The 4 Seasons

Feb 13: Greatest blizzard ever, take that CT! Mar 1888: Hold my snow. Data is very sparse on this. I tried searching the internet but the only thing that comes up with numbers is the K/U map that i also have in his book. The towns are not even listed so i just went by what that map looked like and put the numbers in the general area where they look to be. The ranges are pretty similar to the KU map except i did 15-30 instead of 10-20 and 20-30 ranges, simply because there was nothing under 15". Max for CT is 45" in New Haven i believe. Albany put up a 55 spot.

Thank you for the kind words. I am going to answer your questions one by one. I do all maps manually. I use local PNS statements from the 3 FOs that cover CT. I go through them by hand, trying my best to discount ones that have times when i know it was still snowing (accumulating snow) in that location, ones that seem off or ones that are from the DOT. I also use reports from AMWX and CoCoRaHs. As well as other sources if possible, local media/news. I use Adobe Photoshop to do all my maps. I found a base image of CT online and created a template for forecast maps and totals maps. I had no idea how to use Photoshop when i first got into it in 2014 but i learned on my own through trial and error and watching youtube tutorial videos. It is NOT an easy program to work with it at all. It's not what you would call user-friendly or intuitive. PS definitely takes some time to get down the basics but over the years i feel i've become pretty good with it. I'm not looking to create any pre 1993 maps, so i'm good on that thanks. The only map i've ever considering doing was 1888. Your post got me thinking so i just went ahead and did it. Posted below ...

That season was pretty good as a whole, i think i got about 60" which is almost double my avg 17-18 was the season of the Jan "Snow Bomb" that dropped 7-14 statewide. A nice Dec low end warning event. a Feb low end warning event and those march storms. And the Jan 30th surprise snow storm.

how could you forget rates of 2-4"/hr and epic thundersnow. i remember being outside using the blower and i was looking down and it got so bright so fast, i thought it was flood lights coming on or something then a huge clap, like a summertime thunderstorm. It wasnt just some rumbling in the distant, it was loud af. Probably CG lightning within a mile from me. Then a few more of these before it ended.

This was a fun one for the hill towns, envied Norfolk at the time.

The 4 monster nor'easters of March 2018. Something ill never forget, just for the fact we had 4, each a week a part.

Def not the worst. 7 days later came an even worse bust. lets all remember.

i felt exactly the same. it was early morning around 5-7am

yeah its hard to pick up on the NESIS, 4-10 is quite a broad range.

looks like a puzzle piece I remember this storm Ryan kept hammering a heavy snow zone down central connecticut, i saw it too, we all saw it. Ended up being Central CT smoked exhaust and got totally screwed.

12-20-2009

The Blizzard of 2009. 10 years ago today.

old wounds, new map.

Another 0.3 puts me at 6.5 on the season

snowfall totals and ice totals from 12/17 Dec 18th Snow Squall Event

a whopping 0.3" of snow last night puts me to 6.2 on the season got more ice than snow..0.38 ice another spotter in North Haven measured 0.5" on a flat surface, i used the small tree branch method.

WTF is that, jesus.

I never really thought of that with sky scrapers the towers must had quite a bit more snow up there at 1400ft

Had zr but it’s so close to freezing that All the roads were just wet

+2.5" last storm, 5.9 on the season. Prob close to the bottom of the list but hey still doin good for my personal climo, can't complain.

12/11/19

Damn thats a lot of snow, we lost coverage on day 1! Some small piles left at the Stop & Shop. I took my sled to the very top of the 5 foot brown pile and sledded up and down for hours. People kept staring at me and i couldn't figure out why.