| 2026-03-23 | 7:15 AM | 1.38 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 39° Overnight low: 39° Yesterday afternoon it warmed up into the high 50°s, but I forgot to measure the exact temperature. Evening & overnight rain, heavy a few times. Basement sump pump is on. |
| 2026-03-22 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 41° Min/max: 40/52° Almost missed the fine layer of drizzle in the bottom of the gauge; tilted to one side, it accumulated to a single drop. Nothing else in the yard appears wet. Grass is beginning to green up. Still only Snowdrops and early Crocuses in bloom. |
| 2026-03-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.22 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 45° Min/max: 44/60° Mostly light rain yesterday evening & overnight, with a brief period of heavy rain arround 10pm. Thick fog in the middle of the night, but it's cleared by OBS. M-T-D for March so far is 4.02" of much needed rain. |
| 2026-03-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Hazy sun, 29° with frost. Min/max: 29/42° Birds are going through the suet in the suet feeder at light-speed. An American Robin regularly seen in the yard now, kicking through the leaves in the wild garden. |
| 2026-03-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 29° Overnight low: 28° Radar shows snow over us now, but nothing is reaching the ground. |
| 2026-03-18 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | T | NA | | Sunny, 21° Min/max: 20/58° Surprised to see a dusting of snow on all elevated and grassy surfaces at OBS. SWE of gauge contents = five drops. Half of pond is frozen again. |
| 2026-03-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.86 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly sunny, breezy, 29° Min/max: 29/70° Gauge was frozen to the post. There was a layer of ice on top of the liquid precip. In last night's wind a medium sized limb fell against the kitchen, thankfully, mostly landing on the steps and iron railings & broke into smaller pieces. Getting out the door was a challange for me and for our confused dog. |
| 2026-03-16 | 6:30 AM | 0.31 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Misting, 47° and calm. Min/max: 40/42° Temps rose overnight. Reporting earlier than normal OBS; wouldn't have realized it was misting if not for seeing it in the beam of the flashlight. |
| 2026-03-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly cloudy, 32° Min/max: 32/47° Brutal wind yesterday; another wind sock blown out of the tree. Planting pots tossed all over the yard. |
| 2026-03-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | | Sunny, breezy, 34° with frost. Min/max: 29/41° Increasing bird song. |
| 2026-03-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.14 | T | NA | T | NA | | Sunny, 26° Min/max: 26/61° A 'sugar dusting' of snow on everything this morning; the gauge contents were a frozen disk at OBS. Yesterday was a mostly rain event, with several periods when the rain was mixed with sleet. By afternoon snow was mixing in, before ending as all snow at night. Quite an impressive swing in temperatures: 49° between the day before yesterday's high and this morning's low! |
| 2026-03-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.90 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Raining, windy, 44° Min/max:44/75° Temps dropped 3° in the short time it took to walk out to read the gauge at OBS. A few drops fell at 3:30pm, but the very dark clouds and rain passed to our north. Rain began here at 7:30pm; several distant booms of thunder at 9:05pm. |
| 2026-03-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly cloudy, 50° Min/max: 49/74° First of the early species crocuses in bloom along with the Snowdrops. Our neighbor's honey bees found them immeditately. The corner pile of snow where the town had plowed it is still 2' high; it will be a while until I can repair the fence. |
| 2026-03-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, 38° Min/max: 38/65° All natural snow is now gone; piles still standing where snow had been plowed or shoveled. Spectacular early Spring day yesterday. Saw neighbors I haven't seen all winter! Red-winged blackbirds, too. |
| 2026-03-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Sunny, 35° Min/max: 35/60° A dramatic melt-off yesterday! Only small patches of natural snow remain on three sides of the house; just the north side still has 1"-2." Large piles remain where the snow had been shoveled or plowed. Pond now completly unfrozen. Snowdrop tops appearing around the pond. |
| 2026-03-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 2.0 | NA | | Overcast with fog, 49° Min/max: 49/52° Temps kept rising in the evening into the overnight. Finally, there are a few patches of open ground in the SW facing part of the yard. Still approx 66% snowcovered with depths from 1" to 4" --much more in piles where it had been shoveled/plowed. Basement sump pump is on. This has been the best possible melt-off of all of the snow: slow & steady so it sinks into the ground instead of running off. Hope this is a good omen for the coming growing season! |
| 2026-03-07 | 7:30 AM | 0.03 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 4.0 | NA | | Overcast and foggy, 35° Min/max: 34/39° Still 100% snowpack; still taking several samples to report the average depth. Snowpack ranges from 3" to 6" in representative areas. |
