The 4 Seasons

anyone got CT final snow reports send em may way, ty

Gas up the snow blower

39 Rain.

I'm more jelly than Bill Cosby right now

Hope you do more often this winter. It's great having you post here we all appreciate your insight and experience.

Its that time of year again

I always prefer a wet suck.

Gotta wait over an hour for that unless you have a time machine

lol as i correct you, i make one myself. We can stop with the geek computer talk now, sorry about that for clogging the thread.

i didn't know hard drives had clock speeds now. Congrats. P.S. Free Leo

ah Windows ME, the most hated of all operating systems. The screen is blue more often than not. Well i got Windows 2.0 with 128KB of RAM and a 286 processor. But its the 80s, so i wont have any storms to track. Congrats on the move to the Northeast btw, im sure you missed the snow and are very happy about that.

Damn. State of Mass: stop using windows 7. Although, if they are a big enterprise, they might have extended support until 2023. Not sure how big the company is.

bruh, who's using Windows 7 in 2020 lol. You know extended support ended Jan 14th 2020, that means you're vulnerable to viruses and malware. Just letting you know.

Nostalgia: Blizzard of 13 at 50:33

Oh, god don't remind me of that nightmare. That was like a mini Jan 2015. One of my most hated and biggest busts i can remember. The forecasts from the National Weather Service were 12-18" for here. We ended up with around 6" of wind whipped snow that resulted in a few mounds of 12" and snow in the woods and lots of bare ground. Heres the NWS ZFP i still remember the wording: .SATURDAY NIGHT...WINDY WITH SNOW...GRADUALLY TAPERING OFF TO SNOW SHOWERS. BLIZZARD CONDITIONS EXPECTED AT TIMES IN THE EVENING. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 1 TO 2 INCHES. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION 12 TO 18 INCHES. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTH WINDS 25 TO 30 MPH. At first they said something like "expected to be around a foot" then changed it to a number range of 12-18. Snow began during the late evening and it was a good start with heavy snow and we recieved 4-5" very quickly. Then all of a sudden got slotted and then experienced light barely accumulating S- snow or overcast for the next 24hrs with an additional 1-2". Painful. You can see what i mean by the radar:

I figured there would be some comments on that grade. Let me explain why i gave it a C. Hopefully this makes sense and jusitfies a C grade. First and most importantly, the gradings i gave for this winter and all the other ones i posted are for North Haven, Connecticut. NOT for the entire state. If i was grading the entire state it would be very different for not only this winter, but every other one as well. Second, the grades are completely subjective and based way more on purely snowfall. I actually gave it a C NOT because of purely snowfall but for many other reasons. The snowfall did help as an "average" or C winter would based on just snowfall would be 30" for here. So 39.3 would put it into the B range if that were the case. But along with the positives the help boost the grade there are many negatives as well. Ill list them here. PROS: Two double digit storms in one season. It's not an annual occurance that we get one, let alone two Every storm performed as expected or was a large positive bust, no negative busts 3/4 storms were daytime (mostly) storms Historic KU. 14.4" blizzard conditions, heavy snow, cold - the perfect storm Most storms occured within MET winter and low sun angle Above average snowfall CONS: Putrid December +11.6 at BDL +11.3 BDR, no snow during the holidays, almost snowless. 69F Xmas eve. First snowfall didn't occur until late Jan Lack of any meaningful snow pack or retention 3 weeks of winter, rest of the winter was pretty warm and rain Only 4 significant storms to track, 2 adv level, 2 warning level The 4 significant storms of 15-16: 14.4" Significantly positive trends in modeling leading right up to the storm. Possibility of whiff was very real even 24hrs in advance. End result was just outside the highest range of forecast. Daytime storm, blizzard conditions 2-3"/hr rates, 20s. 10.4" Significantly positive trends in modeling leading right up to the storm. End result was just outside the highest range of forecast. Heavy wet snow. Half at night half in the morning hours. 4.1" Daytime ocean storm. End result was just outside the highest range of forecast. Performed about as expected. 4.8" Late season storm. Performed about as expected except for eastern CT. Max snowfall along 91. Night storm not much if anything on the roads, evaporated in hours. So, for those reasons, im out. Haha, but seriously thats it. I think a C is completely justified, in fact, i gave it a C+ at the time the season ended and even considered at one point upgrading it to a B-. Now lets compare it to 18-19 which was significantly less snow, about 15" less, pretty much zero snow in met winter, one in Nov and one in March. Thats why that winter got a D+. And 19-20 was obviously lower because of the terrible snowfall 10.2". No 6"+ events. Two advisory events and that was it. About as bad as it gets here. F.

15-16. The "C" Winter.

16-17. The "B+" Winter.

17-18. The "B+" Winter.

18-19. The "D+" Winter.

I was just talking about this recently. You can ignore BDR reports most of the time. They are horribly low, without a doubt. This same thing occured on Jan 23 2016. All the towns around southern fairfield cty at the shore are in the 12-16". BDR reports? 9". Watching the radar unfold and surrounding reports, thats impossible. So i just ignored it.

I'm going back for the past 6 seasons, starting with 14-15 and going through 19-20 and making graphical snowfall maps for season totals in CT. Starting with 19-20. The "F" winter.

Heres the op run. only 228 hrs away.

WXbell is the way to go. Thought weathermodels was going to be good but its pretty um not good.

Just over 6 months till summer.