| 2026-02-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 10.8 | NA | | Hazy sun, 22° Min/max: 21/44° Frost on the gauge. Participating in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count this morning saw another flock of American Robins and what for us is a rare bird: a Red Breasted Nuthatch. Yesterday was the first day above 40°s in what seems like forever; neighbors were outside again! |
| 2026-02-14 | 7:30 AM | T | T | NA | 11.0 | NA | | Cloudy, 27° with a band of pink sky all along the eastern horizon. Min/max: 22/36° A few snowflakes banked up against the bottom of the tube at OBS. Did not even amount to a full drop after melting. I can't believe how long the 100% snowcover is holding. Still at 11.0" |
| 2026-02-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 11.0 | NA | | Sunny, 16° Min/max: 16/33° 100% snowpack is back to hard after softening a bit the previous two days. |
| 2026-02-12 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 11.5 | NA | | Cloudy, 26° Min/max: 26/36° Persistent snow pack, although shoveled paths and boot prints in the snow are widening slightly. Enormous slabs of snow/ice were sliding off the roof yesterday. Two brief periods of snow flurries (10am & 3pm) left no accumulation and nothing in the gauge this morning. |
| 2026-02-11 | 7:30 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | 11.5 | NA | | Overcast, 29° Overnight low of 27° Got just over freezing yesterday. At OBS an ice glaze covers everything; not sure when it fell, or if it was a wintery mix. Several times yesterday radar showed snow over us when there was none. The gauge this morning was a mix of ice and liquid. Should have worn Yak-Trax and put a set on my dog --she slipped out and fell sideways on the icey path. |
| 2026-02-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 11.5 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 20° Min/max: 17/38° Looked twice at the thermometer: 20° first thing in the morning! Another flock of American Robins came throught this morning, but all of the holly berries have been eaten. A few pecked around in the snow under the holly for any berries on the ground. A lot of winter still to go... |
| 2026-02-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 12.0 | NA | | Sunny, 5° Min/max: 4/14° After Saturday's 4+ hour power outage, several neighbors are dealing with frozen water pipes. Snowpack is continuing to hold 100% at 12.0" |
| 2026-02-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 12.0 | NA | | Sunny, -2° with light breezes. Lost my Min/max temp records yesterday in a 4 hr & 20 min power outage. It was 1* with blasting winds & a tree fell across the lake entrance road, causing loss of power to 300+ families. Rough stuff. Thank goodness for our woodstove. |
| 2026-02-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.7 | NA | 12.0 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, windy, 10° Min/max: 10/32° Very difficult snowfall to measure. Wind has blown new snow all around; part of the snowboard is blown clean. Strong gusts create brief white-out conditions. Measured snow at OBS from the hood of the car that is parked next to shrubs to protect it from a lot of the NW wind. Snow melt from the gauge (banked 2/3 way up the inside of the tube) is the only certain measurement this morning. |
| 2026-02-06 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 12.5 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 10* Min/max: 9/32° Remarkably persistent snowpack given we've had four days in a row where temps got up to, or almost to, 32° It's holding at 12.5" An enormous flock of American Robins decended on our 25' holly right after OBS. 2nd morning in a row. There are so many darting in and out of the holly, I can't even count them. What a sight in February! |
| 2026-02-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 12.5 | NA | | Sunny, 13° Min/max: 12/31° Snowpack is holding steady at 12.5" despite three days in a row where the high temperature made it up to the freezing point. A water main break under the main road last night. The ongoing cold is wearing down man and machine! |
| 2026-02-04 | 8:00 AM | T | T | T | 12.5 | NA | | Cloudy, 24° Min/max: 23/32° Several times yesterday snow flurries produced brief periods of large, falling flakes lazily spiraling down. This morning at OBS when the outer gauge was tapped on its side, it only amounted to a pea-sized pile of very flakey snow in one corner. Too little to measure. |
| 2026-02-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 13.0 | NA | | Mostly sunny, 10° Min/max: 10/32° Snowpack holding at 13.0" |
| 2026-02-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 13.0 | NA | | Sunny, 12° Min/max: 9/20° Woo, wooo: A morning OBS in double digit temps! 100% snowpack of 13.0" Our 54lb dog still won't walk out past the shoveled paths. A lot of rabbit tracks on top of the snow, and what looks like fox tracks running around the pond. |
| 2026-02-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 13.5 | NA | | Cloudy, 3° Min/max: 3/26° Even with these sustained below freezing temperatures, we are still loosing a half an inch a day in snowpack. Birdfeeders are very active; yesterday saw an unusual bird here: a Yellow Belly Sapsucker. In two weeks: The Great Backyard Bird Count. |
| 2026-01-31 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 14.0 | NA | | Overcast, 9° Min/max: 6/16" Was surprised to see a new dusting of snow; hadn't even brought my other tube out for OBS this morning. At first wasn't sure if it was frost or snow, it was so fine-grained and covered the bottom of the outer gauge as individual specks. But it poured out when I tapped it. Don't know what time it fell. 100% Snowpack @ 14.0" January totals: SWE of 2.75", and snowfall of 22.9" Perception of this being an unusually snowy winter isn't true (yet). Total snowfall this Winter so far is 36.6" and last winter was 26.0" So more. But not astronomically more. |
