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[CoastalWx]

The Dec 5-7 event is still fascinating to me. The CF was practically n-s in that event so that it crushed Bob in Middleboro, but kind of screwed me. 8 miles to my west had 2'. I had 5.5" or so from the first burst, than about 2" or so of mash potatoes which were mixed with rain at times....it literally was like a 34-35F ra/sn mix for hours, before flipping to 5" of powder. It was much less right at the water, and much more just to the west. Big variation in the same town. My ex probably only had like 5" total on the ground down in Green Harbor, while I had about 8-9" on the ground after compaction. No power for two days as the mash potatoes and 60mph winds took out a lot of trees. There was actually quite a bit of tree damage in the area.

[HubbDave]

I got like 16" from that April 1996 storm....we had gotten about 5-6" two days prior starting Easter Sunday evening.

That was the storm that set the all time record for snowfall here....before it, we still hadn't beaten 1992-1993.

Are there any good snowfall maps of the Easter event? I seem to remember us getting about 10" from that, and it came on very quickly. We had gone to dinner with my wife's (fiancee at that time) family in Orange and when we went to the cars it was hard to see. Very tough drive back to Gardner.

The storm a couple days later was nice. What a winter.

[Ginxy]

Your posts are all jacked up. This stuff pops up in almost every quoted reply you do.

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Makes your posts difficult to read.

No fooking s h it, think I like it? been appealing to Wow for days now. before we buy the WRF model we should get the site working on all platforms.

[Ginxy]

Went through some old stuff, posting some pics here, first Jan 05




Dec 05 my front door


Dec 03 as it intensified

[HubbDave]

Beautiful drifts...

I hope we get lots of these this year

[Mr. Windcredible!]

highlight of last winter for me...deformation band sets up over LI/SE CT for the Dec 20, 2009 storm...2-3"/hr rates:

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[tamarack]

9.6" I believe...somehow the airport came in with 6.2" but you can clearly see from the pics that it was a lot more than that.

From about 9A to 3P, that 1/14/08 radar had the nicest "banana" of 30-35 dbz curving from west of Sebago thru LEW and AUG to lower Penobscot Bay. It remained nearly stationary (the heavy precip area) for about 6 hr. AUG got 10" between 9:30 A and 2 P, at which time I headed to Farmington in 0.1 mile vis, because my wife had gotten rear-ended near home and then a meatwagon ride to the hosp. (She was fine except for back pain; fortunately all the sternum clips installed 3 months earlier during her bypass op held together.) The banana's north edge just grazed MBY - right when the accident occurred - for 8", while Farmington had only moderate SN and 5.5". Largest accum I found was 15.9" in Bridgton. GYX had 15".

I know I've pimped these out before, but my April Fool's pics from eastern.

Thanks, CoastalWx. If you hadn't, I was going to ask. Those are my favorite of all snow pics I've viewed here ("here" includes Eastern, of course), with LEK's monster snowblitz pics from 2006 or '07 as chief competition.

[CT Rain]

highlight of last winter for me...deformation band sets up over LI/SE CT for the Dec 20, 2009 storm...2-3"/hr rates:

What was your final total from that one?

[MetHerb]

Your map Will

I couldn't see the new and improved version of this, but I was living in Somers, CT around 300' at the time and this truely had the greatest gradient I've seen. I had 3.2" by the time everything was done but just a few miles east of me there was 12-14" around 900'. The amounts rose dramatically from there in Union, CT and I remember measuring 32-35" in the morning as my brother and I drove to the coast to check out the waves there. I'd have to check my weather record but I thought I had measured around 37" in Union when we were driving back home in the afternoon. I rank this as one of my favorite storms even though I got screwed at my house.

[Mr. Windcredible!]

What was your final total from that one?

I measured 20"...although it settled quickly...so final snow depth was more like 16"

I have a 40 frame loop but its too big to upload and I don't know how to compress it.

[CT Rain]

I couldn't see the new and improved version of this, but I was living in Somers, CT around 300' at the time and this truely had the greatest gradient I've seen. I had 3.2" by the time everything was done but just a few miles east of me there was 12-14" around 900'. The amounts rose dramatically from there in Union, CT and I remember measuring 32-35" in the morning as my brother and I drove to the coast to check out the waves there. I'd have to check my weather record but I thought I had measured around 37" in Union when we were driving back home in the afternoon. I rank this as one of my favorite storms even though I got screwed at my house.

Wow, nice.

I remember the wind and waves down at the water with like 24 hours of -RAPL. It was awful but a very exciting storm to watch.

[CoastalWx]

Wow, nice.

I remember the wind and waves down at the water with like 24 hours of -RAPL. It was awful but a very exciting storm to watch.

The pics of the flooding in CT were impressive. It's hard to imagine coastal flooding that bad from e-ne winds.

[MetHerb]

The pics of the flooding in CT were impressive. It's hard to imagine coastal flooding that bad from e-ne winds.

I actually never made it to the CT coast because I didn't think the wave action would be that good. We went to Hull, a place I had never been before, and it turned out to be great place to see the ocean swells and huge waves crashing right on the sea wall.

This was the first real big storm that happened after I got out of college and I remember everyone looking to me for info and I spent a lot of time gathering data in the pre-Internet days (even though I went to school for Met I've always worked in the IT business). I had an old radio fax machine that I dusted off so I could get charts. I was up late on Saturday looking at data and my brother came home from work and wanted to do some storm chasing so we headed out. It was great storm to chase....better than the March '93 storm I think.

[CoastalWx]

I actually never made it to the CT coast because I didn't think the wave action would be that good. We went to Hull, a place I had never been before, and it turned out to be great place to see the ocean swells and huge waves crashing right on the sea wall.

