Snow History for Pittsburg, NH

Snow information for the season is reset each July

Pittsburg Monthly Weather History

Pittsburg Precipitation History

The snow data in the chart above is manually entered. If I am away I enter it when I get back. I have a friend who keeps track of it for me when I'm away.

WEATHER STATION SNOW INFORMATION

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Average Winter Temperature 18.9 F - We had 180 inches of snow for the 2005 - 2006 season.

Average Winter Temperature 17.7 F - We had 171 inches of snow for the 2006 - 2007 season.

Average Winter Temperature 19.1 F - We had 219 inches of snow for the 2007 - 2008 season.

Average Winter Temperature 16.9 F - We had 153 inches of snow for the 2008 - 2009 season.

Average Winter Temperature 16.3 F - We had 154 inches of snow for the 2009 - 2010 season.

Average Winter Temperature 15.5 F - We had 221 inches of snow for the 2010 - 2011 season.

Average Winter Temperature 00.0 F - We had 000 inches of snow for the 2011 - 2012 season.

Based on my station history the first frost at johnsnhweather occurs during the first or second week of October and the first snowfall occurs around the same timeframe. I will update this information later.

First frost for 2009 snow season was 09/26/09
First snow for 2009 snow season was 10/13/09

First frost for 2010 snow season was 10/10/10
First snow for 2010 snow season was 10/16/10

First frost for 2011 snow season was 10/05/11
First snow for 2011 snow season was 10/05/11

First frost for 2012 snow season was
First snow for 2012 snow season was

We had 78 days with snow for the 2008 - 2009 snow season.

We had 77 days with snow for the 2009 - 2010 snow season.

We had 102 days with snow for the 2010 - 2011 snow season.

We had 000 days with snow for the 2011 - 2012 snow season.

We have had 0.00 inches of percipitation today measure by a heated rain gauge when temp below freezing times 10 to give estimated snow fall.

We currently have 17.0 inches of snow on the ground.

So far this season we have had 80.200 inches of snow.

We have had 4 snow days this month.

We have had 56 snow days this snow season.

The mean ice out date for First Lake is May 4.

"Upslope" snow

Information is available from the NWS about why it seemingly always snows in Pittsburg. Northern NH and Northern VT experience snowfall on a northwest wind as air from the lower elevations to the northwest is forced up the higher elevations in Pittsburg. As the air is forced up it is cooled and condensed, this causes clouds and more often than not snowfall to occur. This is often referred to as "upslope" snow. The largest events such as the one on 1/10/11 are caused when moist air is available; this is often wrapped in from Atlantic Canada. When this already moist air is forced up the slopes on a northwest wind, large often unpredicted snowfall events can occur. Locally this is referred to as "Pittsburg Partly Cloudy"!

Here is the link to the article.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/hq/ssd/erps/ta/ta2009-03.pdf

This information was provided by Ryan Mackey who has a degree in meteorology, Thanks Ryan.

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