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    January 19th Pre HECS Huddle

    in New England

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, DomNH said:

    Great to finally meet you all in person. I thought it was funny that several folks thought I was a middle aged man. 

    That's pretty funny I did too until I met you back a few years ago at nashua CWSU lol.

    I haven't been on this forum much in the last few years, hope things are well with you man.

    -Ryan

    Upstate/Eastern New York

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

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    4 hours ago, weatherMA said:

    Ground truth is still just very light snow here in Queensbury right now. Looks nice on radar, I'd be curious if its different in other areas.

    Picked up at some point, there's another 1.5" or so out there. Storm total somewhere between 5" and 6". Inching our way to a respectable total.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    I started posting in Summer 2008, so I was on for the 08-09 winter...I was home from Middlebury in Westchester for the Dec 19-21 storm...had about 8" or so from the 12/19 event, then 3" plus icing from the second wave although it turned to rain in NYC proper. It was a huge double-barreled event in Vermont with about 10" from each storm. The New Year's mega torch ruined most of the snowpack but January 2009 was just epic in Vermont, had the fluff clipper early in the month and then the monster SW flow event on 1/28 that dropped over a foot. I left to study in Chile a few weeks later but what a great front-loaded winter that was.

    Your posts have been great man...you are a wonderful contributor to the forum.

    Thanks dude. I've learned a ton but there's so much to learn.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

    Posted

    We had a ton of long duration storms in 1993-1994 and 1995-1996...but otherwise its really kind of a farce...I love to think they happen more often than they do, but then I look back and see which storms lasted long, and I realize that a lot of them were in my school days so they become more vivid because of the snow days.

    That is the calculator at work that Ray despises. But those long duration events do happen...last really notable one I can remember is Dec 19-21, 2008 (actually two systems...but so was 1994 so many times)...but it happened on a weekend before Xmas so it doesn't stick out in terms of disturbing work or school.

    The amazing part of my stories is that all the delays would be the same if they happened now...its not like I'm talking from 1972 or something and since I deal with DOT people on a regular basis, I know exactly how it would be handled in 2012...but its likely you would have had the same days off as me...the only exception might be you get back to school one day earlier in December 1992. Maybe also one day earlier in Mar 1993...but that is debatable.

    LOL, that's ok, I still like snow even if it doesn't disturb school. I remember '08. It snowed all day Saturday in between the two systems...just never stopped snowing. I wasn't on this forum but that was one of the first storms I was on accuweather for lol....I discovered this forum spring of '09 (eastern) and started posting at the end of that year. I can't believe its been 2+ years on eastern/american already...time flies.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    I was lucky in getting multiple snow days in a row so many times...obviously Dec 1992...we got 2 in a row in March 1993 later that winter too even though the storm was less impactful here and ended at the same time (predawn hours Sunday morning)....but it was was still 21" of snow. But it was underforecast here like Dec 1992...they said 7-14" of snow for March 1993 and said 20" would be west of us.

    Then I got a dual snowdays off in Jan 1994 when we had back to back storms overrunning us on Jan 7-8 I think, i could be off a bit on the dates...the storm wasn't very memorable so that's why I could be off on the date. The day it started we got off, but we probably could have gone to school, it didn't start until about 8am...but it lasted a long time and it flipped to sleet and maybe even ZR for a time before going back to snow..long duration storm. Like a 36-40 hour deal.

    Then we actually got 2 days off in blizzard of 1996 even though we were too far north for the jackpot...we got crushed on Monday morning....but we already had a 20" snow pack before that storm happened...so they cancelled Tuesday even though the snow stopped around midnight that monday night into tuesday...because the sidewalks and side streets were so poorly plowed and shoveled that they had to call it.

    I feel like we've had less long duration storms lately...any truth to that? It just seems like most snowstorms last 12-18 hours regardless of amounts and then they're done.

    Anyway, last winter was awesome because even when it looked like rain, events somehow turned wintry. I remember that happened on 2/25 and again on 2/28-3/1. Both of them trended more wintry and 2/25 I believe was snow to rain back to snow. And then 2/28 looked like rain but we got a good period of zr I believe on top of like the 10-15" of snow still remaining. I can still picture that...it looked amazing. Then we also had the 3-5" advisory event on 3/27 (edit: 2/27, March sucked).

    Man, last winter was awesome. :lol:

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

    Posted

    Youngsters like weatherMA and ma_blizzard would have been in nirvana in ORH during Dec 1992 since school was out until Thursday or Friday despite the fact the storm started Friday and ended late Sat night into early Sunday morning.

    It's coming 3/3 to 3/10. Watch out :P. Seriously though, the best thing I've had in my young life was after the 10/29 snowstorm on that Saturday afternoon/night we were out of school Monday/Tuesday. We also had the famous "double snowday" last year where people were hoping for 3 snow days from 2/1 to 2/3 of 2011. That was when the first storm really trended into the major one with 6-8" for a lot of people when originally the second one was supposed to be the dominant one. That was when stations through out 18-24" amounts...and that busted but it was still enough for double snowdays.

    Besides that though I can only remember getting single snowdays. On 12/13/07 we got out of school early and I remember watching flurries fall in 8th grade English last period before we got let out at noon...and by the time I got home it was 1-2" down and a whiteout. I remember being on the news the next day for being the only school without a delay the next morning. Also there was the 2/10/10 bust where we were supposed to get 8-14" and many schools let out early and we ended up with 3" of fluff that night after just flurries and snow showers in the afternoon.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

    Posted

    The last pic could have been April 1st last year?

    We didn't have a lot of wet snowstorms last year where we were. Only Apr 1st and maybe the 3-4 incher on Feb 8 before the cold front came in.

    The 3" on 2/8/11 is easily my favorite 3" snowstorm of all time.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

    Posted

    That winter had some horrifying model teases...that storm...the Dec 19 storm (for interior where we got screwed)...Feb 10, 2010...and then December 1992 plus half a degree in mid March.

    LOL, that was bad.That was the first storm where I actually saw parts of Shrewsbury get flooded. I remember how mad you were during that one...lol.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

    Posted

    I recall the details of that storm like it was yesterday. That was probably the best valley screwjob in SNE history. It was amazing what every foot of elevation made in that storm. The next time one of those happens Ray would absolutley lose it

    lol

    i was a freshman, in trig class...just staring out the window...the wind kept gusting and i would look as hard as i could to see if i could see any snowflakes mixed in when the rain hit the windows...i think i started hallucinating snowflakes...since it didn't change over at my place until 6am on saturday...but i was useless all day in school...

    Sounds like me everyday before any storm that's greater then 3" arrowheadsmiley.png. Even the storm that brought 6-12" to CON and north last week I was checking my ipod at school just because I was curious lol

    Looks like I got about 25" in this storm Will while you get like 35"? Does that sound right?

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

    Posted

    Those marginal icing events helped preserve the snow pack longer in the higher hills...that and later in the season in general you have more melt days and 33F vs 37F can become a noticeable difference over the course of several days or more.

    Yeah not really surprising. On any other year that would be an amazing snow pack for 3/1...>12" except for areas directly exposed. This year it was a bit of a let down after the 5/6 week period from 12/26 to 2/2. Just two days before that there was an icing event...then a rain event I think? Then March 1 was clear and cool.

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