around 40 and lows back into the 20s.  Moderation beyond there towards the 21st  with a back and forth overall warmer side of normal.

 

[IrishRob17]

Just now, SACRUS said:

56 / 51 cloudy showers with temps dropping to around 30 as we come down the coaster.  What many forecasts had as a dry week will yield another inch or > for many areas as suspected.  0.30 in the bucket last night and overnight.  Perhaps some snow mixed in today towards the end after showers/rain thunderstorms. Near normal the next few days and through this weekend.  A warmer monday is brief with the next round of rain / storms moving through.  Much chillier Tue/Wed perhaps highs around 40 and lows back into the 20s.  Moderation beyond there towards the 21st  with a back and forth overall warmer side of normal.

 

I'm down close to 20 degrees over the past two hours.

[SACRUS]

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 73 (2012)
NYC: 71 (2012)
LGA: 69 (2021)
JFK: 70 (2021)

Lows:

EWR: 13 (1934)
NYC: 8 (1888)
LGA: 15 (1984)
JFK: 12 (1984)

Historical:

 

1888 — A blizzard paralyzed southeastern New York State and western New England. The storm produced 58 inches of snow at Saratoga NY, and 50 inches at Middletown CT. The blizzard was followed by record cold temperatures, and the cold and snow claimed 400 lives. New York City received 20.9 inches of snow, Albany NY reported 46.7 inches. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)

1888:  One of the most vicious blizzards ever to strike the nation was in progress, paralyzing southeastern New York State and western New England. When the storm finally ended on the 13th, Saratoga, NY was buried under 58 inches of new snow and 50 inches was recorded at Middletown, CT. New York City received 20.9 inches of snow and Albany, NY reported 46.7 inches. Snow drifted as high as 30 feet, to the second stories of many buildings. Winds of up to 70 mph accompanied the snow, creating blizzard conditions. The train system was paralyzed. The icy and wind swept Brooklyn Bridge was closed. Over 400 people were killed, 200 of them in New York City. Record cold followed the storm.(Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1923: Chicago records its lowest pressure ever 28.70 inches of mercury (This record as broken again on Oct. 26, 2010) as a heavy rain/snow/ice mix blasts the city on gale force winds. (Ref. WxDoctor)

1928: The St. Frances dam near Santa Paula, CA burst before midnight, killing 450 people as a flood tide of 138,000 acres of water rushed down the San Francisquito Canyon. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1935: On this date through the 25th,a series of suffocating dust storms blew across southeastern Colorado depositing up to six feet of dust. Six people died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Schools were closed, and many rural homes were abandoned. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1946: Richmond, Virginia had its earliest last freezing day in the spring when the temperature fell to 29 °F. The average last freezing day in the spring is April 8th and the latest freezing day in the spring was May 11, 1966 when the temperature was 32 °F. (1971 to 2000 average) (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRICH)
 

1954 — A blizzard raged from eastern Wyoming into the Black Hills of western South Dakota, while a severe ice storm was in progress from northeastern Nebraska to central Iowa. The ice storm isolated 153 towns in Iowa. Dust from the Great Plains caused brown snow, and hail and muddy rain over parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. (11th-13th) (The Weather Channel)

1967 — A tremendous four day storm raged across California. Winds of 90 mph closed mountain passes, heavy rains flooded the lowlands, and in sixty hours Squaw Valley CA was buried under 96 inches (eight feet) of snow. (David Ludlum)

1987 — Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S., with gale force winds along the Middle Atlantic Coast. A storm in the Pacific Northwest produced rain and gale force winds. Crescent City CA received 2.27 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 — A powerful storm produced high winds and heavy snow in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Upper Great Lakes Region. Winds gusting to 70 mph produced snow drifts six feet high in Minnesota, and sent twelve foot waves on Lake Superior over the breakwalls of the ship canal at Duluth MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 — An early season heat wave continued in the southwestern and central U.S. Nineteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Wichita Falls TX, which six days earlier reported a record low of 8 above, reported a record high of 95 degrees. Childress TX was the first spot in the country in 1989 to hit the century mark. (The National Weather Summary)

1990 — Unseasonably warm weather prevailed from the Southern and Central Plains to the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast, with afternoon highs in the 70s and 80s. Seventy-six cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Downtown Baltimore MD was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 95 degrees, which smashed their previous record for the date by nineteen degrees. Other record highs included 89 degrees at Washington D.C. and 90 degrees at Raleigh NC. (The National Weather Summary)

