Brrr! February brought record cold, snow to Northeast

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — February 2015 was one for the record books in the Northeast — the coldest month ever for four cities in New York and the snowiest ever for Boston.

The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University says the New York cities of Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton and Ithaca shivered through their coldest months ever.

The average temperature was 10.9 degrees in Buffalo, beating the 1934 record of 11.4. The monthly average was 9.0 in Syracuse, 12.2 in Binghamton and 10.2 in Ithaca.

Boston's 64.8 inches of snow easily beat the city's old record of 41.6 inches.

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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2015 file photo, ice forms along the shore of the Manhattan side of the East River in New York where temperatures in the city were in the single digits. For many cities in the Northeast, it was the coldest February on record, and some places recorded the most days of zero or below temperatures. The Manhattan Bridge is in the background. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)


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[LiberalElite]

1. I know it's March and anything goes in March around here and I'm glad I'm not in Boston BUT

it's snowing again right now (sigh)

[BumRushDaShow]

2. At this point I would take your snow in exchange for the freezing rain

that we are having right now in Philly.

[LiberalElite]

3. Ooooh no! you can't have it!

I'd rather snow than freezing rain! The freezing rain comes up our way later tonight though.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. I planted a bunch of snowdrops and crocuses

and daffodils this past fall and I'll probably never see them until maybe the end of March if that. Usually the snowdrops try to pop up in March if we have a few warm spells, but the ground is so frozen with patches of glacial ice on top (from layers of saturated snow that melted and refroze almost clear), and we have had so few days where temps were over freezing the past 2 months, that nothing is budging.

[LiberalElite]

6. It's the damn ice -

when did that show up, weeks ago? The snow from Jan. is still here. The ice settled in and became like concrete. It occurred to me last week when it snowed, that that new snow "spruced up" the old snow. Sheesh. You reminded me, it's getting to be forsythia season. Someday.

[Pooka Fey]

4. Yikes! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh

Glad I'm no longer living in my 1908 building on Riverside Drive and 141st St in NYC! In my University days, my bedroom windows were so old and loose they rattled around in their panes and let the icy wind that roared in off the Hudson River into my bedroom. Plus the collective heat always went out, they were trying to force out the renters in order to turn the building into condos. 1 weekend at 18° almost killed me, back in the 1980's.

Hang in there, all you Yankees!