UN RESUME DES PRINCIPALES TEMPETES DE NEIGE DU MOIS DE MARS A NYC DU 01 AU 29
March 1, 1914- Rain in the morning changed to snow around lunchtime and by midnight
13.5" had accumulated (an additional inch fell after midnight on 3/2). It was a very heavy, wet snow with a high water content (2.65") until around 9PM when Arctic air moved in. This was the century's first snowstorm of a foot or more, and the first since February 1899, when 16 inches piled up. This remains the longest period between snowstorms of 12 inches or more.
March 1-2, 2009 -
8.3" of snow fell from a quick-moving storm that began the night of the 1st (when 1.8" fell), making this the largest accumulation of the winter (and the most to fall in three years). 12-15" fell out on
Long Island.
March 3-4, 1960 - A crippling snowstorm that dumped
14.5" of snow moved into the region at daybreak and continued for 24 hours (12.5" fell today). Near blizzard conditions were experienced as winds gusted between 30 and 35 mph. This was the second snowstorm of one foot or more this winter - a first (and it would happen again the following winter). Earlier in the winter 13.7" of snow fell on Dec. 21-22.
March 5, 1981 - A heavy, wet snowfall of
8.6" was the biggest snow of the winter and a record amount for the date. It also has the distinction of being the second largest accumulation in the month of March in the 1970-2015 period.
March 5, 2015 - Rain that fell overnight rain changed to snow at daybreak and fell steadily for the rest of the day, accumulating
7.5" by 6PM. This became the second biggest snowfall of the winter, passing the 4.8" snowfall of March 1. In just the first five days of the month this became the snowiest March since 1967 as 14.1" fell from three storm systems. Today's snowstorm brought the season's total snowfall to 42.5", the
eighth time
in the past thirteen winters to have more than 40 inches (average is 26 inches). Temperatures fell during the storm, from mid-30s to upper teens by the time the last snowflake fell.
March 5-6, 2001 - Call this the storm that couldn't. The City was put on high alert after 15-24" of snow was predicted during the weekend. City schools and some businesses were closed on Monday and we waited, but it was in vain as the storm never lived up to its billing. The storm strengthened later and further north than predicted.
New York received 3.5" as a consolation prize. However,
Long Island received significant accumulations.
March 6-7, 1923 - Snow began falling around 10AM and continued light and steady for the next 24 hours, accumulating
7.3" (along with a mix with sleet and freezing rain after 4PM). This was the
tenth snowfall of three inches or more this winter. Besides the snow/ice, winds gusted to 30-35 mph, and temperatures were very cold on the 6th, with a high/low of only 25/19.
March 8, 1941 - A fierce winter storm that began late last night brought heavy snow, sleet and high winds during the morning. By 11AM
18.1" of snow had fallen (15.7" of it fell today); the precipitation then changed to light drizzle in the afternoon (the day's high was 33°). At the time this tied with a snowstorm in January 1935 as
New York's second biggest snowfall (it's now ranked tenth).
March 8-9, 1984 - Snow moved in the night of the 8th and by daybreak
6.9" had accumulated (5.1" of it on the 9th), making this the biggest snow of the winter. It was a powdery snow with just 0.38" of water content.
March 13, 1993 - The great
March Superstorm (also called "Storm of the Century") paralyzed the Eastern third of the nation and dumped
10.6" of snow on
NYC. The heavy snow changed to sleet and rain later in the afternoon, a Saturday, reducing the predicted snow total by about six inches. The sound of the sleet lashing against my windows, propelled by 40-60 mph wind gusts, was deafening. All told, 2.37" of precipitation fell. To read a first-person account of the storm double click
here.
March 14, 2017 - A much-touted blizzard was a bust as snow that began in the wee hours of the morning changed over to sleet, greatly reducing the 12-18" that had been predicted. (This brought to mind the blizzard that
fizzled in late January 2015 and resulted in an apology from the National Weather Service to the mayor because of the advanced closings that took place.) And although there was no blockbuster snowfall today, the
7.6" that fell set a record for the date as did the day's daily precipitation record (1.96" was measured, nearly twice as much as the previous record).
March 16, 2007 - An all-day onslaught of sleet and snow dumped
5.5" of icy precipitation, the biggest snow of the winter. This storm somewhat resembled last month's severe sleet storm on
Valentine's Day, but this one had considerably more snow. The total amount of precipitation was 2.07", a record for the date. This was the last snowfall of the winter, a winter in which just 12.4" fell, which was quite a contrast from the previous four winters, all of which had at least forty inches of snow.
March 18, 1956 - Less than 48 hours after a snowfall of
6.7", an even bigger storm moved in during the afternoon. By the time snow stopped falling 24 hours later
11.6" of new snow was on the ground (3.8" of it fell today). And today's high/low was just 30/21, seventeen degrees below average.
March 19, 1992 - The biggest snowfall of the winter occurred today, a sloppy
6.2". This tripled the winter's relatively snowless snow total to 9.4". Just two degrees separated the day's high and low (33/31).
March 20-21, 2018 - On the first full day of spring snow began falling shortly after daybreak and continued for the rest of the day into the wee hours of 3/21. By midnight
8.2" had accumulated, making this one of
New York's biggest snowstorms after March 15 (an additional 0.2" fell after midnight). This was the fourth nor'easter that brought heavy snow through the region this month, but the first in which the temperature was 32° or colder in the City (throughout the storm temperatures hovered between 31° and 33°). Once again,
Long Island was hammered, with accumulations of 12"-18" common.
March 20-21, 1958 - An intense nor'easter brought winds of 35-45 mph along with heavy, wet snow that began shortly before daybreak and continued thru midday on the 21st. 4.7" fell today and 7.1" the following day. However, today's temperature never got colder than 33°.
Philadelphia also picked up nearly a foot of snow from this storm, which buried parts of eastern and
central Pennsylvania and upstate
New York with 30 to 40 inches of snow.
March 21-22, 1967 - One of
New York's latest snowstorms dumped
9.8" thru mid-afternoon on the 22nd (0.8" of it fell late last night). The day's high of 32° was 20 degrees below average. This storm came three days after a morning low of 8°, the latest date on record for a reading in the single digits. Additionally, in the past 45 days (since Feb. 6) 41.0" of snow fell, with snow reported on twelve of the days (including 12.5" on Feb. 7).
March 22, 1998 - It appeared this winter was going to have the
least snow on record, as just 0.5" had been measured. Then a surprise
five-inch snowfall occurred overnight and the winter of 1997-98 ended up as the second least snowy (behind 1972/73, which had only 2.8"). It would fall to third place four years later when the winter of 2001-02 had just 3.5".
March 29, 1970 - Today was Easter Sunday, and rain that began before sunrise (when temperatures were in the low 40s) changed to sleet and snow after 10AM. When the precipitation ended late in the afternoon,
four inches had piled up. This was a record amount for Easter and the only snow that fell this month. (At the time I was a kid living in
Pittsburgh, which also had four inches of snow, but it arrived shortly before sunrise. Although we headed out for Easter Mass we turned around and came home because road conditions were so bad.)
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