NH Winter/SH Summer 2019-2020 Discussion Thread

First snowless February likely for NYC and Long Island



February is generally our snowiest month. Central Park (codename “NYC”) had a trace of snow (or sleet), I don’t know when, but I haven’t seen snow since the middle of January, and even that was only a very small amount.

This winter, Utklippan has had a grand total of 2 days below average, on the 27th and 28th of December (on which the average from 96-20 is 4.0/1.2 using the nearest 9 days. They've also not had a freeze since the 23rd of February last year. Average so far: 6.6/4.4, but I don't think it's the station with the warmest winter this season, just the most consistent.

Edit: Nvm, the average for the first of December is 6.0/3.4 so the first three days of winter were also below average

I've talked about how wet this month has been a lot, but what makes it even more impressive is that the first week was relatively dry.

We've had 218 mm in the last two weeks, and we don't have high enough humidity here for intense rainfall so those kind of amounts are completely off the scale for us. I bet I'd struggle to find any other two-week period that even gets within 50 mm of what we've had recently, so you get what I mean.

It's actually the third year in a row when we've had exceptional weather about now: last year had a February warm spell with days on end of unbroken sunshine that averaged above the old record high for an entire week, and it's coming up for two years since we had both the coldest day and most impressive snowstorm in a generation and then the three coldest March days on record.

chilly morning in between a warm late winter weekend. Clear skies with low wind; only NYC didn't drop with its UHI



Chicopee was at 18°F; def a local frost hollow

Dews have been low, in the single digits and teens with lots of sunny skies and light southerly winds. That explains the wide diurnals the last couple of days.

w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KIAD.html



Dew hasn't been above 19 F (-7.2 C) in the past three days. If only we had snow cover and a bit of colder airmass, we'd be having single digits at night more than likely.

6 cm of snow in the early hours today (actually our most snow since April 2018, we've been that starved of the stuff), only I missed almost the whole event because most of it got washed away by rain before I got up!

Got up to 53 (12 c) with sun. Very nice, days like this make winter a whole lot more bearable.

Warmest temp of the month and the first 50 f day in over a month. Every month since February 2015 has now hit 50 although this will be the first February since then not to hit 60.

Cold snap next week looks relatively short with 40s coming back to finish the 10-day. Maybe winter is finally coming to a close...