1993: An incredible blizzard known as "The Superstorm” struck the eastern United States on this date through the 15th. The storm was described as the most costly non-tropical storm ever to strike the U.S. doing an estimated $6 billion dollars in damage. The storm was as strong as a hurricane in terms of winds and low pressure. The pressure dropped to an incredible 28.35 inches of mercury or 960 millibars when then storm was located over the Chesapeake Bay. Boston, MA recorded a wind gust to 81 mph, the strongest wind they had recorded since Hurricane Edna in 1954. In addition, as the storm was intensifying over the Gulf of Mexico, a wind gust to 99 mph was recorded by an offshore oil rig. It dumped incredible amounts of snow from Alabama to New England. The snow amounts were significant everywhere, but for places like Birmingham, AL, the 17 inches recorded brought the city to a standstill for three days. Mount Leconte, NC recorded 60 inches of snow. Practically every weather station in West Virginia established a new 24 hour snowfall record during the event. Syracuse, NY was buried under 43 inches of snow. 270 people were killed during the storm and another 48 lost at sea. The storm also brought a 12 foot storm surge and 15 tornadoes to Florida, where 51 people were killed. Air travel was brought to a halt as every major airport from Atlanta north was closed during the height of the storm. During the late evening into the early morning hours of the 13th, a vicious squall line swept through Florida and spawned 11 tornadoes resulting in five fatalities. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 110 mph at Alligator Point and 109 mph at Dry Tortugas. Extremely high tides occurred along the western Florida coast. A 13 foot storm surge occurred in Taylor County, Florida, resulting in 10 deaths with 57 residences destroyed. A 5 to 8 foot storm surge moved ashore in Dixie County. Over 500 homes were destroyed with major damage to another 700 structures. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) Ref. (NWS Ranking for Storms between 1956 and 2011) This is the Worst Snowstorm of this period of time

1998: The barometer rose to 30.75 inches of mercury at St. Louis, MO to establish their all-time highest barometric pressure. High pressure records for the month were also established in a number of other Midwest cities. The reading at the center of the high pressure cell was 31.12 inHg over South Dakota. The reading of -7° at Kansas City, MO is their latest sub-zero reading. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)
 

2006 — High school senior Matt Suter survives being blown 1,307 feet by a tornado. (The exact distance is determined by NWS GPS.) The twister rips open his grandmother's mobile home and tosses Suter into the night, launching him over a barbed wire fence and eventually depositing him on the soft grass in an open field. He suffers only a head wound from being hit by a lamp. 

[BxEngine]

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/ewall/WXTYPE/loop25ne.html
 

Sick job by the NAM. 

[sussexcountyobs]

Down to 37F. Probably change to snow here pretty soon.

[Nibor]

Pretty sunrise this morning. Patchy fog on the Hudson.

[bluewave]

 

 

[forkyfork]

every spring i read posts about a bad season for backdoor fronts yet our last cold april was 6 years ago

[bluewave]

Some of the strongest backdoor cold fronts on record in the Northeast during the spring have occurred following record warmth.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ma/east-boston/KBOS/date/2002-4-17

 

PM	93 °F	51 °F	24 %	W	18 mph	23 mph	29.83 in	0.0 in	Mostly Cloudy
4:54 PM	93 °F	49 °F	22 %	W	17 mph	26 mph	29.82 in	0.0 in	Partly Cloudy
5:54 PM	91 °F	49 °F	23 %	W	14 mph	0 mph	29.82 in	0.0 in	Mostly Cloudy
6:32 PM	66 °F	50 °F	56 %	NNE	26 mph	33 mph	29.87 in	0.0 in	Mostly Cloudy / Windy
6:54 PM	59 °F	50 °F	72 %	NNE	25 mph	35 mph	29.91 in	0.0 in	Cloudy / Windy
7:54 PM	55 °F	49 °F	80 %	ENE	7 mph	0 mph	29.95 in	0.0 in	Mostly Cloudy
8:54 PM	55 °F	50 °F	83 %	N	8 mph	0 mph	29.96 in	0.0 in	Partly

[MANDA]

13 hours ago, ForestHillWx said:

Decent slug of precip now. Two good rumbles of thunder. Need all we can get at this point. 

Picked up .97" rainfall overnight. Vivid lightning and low rumbles of thunder with storms before mid-night. Still raining at 9am with a much colder temperature of 40 along with a gusty wind.

