Offhand I'll say April 7....I think any later April snowfall generally done in by the strong sun
OT: March Weather Banter; OG Thread Was: Winter Storm Thursday 2/20: Very Likely Somewhere Between A Non-Event and a Minor Event (oof)
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April 7, 2003, you got about 6" of snow in most of Somerset County; we got 7" in Metuchen. I remember having a blast making snowmen with the wet heavy snow and sledding across the street with our then 9-year old son. We got about 4" on April 2nd 2018, but iirc, not much accumulated on the roads. And I don't think you were plowing in 1982 when we got our biggest ever April snowstorm on 4/6/82 with a foot in NB my sophomore year.
https://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim_v1/winter/20022003/04072003/04072003snowfall.html
Bac's way too young to remember but in the 1982, the NYC metro got 10" on Apr 6.
2018 we got smoked the week of the Big East / ACC Tournaments
Had a training and the cab ride back to the hotel was a doozy
Walking up the subway to Barclays to watch VT lose to ND saw a bunch of people slipping
Called my wife to ask how our abervartie trees were holding up
Naturally she told me they were fine, and to enjoy the games
Fast forward to the next day when I got home, and the branches were all bent over lol
Had a training and the cab ride back to the hotel was a doozy
Walking up the subway to Barclays to watch VT lose to ND saw a bunch of people slipping
Called my wife to ask how our abervartie trees were holding up
Naturally she told me they were fine, and to enjoy the games
Fast forward to the next day when I got home, and the branches were all bent over lol
The April 1982 storm was my sophomore year in HS. Our baseball season was delayed about a week. First game back we played on a field that was not groomed. I was lead off hitter and got a single. As I am stealing 2nd (diving headfirst), I see nothing but rocks and pebbles around the base. I had scars for about 10-20 years after that.
Will never forgot the storm due to that.
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I remember as a kid. It was low 60s just a few days before..big storm
Also there was a nasty cold windy one. I think March 30 or so 6-inches or so maybe 97 or 98
That was a bad one if I remember correctly. Heavy, wet snow and wind. A lot of power lines down in my town after that one.
That 1982 storm was, iirc, the first time Rutgers had ever closed for snow. Again, IIRC, the word at teh time was that Rutgers NEVER CANCELS CLASSES for snow.. but then that April 6 storm changed all that.
Pretty sure it was the storm in '78 that caused RU to close for the first time.
Yep super wet and heavy snow
MIL came to the front door when I got home and said "Don't worry, the trees will be fine"
When she said that, I knew they were toast
In the last 15 years we’ve had one decent snowstorm in most March months. It doesn’t look like we’ll get one given the warming trend coming in a few days.
We had the biggest snowfall fight I was ever a part of that afternoon, since school was closed. It was essentially the River Dorms vs. the Quads (I lived in Hegeman) over George St with probably 100+ on each side. And while we were all throwing snowballs at each other, it was brutal for the few cars trying to navigate up a snow-covered George St, as those cars just got annihilated with snowballs. Fun time.The April 1982 storm was my sophomore year in HS. Our baseball season was delayed about a week. First game back we played on a field that was not groomed. I was lead off hitter and got a single. As I am stealing 2nd (diving headfirst), I see nothing but rocks and pebbles around the base. I had scars for about 10-20 years after that.
Interestingly, the GFS keeps showing a wintry storm for 3/9, but it's just about alone in showing that, with the Euro/UK/CMC mostly showing nothing or maybe a bit of light snow as they're not showing any phasing with major precip. Single models have been right before this far out (5.5 days), but it's pretty unusual, so best bet right now is nada...but I'll be sleeping with one eye open, lol...
definitely...basically any model showing snow at this point not supported by other models should be tossed...very hard but not impossible to accumulate especially since not alot of cold air around so the model spitting out snow with clown maps is an auto toss.
Not at all - wishcasting would be saying this has a decent chance of occurring. It doesn't, but it's also not zero chance.
the nasty storm i was talking about was March 31/April 1 1997 ...got about 8 inches in my parts and it was as cold as **** that morning trying to do work
Visiting or moving? Can't imagine picking Marco Island over OCNJ, but I'm biased, lol. If we didn't spend several weeks a year in OCNJ, I'm pretty sure my wife would've made us buy something there by now...
The most brutal thing for snow lovers would be for the models to converge on a snowstorm, but then have the storm end up cutting inland at the last minute bringing rain for almost everyone. Rutgers fans and snow lovers have a lot in common...
Just down for a couple weeks. My wife and I would move here in a heartbeat but now that we have a grandson living down the street in OC, not happening
As expected, the GFS "lost" the storm, so now no models are showing any winter storm of note this coming weekend - like most storms this season, the timing of cold and moisture and/or the inability of northern and southern jet stream systems to phase at the right time prevented any really big storms from hitting us. I read on a weather board that this was the first winter with below normal temps for D/J/F to have below normal snowfall since 1985-86.
Could see record low pressure with the storm driving through the upper midwest/Great Lakes tonight and tomorrow; we'll have some impacts with up to 1" of rain and some gusty winds and maybe some t-storms, but nothing like what they're going to see out there.
That is the perfect definition of wish casting!
So how much rain is the Philly area getting tomorrow including far South Jersey where most of the growing takes place in the Garden State.
Nope. Just posted above about us getting up to 1" of rain from this storm...That is the perfect definition of wish casting!
So how much rain is the Philly area getting tomorrow including far South Jersey where most of the growing takes place in the Garden State.
They say the same on the news but this is a quick storm.
And yes this has been a very cold D/J/F and dry winter I believe I've ever seen.
Winds need to relax too.
the nasty storm i was talking about was March 31/April 1 1997 ...got about 8 inches in my parts and it was as cold as **** that morning trying to do work
According to the NWS .5-1.0 in Philly with a chance of a bit more east.That is the perfect definition of wish casting!
So how much rain is the Philly area getting tomorrow including far South Jersey where most of the growing takes place in the Garden State.
Numbers do you have winter snowfall accumulation totals for the last say ten years?
Yes, for Metuchen, but also easily accessible for many other cities - are you looking for somewhere in particular?
Looking at my weather app that appears to be true for this area. Weird thing is 1 hour north in the catskills will still be below freezing for the most part until next Tuesday.
Here's a link to New Brunswick's 130 year history of weather, including snowfall for each month and year, which should be closer to your snowfall than Metuchen is. Since I've been keeping records in Metuchen, we're usually a couple of inches more per winter which makes sense being 5 miles NE of NB, although occasionally NB gets a bit more than us (and since I always measure right at the exact end of any storm, my numbers are usually a bit higher than anyone else's near me, since compaction can occur quickly, especially with borderline temps). In turn, southern Middlesex likely gets an inch or two per year less than NB most winters.
https://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim_v1/monthlydata/index.php?stn=286055&elem=snow
Also, fyi, here's a list of annual snowfall (1991-2020) for a bunch of major cities in the US. It shows the decrease from NE to SW along the 95 corridor with 49" per year in Boston down to 14" per year in DC; Philly is 23.1" and NYC is 29.8".
https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/annual-snowfall-by-city.php
Again. Thanks so much! Wow those NB totals for 19-20 and 22-23?!
17° this morning above Boone NC, snowing and blowing, with winds of 14 mph, gusting to 23 mph. So far, looks like just 2" down but drifts of 6". Had our fill of winter. Ready for spring....