Cold pattern has delivered snow to many eastern U.S. cities this season

Several sustained bursts of cold air over the past few months have provided plenty of opportunities for snowfall east of the Rockies.

A quick glance at the seasonal snowfall analysis above shows healthy snowfall totals for much of the contiguous United States so far this season. 

We’re just coming off a spell of three weekends in a row hosting major winter weather events.

This is the second year in a row they’ve recorded measurable snow in Florida–a rare feat when it happens once let alone twice. A few spots west of Tallahassee saw as much as an inch of snow on Sunday, Jan. 18. 

A generational winter storm swept from Texas to Maine the following weekend, dropping significant amounts of snow and ice across an unusually large swath of the country. Boston wound up with 18.7″ of snow in their largest storm in about four years.

This past weekend, another generational winter storm blanketed North Carolina with up to a foot-and-a-half of snowfall. Snowfall ground travel to a halt across communities still trying to get back to normal after the copious amount of sleet that fell the previous weekend.

All told, we’re a few paces ahead of average in many cities across the east. Folks from St. Louis to Buffalo are running ahead of average through this point in the year.

The surplus may not last too much longer. February is traditionally the snowiest month of the year for much of the East Coast as nor’easters spring to life and clobber the region in heavy snows.

Current trends indicate that our below-seasonal temperatures may flip around heading into the second half of the month, which might put a damper on wintry precipitation potential through the climatological peak of the snowy season.

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