I never thought I'd be blogging about snow this late in the season... especially this much!

This is the third time that I have had to blog about a spring snowstorm for the tri-state area! Really an absolutely incredible season of snow that will not be soon forgotten. This storm is very different though. First off the storm is a nor'easter, which happens often in the month of March but not always into early april; normally this late in the season you'd expect a nor'easter with heavy rains and strong winds, but that also looks like it is not going to be the case. So you can see this is a fairly rare event, but believe it or not it has happened in the past.

Two good examples are the nor'easter's in 1982 and 2003. 1982 was a very rare event that left NYC with 10 inches of snow and parts of NY state with over 2 feet! Winds reached 60 mph, and power was out everywhere. It set many records in many places including Newark which received 13 inches of snow and then the next day set a record low of 19 degrees in the morning.

April 6th, 1982


The other example is April 2003, where 5-8 inches of heavy wet snow fell across the NJ area.



Will this go down on the list of rare April snowstorms? I would say at this point, yes. Reason being, models are actually coming to a somewhat fair consensus that I-95, or parts of I-95, may be in for a snow event. In fact, if everything goes "perfectly", this certainly has the potential to be a historical storm. This is my current thinking on the storm in terms of totals, but I'm sure a lot will have to be shifted and moved around.



Keep tune, for change is likely with this system; beware.

-Scott Pecoriello