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Could be record challenging cold coming to the Northeast mid month
Why don't get is why there was so much attention to cold and polar vortex last winter when this winter has been just as cold. Well not December but since then.
15°C below average would mean a week average 0°F. I guess it's possible but it would be literally record breaking.
Why don't get is why there was so much attention to cold and polar vortex last winter when this winter has been just as cold. Well not December but since then.
Maybe it's been just as cold in the Northeast, but I think a larger part of the country is not as cold as last winter. Chicago has had 6 days below zero this winter, but by this time last year we had 17.
This morning however it ws very frigid. Especially outside the city, even though ORD dipped to -2F. MDW bottomed out at 3F. I wonder why the city was not nearly as cold? MDW bottomed out at 3F. Maybe because the lake isn't frozen over this year as opposed to last year?
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15°C below average would mean a week average 0°F. I guess it's possible but it would be literally record breaking.
Yeah, I have to believe that that forecast is overdone.
I didn't realize the 2°F Bridgeport, CT coast hit 2 days ago was the lowest February temp since 1996!!
And Central Park currently has colder MTD mean temp than Pittsburgh Say thanks to the extra snow-pack.
Snow-depth as reported at the Pittsburgh WFO, the current official snow measurement site, was 4", but I see at most half of that where I'm at a few miles east of downtown Pgh. After yesterday's warmth, even starting to see multiple patches of grass...
A more drastic example showing that the snowpack makes [nearly] all the difference. Philly vs Allentown PA so far this month:
3.9F colder relative to normal at KABE.
Meanwhile, back home, Dulles so far this month hasn't been running more negative temp anomalies than BWI or Inner Harbor, an improvement over last year when it often ran more extreme negative departures than the other three first-order stations in the metro area, National, BWI, and Inner Harbor.
Maybe it's been just as cold in the Northeast, but I think a larger part of the country is not as cold as last winter. Chicago has had 6 days below zero this winter, but by this time last year we had 17.
We got 6 so far, but we got a bunch of single digits. Average low last January 9°F.
4.5°F(-15C) here. Lowest of season. Amazing what a deeper than normal snowpack will do.
Current temps(6:35am). 10-30 below normal from Gulf Coast to New England. Lows of season happened today for many
Windsor Locks and Danbury CT hit -7. Low of season.
Saranac Lake -28F below zero (that's not the wind chill), lowest of season.
Burlington VT lowest of the season hits -14 below zero
Morrisville, VT hit -18°
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Say thanks to the extra snow-pack.