[MANDA]

1 hour ago, SACRUS said:

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 73 (2012)
NYC: 71 (2012)
LGA: 69 (2021)
JFK: 70 (2021)

Lows:

EWR: 13 (1934)
NYC: 8 (1888)
LGA: 15 (1984)
JFK: 12 (1984)

Historical:

 

1888 — A blizzard paralyzed southeastern New York State and western New England. The storm produced 58 inches of snow at Saratoga NY, and 50 inches at Middletown CT. The blizzard was followed by record cold temperatures, and the cold and snow claimed 400 lives. New York City received 20.9 inches of snow, Albany NY reported 46.7 inches. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)

1888:  One of the most vicious blizzards ever to strike the nation was in progress, paralyzing southeastern New York State and western New England. When the storm finally ended on the 13th, Saratoga, NY was buried under 58 inches of new snow and 50 inches was recorded at Middletown, CT. New York City received 20.9 inches of snow and Albany, NY reported 46.7 inches. Snow drifted as high as 30 feet, to the second stories of many buildings. Winds of up to 70 mph accompanied the snow, creating blizzard conditions. The train system was paralyzed. The icy and wind swept Brooklyn Bridge was closed. Over 400 people were killed, 200 of them in New York City. Record cold followed the storm.(Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1923: Chicago records its lowest pressure ever 28.70 inches of mercury (This record as broken again on Oct. 26, 2010) as a heavy rain/snow/ice mix blasts the city on gale force winds. (Ref. WxDoctor)

1928: The St. Frances dam near Santa Paula, CA burst before midnight, killing 450 people as a flood tide of 138,000 acres of water rushed down the San Francisquito Canyon. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1935: On this date through the 25th,a series of suffocating dust storms blew across southeastern Colorado depositing up to six feet of dust. Six people died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Schools were closed, and many rural homes were abandoned. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1946: Richmond, Virginia had its earliest last freezing day in the spring when the temperature fell to 29 °F. The average last freezing day in the spring is April 8th and the latest freezing day in the spring was May 11, 1966 when the temperature was 32 °F. (1971 to 2000 average) (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRICH)
 

1954 — A blizzard raged from eastern Wyoming into the Black Hills of western South Dakota, while a severe ice storm was in progress from northeastern Nebraska to central Iowa. The ice storm isolated 153 towns in Iowa. Dust from the Great Plains caused brown snow, and hail and muddy rain over parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. (11th-13th) (The Weather Channel)

1967 — A tremendous four day storm raged across California. Winds of 90 mph closed mountain passes, heavy rains flooded the lowlands, and in sixty hours Squaw Valley CA was buried under 96 inches (eight feet) of snow. (David Ludlum)

1987 — Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S., with gale force winds along the Middle Atlantic Coast. A storm in the Pacific Northwest produced rain and gale force winds. Crescent City CA received 2.27 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 — A powerful storm produced high winds and heavy snow in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Upper Great Lakes Region. Winds gusting to 70 mph produced snow drifts six feet high in Minnesota, and sent twelve foot waves on Lake Superior over the breakwalls of the ship canal at Duluth MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 — An early season heat wave continued in the southwestern and central U.S. Nineteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Wichita Falls TX, which six days earlier reported a record low of 8 above, reported a record high of 95 degrees. Childress TX was the first spot in the country in 1989 to hit the century mark. (The National Weather Summary)

1990 — Unseasonably warm weather prevailed from the Southern and Central Plains to the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast, with afternoon highs in the 70s and 80s. Seventy-six cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Downtown Baltimore MD was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 95 degrees, which smashed their previous record for the date by nineteen degrees. Other record highs included 89 degrees at Washington D.C. and 90 degrees at Raleigh NC. (The National Weather Summary)