| 2026-03-06 | 7:30 AM | 1.13 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 5.0 | NA | | Overcast & fog, 35° Min/max: 34/41° All precip is from rain. Extremely persistent snowpack at 100% coverage. Not surprising, I guess, since we've had snow on the ground almost every day since 12/14/25. Now the snow has a very heavy, wet consistency that the metal ruler just glides through. It doesn't support our dog's weight anymore. Grateful for the slow, steady melt off. |
| 2026-03-05 | 7:30 AM | 0.09 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 6.0 | NA | | Raining with fog on the ridgeline, 36° Min/max: 36/46° More widening of paths; more garden edging rocks becoming visible; the pond is now half open water. Still 100% coverage of snowpack. |
| 2026-03-04 | 7:30 AM | 0.31 | T | NA | 7.0 | NA | | Cloudy, 36° Min/max: 34/34° Gauge was all liquid at OBS, but the snowboard and all other surfaces are a glaze of frozen slush. Yesterday we had the proverbial "wintery mix." Started as snow and then shifted between freezing rain, sleet, graupel, and snow. At one point around noon the snowflakes were as large as quarters. Untreated surfaces were very icy. |
| 2026-03-03 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 7.8 | 1.84 | | Overcast, 28° Min/max: 21/32° Even though the temps didn't get out of the 20°s for almost all of the day, there was still a little reduction in the snowpack with our strengthening March sun. Now the tops of a few of the rocks bordering the front garden can been seen. [Added after reading this morning's MOD and seeing Madison's report and noticed the first flakes of snow beginnong to fall at 8:28am. Chopped through one of the few, flat, representative areas in our yard to take a core. Difficult because of all of the layers of ice in between the 7.8" snowpack, for a SWE of 1.84" @ 28° Note: this location drains into the Wallkill River system, not the Pequonnock and Passaic river systems.] |
| 2026-03-02 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | 7.0 | NA | | Cloudy, 17° Min/max: 17/40° Snow ended within an hour of yesterday's OBS. New dusting was gone by noon. Still 100% snowpack; still using Yak-Trax and a ski pole to get to the gauge each morning. Found the windsock that had blown off so many times that I didn't even bother to put it back up. What a windy winter! |
| 2026-03-01 | 7:30 AM | T | T | NA | 8.0 | NA | | Snowing, 31° Min/max: 31/51° Snow is covering all untreated surfaces. Still 100% snowpack. During yesterday's late winter pruning I was surprised that walking across the side yard which had not been walked on since the snow began weeks ago, that it almost supported my weight. It had started out as very light snow. Total precip for February was 1.75" with most of it being snow. |
| 2026-02-28 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 9.0 | NA | | Hazy sun, 24° with heavy frost on the gauge. Min/max: 24/45° The perfect ending to all of the standing snow is underway: a slow, steady, continual daily melting. Still 100% snowpack, but the tops of the rocks surrounding the pond are now visible in one corner. Paths widening. |
| 2026-02-27 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 10.5 | NA | | Hazy sun, 19° with frost. Min/max: 19/43° Several times yesterday it looked like it might snow, but did not observe any here. Snowpack is 100% and very crusty now. It takes more pressure to push the metal ruler all the way through. Still using a ski pole to get to the gauge as any melt from the above freezing temps the day before refreezes as an ice glaze on the compacted snow. As of this morning's OBS almost 5" of the original snowpack is gone. Slowly but surely.... |
| 2026-02-26 | 7:30 AM | T | T | NA | 12.0 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 31° Min/max: 31/42° Snow stopped yesterday immediately after OBS. Nothing in the gauge this morning. Snowpack 100% with reported 12.0" the average of three samples. There was some compression in it yesterday; and paths got a little wider. It has two distinct ice layers in it. Used the side of the metal ruler to 'shave' as much of the ice as possible off the snowboard for the next round. |
| 2026-02-25 | 7:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.4 | 0.03 | 14.0 | NA | | Lightly snowing, 25° Min/max: 12/30° There is still an ice-layer on the snowboard from two storms ago. Both snow and ice are very persistent this winter. My 10 year garden journal notes that we've had Snowdrops in bloom in the pond garden this time in prior years. This year you can't even see the pond or the gardens around it -just drifts of snow. |
| 2026-02-24 | 7:30 AM | 0.05 | 1.0 | 0.04 | 15.0 | NA | | Partly cloudy, 19° Min/max: 18/33° In 17+ years of winter reporting, I don't think there's ever been a more challenging snowstorm to report accurately. The extremely "holey" snowpack before even the first flake fell + the texture of the snow itself + the winds, made the depth vary wildly. Yesterday at OBS the conditions were so bad I didn't take several samples and report the average, as I usually do. So I'm revising yesterday's Snowpack Depth up from 12.0" to 14.0" after taking five samples this morning. The total SWE of the three day storm = 0.88" & snow total = 9.7". The SWE is likely the more accurate measurement.
