It's time to grade Winter 2025-26(now that it's actually over)

[CAPE]

This winter was impressively cold overall, but some/much of that cold was wasted. Some areas did well with frozen precip opportunities wrt climo, others not so much. Time to grade it.

[WxUSAF]

B+
 

A if curving for a Nina. 

[Chris78]

I've got to go D+ for my yard. Only 60% of climo snowfall and the 5th year in a row of sub 20" Seasonal snowfall. 

Which was unheard of until the last 5 years, Going all the way back to 1899 when records started at HGR.

Sad run of winters honestly for Northern and western areas.

[dailylurker]

A 

Third season in a row with climo snow and an extended period of cold. This winter was really cool. Lots of really memorable experiences related to ice. I also spent 5 days on the Tug Hill getting clobberd by LES. I also chased the coastal blizzard in February. I spent that storm in Harrington Delaware. 

[Stormchaserchuck1]

C+/B-. I don't like dry and cold, which it was a lot. The 11" storm sticking around for a month was awesome though. The other 4 months were meh. I think it only snowed (flurries or more) 11 times. Edit: the early Dec storm overperformed and I got 7"! Loved that one, there were 20+ flashes of green lightning. 

[IronTy]

A- in Calvert.  6ft, 200lbs and I was able to jump up and down on top of the snow without breaking through for almost a month straight.  

B- at the cabin near DCL.  One stretch had decent snow on the ground but relative to normal up here I was underwhelmed. 

C at the place in DC.  People forgot how to pick up their dog's crap when there was snow on the ground so all the snowcrete was covered with dog shit much of the time.  

[MN Transplant]

B+.  A blockbuster winter storm followed by about as cold of a streak as we can muster.  Just a shame it didn’t snow more.