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Please tell me you do realize how much colder it would be right now had there not been an April sun overhead? This is April "cold". I hope the argument is not that an April sun is a non factor right? We have the equivalent of a late August sun right now, to say that an April sun angle has no effect is just ludicrous and asinine. And warlock's argument that this airmass greatly modified further due to bare ground and no snowcover is also scientific fact. It's not opinion or conjecture, this is the laws of nature and physics

Tell that to the people who got accumulating snow today :whistle:

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That event (May 1977) was quite the anomaly...but it was a once in a hundred years type deal. 

 

Also, do not be terribly impressed with the 20 inch total at Norfolk, Connecticut.  Well known as "The Icebox of CT"...Norfolk had an *average* annual snowfall of 110 (yes, one hundred ten) inches per winter from the mid 1950's to the mid 1970's.  They saw 177 inches of snow during the 1955-56 winter...including 73 inches in March 1956 *alone*.  They are at an elevation of 1337 feet in far NW Litchfield County in the foothills of the Berkshires.  During the aforementioned interval (mid 1950's to mid 1970's) their *mean* April snow average was about 10 inches.  They have a history of very big snows...the 110 inch average was on par with what Caribou in far northern Aroostook County in Maine would measure in a typical winter.

 

The mere 1.3 inches recorded just to the east at Hartford / Windsor Locks shows the enormous difference in sensible (or absurd, in this case) weather between the close to sea level Connecticut River Valley and the lower extension of the Green Mountains / Berkshires / Litchfield Hills off to the west...

 

Norfolk, CT with 5.0 inches of snow so far this April (through 7 AM Monday morning)...with more likely yesterday...clearly demonstrating the exceptional nature of the climate up there. 

 

After 12 months of well above normal temperatures in this area...the next 8 months (through December 2016) should be below normal.  Like everything else in the Universe...these things run in cycles.

 

So be it.

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Norfolk, CT with 5.0 inches of snow so far this April (through 7 AM Monday morning)...with more likely yesterday...clearly demonstrating the exceptional nature of the climate up there.

After 12 months of well above normal temperatures in this area...the next 8 months (through December 2016) should be below normal. Like everything else in the Universe...these things run in cycles.

So be it.

The 7" at PVD in '77 seems far more impressive.
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