Is it unusual to have multiple nor'easters in one season?

[dixiegrrrrl]

Much less in one month:

"The region's fourth nor'easter this month arrives today".

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/nyregion/new-york-snowstorm-spring.html

[mainstreetonce]

1. Very unusual

Enough!

[droidamus2]

2. Seems unusual to me

I have lived in Northern Vermont since 2005 and we haven't even averaged 1 nor'easter a year so 4 in a year is unusual. Even more 4 good sized snowstorms in March has been the norm either though my wife who is from this area says they had a lot of big storms back in the '60s.

[eShirl]

3. This is a hell of a month

4 nor'easters
2 full moons
2 seasons

[MANative]

4. A handful every winter isn't all that unusual

Having lived in SE Mass and western CT, we've seen our fair share. This many, this close together is VERY unusual. And not welcome, TYVM!!

[lapfog_1]

5. sinuation in the jet stream

the direct result of artic temperature rise

[BumRushDaShow]

6. They usually get started in the fall

and we would get one or two in the winter.

But the past couple falls we haven't really had them and relied on hurricane/tropical storm remnants for fall rain.

If anything, I am grateful for Alaska finally getting temps somewhat near their normal for the first time in a number of years. They have been far above normal the past couple winters where they were losing permafrost in an alarming fashion due to persistent ridges parked over them in winter. Meanwhile their ridge eventually became our persistent trough, far downstream from them.

[NutmegYankee]

7. Multiple in one season is common, but not several in one month.

I got hit pretty good in 2011, where we got 1 foot snow storms 6 times from Dec to Feb.

[B2G]

8. Not unusual at all.

There are typically several each season. 4 isn't really outside the norm.

[LanternWaste]

9. Three in eleven days is stretching probability

Three in eleven days is stretching probability, but there has been a North Atlantic Oscillation over Greenland for the last few weeks, which essentially means there is high pressure sitting over or near Greenland. When this setup occurs, it is commonly referred to as the “Greenland Block.”

You get a big ridge in the jetstream over Greenland and while milder air is sent up that way, Canadian cold is re-routed south, making a bee-line straight for the Northeast U.S. and that's what's been happening this month.

Most of the time, I'd snap at the opportunity to move to and live in New England, but the abject chill there, and the seventy-degree weather here has me content to be in Texas (for the time being... when summer hits, I'll be whining about heat and humidity and the Garden of Eden that is "everything north of the Mason-Dixon line."