Meteorological Winter Wrap-up Let’s wrap up the meteorological winter stats. All of us in the 9 News Now Weather Center predicted a milder than average winter with less than average snowfall. In my mind, unfortunately we were all right. I would much rather have been wrong but with a strong La Nina winter the odds were stacked against us having a cold and/or snowy winter. We made into the seventies in January and February. December’s average high was over one and one half degrees above average with January over four degrees milder than average and February coming in over three degrees above average. We were only below freezing at night (National) thirty one days. On average the temperature dips below freezing seventy one times during meteorological winter. We had three wimpy snowfalls. Our first snow was on December fifth when 2.6” inches fell officially at National. Two to four inches fell in our suburbs. We had another 1.3” snowfall in January on the seventeenth. This time four to seven inches fell in our northern and western suburbs. Our last snow measured 1” with the bull's eye of two to three inches in our southern and eastern suburbs. New York City recorded no snowfall in the month of January for the first time in seventy five years.


December: Average Observed High: 47.6 (+1.6)
Average High: 47.0
Precip: 3.26” Avg. Precip: 3.05”
Snowfall: 2.6” Avg. Snowfall: 3.1”

January: Average Observed High: 47.5
Average High: 43.0
Precip: 1.37” Avg. Precip: 3.21”
Snowfall: 1.3” Avg. Snowfall: 6.2”

February: Average Observed High: 49.4
Average High: 46.0
Precip: 4.19” Avg. Precip: 2.63”
Snowfall: 1” Avg. Snowfall: 6.3”

Total Snowfall: 4.9” Average Snowfall Dec – Feb: 15.6”
Total Days w/ Lows less than 32 degrees: 31 days Avg. (Dec – Feb) 71 days  ¶ 11:53 AM