9/12/2023 0 Comments Snow totals nj 2010![]() The average March temperature across NJ was 42.1°. This quelled concerns that an early blooming season might arise, one that could result in damaged vegetation had an early bloom been followed by an unseasonable cold spell. While March temperatures came in above normal, they were not nearly as anomalously mild as those seen in January and February. The northern division averaged 57.8° (-2.1°, 50th coolest), the southern division 60.3° (-1.9°, 50th coolest), and the coastal division 59.6° (-1.4°, 63rd coolest). The average low temperature of 46.9° was 3.3° below normal, ranking 26th coolest. The average high temperature of 71.7° was 0.6° below normal, ranking 60th warmest and 68th coolest. This is the third smallest temperature difference on record between these two months. Following the third mildest April on record, May was only 4.0° milder than the previous month. It was the coolest month compared to normal since January 2022. This ranked as the 52nd coolest May since 1895. The statewide average temperature of 59.3° was 1.9° below the 1991–2020 normal. Otherwise, May temperatures were cooler than normal, and rainfall sparse. Such was the case during the middle two weeks of May and at month’s end, with smoke from wildfires in western Canada frequently passing well overhead, followed by smoke from fires in Nova Scotia and a few in NJ. Conversely, the snowpack was much above average in Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Utah.When the headline for this monthly report alludes to hazy May skies that were frequently overhead, you know it was a quiet period weather-wise across the Garden State. ![]() Some individual SNOTEL stations in the northern Rockies had early April snow water equivalent in the driest fifth percentile of the historical record (95 percent of the years for this date were wetter). The pattern was evident in the high-elevation station ( SNOTEL) network, especially in maps of the end-of-March snowpack and snow water content. Mountain snowpack in the Pacific Northwest was less than 25 percent of normal in several locations. During the 2009–2010 Cold Season, the West generally experienced much–below average snowpacks. The annual snowpack typically reaches its maximum values at the end of March. The total annual water budget for agriculture and human use in the mountainous West is based upon the amount of snow melt that will occur in spring and is proportional to the amount of snow on the ground. Winter and spring mountain snowpack provide a crucial water source across much of the western United States. The low spring snow cover extent was driven by anomalously warm conditions over the regions which had experienced the heavy snow during the December–February period. As the season transitioned into spring, conditions were almost the complete opposite of the winter, with low snow cover extents reported across the United States during April (8 th smallest) and May (10 th smallest). More information on the 2009–2010 winter can be found in the 2009–2010 Cold Season Special Report. ![]() had snow on the ground, including Florida and Hawaii. A far–reaching storm the second week of February brought snow to the Deep South, and every state in the U.S. January was 6 th largest and February 3 rd largest. Persistent cold and snow across much of the country during January and February was associated with those months ranking in their top ten largest snow cover extents for the U.S. This was partially due to snow falling across the Southern Plains, Gulf Coast, and the Southeast - regions which do not typically receive much December snowfall. According to 44 years of satellite data analyzed by the NOAA supported, Rutgers Global Snow Lab, a new monthly snow cover extent record was set during December 2009. Long–standing monthly and seasonal snowfall records were shattered and record cold temperatures were set over the eastern two-thirds of the nation. Much of the United States experienced a record breaking 2009–2010 winter.
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