40/70 Benchmark

I was only 12" shy of 1995-1996 in Wilmington. 115.5" vs 127.5". 2004-2005 was 107.5".

Yea, same. 30 years and only 2014-2015 came within a foot. 2004-2005 is the only other season to come within 20".

This winter needed like one more 20"er to make high-end in my eyes. ...or at least a 1 foot, anyway. There were a few opportunities, but winter 2025-2026 kept missing the open net to seal it's place in interior SNE winter-lore. Instead it was winter-bore for the final month.

I feel like if we can dodge the super-status next year, we could holdover this cool east/warm west alignment and get a 2002-2003 type of season.

I mean stein relative to other areas...not that it's actually been bone-dry...but even the screamer was much less than areas to the south...I had well under an inch, like .74", I think.

I don't have my records in front of me, but that deluge on early Monday AM totally missed me...it was just a few snow showers.

Stein up here.

You have their data from March 2001?

I remember those vividly...had like 6" and then 8" to finish the best winter of my life in style.

I do know what you mean on that....unlike other disappointments, like 12-5-03, PD II, 1-29-22 and even 12/96 round two to a degree, I wasn't even close this time. I missed 2' by like 40 miles and the holy grail by like 60 miles. It was only awful because guidance got it up here, and then pulled away at the last moment.

Call it .75" here for a total.

B The fact that I can grade it that highly despite being grazed by an all-timer that ended the season prematurely speaks volumes to how much I appreciated the consistent cold and snowpack.

TBH, we probably would have been better served if it had been a canonical super El Nino, than the strong one that was tainted with cool ENSO residue.

I wasn't even being sarcastic...that's the best way I can describe how I reach my climo snowfall, which is respectable in the aggregate....I take turns getting sloppy-seconds from @dendriteand @TauntonBlizzard2013.

1/2" overnight in addition to the 1/4" yesterday. Please stop.