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11 minutes ago, andyhb said:

This is a bunch of silliness, tbh.

Most of us around here that have been for awhile have scrutinized all of the tornadoes you've mentioned here and more, and trust me when I say that there are comparisons between all of these going on.

This one is bad, very bad. The damage with this across a very large area is just about unprecedented aside from tornadoes like Hackleburg, and there are many, many locations with houses that have been completely demolished or swept away. Enough to be compared pretty easily with tornadoes like the ones you've mentioned. The VROT/TDS signatures were up there with tornadoes like El Reno 2011, Vilonia, etc. I'm pretty sure most are aware of the DIs and their limitations, otherwise there wouldn't be this much discussion. As far as December tornadoes go, this one is unprecedented, and this is coming from someone who has been watching these things for over 20 years now. There is really no need for a condescending essay like this.

I will agree with this. I did a tornado re-analysis GIS project for my employer over the summer and that involved looking at a lot of damage pictures. This tornado had the intensity similar to Smithville (MS) and the lengthily swath of violent damage (EF4+) similar to Hackleburg (AL). Some of scenes also reminded me of Joplin, too. I don't think we should be sugarcoating how bad and extreme this tornado was regardless of the time of month. This was simply a top-tier tornado and I strongly believe we'll get epic survey results once we get everything put together.

Just now, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Probably a long shot for Logan to have ice from this.

That's what I thought too. Probably too warm right on the coastline, but we'll see...

Ahh yes... found myself looking at wintry weather of the Northeast again. I'm supposed to have a layover at Logan Airport in Boston this Sunday (from Las Vegas) so I'm definitely nervous about the icy weather.

Our best snow chances tend to happen with deep cold air mass ahead of it. I don't like the cold-chasing moisture events like models are hinting... they don't pan out often. 

Seems like a good high-elevation snow producer on models so far... we'll see.

I'm not buying frozen precip threat until we get some more credibility from ensembles. It'd be a major climatology-buster outside mountains, otherwise...

8 minutes ago, frazdaddy said:

Sorry for your loss but good to have you back to share in our pain none the less. Maybe this could be our year..... 

Living close to family and friends again will always be worth it over weather seasons. Can't take away incredible memories of last two winters, though 

On 7/26/2019 at 9:40 AM, kvegas-wx said:

It's way too early to be worried about cold and snow but what is all this nonsense popping up in my Youtube feeds about August cold, amazing fall snow totals, polar vortexes and the like??  You would think winter starts tomorrow and its going to be epic!  I think once I clicked on one video Youtube turned my recommendations into weather weenie central.

After witnessing over 160 inches of snow last two winters, adjusting back to North Carolina winters will be very difficult. Not thrilled about living in area with 6"/year snowfall average rather than 60"/year. I'll miss having snow depth of over 6" for three months straight.

2 hours ago, downeastnc said:

Latest NAM is pretty nasty for most of the SE this weekend into Monday morning....not sure how bad it would truly be in NC Sunday night but the soundings and stuff look rough....night time tornadic storms are the worse.

Yep, NAM captured my attention earlier this evening. Will be a rough couple days across Dixie Alley.

22 minutes ago, CAD_Wedge_NC said:

Welcome back man. I remember you well. Where were you located during those insane winters? By the way, congrats on your red tag! 

Southeastern New Hampshire near Dover. There was a stretch when I saw 43 inches of snow in 5 days. So... much... snow...

Thank you! Hopefully I'll be helpful providing my insights to this sub-forum!

23 hours ago, yotaman said:

Welcome and congrats.

Thank you!

4 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Best of luck!

Thanks! Definitely will have to keep an eye on here next winter! 

3 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

 

Glad things are ok. As a friend once said, life is short, youth is shorter. Go shake things up and come back when we have a mega event. 

Best of luck! 

Exactly! It's time to return and spend more of my youth with my family and friends. Thank you! 

5 hours ago, Solak said:

Welcome back, and congrats on the red tag!!

Thanks! I hardly recognize the whole Clayton area these days after being away for almost 6 years. So much growth!

2 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Hope everything is ok and you get back to visit sometime. 

Things are okay Just need to shake my life up a bit more while I'm still young. I'll definitely try to come back often... y'all have a gorgeous region!

Last time I was part of this sub-forum, I was just a college student. Now I'm moving back to North Carolina with red tag under my username and experience of two of most insane winters in my life. Gonna miss these crazy northern winters, but I'm happy to have warm weather again! A day in 70 F was nice to return to.

Hey y'all! Unfortunately, my time in New England has come to a sudden end. Something came up that brought me back to North Carolina and I decided to move all of my stuff back ASAP. With that said, I'll definitely miss tracking wild winter storms with y'all on here. My first winter here, 2017-18, will always be a legendary with 106" of seasonal white stuff, 43" of snow in 5 days during March 2018, and witnessing foot plus depth for the first time ever... never mind a two feet depth I experienced during March 2018. I don't think I'll ever see anything like that again. Thanks for fun memories, y'all

7.5" on the snowboard here. Solid event.

Just broke through 2" mark.

16 minutes ago, wxsniss said:

Hadn't noted this before, mentioned on Box AFD... assisting lift is SNE being in RRQ of an H3 jet streak:

 

Great source for upper level divergence to assist with the lifting. Another good source is the left exit region of jet streak, but that's not relevant to this event.

18 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Snow maps are hard because they include tomorrow's snow...here's 24-hr QPF for Monday:

Give it to me, please.

Gonna go with 5" as my final amount.

We broke 5" mark with snow/sleet combo. 

Still sleeting hard with some mixture of snow leading to accumulation.

We finally changed over to sleet right when we hit 4" mark here.

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Pinging already. Toss the HRRR in the trash. It always plays catchup.

Amazing you're pinging while we still haven't change over yet. I'm sure it's about to happen any moment now, though.

Approaching to 4".

Puking snow. Best rate of this winter. 

3.5" and accumulating close to 1"/hr now. Sleet line is couple miles from here, though.