NE Snow Surplus & Snow Drought, Redux

As an update to last week's blog entry about who's getting lucky (or unlucky) with the snow in the Northeast U.S. With the disclaimer that this may not be meteorologically or statistically sound, I have estimated the daily snowfall for February by simply dividing the monthly average by 28 to get one day's worth. With last weekend's storm added in, the stats look like this:

What's changed? Not much except the ridiculously snowy locations such as Baltimore (and Washington D.C.) & Philly have gotten even snowier. New York had a snowy December, so even though they've only had 3 inches since then (and a agonizing defeat last weekend where Philly got another two feet), they are still near normal. Boston's doing good and Pittsburgh is almost twice their normal (though they got off to a slow start).

Still hurting (if you like snow) are interior New York and northeastern Pennsylvania, including Williamsport, Albany, and the surrounding area. Also Detroit, which will have that trend reversed mid-week by a severe Nor'easter according to our forecast; NYC will be boosted to above-normal, along with Williamsport.

Albany? Sorry guys. Looks like you'll have to wait for the next one, and its a pity because your last above-normal season was 2004-2005, though 2007-2008 was near normal.

(DOT = LOCATION; ZEROES=BAD DATA)