40/70 Benchmark

I certainly wouldn't be whining in Holliston.

Wind doesn't really do it for me...Super Storm was the only exception. I thought 1/29 may rival that, but it was nothing like it as far as drifting, despite comparable snowfall. Maybe winds were less? I had like 5' drifts in that one...1/29 was like 14" max drift, at least in my yard. Really underwhelming.

Yea, PD II shoved it up right up my tail pipe.

I'm happy for you.

You would think at some a January 2003 pattern would present itself, but who knows....I'm sick of saying it headed into every season like a broken record.

A real pet peeve of mind are subby zones in those dry, powdery windbag storms......everyone self-sodomizes to wind gusts and minimum central pressure...and you look out your window, and see grass blades on one side of your lawn, and a minimally altered landscape on the other. Its as if mother nature is partaking in a challenge to have all hell break loose in the atmosphere without anyone realizing it within 10 miles of said back yard. And to top it off, there are no precip type dillienations to speak of, and there is no sense tracking a coastal front pinned to the Bourne Bridge....nothing to distract from the sensible dissapointment that ensues. 12/5/03, PD II, Boxing Day & 1/29/22 all fit that bill to me...though the fiest two were less about pressure and wind.

Most peak depth measurements were like 8-10", with some spots blown to grass blades.....in a blizzard like that? 'Cmon....drop the lipstick and back away from the pig.

That event was not enjoyable at all for me. Nobody wants to be among the more mundane totals in a truly high end event. 18-20" while someone gets 30" is one thing, but 12" in a storm like that just blows.

Big difference between not wanting 23 and windy in the absence of snow, and craving 94/71 swampass. Bottom line is comfort in the absence of entertainment.

I finally tossed in October when my mother moved out of her house...vintage '94, 7th-8th grade.

No. I will never be a heat guy.

Well, there is less to track in a CJ event....all of those lines were near Bermuda.

Yea, count me in.

And can't forget about MLK, which would have been a great event in nine out of ten seasons. This is that one-

Missing out on those events in December, and the blizzard growing tits is the difference between where we are now, and where I expected the interior to be at this point of the season in terms of snowfall.

I envisioned something like 12/07, 12/08 or 12/71. Oops.

I knew I should have stayed in the basement with the ice cream.

I still feel like we will end up with a big interior event somehow....even in a shit pattern....like a spring bowling ball, or something. I just find it hard to believe that this season will end this paltry.

Those are the type of events that I expected to clean up on throughout mid to late December....too bad. This season had potential...it wasn't an abomination, but just didn't work out.

24.5" with an average of about 65".

Especially during December....I feel like this is what all of that compression between the RNA and NAO robbed us of.

So nice to see the ice melting off of my driveway.

I feel like the uptick in solar activity may have given the PV a boost, which is why we aren't getting a blockier second half.

I mean, if its going to produce, lovely....

Well, that isn't winter going away...that is winter lingering....too bad. I thought we would get that about a month earlier, a la 2018.