Two-Thirds of a Century After the March 1958 Snow

[SnowloverSid]

An overlooked milestone will be occurring this week: two-thirds of a century after one of the biggest snowstorms in Pennsylvania history: up to 50 inches fell on parts of southern Pennsylvania around March 20, 1958. This was three years before my birth, but my parents’ hometown of Scranton, PA had about a foot.  This was the tail end of an El Niño winter that had started off mild (hardly any snow before January) but then evolved into a snowy January and a frigid, snowy February. I believe that February 1958 was the coldest month of the 1950s at the Binghamton airport near where I used to live. 
March was much closer to average and had an unusual number of days close to average. Syracuse actually had a slight positive temperature departure as well as less precipitation than normal. The storm track was focused on the northern mid/Atlantic. It was similar to the 2009-10 winter. February 2010 in Binghamton had one of the lowest standard deviations from normal temperatures that I can remember, right up there with months such as March 1958, February 1969, and August 1996, as well as January 2021 and August 2023 in parts of upstate NY. Am unsure of what causes low standard deviations in temperature — it may be related to cloudy days and skies that fail to clear at night.

[Hiramite]

Here's some more info on the storm.

https://arcfieldweather.com/blog/2021/3/18/715-am-the-great-blizzard-of-march-18-21-1958one-of-the-worst-snowstorms-ever-in-eastern-pennsylvania