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Does anyone have any confirmation of this happening? Usually I wouldn't believe it but usually errors like these only occur over a certain hour...this happened over 2 different hours.
In New England the summer of 1816 included some early June snow, cold nights in both July and August, for example the widespread frost at low level sites around New England on the 8-9th July and the damaging frosts on the 22nd August from interior New England right the way south into North Carolina. There were droughts too and finally killing frosts in September, such as that of the 27th in New England. In both Connecticut and parts of New York State frosts after April are rare, but in 1816 frosts were recorded every month of the year.
[SIZE=-1] The most severe cold snap came in early June and killed the vegetable crop in parts of New England, ruining some farmers. This, and a couple of other cold snaps, each just a few days long, has made the summer of 1816 notorious and infamous.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The most notorious part of the infamous summer of '16 was the cold snap in early June. Some places were as much as 27 degrees colder than the day before and in parts of Vermont and in Boston temperatures reached little more than 7C. Conditions turned colder during the next 2 or 3 days and precipitation that fell became increasingly wintry in nature. On the 7th snow fell over the northern highlands of New England, snow flurries fell in parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts, in Salem and Boston for example, and away from the coast, snow fell in June as far south as 42 degrees north, Near Danville, Vermont snowdrifts just over 50cms high were reported. Contemporary reports spoke of prolonged falls of snow, snow settling and lying for a couple of days and very windy weather at times. However, by the 10th and 11th conditions began to improve, although mornings were still frosty.[/SIZE][SIZE=-1][/SIZE]
I think it's an error; a dew point of 32°F seems really cold for New England in the middle of June; let alone along the Atlantic. I just a few nearby places and they had lows around 40°F; still seems really cold. I'm a bit puzzled.
I had to put the heat on several times in July when I lived in NH..so I think it could be possible.. In fact when we moved it was 2 weeks before june and it snowed that night all night.
QFT! A major error! The day temp was in the 70s like typical June and the night time appeared to drop a lot, but even that, showed that it was still above freezing. And that night time drop would be a sign of a clear night!
Also, June, 2009 rained a lot. Zero chance of snow.
I'm a met with the National Weather Service in North Dakota... I saw on the obs that there was fog reported. I have seen many cases when the automated precip detector senses some of the fine mist particles from fog and reports them as -SN. When data from these automated sensors are sent to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, NC things such as this are often looked over and then deleted before officially the data being declared as accurate and stored.
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No, it's impossible for it to snow in Martha's Vineyard in June.
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. We had snow in Oct or maybe early Nov that year and over 150 inches by Feb or March..it was a cold year 
