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1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

34. Wet snow but nothing yet. I did say numerous time some of this is lost to wet snow/mix on the coast. 

Like an inch.

21 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

This hits like a wall

Look at the bos radar. Leading edge moving into se nh goes from 1nothing to pound town in miles

This reminds me of Dec 1992 given the start as rain and predawn flip...granted not nearly as much rain, but wow...went on a weenie walk and was overwhelmed by nostalgia. 

I think cape is going to have accumulations cut.

Slushy coating down....34.2.31

35.3/31

Drizzle...glad this is starting at night.

On 12/24/2014 at 10:23 AM, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Meh, I'll wait til presidents day to cancel winter.

Good choice that season, huh?

10 minutes ago, USCAPEWEATHERAF said:

Winter Storm Juno photos and videos from Mike Siedel from the Weather Channel is amazing to continue to watch over and over again.  Juno was the second most amazing snowstorm to strike Harwich, MA, 32" of snow, second behind the Great North American Blizzard of 2005, 35"

Once someone becomes a legend, are they always a legend?

7 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

The Dover area was actually pretty close to ground zero in the big Mar 2001 storm...they had close to 40 inches. I also remember being "disappointed" in ORH with "only" about 24" in that storm. I was thinking 30" minimum.

Yea...interior se NH jackpot...I felt screwed with 20" just to the south ol

7 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Feb 5, 2001 was def the most painful event for the coast that winter...I think it's a lot worse than Dec 30, 2000 since even over the interior in 12/30/00, we got dryslotted and it was not a monster. But Feb 5 was 18-30 inches over the interior. Coast got porked. Though for some, the sting of getting basically zero in Dec 2000 might be worse. Feb 5 at least did give 5-8" around BOS at the end.

I had 9"-10", then a slot in 2-5-01

I started as some rain and sleet, but quickly flipped and got near 20".

Blizzard of 2005 is a bit overrated in my area....several storms in my lifetime were better.

1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

How we do weather in New England:

 

Winter wx events = patriots

backdoor coldfronts = '27 Yankees

tropical threats = Bruins

High end severe threats = Bobby Valentine Red Sox  

 

Man, I forgot what it was like to have a great hurricane season....I have hardly even looked at the winter yet.

I'm used to being balls deep in theories by now....late start.

September has flown by for once-

This was an old poll. The 1/16 option just got added but I'm guessing most people just didn't feel like re-voting. 

Oh.....this year and the '96 system seemed like twin events in the mid atl.

Why does 1996 rank more highly than this year's?

They were pretty comparable, no?

Very good event up here, but nothing over the top.

I received about 18-20"....with some sleet and rain to start.

I'll never forget the famous ADG from Walt Drag when I had arrived home from work that Sunday evening.

Headline: "SEVERE WINTER STORM REACHING OF EXCEEDING THE BLIZZARD OF 1978"

I remember that they were pinning the heaviest axis on a line from about KBEV-KHFD...citing anticipated drifts of around 10'.

So, you understand why a very major snowfall had seemed a bit more pedestrian relative to what we were ready for.

The heaviest actually verified about 40-so miles to the north of that...im se NH, where there were totals on the order of 36-40", but nowhere were the winds as intense as anticipated because the system's phase was imperfect.

You'll love the Woonsocket report...7.11" of QPF and 22.5" of snow, lol.

That was the first real event that I can recall....very vague recollection of March '84....

I disagree. Although one happened a few days after the other, the storms had a different feel and character. 

That has nothing to do with my point, but it doesn't matter.

I think there is a diff between  Blizzard and a KU, then two of the region's most epic blizzards within 3 days of each other.

But, maybe it's just me

I was thinking the same thing the other day, but they were definitely 2 distinct, and very different, systems.

I know, but I think one wild week like that can be judged by aggregate impact.

Yea, that's probably the best winter I'll ever experience, lol. 

Likewise with regard to last year for me.

The epic cold and snow combo was second to none.

In fact, until Last February, I could say that I hadn't seen anything of that caliber up here for the entirety of my life.

I have now.

From an outsider perspective, I vote to aggregate both of the snowmageddon events into the one voting option.

Xmas '02 was a great storm. We didn't get the jackpot in ORH like further NW did, but we had 13.5" of snow...started around 6-7am and went all day into the night ending in the overnight hours. There was actually a lot of sleet not too far SE...down in NE CT, N RI, and up near metro-southwest Boston.

I turned to sleet and rain after about 5".

actually thought part of that was serious for the first couple of lines.

I was legitimately horrified until he started giving board members shout outs.

oh yeah no doubt. And I think some of the events even ended up stronger and more dynamic than modeled.

It's systems of that ilk that the much maligned NAM handles with more panache than all of the globals, hence the globals were all significantly underdone with respect to that event and the NAM scored the coupe in signaling a HECS.

yeah there were tracks where jerry was talking about NAM clown maps giving BOS 12 to 16 or whatnot and i was thinking - no way...not with a canal cutter. but sure as sh*t the clown maps would verify. LOL.

Scott and I were discussing how you musn't just consider the track, but also the scale of the mid level features and many of last season's systems were compact and energetic.

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.

I had 6" in the first one and 8" in the 2nd.....finished the season with a record 127.5".