And we got off easy compared to eastern NJ and south NJ! |
| 2026-02-23 | 7:30 AM | 0.80 | 8.5 | NA | 14.0 | NA | | Snowing, 26° Min/max: 26/35° After OBS yesterday the light snow changed over to a mix before changing back to snow in the afternoon. Remained light snow until evening. At 11pm swapped out the gauges, as the snow was creeping up the side of the tube toward the top. SWE from last night's melting that was 0.49" This morning's OBS SWE = 0.31" for a total of 0.80" New snowfall = 8.5" Thankfully, throughout the storm there has been very little wind; and the power held. |
| 2026-02-22 | 7:30 AM | 0.03 | 0.2 | 0.02 | 5.5 | NA | | Snowing, 34° Min/max: 32/42° Snow began between 5:30 - 7:00am. Snow on E-NE facing trunks of trees. 100% snowpack before today's new snow was getting very hard to find a "clean" place to measure that wasn't tracked up with our boot prints, our dogs, or other animals; but 5.5" is an average of several spots. A lot more on its way it seems. Hope the power holds! |
| 2026-02-21 | 7:30 AM | 0.29 | T | NA | 6.0 | NA | | Cloudy, 34° Min/max: 33/37° Light rain yesterday changed over at some point overnight to add a fresh wintry mix layer on top of the existing snowpack, The Neverending Story of this winter. |
| 2026-02-20 | 7:30 AM | 0.21 | 0.2 | NA | 6.0 | NA | | Wintery mix, mostly sleet, 33° Min/max:33/40° Snowfall measurement is of slush; tube contents were slush, too. School has two hour delayed opening. |
| 2026-02-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.22 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 7.0 | NA | | Overcast, 33° with some fog. Min/max: 33/42° Yesterday's rain compressed the snowpack dramatically. The 100% snowcover ranged from 5" - 9" and I reported the average of five samples. |
| 2026-02-18 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 9.5 | NA | | Fog and light drizzle, 35° Min/max: 30/46° Three drops in the gauge this morning. Two mornings in a row temps were above freezing at OBS. Snowpack 100% but ever so slowly compressing. Saw neighbors out walking yesterday that I haven't seen all winter! |
| 2026-02-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 9.5 | NA | | Foggy, 33° Min/max: 32/40° Fog on the mountain and birdsong in the air -signs of spring despite all of the snow still on the ground. Still 100% snowpack, but shoveled paths are widening. Getting the core for the SWE yesterday messed up the flat, representative area that I've been measuring snowpack on. (2.14" of SWE) Finding a new location is difficult, avoiding drifted areas, areas where the snow had been shoveled ON to, dog tracks, and fox tracks, so I'll be sending average depths in from today on. |
| 2026-02-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.07 | 1.0 | 0.07 | 11.5 | 2.14 | | Overcast, 29° Min/max: 28/41° All snow here at elevation 1,061' - 1" on top of 100% snowpack. [Edited at 2pm: At 9:15am I managed to get a core sample; the spot had 11.0" of snowpack which melted down to 2.14" of liquid. Thankfully, it is melting slowing in place, but I doubt if it will make a dent in our part of NJ's severe drought.] |
| 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.] |