tamarack

We often are muchly different from the US averages. 2009-10 was one of the coldest met winters for the country, and one of the mildest here. Colder now than the morning minimum and headed down under full sun.

February numbers: Avg max: 29.5 +0.1 Highest: 41 on the 28th Avg min: 1.6 -4.7 Lowest: -18 on the 1st Mean: 15.5 -2.3 Coldest DJF since 2014-15. Also the 2nd greatest avg diurnal range, trailing only Feb 2004. Precip: 0.76" -2.11" Wettest: 0.35" on the 11th. Driest February, breaking by 0.19" the former record from 2024. Snowfall: 12.5" -9.2" Greatest day: 4.7" on the 11th Average depth was 19.4", half an inch AN Dry and cold month, especially the first half. 1-10 all had subzero minima; with Jan, 20 straight days. 1-15 had maxima 32 or colder and 24 straight.

Not the surge due only by the storm, but IIRC the high water was 14.1 on the 10th and 14.4 on the 13th.

In Fort Kent we had 27" at the stake on April 6, 1982. 24 hours of temps in the low-mid teens and 15" later, we had 26". Also had a bit of wind.

I know that Jan. 13, 2024 was at/near astronomical peak tides, but I was still surprised that it didn't make the list, as it set a new high water record that day, by 0.3 ft breaking the record set three days earlier. (Unless later calculations have changed those peaks)

Current forecast from GYX has us at 0.5", with a 10% chance of 2". The midget march continues.

As I've whined before, that was the absolute worst double-digit "snow" event in my wx-aware lifetime (1950 forward). The 10.7" had 2.67" LE and was so wet that it would splatter on branches rather than sticking like the above pic. That mess was made even worse by the 1.14" RA at 33-35°, powered by the same NE wind that buried Central Park. Our snow blower was broken (probably would've broken anyway in the glop) and pushing a full snow scoop was a chore. The driveway had been bare ground, so the scoop was dragging thru the mud while holding 15-20 lb per square foot. A year earlier (Feb 22-23) we'd had a 24.5" dump of 12:1 powder that was far easier to move even though it fell atop a 27" pack and resulted in 7-foot banks by the time we'd finished. The cocorahs in Temple, 10 miles west and 830' higher, reported 26.4" in that event.

Maybe, but the NESIS rating is Northeast-centered so I don't know the extent in which areas get included. Jan 25-27 was better BOS and points north, Feb 23-24 better for PVD and points south.

Thanks. "OV (Ohio Valley) Blizzard = CLE Superbomb. Sorry for the confusion. The 2/2/76 event caused a mega-tidal surge up the Penobscot estuary, and the water at BGR rose 15 feet in 15 minutes, drowning about 200 cars in the Kenduskeag Plaza parking lots.

We lived in Gardiner in 1995 and the afternoon high was 16 with winds gusting to near 50, but it was 31 at my 9 PM obs time the evening before, probably the 2d worst "midnight spoil" max I can recall. Worst was March 6, 2007, when the afternoon high of -2 was wrecked by the 19 at 9 the previous evening. March 2017 had one that ranks with 4/95, 14° at 9 PM on 3/10 followed by a zero for afternoon high. Co-ops with 7 AM obs time have preserved those cold afternoons. (1st CT Lake had a high of -24 on Dec 26, 1980 thanks to the 7 AM protocol. Mt Mansfield has tied that mark and MWN has numerous colder ones, but nothing in New England below 3000' asl can match it.)

Farther north, we've had only 10 days in 27 Aprils with maxima 32 or colder, only 3 below 30 and the 24 during a modest snowfall on 5/2003 is lowest by 5°. 200 miles NNE in Fort Kent, such maxima are much more common, 3.1/yr vs. 0.37/yr. Of course, the 1970s-80s were also colder than 1999 onward. We recorded 31 such days in our 10 Aprils there, 30 of which were 23 to 32, plus the 17 max for the 4/7/82 blizzard.

For sure. Feb precip up to 0.76" with yesterday's 0.02" and not much in the near future - maybe a few pennies late Saturday. Driest of our first 27 Februarys is 0.95" in 2024, but DJ & M that winter totaled 23.49". DJ this winter: 6.08". I doubt that March will bring 17.4" (precip, not snowfall ) to match 23-24. Would be exciting, though.

Strange, but 2009-10 takes the cake - CAR 70.3", BWI 78". That's probably a one-in 200-year phenomenon.

Beat me once more - only 0.8" here, 40:1 from little feathers.

Couple of cherrypicked comments, last addressed first: I thought the OV blizzard had pressure down close to 950 mb, the lowest on record for a non-tropical storm in the eastern US. 957 would tie CAR's mark in the 2/2/76 southeast gale. 1978 appears to have a significantly larger footprint. PHL had 14.1" and NYC 17.7", in the same range as 2/26 though some NNJ points did get a lot more in 2026. To the north, the Farmington (Maine) co-op recorded 22.0" from the 1978 storm. That co-op ended reports in 2022 but a cocorahs observer had 0.5" in the recent blizzard and my site 6 miles to the east of there had only 0.2".