PhiEaglesfan712

2020 and 2023 were just outlier warm and snowless winters. A regression to the mean had to happen at some point, and the cold finally came those years in the late spring, even early summer months (April and May in 2020; May and June in 2023).

Yeah, that I was in Vermont from Saturday-Monday, and it was 55-60 each day. (I returned home on Monday to 70s and a melted lake.) Definitely agree with you on this. I wouldn't want a temperature swing like that. I mean, I don't want it to be 100 degrees one day in the summer, then in the 50s at the same time the very next day.

33 years ago, the Storm of the Century: https://www.meteo.psu.edu/ewall/NARR/1993/us0313.php

This is probably the most unprecedented weather event ever. It would be like if this July, DCA recorded a high of 106 one day, and an early morning high of 98 the next day, then the temps dropping to near 50 by the end of that very day.

Yeah, the high temperature for the month of January was 57 (on January 14). The ground is easily cold enough following that to get a snow accumulation with a mid-January sun angle. That's simply not happening today after the 83-degree high temps the last few days and a mid-March sun angle.

Yeah, that would be like if in the summer we went from 100 one day to 59 and rainy the next.

This temperature drop has to be unprecedented. It would be like if in July, the high in Baltimore was 104 one day, then only 53 at solar noon the next day.

That really blows my mind. That normally doesn't happen at this time of the year, especially following the warmth of the last few days, unless there was something special brewing (like the Storm of the Century in 1993). It would be like in the summer if it was 105 one day, and barely above 50 at the same time the next day. I can't wrap my head around that.

Okay, I'll admit I was wrong. It can snow in Baltimore, DC, and Virginia, even after it's 80 degrees. I've never seen that before, but I guess there's a first for everything. (Although, the rain hasn't changed over where I am.)

April 2022 was cool, especially the back half of the month: 2022-04-17 51 41 46.0 -8.3 19 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-18 54 39 46.5 -8.2 18 0 0.85 0.0 0 2022-04-19 50 39 44.5 -10.6 20 0 1.24 0.0 0 2022-04-20 60 42 51.0 -4.5 14 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-21 59 44 51.5 -4.3 13 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-22 70 53 61.5 5.3 3 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-23 65 51 58.0 1.5 7 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-24 63 48 55.5 -1.4 9 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-25 58 46 52.0 -5.2 13 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-26 60 52 56.0 -1.6 9 0 0.02 0.0 0 2022-04-27 58 41 49.5 -8.4 15 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-28 58 40 49.0 -9.2 16 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-29 63 41 52.0 -6.5 13 0 0.00 0.0 0 2022-04-30 68 44 56.0 -2.9 9 0 0.00 0.0 0

Pingers??? I guess this means Free Agency has begun, and it's Eagles season again.

I was born in 1988 (close enough), and can say 2013-14 and 2014-15 were just as great as 1995-96. Those seasons got started with a cold November, but really hit their strides in January, and didn't really let up until the end of March.

Can you do 1992-93 and 1993-94, as both were really good snow seasons? The archive would feel incomplete without the Blizzard of 1993.

That one was an easy A in my book. I loved seeing the transformation from a near record cold and snowy February to a near record warm May.

I like April/May 2015 better than February/March 2018 as an analog for this March/April, especially if we're heading towards a stronger el nino/+PDO. The late spring months of 2015 turned warmer (with May being a near record warm month) after a very cold winter/early spring.

Sometimes, you have to use common sense and not rely on the models. How many times have you seen snow immediately following 80 degree days? I can't think of any. If I happen to be wrong, I will personally come back here and apologize to you all. However, I know it's not going to happen, so I'm done posting on this thread because it's really unnecessary. Good night to everyone.

It's more reasonable than those posting snow maps where DC and Virginia get 7+ inches. We all know it isn't going to happen, so why post it? That's the definition of trolling. I even looked back, and DC didn't even get 7 inches of snow during some of the historical March snowstorms, like 1958, 1993, and 2018.

I'm not trolling. I'm being realistic. It doesn't normally snow in DC or Virginia in mid-March, much less following 80-degree days. The sun angle is just too strong. You need something really special, like the Storm of the Century in 1993, for it to snow at this time of year. We don't have that right now.

Come on, you all know it really isn't going to snow this far south. This isn't New England. There is no cold air, the ground is too warm, and the sun angle is way too strong.

It has never happened before. May 1977 probably the closest you're going to get: 1977-05-06 84 57 70.5 9.9 0 6 0.47 0.0 0 1977-05-07 74 53 63.5 2.6 1 0 0.00 0.0 0 1977-05-08 64 39 51.5 -9.6 13 0 0.10 0.0 0 1977-05-09 44 36 40.0 -21.4 25 0 0.31 T 0

Snow can happen in March or April, but under the right conditions. We just don't have that right now. We have (1) a lack of cold air, (2) the ground is too warm, and (3) the sun angle is too high. We need temps in the 30s and 40s for a few weeks, and that probably isn't happening. Winter weather is just about over. Do not hold out hope for any snow.

We all know snow is not going to happen. (1) There isn't enough cold air, (2) the ground is way too warm, and (3) the sun angle is way too high.

I think this is more like 2015, just one month forward. February looks like it's going to be the last month of the cold pattern in the East, just as March 2015 was. I get the feeling that April will torch in the East, and finally see a cool down in the West, like May 2015. We never get a cold winter and cold spring in the same year anymore.

I think 2010 holds the record, and that was after a cold and snowy winter, like this one.

77 on 2/21/2018 and 74 on 2/24/2017. Earliest 80 was 3/8/2000. 82 was 3/9/2016. 83 today.