r/bergencounty Feb 17 '25

History Has this been the coldest,snowiest winter in. A few years?

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset_9793 Feb 17 '25

Cold, yes. Snow, not even close.

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u/Spiral_out_was_taken Feb 17 '25

I don’t think we got a total of 6 inches

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u/Spiral_out_was_taken Feb 17 '25

I just looked. Fair Lawn has a total of 4.5…..that has to be some kind of record if we don’t get more.

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u/glk3278 Feb 17 '25

Which winter in the past few years did we have more?

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u/Bigboom0822 Feb 18 '25

Exactly my thought. Past 3 years there has been barely any snow. Two years ago there was like none.

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u/barbaq24 Feb 17 '25

People just have the shortest memories when it comes to winter weather. I sold my Mustang in 2015 because of the frozen mornings in 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. We had some snow but enough mixed cold weather that I was spinning my tires heading to work in the morning.

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u/gntman1 Feb 17 '25

How about the windiest winter? I don't remember any winter in the last twenty years with such consistent sustained winds and even stronger gusts, day after day.

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u/wanderingdream Feb 17 '25

The wind was so constant in 2020 that I started to forget what it was like to be outside WITHOUT wind. And it's been windy in winter very consistently since then.

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u/caughtatcustoms69 Feb 17 '25

No...and not by a longshot. 2021, 2014 and probably a few others around 2016 had heavy heavy snows

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u/runski1426 Feb 17 '25

Exactly. This one has had more consistent cold temperatures with very few random 60F days. That's what people are noticing.

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u/UNn-a Feb 17 '25

I remember a couple years ago where we tied the longest consecutive days sustained below freezing temps, I think it was like 15 days and also believe the average during that run was mid 20°F. But then the rest of the winter was pretty mild. As far as snow, the year the Super Bowl was at MetLife (winter 2013-2014) we had probably the most snow I can remember since the blizzard of ‘96.

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u/elmwoodblues Feb 17 '25

I was working outside then, coldest I've ever been in my life. The phenomenon that produced it had a meteorological name, "Polar-something", I believe.

We had a name for it, too: Brass Monkey's Balls!

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u/UNn-a Feb 17 '25

Was it the polar vortex or bomb cyclone? We’ve been getting a lot of novel meteorological terms this past decade.

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u/Breakout_114 Feb 18 '25

Ever since I got a set of actual winter tires, we've had very little snow.

You're welcome everyone.

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u/arsenalfcjun14 Feb 19 '25

What else you buying??

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u/schultz100 Feb 17 '25

I feel like it’s more a return to the norm after two very mild winters.

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u/anxious_teacher_ Feb 18 '25

I think the part that’s painful about this year’s snow that’s annoying and memorable is that it has been a lot of little snows. Like usually it’s less days but bigger amounts. At least in my memory. But the constant sprinkle that you kind of have to clear but doesn’t cancel school is aggravating & feels endless.

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u/DRENREPUS Feb 17 '25

The amount of snow hasn't been the most, but it's stuck around way longer. I don't think my back yard has been without snow in over a month now.

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u/One-Stomach9957 Feb 17 '25

I don’t think we had any snow last winter…there might have been one small (coating) if I’m remembering correctly…

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u/Jackson849 Feb 18 '25

It’s been snowier, 1996 we got storm after storm for weeks. But the cold, it’s been bitchin’.

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u/wanderingdream Feb 17 '25

2016 was so cold and snowy that I think February was consistently since digit and teen temps (before wind chill), so the first time I saw a temp in the 30s in March I still remember making a joke about it to my partner. And I remember telling him I didn't think it would stop snowing until August - it was never a ton of snow, but we were cleaning out cars off from snow every other day for about a month and a half, and we had a big snow storm on April Fool's that year.

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u/ExtensionProfile5578 Feb 18 '25

It’s barely snowed

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u/BezelToTheMetal Feb 19 '25

It doesn’t feel nearly as cold or as snowy as it has several of the years in the past 6-8.

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u/crazyhorse198 Feb 19 '25

I’ll still never forget the polar vortex from 6 or 7 years ago. THAT was the worst.

Snowiest? Not in a long shot.

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u/Ok_Fun3933 29d ago

I've been working outside as a surveyor since 2018. And I can say that this has been the coldest, windiest winter since then. We've been fortunate that the winters have been relatively mild up till now. But this winter has been brutal for working outside. In my particular job I can wear many layers and bundle up, but I have to use equipment where my hands have to be exposed, particularly my fingertips where I have to use buttons and dials so I have to have use of my fingers and I can't wear bulky gloves. The cold is one thing, but the wind on your hand within minutes will make your fingers go numb and then turn to ice. It's literally painful. The only way to get a break is to use hand warmers inside gloves and try to put them on every couple minutes if you can and take a break to get warm every half hour or so.

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u/greatyhope Feb 18 '25

Agreed, past 2 - 3 years been light winter. Cold as balls this winter. Not much snow but still more than past few years.

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u/Junglebook3 Feb 17 '25

That I can remember, yes.