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It looks like no flurries fell in NYC or Bridgeport up to midnight (based on the daily climate report). Can't tell regarding from then to this morning (hourly updates show simply "overcast", but sometimes it just happens between hours and you don't know until it's reflected on the "daily climate update" around 4 or 5 pm), but if nothing was recording in the wee hours this morning I think it is a true rare "snowless" December given that highs near 50 and lows above freezing are expected thru and until Tuesday.
Radar is showing flurries right now right on the CT-MA border though.
Interestingly, the PHI (Philly) offices are saying snow showers (no mix) the morning of Jan. 2nd for all their zones except southern coastal NJ (rain) even though OKX (NYC) is showing just rain except for maybe a mix from about Bridgeport on east.
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Originally Posted by Cambium
Well, the latest it's ever snowed more then 1" was:
For Bridgeport, during the winter of 1979-80, the first >1" snowfall did not occur until March 13.
For NYC - Central Park, during the winter of 1997-98, the first >1" snowfall did not occur until March 22.
Thats going to be hard to beat but anything is possible I guess.
Interesting side note, the one other winter (using Central Park, could be true for Bridgeport but their weather station didn't begin until 1948) where the first >1" of snow didn't occur until March was in 1918-19 (don't know the date but it was obviously before the 22nd).
I wonder if 1979-80 had a lot of snowfalls <1" that "added up" or if all the snows until March were from NYC on westward because OKX shows (for NYC) 3.5" for December, 2.0" for January, and 2.7" for February. BOX site used to have Bridgeport snowfall statistics (they covered ALL of CT until I believe 2002 when OKX took over the coastal counties, I think ALY (Albany) took over Litchfield then too), but it's not there anymore (OKX only shows the stats for Central Park). They did have Bradley Airport stats and I found something very interesting. They had 1.7" on October 9, 1979 but didn't get more than 1" of new snow in a single snowfall until Feb. (HMM, sounds familiar?). So this is a good sign about my theory regarding Bridgeport vs. NYC in the 1979-80 winter (i.e. snows were bigger to the west until March, I'm presuming the 7.7" Hartford got in Feb. 1980 was rain or a mix along the CT coast/NYC).
I wonder if 1979-80 had a lot of snowfalls <1" that "added up" or if all the snows until March were from NYC on westward because OKX shows (for NYC) 3.5" for December, 2.0" for January, and 2.7" for February. BOX site used to have Bridgeport snowfall statistics (they covered ALL of CT until I believe 2002 when OKX took over the coastal counties, I think ALY (Albany) took over Litchfield then too), but it's not there anymore (OKX only shows the stats for Central Park). They did have Bradley Airport stats and I found something very interesting. They had 1.7" on October 9, 1979 but didn't get more than 1" of new snow in a single snowfall until Feb. (HMM, sounds familiar?). So this is a good sign about my theory regarding Bridgeport vs. NYC in the 1979-80 winter (i.e. snows were bigger to the west until March, I'm presuming the 7.7" Hartford got in Feb. 1980 was rain or a mix along the CT coast/NYC).
Wow - excellent stats. Good point about the monthly totals for 79-80 I'll have to look into that. Maybe it was just 1/2" a few times those months.
Wow - excellent stats. Good point about the monthly totals for 79-80 I'll have to look into that. Maybe it was just 1/2" a few times those months.
Actually, now that I think about it the 3.5 in December and 2.0 in January could have been easily just 4-6, 1/2" accumulations. So It's possible 1979-80 latest >1" snows was in March. It came from NWS Upton themselves so Im pretty sure its accurate.
With no big storms still in picture till after mid month it's sure looking like its possible again this year...but I do believe after mid month we will start to see storms once again. Might even be one on the 9th along a cold front.
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Originally Posted by Cambium
Actually, now that I think about it the 3.5 in December and 2.0 in January could have been easily just 4-6, 1/2" accumulations. So It's possible 1979-80 latest >1" snows was in March. It came from NWS Upton themselves so Im pretty sure its accurate.
With no big storms still in picture till after mid month it's sure looking like its possible again this year...but I do believe after mid month we will start to see storms once again. Might even be one on the 9th along a cold front.
Remember, the numbers I gave were CENTRAL PARK numbers for the 1979-80 winter, as I couldn't find Bridgeport stats. I also noted that Bradley Airport (Hartford) (after a "Snowtober" on 10/9/79) had less than an inch of snow total each of the other months until February that same year. So it's very possible that Dec.-Feb. NYC had at least one snowfall over an inch but Bridgeport didn't (i.e. maybe one fall was like 1.5" in Central Park and 0.9" in Bridgeport, another <1" for both, etc., maybe a third one where NYC had say 2.5" and Bridgeport 0.7".....note: I'm making these examples up, don't know the real numbers) and that Bridgeport had less snow than CPK each of those months to begin with.
Just clarifying.....was never denying the record, just finding it interesting in how it contrasted with a weather station also on the coast just 40-50 miles away (yet almost agreed completely with another one inland in a different direction just a little more the same distance away).
By the way, January 2000 is a very good example of things suddenly "changing" mid month. First two weeks had lots of highs in the 50s, even a couple of 60-deg readings, then the last two weeks AVERAGED in the low 20s and had 9" of total snow.
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Daily climate report came out, no flurries this morning in Bridgeport (or anywhere in the tri-state area for that matter). So unless snow somehow mixes into tonight/tomorrow morn's predicted precip (likely to be too warm for that), looks like a very rare no snow period in December this year.
A CLIPPER SYSTEM IMPACTS THE AREA INTO
MONDAY MORNING. PRECIPITATION SHOULD BEGIN AS LIGHT RAIN
SHOWERS...THEN MIXING WITH AND CHANGING TO SNOW SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT. WITHONLY A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OF QPF EXPECTED...NOT EXPECTING ACCUMULATING SNOW FOR THE INTERIOR.
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Interesting analysis of this snowless month by Joe Rao of News 12 (Westchester). I like the analogy to no-hitters and perfect games in baseball (snowless Decembers being like perfect games, Decembers with nothing but traces of snow being like no-hitters):
(I know the link says "election results" but I tested it and it went to the right spot. I didn't want to copy/paste his long blog here, but will if the link doesn't work for some reason).
That link only works for people who live in lower FFC.
Everyone here keeps referring to this December as "snowless" in the tri-state area, but Ct. got as much as two inches earlier in the month. Only some areas were snowless, but I'm more interested in Ct.'s weather. I'm awfully happy the winter has been mild so far though, I am keeping my fingers crossed that this continues. We didn't hit the mid 50's in my area yesterday, but it was unusually mild. I still have a pansy blooming in my backyard.
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