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Snowfall totals in texas11/8/2023 or 78.5”! Providence had the snowiest season on record at 76.2” and February was their 2nd snowiest month ever. In Eastport ME, 132.5” of snow fell in only a 5-week period from late January through February with the snow depth topping out at over 6 ft. Much of New England set snowfall records as well. Notable locations include Boston MA, where they set a seasonal snowfall record of 110.6”, surpassing their old mark of 107.6” set back in the winter of 1995-96. The Northeast exhibited some amazing snowfall stats. Values were calculated by rounding to the nearest 10% of normal. In addition, a series of snow storms in the mid-February through March time frame followed a southern track that favored snow for the Southern Plains in locations like Texas and Oklahoma.Ģ014-15 snowfall (above or below normal) for various locations across the U.S. Some exceptions were along the Front Range of the Rockies where upslope flow in a few events provided locally heavy snowfall amounts. As you can see, for the most part, locations west of the Mississippi were below normal while to the east were above normal. The image below shows the 2014-15 seasonal snowfall in relation to above or below the normal for several cities across the U.S. As an example, while the Sierra through the Cascades and the Wasatch experienced very low to record low snow pack conditions this past winter, some eastern locations saw their snowiest winters on record. The seasonal snowfall exhibited a similar pattern in general between the West and Northeast. The February state average temperature rankings reveal the entire Northeast experienced their second coldest February on record while at the same time out West they experienced their warmest February on record. During the late January through February time frame the meridional pattern became most pronounced, resulting in the coldest conditions in decades for much of the Northeast.įor parts of the Lower Great Lakes and New England the time frame from the last week of January through all of February produced some of the greatest total snowfall and coldest temperatures on record, many of which go back well over 100 years. However, winter really came in with a vengeance by mid to late January. The winter pattern relaxed somewhat during December and early January. Amazingly, this was a drop of some -99☏ (55☌) between November 1st, when the temperature peaked at 72☏ (22.2☌) tying the record for the warmest November temperature ever observed in the city to November 12th when the monthly record low occurred.”įigure 5: Snowfall totals (left) and a view of the storm (right) that hammered Buffalo in November 2014. "In Casper, Wyoming the temperature fell to -27☏ (-32.8☌) on November 12th, its coldest on record for November. (and 16th coldest on record) thanks to an exceptional arctic outbreak in the middle of the month," says Burt. “It was the coldest November since 2000 for the contiguous U.S. This was put into perspective in a great blog by Chris Burt, Weather Channel Historian, when he discussed the change in temperature in Cheyenne, Wyoming from early to mid- November. Look at how that ridge built up over the west coast of North America.įigure 3: 500mb composite heights for a) November 1-7 and b) November 8-20 showing the drastic change in the upper air pattern that took place in the second week in November 2014.Īs a result, surface temperatures were much colder than normal for that time of the year across the U.S. Figure 3 shows the 500mb pattern in the first week of November and the resulting pattern for the 10 days afterwards. That system had a significant impact on the weather pattern downstream across North America as it sat over the Bering Sea, effectively pumping up a ridge over the West Coast of North America, which in turn produced a very deep trough over the rest of the continent. Typhoon Nuri, which reached the level of a category 5 typhoon in the tropical Pacific, moved into the higher latitudes of the North Pacific in early November, resulting in one of the worst storms on record to move through the Bering Sea. This was due in part, of all things, a tropical weather system. was hit with a round of very cold temperatures and in one particular part of the nation, very heavy snowfall. American height anomaly (2a) and surface temperature anomaly (2b) for the winter season as defined by the months of Dec-Jan-Feb 2014-15.Įven before winter officially began however, much of the U.S.
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