December had several events, but less than a foot overall. The peak snow depth was 7.5", but bouts of rain and big temperature swings left me with very patchy snow.
January continued the theme, five of seven events were for less that 1". The storm track has been pushed south, and record snowfalls in Florida would have challenged thoise all-season tires! Instead of snow, the cold has been remarkable with only one day between the 20th and 25th seeing an above zero low, and that was was only +4°F.
February was somewhat warmer, with four days above freezing and one of those reached 50.8°F. However, all nights went below freezing and the highest dew point was only 34.4° so we had very little melting. We did have some better snow, but the biggest was only 7.1" - smaller than what Pensacola FL got in their January storm!
March was very quiet with only three minor events and I was down to a trace by mid month. The biggest event, 2.6", over a week later brought a couple of mornings with measurable cover. Ultimately, Dec, Feb, and Mar had second highest SDDs for those months and that led to the second highest SDDs for the season.
April brought a couple events, but melted quickly. I got no SDDs from them. Bow and Pepperell got more snow and got their last few SDDs for the season. Probably - we can get snow in May.
| Location | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snow | SDD | Snow | SDD | Snow | SDD | Snow | SDD | Snow | SDD | Snow | SDD | Snow | SDD | Snow | SDD | |
| Fairhaven MA | 0.7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10.3 | 24 | ||||||||||
| Pepperell MA | 5.6 | 13 | 14.9 | 62 | 21.2 | 274 | 0 | 44 | 3.8 | 3 | ||||||
| Bow NH | 0.4 | 0 | 10.9 | 51.5 | 13.3 | 63 | 24.9 | 394 | 0.8 | 166 | 5.1 | 4 | ||||
| Bristol NH | 6.2 | 11 | 11 | 171.5 | 10.7 | 63.5 | 30.2 | 384 | 8.4 | 156.4 | 4.8 | 0.6 | ||||
| Sutton Mills NH | 3.2 | 6.5 | 10.8 | 121 | 9.7 | 57.5 | 26.6 | 301 | 3.8 | 134 | 3.7 | 0 | ||||
| Woodford VT | 20.5 | 41 | 34.8 | 434 | 47.8 | 573 | 39 | 878 | 5.8 | 610 | 14.8 | 55 | ||||
| Location | Snowfall | Depth Days | Persistence Quotient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairhaven MA | 13 | 34 | 2.6 |
| Pepperell MA | 45.5 | 396 | 8.7 |
| Bow NH | 55.4 | 678.5 | 12.2 |
| Bristol NH | 71.3 | 787 | 11.0 |
| Sutton Mills NH | 57.8 | 620 | 10.7 |
| Woodford VT | 162.5 | 2591 | 15.9 |
The CoCoRaHS column is the "station number" registered at Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, an organization founded to create a much denser network of precipitation data than the National Weather Service entities can provide. One of these years I might look into downloading CoCoRaHS data each month and add that data here.
| Name | Location | CoCoRaHS |
|---|---|---|
| Dennis Bollea | Fairhaven MA | |
| Steve Gunn | Bristol NH | NH-GR-1 |
| Todd Gross | Woodford VT | |
| Jim Hilt | Bow NH | NH-MR-4 |
| Paul Venditti | Pepperell MA | |
| Ric Werme | Sutton Mills NH | NH-MR-63 |
I think depth days is a great statistic, and I'm surprised that it is catching on slowly outside of the NE Weather Spotters mail list. I never expected that the NWS would embrace it quickly, but I had hoped that TV meteorologists would start using it, in monthly summaries, if nothing else. It would be nice if ski areas would use it, but they may not wish to if they are not likely to be #1 consistently. (And if only one area reports depth days, it would not be a good comparative statistic.)