40/70 Benchmark

He's an aspiring conductor.

You? Nah........

Probably related to the shorter wavelengths during the spring rendering a crap pattern less prohibitive to big dogs.

Yea, Wilmington got nailed.

March 1984. My first weather memory....I watched the distinct transition from sheets of rain to cat paws flash across the neighborhood at a very deliberate pace during the PM, then I awoke the next morning to about a foot of spring concrete. I was hooked-

Yea, its not that rare...especially out there.

I have no issue with doubting said potential succeeds at converting to a significant snowfall....was just speaking to the climo aspect.

Yea, early April is a different ball game.....final week of March jives with what I would say is the climo cliff.

Mid March is not that averse at this latitude...very doable.

We will probably get one more event mid month....

He has actually had the best handle on this season of anyone.

Cosgrove said the next system was favored to bring snowfall to the "interior" NE.

I remember that early April event...couple weeks earlier and it would have been great. Saw some cat paws in Sandown, NH at a fam gathering. That was another winter that left something on the table..second half could have been pretty epic.

I remember I started rooting for futility that year on Eastern haha

I only remember because I froze my ass off walking to my internship off campus at UML, especially since I stopped to measure for the comparison to Wilmington lol

Nah, blustery, bright, sunny and pretty cold IIRC.

I got 11" in Wilmington.....CF was near Reading/rt 128 most of the event, but got to me near the end, which added moisture to the snow. When I went to school at UML, they had 13" of pure powder.

Best event of that ratter of a season for me. Solid foot.

41.7 at home.

February was good, it just underachieved as a whole, as I intimated above...vast majority of my monthly snowfall came on 2/1. We looked primed for a huge month, then "whoosh"...that period immediately following VD Day just went to hell in a hand basket. What looked like two consecutive mod-heavy hitters just gave SNE the 7-10 split....with one going rainer, and the other nuisance. That week's failure was the game changer....only getting 10.5" of snow between Feb 2 and 28 leaves a good deal to be desired.

Funny you say that....I have been harping all season on how its been very similar snowfall wise in my hood...just colder. Half of my seasonal allotment came in the early December deal last year, and this year, 27.5" of the 49.5" came in two events (11" 12/17 and 16.5" 2/1). I have 5" more than I did last season.

It really is a shame that we didn't get better luck with some of the more stochastic nuances within the long wave flow because this winter really could have been a keeper for the whole region. When you couple that extended period without torches with a couple more well-timed heavy hitters, it changes the overall tenor the season dramatically. Having the Christmas event phase into a cutter, and missing out on some phases in January and that second week of February turned this into a forgettable winter for at least the northern half of the region. Too bad so much got left on the table because all of the ingredients were there for a great season, but just didn't quite come together. In hindsight, this year was a perfect example of why it so risky to forecast a banner of a snowfall season....it very easily could have been 2011, but it just did not happen because you need a lot of breaks to achieve a stretch like that, despite the long wave pattern being conducive.

One of the select few instances in which the ORH rule did not work.

I don't recall that one, but I wasn't as invested for a couple of seasons around '13 and '14.....was back on my game in time for the big daddy of '15.

That isn't the fire hose event, right? I hate when you use the term "sneaky" because that limits upside by default.