Re: Weather Statistics Thread

[Dunnzoo]

I know CP why in the great God of snow measures do they post a total taken at 3:30 when it snowed until 6:30!! This is ridiculous.
I sent them my totals for EVERY storm and silence me. No verification, nada don't post my totals.

Zoo using the slanty stick again LOL!!

BERGEN COUNTY...
WESTWOOD                     6.5 IN    0840 PM 02/19   TRAINED SPOTTER      
1 WSW WASHINGTON TOWNSHI     5.8 IN    0705 PM 02/19   TRAINED SPOTTER  

I don't know who that is in Twp., but they are always low, they must measure after compacting. Someone else in Twp measured 7". I measure as I go and never measure more than an hour after an event

[heehaw453]

CPK and Logan are just about even currently for seasonal snowfall totals. I don't how many times CPK has exceeded BOS but probably not too many times over the last 100 years.

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

CPK and Logan are just about even currently for seasonal snowfall totals.  I don't how many times CPK has exceeded BOS but probably not too many times over the last 100 years.

Mikey, alias math23x7 did a comparison a couple of years ago. I believe there were only 18 times that NYC had more than Boston, which sounds about right. If we did a comparison of NYC and WDC it would probably be about the same in NYC favor.

[amugs]

I know CP why in the great God of snow measures do they post a total taken at 3:30 when it snowed until 6:30!! This is ridiculous.
I sent them my totals for EVERY storm and silence me. No verification, nada don't post my totals.

Zoo using the slanty stick again LOL!!

BERGEN COUNTY...
WESTWOOD                     6.5 IN    0840 PM 02/19   TRAINED SPOTTER      
1 WSW WASHINGTON TOWNSHI     5.8 IN    0705 PM 02/19   TRAINED SPOTTER  

I don't know who that is in Twp., but they are always low, they must measure after compacting.  Someone else in Twp measured 7". I measure as I go and never measure more than an hour after an event  

Same goes for Ridgewood

[amugs]

BOOOOMM Blew EVERY Winter projection out of the water for snow for this region, and we are not done ...yet!!

[amugs]

13 out of 23 days so far in February I have had snow/wintry preip

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

As of last night the very tight snowfall competition between NYC and Boston has the double digit underdog NYC ahead 38.6 inches to 38.4 inches. I'd still put my money on Boston to pull ahead in March.

[heehaw453]

It looks very likely that CPK will finish higher than Logon this season. That's remarkable albeit not unheard of. March was devoid of snow in CPK and Logon recorded .1"

An interesting year to say the least...

CPK --> 38.6"
BOS --> 38.5"

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

A little late on this but the January 27-28 storm which was recorded as 8.3 inches in central park, probably low by about 1.5 inches but it’s what goes down in the books, becomes the 100th storm of 8.3 inches or more since 1869 when official records have been kept in NYC.

There really should have been a parade.

[heehaw453]

Current seasonal snowfall totals for 2021/22, averages and % of normal as of 3/19/2022.  

Note1: Based on the new 30 year averages from 1991-2020
Note2: BGM area 30-50% below normal at each station BGM & SYR.

NYC Area
CPK 17.9" normal ~30" ~40% BN
JFK 21.4"  normal ~26" ~18% BN
LGA 24.3" normal ~30" ~19% BN
ISP 36.6"  normal ~32" ~14% AN

PHL Area
ABE 19.5" normal ~33" ~41% BN
PHL 12.9" normal ~23" ~44% BN
ACY 33.3" normal ~17" ~95% AN

DC Area
BWI 14.4" normal ~19" ~24% BN
DCA 13.2" normal ~14" ~5% BN
IAD 15.8" normal ~20" ~21% BN

SCRANTON AREA
AVP 24.6" normal 45" ~45% BN

BOS Area
LOG 53.8" normal ~49" ~10% AN
WRC 53.6" normal ~72" ~26% BN

[heehaw453]

I have composed a random list of 10 NYC snowstorms of at least 1' with their 500mb patterns 1 week up to the start of the storm.  The January 1996 storm had the least HL blocking west or east of Greenland. The rest had sig blocking west/east of Greenland. As I have said the PAC is important for amplification of the storm as well as cold air transport, but it must be aligned with the Atlantic domain. Moreover, IMO, there's more margin for error with the blocking as any storm that slows down can produce and it's also much more likely the SE ridge is kept at bay. Final point to keep in mind is nothing can be too hostile either as the other factors can only compensate so much. January 2022 had some east based blocking and was very close to all the right pieces for PHL/NYC and surrounding NW burbs.

NYC unless there is a big dog storm tends to receive < 40" of snow a very vast of majority of the time. My point is NYC doesn't nickel and dime it's way to 40" season and neither does PHL and of course DC rarely sees that kind of snow. 

Here are the storms in order of date descending order.  Some of these are quite memorable!

January 31 2021 17.4"

January 22 2016 27.5"

January 26 2011 19"

Dec 26 2010 20"


Feb 25 2010 20.9"


Feb 11 2006 26.9"

Dec 30 2000 12"

Jan 6 1996 20"

Feb 11 1983 17.6"

Feb 19 1979 12.7"

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