| 2026-01-30 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 14.5 | NA | | Sunny, 3° Min/max: 3/22° Our snowpack (now 14.5") never had the ice layer that other parts of NJ experienced with the last storm; the only animals that can walk on top of the snow are rabbits. Man, do we have a lot of rabbits! Going to be an interesting gardening season ahead. |
| 2026-01-29 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 15.0 | NA | | Hazy sun, 3° Min/max: 3/24° Several weather apps are showing below zero numbers now in Stockholm, but we have not been below zero yet this winter. Not that I'm complaining... |
| 2026-01-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | 0.3 | NA | 16.0 | NA | | Sunny, 4° Min/max: 3/18° Moderate snow yesterday afternoon left 0.3" of new snow on top of existing 16" snowpack. SWE - 0.01" This winter seems very cold but I looked back at last winter, and last year's -3° beats this year's single digits. |
| 2026-01-27 | 7:30 AM | T | T | NA | 16.0 | NA | | Sunny, 9° Min/max: 9/25° Took most of yesterday to dig out from the storm. Brief snowflurries on and off leaving a fresh dusting on the snowboard; snow in the gauge melted down to two drops. Our dog doesn't even try and get to the yard; she 'goes' right outside the door where it's shoveled. |
| 2026-01-26 | 7:30 AM | 1.57 | 12.0 | NA | 17.0 | NA | | Overcast, 17° Min/max: 11/17° Challenging reporting day. Snow began yesterday sometime before 5am; at noon the snow was creeping up to the top of the outer tube, so swapped out the tube & measured. At noon we had 5.5" with a SWE of 0.44" Sent in SWR. The snow was fluffy and falling almost straight up & down. It kept snowing and the winds picked up in the afternoon and evening, causing a lot of drifting. During the evening it was mixed with some sleet. Some tiny ice crystals inside the top of the tube, and wow! What a difference in the snowpack this morning! It is heavy and difficult to walk through; going over the tops of my high garden 'wellies.' I can't tell what part of the snowboard is the cleared half from the uncleared half, so I didn't even try to take a core for the 24hr SWE. The SWE gauge total for the 24hrs is 1.57" with a storm total of 1.68" and 24hr snowfall of 12.0" and storm total 14.9" with a lot of compression due to the sleet on top of the snow. I couldn't use my usual metal ruler marked in 1/10" and had to use the metal yardstick. Hope this storm helps our drought. |
| 2026-01-25 | 7:30 AM | 0.11 | 2.9 | 0.11 | 7.0 | NA | | Snowing, 8° Min/max: 8/14° Snowing so heavily it covered the box I carry out my winter snow meaurement supplies just while I was taking a core of the snowboard snow. The OBS the gauge total and the board total were identical. Our dog beat me back to the door again. |
| 2026-01-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 3.8 | 0.64 | | Cloudy, 4° Min/max: 3°/33° [Ed. Added the SWE of the existing snowpack (3.8") at 1pm after melting the core of the snowpack dug out at 9:30am after the temperature rose to 5°] |
| 2026-01-23 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 4.2 | NA | | Mostly clear, 24° Min/max: 24/44° A lot of snowpack melt-off yesterday, but 4.2" remains. |
| 2026-01-22 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 4.9 | NA | | Sunny, 32° with a light breeze. Min/max: 31/29° On and off last evening there were brief, light snow showers; no additional accumulation. After OBS this morning I laid the snowboard on top of the remaining 4.9" snowpack to get ready for the weekend's forecast snow. Will re-spray the brackets on the outer tube with WD-40 again. These three weeks of January seem like we've gotten a lot of snow; its only 7.7" but it's been so cold that the snowpack has been very persistent. |
| 2026-01-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 6.0 | NA | | Sunny, 1° Min/max: 1/20° This morning our dog beat me back to the door; I normally have to wait for her after finishing my OBS measurements. I took only one measurement of the snowpack this morning, not several to get an average depth: 6.0" It stayed in the teens all day yesterday, briefly making it to 20° for a few minutes. Despite the cold, large slabs of snow & icicles slid off the roof yesterday. This morning: a deep freeze. |
| 2026-01-20 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 5.9 | NA | | Sunny, 10° Min/max: 10/29° A lot of snow was blowing out of the trees yesterday leaving a fresh dusting on some shoveled paths and part of the snowboard. I did observe one very brief, light show shower yesterday. Still more snow to fall out of the shrubs. |
| 2026-01-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.29 | 2.7 | 0.30 | 6.8 | NA | | Sunny, 18° Min/max: 17/34° Yesterday including trifecta of winter percipitation: started as sleet, mixing and then changing to snow, with even a brief graupel tosses in as well. I need an extra outer gauge or an extra 1 lb metal coffee can so I can get the core of the snowpack in addition to the core of the snowboard at each OBS. |
| 2026-01-18 | 7:10 AM | 0.34 | 4.0 | 0.37 | 4.5 | NA | | Sleeting, 29° Min/max: 26/33° Yesterday's snow started winding down around 1:30pm, and at 3pm when sun started peeking out, I measured: 4.0" Sent in a SWR. Getting dressed to go out for this morning's OBS I thought it was just overcast, but when I got outside, discovered that it was lightly sleeting; with a dusting of new snow on shoveled paths. Don't know for how long sleet has been falling. At OBS snow measured 4.0" on the snowboard, but three representative samples averaged 4.5" snow on the ground. |
