40/70 Benchmark

Commute kind of sucked....glad I was up at 4: 45 to get a ahead of it.

I'm convinced he'd opine that it was a good season if the prevailing sentiment were that it sucked.

You may pull off an inch or two of slop, but I wouldn't get too wrapped up in that...its going to be primarily a ski resort deal. Don't do it.

Seemed like a good ski season to me.

I think the vast majority of folks posting on a forum like this are privy to that.

Should lose the last of my snow piles today.

I'm content to not have to bother with anymore "threats" this season....I'm onto fantasy baseball.

Yea, I'm not arguing your point...to the contrary, as the cold was consistent, but not very impressive.

Winter Coming to a Close Despite Expected Late Stratospheric Warming Final Stratospheric Warming Too Late for Much Fanfare as Per Analogs Analog Data of Great Utility The EasternMassWeather March preview cited last fall's research of solar max/westerly QBO seasons as support for an early spring Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event that would occur too late to have major ramifications in terms of winter weather for the forecast area. The March 20, 2000 SSW and resultant displacement of the polar vortex was listed as a primary analog last fall and guidance has continued hone in on a very similar stratospheric evolution throughout the first half of the month of March. Accordingly, the resultant weather pattern over the arctic if forecast to respond in a similarly like manner to latter March 2000. Late March Blocking Likely to Interrupt Pleasant Spring Onset The weather pattern next week looks seasonably mild and relatively pleasant, as the early seeds of change are planted in the arctic stratosphere. The evolution over the arctic stratosphere will begin to manifest itself into the 500mb pattern during the final week of the month, as the development of a negative AO and NAO will be signify the development of high latitude blocking in response to the ongoing stratospheric warming. The similarity to the latter March 2000 blocking pattern to the long range modeled evolution is apparent. However, the north Pacific pattern looks slightly more conductive to potentially wintry weather over the northern New England ski resorts, and some nuisance or trace amounts of snowfall over southern New England cannot be ruled out. Be that as it may, as has been the case throughout the winter season, the cold appears merely seasonable in severity, which is unlikely to be supportive of significant early spring snowfall across the forecast area by the end of the month and into early April.

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2025/03/winter-coming-to-close-despite.html

Agree.....I think some good news for ski country, maybe...but just some dreary weather for most of us.

Near normal around here per 1971-2000 climb is actually a little cooler than I would have guessed.

Won't be close to March 2012. No chance.

Even a 2018-2019 set up in the absence of such a promient Pacific cold phase could be okay.

I agree, no analogs are perfect and that one proved among the most valuable.

Problem is that we are not all in agremeent as far as what exactly "great" is...

Jan 2022 is a member of my three red-headed step-triplets.....Dec 5, 2003, PD II and Jan 2022. Together they comprise my #Hall of Pork.

We're just ball-busting, as usual....if I had trotted those graphics out there, they would have been on me like a fly on shit, too.

Looks more like Gronk wrote it.

I think April 1, 1997 is now number 2 for me, but its close...I wasn't very precise with measurements back in HS. I think March 2018 edged it out with 31.5", but the former was far more impressive, regardless. I think after that Jan 2015 and Feb 2013 are about neck and neck at around 27". Feb 2013 was second only to March 1993 in terms of wind.

Why is the print in hieroglyphics?

Hell, it was only even below average by 1991-2020 climo...it wasn't that cold, it was merely wintry relative to the past several seasons is all anyone was implying...I thought that was pretty clear.

The statement says more about how dreadful of a stretch we have been in than the remarkability of this past season...agreed.

Well, the whole premise was that it was the most consistently wintry season in years, so what are you arguing exactly?

Nobody said it was normal in terms of snowfall.