Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Winter '22 / '23 - 'Season-total' Snowfall Forecast Contest: MAR Snowfall Totals

Woodstock ... VT (c.1890)
CORR:  snowfall at CON should be 20.4"
Departure:  8.6"
%MAR:  173%

MAR-23 snowfall summary by forecast station.
Rank ordered descending by percent of monthly period-of-record-normal (P-O-R-N).

Green ==> 4th quartile
White ==> less than 4th and greater than 1st quartile (inter-quartile range)
Red ==> 1st quartile

'Obs' reporting '0.05' denote 'Trace' amounts (observed but unmeasurable).

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MAR Forecast Station Highlights

8 northern tier stations exceeded their monthly snowfall climatology.

Biggest Losers
9 stations observed trace amounts.
2 stations not a single flake ... ice pellet ... or hailstone observed.

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Season-Total-to-Date
MAR P-O-R-N contributes 184" (20%) toward the season-total (D-J-F-M) snowfall of 934".
MAR-23 observed snowfall:  176" (96% of monthly P-O-R-N; 19% of normal season-total snowfall).

Image courtesy NOHRSC http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/

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Teleconnections

AO / NAO / PNA data
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/ norm.daily.ao.nao.pna.aao.gdas.120days.csv

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DEC snowfall totals here
JAN snowfall totals here
FEB snowfall totals here

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