This was the first real big storm that happened after I got out of college and I remember everyone looking to me for info and I spent a lot of time gathering data in the pre-Internet days (even though I went to school for Met I've always worked in the IT business). I had an old radio fax machine that I dusted off so I could get charts. I was up late on Saturday looking at data and my brother came home from work and wanted to do some storm chasing so we headed out. It was great storm to chase....better than the March '93 storm I think.

Hull is a good place for storms. That peninsula sticks right out into Boston Harbor. It must have been pretty wild.

[NJwinter23]

The last two were taken the next day.

Holy ****

[NJwinter23]

Just curiously peaking through the SNE trip down memory lane thread here. Does anybody have a loop of that 12/9/2005 thundersnow epic comma band that annihilated you guys? I remember being amazed watching that unfold from down in NJ where we got a little thump of our own.

[CoastalWx]

Just curiously peaking through the SNE trip down memory lane thread here. Does anybody have a loop of that 12/9/2005 thundersnow epic comma band that annihilated you guys? I remember being amazed watching that unfold from down in NJ where we got a little thump of our own.

Check it out. You can download the powerpoint presentation from David Vallee and the radar loop is on there. Check out the Jan '05 radar loop too if you'd like.

http://www.sneweathe...entations.shtml

[Tropopause_Fold]

Just curiously peaking through the SNE trip down memory lane thread here. Does anybody have a loop of that 12/9/2005 thundersnow epic comma band that annihilated you guys? I remember being amazed watching that unfold from down in NJ where we got a little thump of our own.

12/9/05 is almost sacred weather ground up here.

almost like in the movie Twister when the lady asks what an F5 would be like and the whole table goes silent.

[CoastalWx]

12/9/05 is almost sacred weather ground up here.

almost like in the movie Twister when the lady asks what an F5 would be like and the whole table goes silent.

LOL.

[CT Rain]

12/9/05 is almost sacred weather ground up here.

almost like in the movie Twister when the lady asks what an F5 would be like and the whole table goes silent.

Was so happy to miss it

Was working in Albany that morning and driving to CT that afternoon to work at NBC in Hartford. Ughhhhh.

[Tropopause_Fold]

Was so happy to miss it

Was working in Albany that morning and driving to CT that afternoon to work at NBC in Hartford. Ughhhhh.

i've never had such an up and down emotional weather day.

it pained me staring at the RADAR and reading the ridiculous reports coming in from BOS and metro west that afternoon. the sun was literally shining in a cloudless sky here with a T of 53F and calm winds while folks just a 45 min drive from me where having thunderstorms, heavy snow, wind, asteroids, you name it.

then a couple of hours later having the air sucked out of my lungs by 80mph winds and a complete whiteout.

[wokeupthisam]

December 5-7 2003

Perhaps radar presentation of the Auburn wall of drought (works equally well in winter as in summer)

[MaineJayhawk]

"asteroids"

[Ginxy]

i've never had such an up and down emotional weather day.

it pained me staring at the RADAR and reading the ridiculous reports coming in from BOS and metro west that afternoon. the sun was literally shining in a cloudless sky here with a T of 53F and calm winds while folks just a 45 min drive from me where having thunderstorms, heavy snow, wind, asteroids, you name it.

then a couple of hours later having the air sucked out of my lungs by 80mph winds and a complete whiteout.

I remember the first time you told your story of that day, very dramatic . The way you painted the picture it was easy to visualize what transpired. I knew from that post you had the sickness.

[Ginxy]

Not all snowstorms have to be blockbusters. A simple 2 inch fall in Feb 2007 with some ZR was breathtaking.

[ORH_wxman]

Just curiously peaking through the SNE trip down memory lane thread here. Does anybody have a loop of that 12/9/2005 thundersnow epic comma band that annihilated you guys? I remember being amazed watching that unfold from down in NJ where we got a little thump of our own.

[NJwinter23]

Check it out. You can download the powerpoint presentation from David Vallee and the radar loop is on there. Check out the Jan '05 radar loop too if you'd like.

http://www.sneweathe...entations.shtml

Thanks a lot man checking it out now.

[NJwinter23]

Thanks Will. Looks SICK

[ORH_wxman]

Thanks Will. Looks SICK

I wish I had it about 30 minutes later when the band was even more intense. That loop only shows it just as it was beginning to go nuts. But the inflow in SE MA is pretty amazing to see....the storm was like a little nuke. So compact yet so powerful.

[Ginxy]

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/. Archived Radar by station with viewer back to 94

[NJwinter23]

I wish I had it about 30 minutes later when the band was even more intense. That loop only shows it just as it was beginning to go nuts. But the inflow in SE MA is pretty amazing to see....the storm was like a little nuke. So compact yet so powerful.

Yeah I could tell the band was still exploding at the end of your loop, but what you posted still does justice.. That presentation was outstanding too. Another thing I remember from that storm was that poor old weathafella was away and missed it. What I'd do to experience something like that.

[HubbDave]

Any good pics of the Dec 2007 event that hit around rush hour in the Boston area, creating the commute from hell?

Thanks for the radar link Ginxy

[ORH_wxman]

Any good pics of the Dec 2007 event that hit around rush hour in the Boston area, creating the commute from hell?

Thanks for the radar link Ginxy

Here's a couple pics I took during 12/13/07

[HubbDave]

Thanks Will. That was one of my favorite events from the last 5 years or so...

[Ginxy]

Weenie kids doing what we all did when we were weenie kids during Dec 05 , pretending to be newscasters, the video does pick up the intensity well