1993: An incredible blizzard known as "The Superstorm” struck the eastern United States on this date through the 15th. The storm was described as the most costly non-tropical storm ever to strike the U.S. doing an estimated $6 billion dollars in damage. The storm was as strong as a hurricane in terms of winds and low pressure. The pressure dropped to an incredible 28.35 inches of mercury or 960 millibars when then storm was located over the Chesapeake Bay. Boston, MA recorded a wind gust to 81 mph, the strongest wind they had recorded since Hurricane Edna in 1954. In addition, as the storm was intensifying over the Gulf of Mexico, a wind gust to 99 mph was recorded by an offshore oil rig. It dumped incredible amounts of snow from Alabama to New England. The snow amounts were significant everywhere, but for places like Birmingham, AL, the 17 inches recorded brought the city to a standstill for three days. Mount Leconte, NC recorded 60 inches of snow. Practically every weather station in West Virginia established a new 24 hour snowfall record during the event. Syracuse, NY was buried under 43 inches of snow. 270 people were killed during the storm and another 48 lost at sea. The storm also brought a 12 foot storm surge and 15 tornadoes to Florida, where 51 people were killed. Air travel was brought to a halt as every major airport from Atlanta north was closed during the height of the storm. During the late evening into the early morning hours of the 13th, a vicious squall line swept through Florida and spawned 11 tornadoes resulting in five fatalities. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 110 mph at Alligator Point and 109 mph at Dry Tortugas. Extremely high tides occurred along the western Florida coast. A 13 foot storm surge occurred in Taylor County, Florida, resulting in 10 deaths with 57 residences destroyed. A 5 to 8 foot storm surge moved ashore in Dixie County. Over 500 homes were destroyed with major damage to another 700 structures. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) Ref. (NWS Ranking for Storms between 1956 and 2011) This is the Worst Snowstorm of this period of time

1998: The barometer rose to 30.75 inches of mercury at St. Louis, MO to establish their all-time highest barometric pressure. High pressure records for the month were also established in a number of other Midwest cities. The reading at the center of the high pressure cell was 31.12 inHg over South Dakota. The reading of -7° at Kansas City, MO is their latest sub-zero reading. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)
 

2006 — High school senior Matt Suter survives being blown 1,307 feet by a tornado. (The exact distance is determined by NWS GPS.) The twister rips open his grandmother's mobile home and tosses Suter into the night, launching him over a barbed wire fence and eventually depositing him on the soft grass in an open field. He suffers only a head wound from being hit by a lamp. 

Nice to read the 1993 storm summary!  That was one of the great ones.  Still have the NGM DIFAX maps framed and on my office wall.  Nice triple phaser!

[bluewave]

23 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Nice to read the 1993 storm summary!  That was one of the great ones.  Still have the NGM DIFAX maps framed and on my office wall.  Nice triple phaser!

That was the last time many locations near the coast had a 10”+ snowstorm after February with the exception of our local snow capital and nearby spots back in 2018. 
 

Maximum 2-Day Total Snowfall 
for NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, NJ After February
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.

	18.2	1956-03-19	0
	15.8	1915-04-04	0
-	15.8	1915-04-03	0
	14.8	1958-03-21	0
	13.9	1960-03-04	0
	12.8	1982-04-07	0
-	12.8	1982-04-06	0
	12.7	1993-03-14	0
-	12.7	1956-03-20	0
	12.5	1960-03-03	0
	12.1	1941-03-09	0
	12.0	1941-03-08	0
-	12.0	1924-04-02	0
-	12.0	1924-04-01	0
-	12.0	1852-03-18	0
-	12.0	1852-03-17	0
	11.9	1993-03-13	0
	11.5	1896-03-16	0
	11.0	1867-03-18	0
-	11.0	1867-03-17	0
	10.5	1851-03-08	0

 

Maximum 2-Day Total Snowfall 
for ISLIP-LI MACARTHUR AP, NY After February
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	18.4	2018-03-22	0
	17.0	1967-03-22	0
	16.0	1982-04-07	0
-	16.0	1982-04-06	0
	15.0	1967-03-23	0
	14.9	2018-03-21	0
	13.5	2009-03-02	0

 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

54 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

every spring i read posts about a bad season for backdoor fronts yet our last cold april was 6 years ago

April 2022 was cool, especially the back half of the month:

2022-04-17	51	41	46.0	-8.3	19	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-18	54	39	46.5	-8.2	18	0	0.85	0.0	0
2022-04-19	50	39	44.5	-10.6	20	0	1.24	0.0	0
2022-04-20	60	42	51.0	-4.5	14	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-21	59	44	51.5	-4.3	13	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-22	70	53	61.5	5.3	3	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-23	65	51	58.0	1.5	7	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-24	63	48	55.5	-1.4	9	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-25	58	46	52.0	-5.2	13	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-26	60	52	56.0	-1.6	9	0	0.02	0.0	0
2022-04-27	58	41	49.5	-8.4	15	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-28	58	40	49.0	-9.2	16	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-29	63	41	52.0	-6.5	13	0	0.00	0.0	0
2022-04-30	68	44	56.0	-2.9	9	0	0.00	0.0	0

[Freezing Drizzle]

1 hour ago, sussexcountyobs said:

Down to 37F. Probably change to snow here pretty soon.

I think soon too.  You're the NW spotter today.