Wow, a week to two weeks before it seemed like the rest of Autumn would be consistently mild and thinking it would not be winter like until Late November/Early December.
But no, way below average temperatures came for the last days of October and with a major snowstorm for areas of the Northeast.
New York City just had its earliest 1 inch+ snowfall on record, and snowiest October on record (mostly just because it almost never snowed in October before for NYC). The trees in New York City up until today did not even reach peak colors yet and there were so many trees still with a lot of leaves and all green while this snowstorm happened!
Areas of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Northern New Jersey, Western and Central Massachusetts, Connecticut, Southern New Hampshire, Southern Vermont, and Maine got very heavy snow with 10 inches of snow and more such as in the 10 to 15 inch range.
West Milford New Jersey(a town just 45 miles West Northwest of New York City) for one example got 15.5 inches of snow.
Some towns in Western and Central Massachuetts got more than 18 inches of snow such as Plainfield Massachusetts which got up to 28 inches of snow!
Windsor Massachusetts got 26 inches.
Coastal New England got a lot of wind with this, especially in Eastern Massachusetts in Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
One hour ago, the weather channel says Nantucket was having 48 mph sustained winds with gusts to 69 mph and right now Chatham is having 42 mph sustained winds and 71 mph gusts. So this means tropical storm force sustained winds over there with almost hurricane force wind gusts.
Wow if this is Late October weather for areas of the Northeastern USA this year, what will November, December, January, February, March, and April bring?
At least weather forecasts show after tomorrow, many areas of the Northeast will return to much warmer Autumn like temperatures.
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