2025/26 SNOWFALL - NORTH ADAMS, MA.

 

 

Currently, as of April 2, 2026, in North Adams, MA., (extreme northwestern Massachusetts) we have closed-out the 2025/26 season with a total of 87.3" (* our average season snowfall is 78.1"). +9.2" above normal snowfall for the 2025/26 season. Most snowfall this season, was recorded from a Miller Type-B coastal storm (Nor'easter) that produced around 20.0" in North Adams of dry, fluffy, powder snow, along with areas of blowing & drifting snow, following an Arctic blast January 25-26, 2026. The slightly above normal snowfall, was primarily due to a very stretched Polar Vortex (PV), as-a-result of an established -AO, -NAO, +PNA  from early January to mid February 2026. The upcoming 2026/27 winter season is a B-I-G ?... due to extended & long range computer forecast models supporting an El Niño, a natural climate pattern characterized by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific! Forecaster: Daniel Viens (Dedicated To Understanding New England's Climate!)

JANUARY THAW

 The perplexity of the longwave weather pattern is taking on characteristics of an early January thaw! Normally, the January thaw (during an average winter) occurs around the week of January 20th. But there was a stratospheric cooling event, MUCH unlike stratospheric warming, this process contracts the Polar Vortex (PV), and encourages a stronger / consolidated Polar Vortex (PV). With that being said, the consolidation of the PV enhances the westerlies with moderating temperatures to above to well above normal and chances of rain 🌧 , due to systems tracking to our west, through this week. However, another stratospheric warming event is starting to take place, that will again weaken, beat-up, and split or stretch the strong consolidated Polar Vortex (PV), and will begin to have an influence on the overall longwave weather pattern January 13th-18th. Exactly how this process evolves, holds the key to an established longwave weather pattern and it's effects for the rest of winter, but only after we lose most of our snowpack throughout New England this week! Forecaster: Daniel Viens, establishing author of New England NAO. * In ❤️ memory of George J. Trottier