Date Measurement Comments Accum. snow Leader
12/8 2.5 This was a massive event across northern Delaware, SE 2.5 Peter Phillipps
( 3.2(rgg) 1.5(ajb) Pennsylvania and southern NJ (as anyone who saw the
2.1(wfs) 2.6(smf) Eagles-Lions football game knows!). Peak amount was
3.0(ds)) 12.0 in Burlington county, NJ. (Phila. airport had 8.6\”,
more than the 2011-12 seasonal total
12/10 3.9 (lab) A well-forecasted burst of heavy wet snow produced 3\” – 4\” 6.4 Peter Phillipps
over a wide area of PA and NJ..
12/14 2.7 A disturbance over the Ohio value spawned a second low 9.1 Adi Benito
(2.1(rgg) 3.4(wfs) off the NJ coast. A coastal front produced large temperature
3.0(ajb) 2.7(ds) contrast (NJ coast reached 50) while the GFDL area had
snow changing to sleet, freezing rain and eventually rain.
Amounts in NW NJ ranged to 12\”, with more in N New England
12/17 0.8 (lab) Two periods of snow (AM and PM) with rain in between 9.9 Venkatramani Balaji
12/24 0.1 Snow squalls on Christmas eve 10.0 Venkatramani Balaji
(T(ds),T(rgg) (note: New Years Eve snow was not measurable)
0.2(wfs) 0(ajb))
1/2-3 7.7 a storm developing off the coast produced 7-10″ in New Jersey 17.7 Amy Langenhorst
(7.4(ds) 8.2(rgg) and up to 23″ in northeast Massachusetts. Very cold temperatures
7.9(wfs) 7.9(ajb) followed(Trenton reached -1F) then a 1996-style warmup which
7.3(smf)) melted all the snow in ~18 hours!
1/10 0.1 snow and sleet 17.8 Amy Langenhorst/
Charles Stock
1/18 0.4 an Alberta Clipper event, much more significant in New England 18.2 Steve Griffies
(0.3(ds) 0.4(wfs)
0.3(ajb) 0.4(smf)
1/21 9.8 another Alberta Clipper plunged far more south than usual, and 28.0 Leo Donner
(9.7(wfs) 9.5(ajb) a well-forecast band of heavy snow developed, mainly along
10.6(ds) 9.2(smf) the I-95 corridor. largest NJ amount was 15.8″ (Manalapan). A
sharp snow gradient existed to the north:(eg, S Weymouth, MA
17.0″; BOS 4.2)
1/25 2.0 still another clipper (north of NJ) produced snow, mainly in NJ 30.0 Tamara Krasting
(2.8(wfs) 2.1(ds) and the Poconos
1.4(ajb) 1.8(smf))
1/29 0.7 a storm off the SE coast produced a “deformation zone” 30.7 Michael Erb
(0.7(ds) 0.7(ajb) which resulted in heavy snow in SE NJ and lighter amounts
0.6(smf) 0.9(wfs)) in the GFDL area. (Pomona NJ got 7.3″, former observer
Bob Tuleya got ~10″ in Portsmouth VA)
2/3 7.7 shortly after the Super Bowl ended in mild conditions a cold 38.4 Carol Broccoli
(7.7(ds) 8.0(wfs) front passed the area. A wave along the front developed
7.7(ajb) 6.8(rgg)) passing near Norfolk, VA and producing wet heavy snow
(~1.2″ liquid) maximum snow was 10.1″ on Staten Island
with many 9 inch amounts in NJ, NY and PA
2/5 0.4 a storm moving up the Ohio valley, with a secondary low 38.8 Rong Zhang
(0.3(smf) 0.8(ajb) off the NJ coast produced some sleet in the area before
changing to a destructive ice storm. snow accumulated to
2″-6″ in NYC and up to 12″ further north.
2/9 2.0 a wave along a cold front produced snow, mainly in NJ 40.8 Rohit Motiani
(2.6(ds) 2.0(wfs) and PA (up to 3.2″)
1.9(ajb) 2.0(rgg)
1.6(smf))
2/13-14 11.2 (9.1+2.1) a gulf coast storm redeveloped off the SE coast and further 52.0 Isaac Held
(10.9(9.4+1.5)ds developed off the NJ coast. This produced heavy snow in
11.2(8.4+2.8)rgg AM of 2/13, then rain in the afternoon and evening, The
10.6(8.9+1.7)ajb redevelopment produced a second period of snow in the AM
11.6(9.7+1.9)wfs of 2/14. Maximunm regional snow totals: 20.0 Birdsboro PA;
11.5(9.0+2.5)smf 19.2 Highland Lakes NJ; 20.5 Harriman NY;up to 26″ in the
Poconos
2/18 1.3 a clipper redeveloping off the NJ coast produced modest 53.3 Mary Burnham
(1.2(wfs) 1.6(rgg) snow in NJ (up to 3.8″) buit heavy amounts in SE MA
0.8(ds) 1.6(smf)) (up to 15″ in lower Cape Cod)
2/19 2.3(GFDL) a warm front produced a short period of heavy snow. 55.6 Tom Knutson
further development again produced heavy snow in New
England(up to 12″)
2/26 0.8(GFDL) a cold front produced snow showers. maximum was 2″ in places 56.4 Tom Knutson
3/3 0.4(GFDL) a greatly overforecasted snow event produced little snow in central 56.8 Tom Knutson
NJ but 6″-8″ in the Atlantic City area.
3/17 0.2(GFDL) a storm system to our south produced little snow in central NJ 57.0 Tom Knutson
but larger amounts just south, including ~10″ near Cape May
and 4.5″ in Philly.
3/25 0.3 a storm off the atlantic coast developed into the strongest of the 57.3 Tom Knutson
(0.1(smf) 0.1(ds) season but largely bypassed central NJ. the Cape May region
0.2(wfs) 1.2(rgg) received ~7″” (and around 24″ for March) while Nantucket had
T(ajb)) 9.5″ and wind to 80 mph (Cape Breton had gusts to 115 mph!)
4/16 0.3 a (mostly) rain event ended as sleet and snow 57.6 Tom Knutson
(0.3)wfs) 0.8(rgg)
T(ds) T(ajb))