Thursday, March 7, 2024

Winter '23 / '24 - 'Season-total' Snowfall Forecast Contest: FEB Snowfall Totals

DC
APR-1924

FEB-24 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 not measurable)

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FEB Forecast Station Highlights
3 of 25 stations (12%) observed at least 100% of their monthly P-O-R-N snowfall
1 station (ABE) >= 150% of P-O-R-N

Biggest Losers
9 of 25 stations (ALB ... BGR ... BOS ... PWM ... DCA ... SBY ... ORF ... RDU ... RIC) observed <= 10% monthly P-O-R-N.

Not a single flake ... ice pellet ... or hailstone observed at RDU or RIC.

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Season-total-to-Date
FEB P-O-R-N contributes 266" (28%) toward the season-total (D-J-F-M) snowfall of 936"

FEB-24 observed snowfall:  109" (41% of monthly P-O-R-N; 12% of P-O-R-N season-total snowfall)

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Teleconnections


AO / NAO / PNA data

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DEC snowfall totals here
JAN snowfall totals here