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Backroads from scituate down through norwell and pembroke were absolutely destroyed. I did a drive through the night after the storm and it was amazing. Almost 2015 level banks.

That sounds like a miserable decade. We all love the huge events but we also have been on here long enough to know that winter is long and sucks when nothing happens. A lot of useless model watching. Its sort of like the sports debate of trading a championship run for a decade of last place finishes… that one season is the pinnacle of fun, but man the rest of the years are a lot of meaningless games.

I've been in North ORH County for 14 years and I've already had (3) 30" events that I can think of off the top of my head, or at least very close to 30". A 40" will never happen though, too up and in.

February 27 1981: Thunderstorms move across Minnesota, dumping 1.61 inches of rain at Montevideo. Many places were glazed over with ice. 1948: A severe ice storm occurs over central Minnesota. At the St. Cloud Weather Office 1/2 inch of clear ice was measured. 65 telephone poles were down in St. Cloud. For Friday, February 27, 2026 1717 - What was perhaps the greatest snow in New England history commenced on this date. During a ten day period a series of four snowstorms dumped three feet of snow upon Boston, and the city was snowbound for two weeks. Up to six feet of snow was reported farther to the north, and drifts covered many one story homes. (David Ludlum) 1969 - A record snowstorm in Maine came to an end. Two to four feet of snow buried southern and central Maine, with a state record of 57 inches reported at West Forks. Drifts covered many single story homes, and the weight of the snow collapsed many roofs. Two to four feet of snow also buried northeastern Vermont and northeastern Massachusetts. In New Hampshire, Mount Washington NH reported 97.8 inches of snow, a record storm total for New England. (24th-28th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1987 - A storm spread heavy snow into the Central High Plains Region, and produced severe thunderstorms in the Southern Plains. Snowfall totals in western Nebraska ranged up to 19 inches at Sydney. Severe thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced baseball size hail at Stringtown and Atoka. A storm in the eastern U.S. produced heavy rain over the Carolinas and heavy snow in the southern Appalachians and piedmont region. Five inches of rain left four feet of water in the streets of Greenville SC. Snowfall totals in southwestern Virginia ranged up to 20 inches. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms along a cold front produced heavy rain in southern California, with up to 2.52 inches reported in Ventura County. Strong winds accompanying the rain gusted to 55 mph in the Tehachapi Mountains. Rapid City SD established a February record with an afternoon high of 75 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Rain and snow prevailed in the southeastern U.S. Up to eight inches of snow blanketed north central Tennessee, and snowfall totals in western North Carolina ranged up to 14 inches at Mount Mitchell. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1990 - A winter storm produced heavy snow in southeastern Colorado, with 12 inches reported at Lamar. The same storm produced severe thunderstorms over the Southern High Plains, with wind gusts to 93 mph reported at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Low pressure brought high winds to the Prince William Sound area of Alaska. Big River Lakes reported wind gusts to 92 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 2010 - A weak EF0 tornado causes no damage as it moved across California's southern San Joaquin Valley. However it is the only tornado reported in the United States during the month. According to the Storm Prediction Center only five months since 1950 have lacked a tornado report. <a href="http://islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/diaryfeb.htm">The Weather Doctor</a>

Hope I’m wrong. The upcoming pattern on some of these runs reminds me of March 2010/2012 but I’m ready for one more good run afterwards.

well....maybe not a decade, hopefully only a couple ratters, then roll out a handful of events that just want to one up each other....

Based on today and definitely tomorrow, spring has already arrived

Nasty back door cold front on gfs in the long range for nyc north

Are you guys serious? It’s just snow. It’ll be ok. FYI I used to be a member here under username rmcwahoo. It snowed a lot at Wintergreen. And lots of people were there for it and documented it. I don’t know how to help ya around that one. Also don’t know why it would bother anyone? Just to drive you even crazier here’s a cool pic from the next morning

If I got 3' fuck it. Torch the rest of winter for all I care. I'll sit back and smoke a cigar and call it a season.

mud season will also be epic.

It appears that the Tuesday wave is going to stay intact, but the problem is the cold air is moving out. The question is how much snow, if any, will we get before it changes to rain. Today's GFS gives us a little front end snow.

It was a nice white Christmas season, starting in late November. Only thing that sucked was actual Christmas was bare. I look at the whole season. It was very front-loaded in the western sub, but it still happened lol.

Absolutely not. One 25-35” storm surrounded by torches and sunshine would be hell on earth. You’re assuming you’d get hit and that’s always far from a guarantee.

There were two periods to this warm up... The first being a contentious argument between winter and spring that begins really Sunday and lasts trough the 9th or so. The second being an implied if not explicit very warm couple of three days between the 10th and the Ides... This 12z GFS is attempting to discontinue the latter of the two as a brand new reconstruction of the continental synopsis by the 10th.

These warm February days make it real easy for me to click out of “winter mode” and start thinking about swinging the sticks.

B+ is my grade. A good mix of colder/warmer wx, and lots of little snows (and some rn). 2 snow events that were very cool. 1st was the LES dump of 6" in 3hrs on 11/29, and of course the blizzard of 2/18 which netted me 18", and shutdown Hwy 61 along the shore from DLH to the border for a good part of the day. Depending on what comes in the next couple weeks could bump it up into the A grade. Winter is not a strict DJF for me, but more like mid-Nov thru mid-March.

Need that high to back off the end of next week for any big warmth. Gonna be hard to scour out if becomes entrenched. 12z gfs nearly kills the entire window with CAD for eastern areas. Euro AI has been doing it too at times.

I say this every year, but I don't grade til April. Its minimal, but March/April does have a slight impact on my grade. It will likely be in A-/B+ territory, and certainly no lower than a B+ I love the endless cold/snowcover as you know, so it was really an excellent winter. No huge storms (biggest mby 6.2", biggest DTW 6.1") and an almost comical no white Christmas (considering the continuous snowcover that began in late November) are the only real mars on the grade. I wouldve liked to kept the snowpack into March but deep winter started unusually early, so wont dock for that. I never count this into grades, but it seemed locally that the models had an atrocious winter performance. There were both rugpulls and last minute surprises. AWSSI still has Detroit in an "extreme" winter. A mild March would likely knock it down to "severe" but no further. https://mrcc.purdue.edu/research/AWSSI/chart?stn=DTWthr You can definitely see it was an eastern sub winter. Some random cities rankings to date: Mild- International Falls Moderate- Minneapolis, Des Moines, Quad Cities, Rockford Average- Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Alpena Severe- Sault Ste Marie, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne, Toledo, Indianapolis Extreme- Detroit, Flint, Columbus, Dayton, Cleveland

As I get older I'm all about anomalies. As stupid as this sounds, it's a bit deflating to miss it by 10-15 miles. That is the shit we live for. Not 1-3" refreshers over crust.

Sweet!! Love it. Where are they going to be located, if I may ask? Also, gotta find a time to meet for lunch one day and chat meteorology and learn more about the Mesonet program. I was actually shadowed by a student at UMD this past Friday that knows you. She was incredibly bright and has interest in WPC. Small world!!

Fair point-I thought it was aggressive for timing even in a normal winter.

Yea as long as every becs doesnt strike the same area cuz of fast flow, etc…sematt.

Tradeoff I am willing to make TBH...give me a decade of shit winters if we get an event like that.