40/70 Benchmark

Perfect example. You can't base an opinion on that assumption that amounts are over measured today....the issue is that quality and consistency of said measurements.

I can buy that....what I don't buy is that more modern totals are consistently over reported.

Yea, any measurement derived from hourly clearing should be tossed. Agreed.

At first they accepted it, but then the next day they ommited it. It was a different OCM for a local news station that explained why and then opined that he believed. My opinion is that they have a trained spotter in the same town just a couple of miles away who does not use the swipe method. When he came in with 25", which was my depth at the end of the storm, they had to accept that. This is what I mean by the inconsistency.

Right....and 44" was the measurement on the CT shore, which I find a bit suspect.

This is what I am getting at with the inconsistency.....then why did NWS toss my total? The OCM reportd that it was tossed for using "the old school way" of measuring. Its so inconsistent.

I am in a decent radiational cooling spot...not exceptional, but good....

26.6 Can tell we remained mixed with the wind active...I would have been in the teens.

It was the first week of April back in March...

I have no doubt the 1888 blizzard was absolutely exceptional, but I defintely have some shred of doubt regarding a measurement of 44", ON THE LEVEL, at the end of the storm on the CT shore. That implies total snowfall of somewhere around 50"....tough to swallow.

Absolutely....which is my point. Measurements are a crap shoot....they are now and certainly were then, so its difficult to say anything with absolute certitude except that technique remains inconsistent today.

Yea, you're telling me that some folks back in 1888...life in complete dissaray from the storm, didn't hop off off their horse and buggies and measure in a drift? Yea, little Joey has typhoid, Mary is lost in the storm and Billy, with the gimpy leg, is frost bitten and dying from the measles.....but let me be extra meticulous with my measurement and be certain I'm not measuring in a drift so that Chris can go back to the future and prove it doesn't snow anymore . Gotcha-

Oh, no contest as far as LE....my ratios were probably near 20:1 during the height of March 2018. 1997 was probably 10:1, at best. The latter was far more impressive.

Its the same thing......the issue is measuring technique back then relative to now...and I'm telling you that the swipe method isn't as consistent and prominent as you are implying. I also would question how reliable measurements were 100 to 150 years ago in general........I think the better argument from your POV would be perhaps some of the higher totals were missed back then because the array of reports was probably not as dense and expansive, so perhaps some of the higher measurements were missed.

I wasn't dilligent at all back then as a sophomore in HS...I went to bed a bit after midnight, at which point my last measurement was around 1'. I think the total snowfall was very comparable to the March 2018 event, but the April fools event was cement and the depth may have been a bit greater. It was definitely more impressive than the quickly sublimating powder of March 2018. The April Fools day event plastered everything.

I think even if someone has every intention of considering data 100% objectively, there can be some level of inherent confirmation bias at play with one has their mind made up on an issue.

Yea, I'm not sure why, but I know that the NWS is now discouraging spotters from doing the swipe and clear method. I have all of the respect in the world for Chris and I'm not trying to be rude, but I deal with the NWS regularly and they defer to the lower depth measurements in larger events when theere is a noticeable contrast. It doesn't matter in 95% of the storms, but obviously it does in upper tier events. Even the airports that do the 6 hour method are often not meticulous enough...they frequently underreport in mixed events because they measure after some has melted...its very common.

A significant, if not majority of the spotter snowfall reports that comporise the official NWS snowfall total maps are depth measurements. I know this for a fact...I'm sure you can find an article that claims that the sun if brown if you look long enough, but that doesn't make it so.

I don't care what the article states, I know for a fact that it isn't standardized. Again...I have had a 6 hourly measurement discarded by BOX, so perhaps they need to read your article.

So .5" yesterday and today?

Any accumulation there?

Sums up the last 7 for me....been like this since April 2018.

Sums up winter 2024-2025 perfectly.

Agree!!!!!

My old stomping grounds...