Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread

[Itstrainingtime]

38 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

This is fair, and as you've said, it's all subjective.  I would go a bit higher though.  I believe you've talked before about grading on the "how often does it look and feel like winter" scale, which I completely agree with, and for me this winter just looked and felt a lot like what winter is supposed to be.  Even going back to some of the cold around the Thanksgiving time period and then the relentless cold through the first half of December and again from mid-January through mid-February.  The staying power of the snowpack during that stretch was something to behold, plus a number of days where snow was at least in the air.  While I agree my 22.3" of snow was nothing overly impressive, it just felt like more, and given expectations and some recent winters, I was pleased.  Now, is it fair to grade on that type of curve?  Probably not but everything is relative.  You are right that March has been mostly a dud but there have still been some very potent cold fronts that have brought about some cool events and it hasn't lacked for feeling like March, despite the positive temp anomaly (some of that may have to do with those aforementioned midnight highs distorting our daily summaries ha).  In any case, I thought it was a rock-solid winter pretty much from start to finish -- one I would sign up for again next year if I could right now -- and for that reason I'm going with a B+.  Great discussion. 

Thank you for sharing! I can't and won't argue any of that. And as I mentioned I think twice in my post, recency bias is something that I can struggle with. Sounds like our perception/opinion for the "true" winter months of December through February are quite similar, it seems like March is the month we have differing viewpoints of. As you mentioned, it can and hopefully will be a great discussion. 

[canderson]

It’s an a- for me simply because I see the river every day and it was frozen for 2.5 months.  I’m a simple man lol 

I didn’t know it was supposed to be windy today. North winds at 35 mph.