Your Winter 2025-2026 Grade

[eyewall]

For me I will go with a C with a 2 grade deduction for the dry slot screw job. I did get to chase but getting shafted at home hurt. Prolonged cold and several small snow events keep it a passing grade however. What are your thoughts? 

[Buckethead]

For me I will go with a C with a 2 grade deduction for the dry slot screw job. I did get to chase but getting shafted at home hurt. Prolonged cold and several small snow events keep it a passing grade however. What are your thoughts? 

I give it an A here. 65.5" so far. Several nwf events and two double digit events.

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[GaWx]

 I’ll go only B+ because of the two long torches, the weeklong holiday centered one and the late Feb one that included ridiculously warm highs of 85 and 86.
 
 Otherwise, the consistently cold period of Jan 12th-Feb 9th was one of the most pleasurable winter periods ever experienced as a wx hobbyist. Not only was it cold, but there were also 3 weekends in a row of fascinating and unique SE winter storms to generate very enjoyable forecast discussions for full week periods in advance of each. These discussions are always made more interesting when FL is threatened like they were twice.

 As a big bonus, my area got 3/4” of snow. That’s 4 times the average snowfall in this area and at the 90th percentile of the area’s winter snowfall. Also, that makes two straight winters with measurable snow for the first time since 1988-9 and 1989-90.
 

 And as an additional bonus, KSAV tied for its coldest since 2012 with 19 on Feb 1.

[WestCentrlVA]

It has been an A+ year for winter here at my location. We ended up with 16.5 inches of snow for the season. The December snows back to back really got things started with a bang. Here's to hope for an exceptional season with ample snowfall for all next winter. 

[yotaman]

Another A+ here. Below normal temps for January and most of February plus an incredible 18" of snow and near blizzard conditions along with possibly the lowest temp I have recorded in decades at 11°. What a winter.

[NorthHillsWx]

17 hours ago, eyewall said:

For me I will go with a C with a 2 grade deduction for the dry slot screw job. I did get to chase but getting shafted at home hurt. Prolonged cold and several small snow events keep it a passing grade however. What are your thoughts? 

I’ll give it a D+ here. We received accumulating snow 3x and twice my road was covered for more than a day. The extended cold and snow/sleet cover for nearly two weeks was nice too.

Now the negatives… All 3 systems underperformed in my backyard. Though the ice storm thankfully wasn’t ice it was cold enough for an awesome sleet event like the triad and western areas saw but we didn’t even get 1/3 of the predicted QPF and ended up with about 3/4” of sleet. The snow hole was the most brutal radar watching of my entire life, if you didn’t live through that in the triangle area you don’t know the pain we went through. Yes it snowed but we got literally the lowest total in the entire state and it didn’t start till well after dark. Speaking of after dark, not a single event produced accumulating snow or sleet in daylight. The December system was all after dark, the “ice” storm was almost entirely Saturday morning before light, all day was dry without precip until the last band came through after dark, and the Jan 31 was essentially 7 pm-12 am here. Our total snow for the season was 3.6” which is 2” below normal and I think we were the only spot in NC that didn’t hit climo. That in itself could be a failing grade but I’ll give the 3 systems, 2 cold ones, and extended cold “some” credit but it feels like an F given the rest of the region. We were above climo last year at my house. Also, the Christmas torch was brutal as was the first half of January. 

[NorthHillsWx]

What’s funny is the ice storm was actually my favorite system of the year. Best sledding and it stuck around forever. If we had received anywhere close to forecast QPF we would’ve had 3” of sleet and I’d probably brought the winter to a solid B range. That was one where we prayed QPF would be underdone but when ZR didn’t materialize we actually missed out on a great opportunity for a sleet storm which I personally really enjoy. As is, neither WSW verified here and we got 3 advisory level events, yay

[NorthHillsWx]

9 minutes ago, yotaman said:

Another A+ here. Below normal temps for January and most of February plus an incredible 18" of snow and near blizzard conditions along with possibly the lowest temp I have recorded in decades at 11°. What a winter.

Epic down east stretch