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Albany has received 5.5" with a normal of 32" to date (17% of normal). I have received about 4" at my house, although I missed 2" of it falling while I was away. Only a few dustings and coatings for me, but who's complaining. I am looking for a bigger loser to make myself feel better. Any takers?

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E NY & W NE not only have a huge snow deficit but it's made seemingly worse by not getting in on much of the action seen in eastern sections last winter.

I live just south of lurker And also sit at 4.5 " when we average well over 50".

Yes exactly, adds to the sting lol

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It is definitely NW MA or far S VT. That has to be the real dumps compared to climo vs anyone else....though up in powderfreakland they are doing pretty awful too. Maybe we can just extend it all the way up VT.

 

At least E NH and W ME got the inverted trough last week and that late bloomer storm.

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E NY & W NE not only have a huge snow deficit but it's made seemingly worse by not getting in on much of the action seen in eastern sections last winter.

I live just south of lurker And also sit at 4.5 " when we average well over 50".

Yup. We all have been sucking tailpipes thus far and you, lurker, and mpm may be just about the worst,followed by radarman,ineedsnow, codfishsnowman,and myself.
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Yup. We all have been sucking tailpipes thus far and you, lurker, and mpm may be just about the worst,followed by radarman,ineedsnow, codfishsnowman,and myself.

You just named the cellar dwellers and if we had some posters from S VT and SW NH we could add them to the list. Beyond just this season it has not been a good stretch for the area from NW CT up through the Berks and over to the Monadnocks. You can argue that "climo" will even out but that still could be years away.

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I'm at 7.0" for the season, which really hurts since we've been in a multi-year big snowstorm drought. If we had as much as E MA did last winter, this wouldn't be as painful.

 

Seasonal average here is approximately 70", and I'm guessing the lowest seasonal total here must be in the 25-30" range ('88-'89 looked really bad in the COOP data from Great Barrington, but I don't have any exact numbers for Lenox or Pittsfield). We should have no problem setting a new nadir for seasonal snowfall at the pace we're currently going.

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I bet there are a few spots in the 3-4" range in the Hudson Valley from Kingston through just north of Albany.  Albany actually got relatively lucky with the orientation of a few long lake effect streamers.  I also think some of their snow totals were generous just to get to 5.5."  A good month would get most of us near average but another month like the past three will probably put us in the top 2 least snowy winters on record.

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It is definitely NW MA or far S VT. That has to be the real dumps compared to climo vs anyone else....though up in powderfreakland they are doing pretty awful too. Maybe we can just extend it all the way up VT.

 

At least E NH and W ME got the inverted trough last week and that late bloomer storm.

 

I'd imagine all of NNE is in the same boat.

 

I'm at 26", J.Spin is at 38", Tamarack is at 20", Dendrite at 13",  Eyewall at 18" in BTV.

 

Seems relative to our seasonal averages that's probably pretty equal.

 

We did get a 6" event last week from the inverted trough and upslope (J.Spin had 11" on 0.6" liquid I think), but nothing since then.

 

I consider it a win that the grass has been covered since December 28th with a snow depth that hit 10" a week or so ago.

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That's actually not that bad, lol.

Mansfield Coop is at 38% to date...down about a 100" right now.

Yeah that is rough for sure. We need a serious 2 minute drill nevermind a second half with the start of Feb wiped out.

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Yup. We all have been sucking tailpipes thus far and you, lurker, and mpm may be just about the worst,followed by radarman,ineedsnow, codfishsnowman,and myself.

 

Yeah, 4.25" so far ain't good.  MBY is somewhat elevated off the valley floor (550') and behaves like 65% PV, 35% ORH hills.  I kind of think of it as a low ceiling/high floor area because we usually can get a piece of the ocean storms and CAD usually holds for ok front end dumps.  But this year we've missed on both.

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2 inches here 3 if you count the sleet I'm looking forward to spring and summer convection this year pretty much gave up on winter now also if a hurricane hits the gulf or Atlantic coast I am chasing this year so can't wait

 

Sleet does count.  You're probably in the toughest place this winter so far as a percentage of normal.  Even with Saturday's snow I'm at about 25% of my normal.  I suspect you're close to 10% of normal.

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A better way to try and gauge it would be how anomalous it is...standard dev.

 

It's more common for an area that averages 50" to be at single digit percent of snowfall to date than some area that averages 100"+.

 

 

I.E., I'd bet it is more anomalous for some 2000 foot ridge in the Taconics to be at 18" on the season than it is for a place like CEF to be at 3" on the season. Even though CEF's number might be a smaller percent of normal.

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I bet there are a few spots in the 3-4" range in the Hudson Valley from Kingston through just north of Albany.  Albany actually got relatively lucky with the orientation of a few long lake effect streamers.  I also think some of their snow totals were generous just to get to 5.5."  A good month would get most of us near average but another month like the past three will probably put us in the top 2 least snowy winters on record.

Push the southern line down to around Newburgh.  I believe I'm still under 5" for the season but I have to double check after that dumping of .4 on Saturday. 

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