It might give a clearer picture, or can be compared to the anomalies chart to give a clearer picture.

If there’s any tendency for more severe Tennessee weather in this century its lost in the extremes of the previous century.

Some of the more extreme local weather doesn’t seem to have been recorded at all.
The big flood here with four feet of water in the streets after a all night rain storm of very unusual intensity isn’t mentioned.
I was a youngster then so it was probably 1960 or earlier.

I was remembering the weather here when I was younger and comparing it to weather of recent years. I can’t see that the winters are worse here than they were in the mid 20th century, milder in fact. Of course I don’t live near a sea coast.

““While I wouldn’t call this a very settled scientific area, there are certainly reasons to think that in a warming world, we might get more snowfall, on average, in certain extreme winter storms.”
No sign of that here, but I’ll have to find local records going back beyond 1980 to be sure.
One thing that’s unusual about my location. Our local weather follows the weather of the Ohio Valley while a few miles to either side the weather can be very different.

Whether or not that’s germane to a discussion of snow in the NE I felt it worth mentioning.

There are two things you need to know GY. First, your personal experiences are not even weather, let alone climate! Second, the map is anomalies, not temperature. Now everything should be clear.

I can remember driving to work many mornings in snow worse than that in the late 60’s to early 70’s and much deeper snow when I was a youngster in the 50’s and early sixties.

If I read the other map correctly the Gulf Stream fed waters off Massachusetts are much warmer than the waters further south. How does that work?

Thanks a lot for providing the links, those sure help.
In the meantime I also spoke with a friend from Bloomfield NJ, she says it’s quite fine there.

Cheers

And here are some road-condition webcams in Nova Scotia, Canada

I can’t give you any data, but I can point you to some webcams that might give you an idea of local conditions.

For starters, here is a page with some webcams in Maine.

A view of Columbus Circle in Manhattan suggests that new York City is in good shape.

I read you previous post and now this one. I have seen some announcements, but being far on the other side of the Atlantic I am not very familiar with the exact situation. I read this post from Peter Woit from Colombia about the storms [1] which, according to his personal experience does not look that bad at all. So, can someone say some words or provide some links about the current situation with snowfalls and the storm, are the media really exaggerate that much?
I can see the first graph in this post, but looks like Peter would not agree with it.

[1] http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=7482