PhiEaglesfan712

What this board needs to do is remove the attachment quota (like The Weather Forums does), or at least put it high enough that we don't have to remove our old attachments on a regular basis.

The last 6 weekends (before this past one) were warm.

Not even just the last 2 minutes. 3:24 in the first half, Duke was up 44-25. They never score the rest of the half. If they score even 2 points in that 3:24, they would have won. It's the little things in the game, which may seem innocent at the time, that end up being the difference.

The snow season is officially over: https://x.com/epawawx/status/2038305484810092870

I can't say I'm surprised. I predicted warm March and April at the beginning of February. I just knew that the cold was going to end at some point. We had 3 solid BN temperature months. The last time it happened was January-March 2015. April 2015 turned warmer, and May 2015 was near record warm. Also, sometimes the cold and snowy winters just come to a sudden end. Just look at 2009-10. After February, things just got warmer in March and temps reached 90 in the first week of April.

If it were up to me, I would merge the Upstate NY/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia, and NYC into one region, and do it like this: New England - CT/MA/VT/NH/RI/ME NY/PA/NJ Mid-Atlantic - DE/MD/DC/VA/WV

Couldn't 1951-52 and 53-54 be considered part of the same, albeit disjointed, el nino? I find it amazing how the PDO stayed negative during an entire triple-year el nino.

What about +PDO?

That one was weird, and really didn't behave as an el nino, due to a major volcano. Pinatubo actually caused a temporary decrease in global temperatures. If not for that, 1992 would have probably would have been another global warmest year on record (at the time), after a 3rd strong el nino in 10 years. Pinatubo caused the summer of 1992 to be one of the coldest on record CONUS, and longer term, the cold and snowy winters of 92-93, 93-94, and 95-96 in many places in the Eastern US. As for modoki el ninos, 2009-10 is probably the only strong el nino that's a modoki.

That one had a reprise during the final third of March, before going for good. Some people are probably holding out hope we get one final cold shot, and even a little snow, like that one. But it just doesn't feel like it's going to come. This feels more like 2009-10, which wrapped up in late February, and never really looked back.

Then, the monthly record for warmest temperature was broken at the end of the month. 2022/23 would have also ended below one inch if not for a late February snowfall.

Both were punctuated by early season heatwaves: 2001-02 in mid-April and 2011-12 in March.

They've been right about March, though.

The only ones I can find is 1982-83 (super el nino) -> 1986-88 (double year strong el nino) -> 1991-92 (strong el nino). The first two events combined to produce the first jump in global temperatures. Pinatubo prevented another temperature jump after the 91-92 event. Then again, this was all under a largely +PDO period.

The cold pattern in the Eastern US feels like it's already broken this month. Many places are several degrees above average for March.

1958 was the only one of those analogs that really made sense. That was a strong el nino and a wall-to-wall snowy winter, which had a previous KU (in February). The 3/30/2010 rainstorm turned to snow in Northeast PA. (I was able to see snow on the grass on parts of the PA Turnpike on 3/31/2010, when I picked up my sister from Scranton for Easter weekend.) By the end of that weekend, it legit felt like summer.

Not in all areas. Philly and the mid-Atlantic got some good snow, and even the areas that got shut out of snow were still well below average temperaturewise. If you want a shutout March, look at 09/10. Winter just suddenly stopped once the calendar flipped to March 1. The entire spring and summer was well above average.

Yes, this torch is countrywide. You'll be hard press to find a place with a negative temperature departure this month. This month might set a record for the highest tempearture departure above average CONUS for any month. March 2012 had a cold patch in the Western states.

The finishing touches of a wall-to-wall cold and snowy winter. For those who love cold and snow, 1957-58 is one of the very few universal A+ seasons.

I think that was the year of the May 18 freeze. Summer got a really late start that year.

It would be the first solidly AN month for temps since September.

Definitely agree with you there. I'd even take 80 and sunny. Or 90 and sunny. But none of these wild temperature swings we've had the last week. I don't want it to be in the 90s one day and the 50s the very next day. If I wanted that type of weather, I could move to Nebraska.