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18 minutes ago, bluewave said:

I think 95-96 will be too tough to beat since we haven’t had wall to wall snow and cold from late November into early April since then. 10-11 was the only season that could have made a challenge but the snows cut off too early at the start of February. Most of our snowy years since 10-11 only had big snows over 1-3 months. Warming winters mean shorter duration snowy intervals. So 75” in NYC and near 90” on Long Island will hard to replicate without more extensive cold and more favorable Pacific patterns.

02-03 was wall to wall too

 

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2 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

Boston broke theirs in 6 weeks. Was a terrible winter for them outside of that. Also 13/14 was as close to wall to wall as you can get and may have broken the record if not for the March suppression.

we dont have that kind of climate though, at that latitude you can have that sort of thing happen....Boston is like the arctic compared to NYC...10-11 is the best this area can do in a 6 week timespan

We'd much rather have a wall to wall winter anyway

 

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Just now, LibertyBell said:

we dont have that kind of climate though, at that latitude you can have that sort of thing happen....Boston is like the arctic compared to NYC

 

I disagree. Our record is lower due to latitude, so we need less snow to break the record. I can think of a single reason as to why it can't happen.

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12 minutes ago, bluewave said:

14-15 got started too late and the best snows were in New England that year. Plus it was our last cold winter here. NYC can’t make it past 50” without a colder winter. So even 50” will remain out of reach for NYC with these warmer winters since 15-16.

 

Monthly Total Snowfall for NY CITY CENTRAL PARK, NY
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.
Year
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
Season
1995-1996 0.0 2.9 11.5 26.1 21.2 13.2 0.7 75.6
1947-1948 0.0 T 30.2 15.3 13.6 4.8 0.0 63.9
2010-2011 0.0 T 20.1 36.0 4.8 1.0 T 61.9
1922-1923 0.0 1.0 8.0 24.5 18.8 8.1 T 60.4
1872-1873 0.0 3.5 26.8 10.6 18.9 0.4 0.0 60.2
2013-2014 0.0 T 8.6 19.7 29.0 0.1 T 57.4
1874-1875 0.0 T 10.1 14.5 4.5 13.8 13.5 56.4
1898-1899 0.0 19.0 1.5 5.3 25.3 4.8 0.0 55.9
1960-1961 T 0.0 18.6 16.7 18.2 1.2 T 54.7
1993-1994 0.0 T 6.9 12.0 26.4 8.1 0.0 53.4
1906-1907 0.0 1.0 0.3 11.0 21.8 13.3 5.8 53.2
1933-1934 0.0 0.5 14.9 0.1 27.9 8.6 0.0 52.0
1966-1967 0.0 0.0 9.1 1.4 23.6 17.4 T 51.5
2009-2010 0.0 0.0 12.4 2.1 36.9 T 0.0 51.4
1977-1978 0.0 0.2 0.4 20.3 23.0 6.8 T 50.7
1916-1917 0.0 T 14.5 5.8 12.2 11.7 6.5 50.7
1915-1916 0.0 T 8.1 0.7 13.1 25.5 3.3 50.7
2014-2015 0.0 0.2 1.0 16.9 13.6 18.6 0.0 50.3

He means 13/14. That winter didn’t shut off until march when the tpv sat over Maine. A less suppressive pattern would have broken 95/96 

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Just now, EastonSN+ said:

I disagree. Our record is lower due to latitude, so we need less snow to break the record. I can think of a single reason as to why it can't happen.

The record is close to 80, I don't see that happening in a short time span...it's pretty much unprecedented and not part of our climate.

Actually if you go back in history, our record is closer to 100" according to Ludlum.

 

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Just now, EastonSN+ said:

It snowed in DC in 3 storms. We could have broken the record. Talking CPK here not coastal NJ or Brooklyn.

DC is much further inland...if you want to look for ideal patterns look at March 2018-April 2018....that is probably the best that can be done in the modern era that late in the season.

 

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1 minute ago, LibertyBell said:

again Boston is a completely different climate, we may be sports rivals, but we're not climate rivals.

 

The climate argument is irrelevant in this discussion. The point is that it’s not unfathomable to get into a 6 week stretch like Bos did in 2015. It’s obviously would take luck but that’s what is needed to make a good pattern special 

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1 minute ago, LibertyBell said:

DC is much further inland...if you want to look for ideal patterns look at March 2018-April 2018....that is probably the best that can be done in the modern era that late in the season.

 

Coastal water temps are less of a concern in March. You cannot say that in 14 those March storms would snow in DC and not CPK. In that theory DC would do better than Boston 

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Just now, Allsnow said:

The climate argument is irrelevant in this discussion. The point is that it’s not unfathomable to get into a 6 week stretch like Bos did in 2015. It’s obviously would take luck but that’s what is needed to make a good pattern special 

I'd look through past history and what happened in 10-11 and 17-18 and that pretty much maxes out what is possible in our region.  Two twenty inch snowstorms plus a couple of moderate storms......we need to be realistic

 

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2 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I'd look through past history and what happened in 10-11 and 17-18 and that pretty much maxes out what is possible in our region.  Two twenty inch snowstorms plus a couple of moderate storms......we need to be realistic

 

Boston thought the same thing about limitations before 14/15 happened.

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6 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

It snowed in DC in 3 storms. We could have broken the record. Talking CPK here not coastal NJ or Brooklyn.

There's not that much of a difference between coastal NJ and Brooklyn and NYC.....if you look at late season patterns, I'd argue that Brooklyn and coastal NJ actually do better than NYC because of what you said before about colder water temps...vs Manhattan being much more urbanized.

There's a few storms that prove this....April 1996 and April 1997 being near the top of the list.

Still not historic but 10" is definitely possible late in the season.

 

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2 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Yes February is fine, it's the best month for snowfall.

Things change rapidly in March.

They change but if it can snow 4 inches in April it can snow much much more in March. With the PV on our side and moved a little bit can be MAJOR especially if they occur overnight.

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Just now, EastonSN+ said:

They change but if it can snow 4 inches in April it can snow much much more in March. With the PV on our side and moved a little bit can be MAJOR especially if they occur overnight.

Yeah I compiled this list of what is realistically possible by month....I had 12" for March and 6" for April.  

 

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