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

[wxmeddler]

B

[Eskimo Joe]

3 hours ago, wxmeddler said:

B

Agreed. We missed the last storm, which prevented many from exceeding climo snowfall. But we had several decent cold waves and the first warning level snowfall for many in several years. 

[Weather Will]

Temps: A: reminded me of a 1970s winter.  Sustained cold kept the snow we had on the ground for a record breaking amount of time.

Snow: B+: only about 16 inches total but since it stayed on the ground a long time I bumped it up.  

Overall grade: A-.

[Bob Chill]

Easy A- grade here

Climo is lower in my hood but over 14" is climo+ and having a 2 week period of complete snowcrete cover is quite rare. 

Accum snow in each month DJFM + plenty of cold temps made it a door to door winter appeal. Again, pretty rare. 

Had snow on snow during the snowcrete stretch and that's always a nice bonus in any winter. 

Only reason I can't go A is I couldn't manage a 4"+ single storm. There's plenty of history down this way with bigger storms in the 6-18" range. Just missed that on the Carolina big storm as areas just 30 miles to my south picked up 6" or more. Had that event produced (I got 2.5"), it would have been an easy A grade. A+ (imho) requires a double digit snow even along with all the other important factors