| 2026-01-17 | 7:50 AM | 0.04 | 0.3 | 0.03 | 0.3 | 0.03 | | Overcast, 27° Min/max: 26/29° Overnight snow. By the look of the skies, more snow is on the way. |
| 2026-01-16 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, 17° Min/max: 16/39° Temps dropped quickly from early afternoon highs, through the evening and overnight. Yesterday morning just after OBS @ 7:52am it began snowing. Continued snowing with some very large flakes, for approx. 15 minutes @ 37° Nothing on the ground or in the gauge this morning. Our pond that was half open water yesterday is frozen again. I guess that was our January Thaw. Back to winter... |
| 2026-01-15 | 7:30 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 37° Min/max: 37/46° A few very, very light showers yesterday; each time there wasn't even enough to wet the ground evenly. Zero in the gague this morning. Right after OBS (at 7:52am) it started snowing. Mostly large flakes; the snow will be reported in tomorrow's report. |
| 2026-01-14 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 39° Overnite low of 39° Pink skies along the eastern horizon. "...Red skies in morning, sailors take warning." |
| 2026-01-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Hazy sun, 30° Min/max: 29/37° Drove past two of the Newark reservoirs along Route 23, and the Jersey City reservoir along Route 287, yesterday afternoon and all are low. |
| 2026-01-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | T | NA | T | NA | | Sunny, with a few clouds --mostly in the eastern sky, 28° Min/max: 27/41° Several snow squalls yesterday late in the afternoon. The one at 4:30pm was intense, with extremely heavy snowfall, and strong winds, changing direction throughout the squall. Almost blew over a 7' garden arbor. It was snowglobesque. By dark the ground was covered; but by OBS this morning just a light dusting remains on grassy surfaces only. |
| 2026-01-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.27 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly cloudy, 37° Min/max: 37/46° Rain did not start until afternoon. Continued into the evening with mostly light rain with an occasional short period of heavier rain interspersed. |
| 2026-01-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 34° Min/max: 34/47° Some early morning bird song beginning. |
| 2026-01-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly cloudy, 35° Min/max: 29/45° The last of the natural snow is gone; only some tiny piles where it had been plowed or shoveled remain. |
| 2026-01-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 38° Min/max: 38/42° Yesterday's warmth did in the remaining snowpack, with only a few isolated patches on the northern side of the house. A circle of open water above the bubbler in the pond. |
| 2026-01-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.05 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.5 | NA | | Light fog, 36° Min/max: 34/40° First day to reach 40* in quite a while. Down to 50% snow coverage on south facing lawn, but everywhere else is retaining snow pack, ranging from 0.2" to 0.9" deep. |
| 2026-01-06 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.5 | NA | | Overcast, 32° Min/max: 32/32° Several snow flurries yesterday with one leaving a fresh dusting. Paths through snow getting wider; and one or two patches of bare ground visible in snowpack, but almost everything on the ground is still snow covered. |
| 2026-01-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 1.0 | NA | | Overcast, 21° Min/max: 20/29° One brief shaft of sunlight from the East shining under the bank of thick clouds --striking the top of the mountains on the western side of the lake; and then it's gone and it's back to grey, overcast skies. Like "Firefall" you need to be looking in the right place at the right time for its brief appearance. |
| 2026-01-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | 0.2 | 0.01 | 1.0 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 22° Min/max: 22/26° More light snow overnight. Large snowflakes were visible in the snow on the gauge post top. |
| 2026-01-03 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.8 | NA | | Sunny, 13° Min/max: 12/26° Snow flurries on and off yesterday. Snow in the gauge melted down to a single drop. Large 'ice volcano' on the pond above the bubbler. |
| 2026-01-02 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 1.5 | NA | | Overcast, with a flake or two falling, 18° Min/max:16/30° I don't know when the temps rose to 30°, as it was in the teens at OBS yesterday and never got out of the 20°s all day. A light dusting of snow fell overnight; did not quite make it to the 0.01" line after melting. It was snowing hard enough at 12:41am to turn on the pond camera. Likely lake effect snow. |
| 2026-01-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.5 | 0.04 | 2.0 | NA | | Partly cloudy, windy, 19° Min/max: 19/29° The squall line was moving through at 6am bringing very heavy snow. Yak-Trax and ski pole again for morning OBS. There had been a short "sugar coating" around 2pm that briefly left a dusting, but it was gone quickly. A happy & productive New Year to all! {EDIT: Observer reported 0.40 for new snowfall melted core. This is high and appears to be a decimal typo. Changed SWE report of 0.40 to NA until observer can be contacted. CoCoSTAFF DNT} [Ed. of Ed: Thanks, Mat, for catching my error. It's corrected now.] |