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Well Snow is one of those things that latitude affects. Its different to frosts because its all dependant on upper air. I think in my area I get on average 35 days of snowfall.
We are sheltered but I live near the North Coast and I think I live in the snowiest area of the Island, so we are always the first place in Ireland to get snow. My first snow last year was 17th october. Here is a video from 2008. And heres a picture of last years snow.
Maybe it all depends on wether the azores high comes up again or the jet stays in its current position. If it stays we might get a few surprises.
Here in the Northeast U.S winter shows up for a month of so for either the first half of winter or the 2nd half. It's not common the entire winter stays cold and snowy. Just the way the pattern goes. What I want to know is.... Has there ever been a time when we stayed below 20 degrees for the high December, January, and February here?? That all I want to happen.
I'm not sure but I would like that to happen here,mainly just for frozen lakes. I think we had that last december 2010. All the lakes began to freeze over but as soon as it hit january they thawed.
The good thing about USA winters is the massive snowstorms. The sea is too warm for that here.
Hello everyone! I am new to this thread. I love following the weather especially in the fall/winter. I live in the southeast USA but work in between Atlanta,Ga and Seattle...After the horrific winter we had last year I am looking forward to a real winter in 2012-13!!!
I'm not sure but I would like that to happen here,mainly just for frozen lakes. I think we had that last december 2010. All the lakes began to freeze over but as soon as it hit january they thawed.
The good thing about USA winters is the massive snowstorms. The sea is too warm for that here.
Speaking of frozen waters..I will never forget seeing "part" of the Long Island sound freezing over when I was a kid in the 70s. There's a park called Hudson Park in New Rochelle, NY which is part of the Long Island Sound, the waters use to start freezing over. I have NOT seen that in decades it feels like. Thats sad. We must of had really cold winters for that body of water to start freezing over!
Edit: Found this list. 1977 and 1963 years keep coming up in my researches of El Nino Winters.
Speaking of frozen waters..I will never forget seeing "part" of the Long Island sound freezing over when I was a kid in the 70s. There's a park called Hudson Park in New Rochelle, NY which is part of the Long Island Sound, the waters use to start freezing over. I have NOT seen that in decades it feels like. Thats sad. We must of had really cold winters for that body of water to start freezing over!
Amazing. I think the sea is too warm here for that but I think in 2010 the sea froze at the edge.
I was just looking up statistics and in 1963 we had subsero mean temperatures at zero from end of december to the start of march. So it looks like its not impossible.
Actually a warm sea, or a warm body of water, is better for 'massive snowstorms' than cold water, since more moisture can be picked up, resulting in bigger dumps.
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