Last week's temperatures were 0.6 degrees below whatever is the current normal we are using. However, when comparing to the 20 years before that one, we were actually slightly warmer than normal. The wind however made if feel unbearably cold.
Could it be debated that lack of a solid cold pool of air over eastern Canada also keeps the overnight temperatures up? Actually, I don't think Hudson Bay has much to do with the minimum temps in New Jersey. It was the wind preventing radiational cooling and an less than classic cold air mass?
I debated with one poster stating that it is not really that cold, more like "Seasonable", but it is the winds making the wind chill effect unbearable.
Actually saw kids playing hockey on a local pond in Linden today! Unheard of over the last 30 years or so (sort of). Can't have snow without a cold air source. That's why I have to keep posting my snow triangle (for the NYC metro area)...
My parents used to tell me about growing up in the coal mining region in Pennsylvania, with frost on the walls in their bedrooms. They had down comforters...
Just a light covering here in the Tremley Point section of Linden NJ. Exactly as forecast, but I'm surprised the dry air didn't just eat up the northern fringe...