The 4 Seasons

thanks I just finished remapping and updating Boxing Day 2010 storm if anyones interested. There is also a new Lower Northeast map with all the climate sites on it as well as a bunch of extra images and maps related to the storm https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/dec-26-27-2010

BTW the new OKX storm archive is up, they changed the URL to something different so i know why my link was broken now used to be /stormevents still mostly ends at 2015, for earlier you have to use the wayback machine, and the links on there dont even work https://www.weather.gov/okx/stormarchive

The internet archive is a beautiful thing and total non profit organization like Wikipedia. It crawls the entire web, you can even find our little site on there and see the progress and how its changed over time. I never even thought to look at it for these past events pages that have been taken down over the years from OKX and BOX. It's shame the NWS don't have the server capacity to keep them up. That's why a lot of their stuff is offloaded onto IEM (Iowa State) where you can find pretty much every product from the past.

2 foot+ per season in ORH is wild, they really do grow on trees there. How do you calculate this? And what i mean is how do you know when an event 3+ or 6+? Say for example if the daily climate data had 5.9 on one day and 0.3 the day before? Is that 0.3 from an unrelated snow shower early in the morning or was it 0.3 just before midnight and connected to the same storm. Is it a 3-5.9" event or 6+ event? I know a lot of storms are spread across 2 days, sometimes 3 so im curious how you'd figure that out. unless you are using your memory and cross checking radar and other stuff...i feel like this would be difficult to do beyond what one can remember. Just doing daily X-amount is easy, but by "storm" its a lot more difficult...unless you're keeping track in real time except for the 50s-70s.

Snowfall totals from this event...thrilling stuff A little odd to me that ORH didn't even report a T for this event, just a big zero. All the SNE snowfall maps for this season are up here, so far there is 24 events https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/sne-25-26

Brutal gradient. 4.5 BDL, 1-3 near 91 in MA https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/mar-7-8-2013

i finally found this stat! i always remembered and referenced these numbers but never knew where i saw them. Boston is about 1/3 seasons for a 12"+ event, ORH is about 1/2 and BDL is 1/4 and NYC though not on that list is about 1/5. I'm sure these went up considerably since 1992, probably by a lot.

that makes more sense

why is this all crazy looking

great, thanks! that page brings me back I found the one from OKX that they deleted as well. Can't click on the links but i can at least see them https://web.archive.org/web/20151031235410/https://www.weather.gov/okx/stormevents

8 years ago today. This was an incredible short duration storm here that was one of the 5 or so that i've experienced thundersnow. This one (and Feb 2001) was some of the most intense close proximity thunder i've ever seen. The other few like Feb 2017 and Feb 2003 were more distant rumbles of thunder. Not this one. I happened to be outside when it was snowing hard around 7-8pm or so. I was looking down and all of sudden a bright white flash engulfed my surroundings. For a split second i couldn't compute what was happening, i thought it was maybe a flood light or something. Then very quickly BOOM a super loud convective clap hit like it was summer. I looked up and saw multiple CG strikes after that in the distance. Had to be very close by because the delta was <1 second and i could see the lightning strikes. Only time i was ever outside and saw thundersnow. We picked up about 13.5" in just a few hours. I'll be remapping and touching up this storm at some point soon. Radar and other maps: https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/mar-7-8-2018

Only 8 months till November.

I go through the same thing I send them pics and never do they use mine but another spotter in north haven who's always higher. Weird how North Haven jackpots all the time..

Yeah and don't forget 21" during the blizzard

Thanks lotta strange names in there i don't recognize..16 years ago

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/storm-archive

That was the only widespread adv snowfall that season

? It's there not sure how you could miss it It's in the main archive and all the snowfall maps pages

I did. I used that as a guide back to 2008 and also used the F6 for EWR BDR BDL and ORH. And then checked pns and coop/cocorahs for those dates that showed snow and my memory as well. Oh and Ray's winter storm archive I think i just didn't include it in the main archive bc it didn't affect CT with any snow >3". I am going back and filling in all the missing storms in the SNE snowfall maps pages (every N MA, E MA, S NJ only storm). There's a lot.

Yup looks like it was separated into two parts on the 20-21st and the 23rd. The pns lists it as two separate events even though it was part of the same system. https://arctic.som.ou.edu/tburg/products/realtime/models/?model=era5&base=ptype&background=plain&state=states_brown&country=countries_brown&proj=conus&archive=false&run=2010121100

Maybe they moved from Canada and think it's CM? I don't see any other way you come up with that number

Didn't realize i missed a very large coastal storm that clipped SE MA before Boxing Day 2010. I didn't know about that one. I'll have to do that one and add it

Looks like a general C-2 for most of franklin, worcester, middlesex and essex counties

After thinking about it I don't think we've had a winter this well rounded with cold, snow pack and storms every month since 95-96. Maybe 10-11 or 13-14 but even those didn't have a march... we'll see how march works out this time. I guess 02-03 was wall to wall but not this much snow pack and Jan was dead