WinterWolf

No, you’re correct. That was looking very bleak at the time. Pretty much The whole month of January sucked that year until the last 3-5 days.

That’s a dam black hole over the northeast..wow.

Besides the 80-90 mph winds..why not?

The one from Jan 18 was 950…but that was way outside the BM.

I guess the take away there is…there’s some power in that upper air set up. Good to see.

With him hanging on to it.

Here’s the thing Luke…it was a long duration storm for us Westies. It started here by 7am Friday morning, snowed light to moderate at times all day, no lulls, picked up about 4-5” by sunset. Then as the sun went down it ramped up and went absolutely bazurk all night, till about 4:30 am, when it finally tapered down. So for WOR, it was a long duration event. That’s what made it so good.

It was good here too. You did better in Jersey as far as accumulation than we did here in Jan 96, but it was a big one. Dam I wished you got to see Feb 13, that was a monster, and in a class all it’s own, and especially for WOR. Add another 6 plus on to that 28” amount, and big wind too.

See my post of Jan 96.

The irony with those things is, they almost never help you. When you wish you had one, they are nowhere to be found. When you wish they’d disappear, there’s shit all over the joint. Wretched entities they are.

Jan 96 had the blizzard…a big one. Ironically, that was slated for a SE/Mid Atlantic hit, and was thought not able to get up in here. But it trended as we got closer to go time into a hit up in to SNE as well.

Some areas have done fine in December, yours not so much unfortunately. Winters in SNE are very variable…never really truly wire to wire with deep cold or snow. Even the record breakers have had huge swings. Also, we are 9-10 days into Astro winter…I’d give it a few more weeks before you pass judgement on it. It’s the same as saying summer sucks on 6/30, which also is premature.

Lol…that’s funny cuz you’re still gonna lose another minute tomorrow morning on the SR. If of course that’s what you’re talking about?

Because that’s what happened 4 times in December. So you feel that at a week out, the solution is set? I’m sorry I don’t. We didn’t have a solution for 12/20 the morning of. But yet we know what a week out will bring now? And after that(10-12 days out), you feel that is pretty much set too? I’m not of that thinking. Sure, these can fail. They all can fail. I mean…there may never be another flake the rest of this winter, sitting here on 12/31. But I don’t feel the can has been kicked yet at all…the pattern has yet to change/set in. Give it a chance. If it’s 1/15-1/20, and we have nothing to show, I’ll be the first guy to say it blows, and it flopped. And I should have been more clear, I meant the whining thread for Ice1972.

Did you grow up in the 80’s? Cuz it would almost never snow until well into January then. This is nothing new. It’s just returned again. And also another thing…when you’re tracking potential threats that are 7-10-12 days out…the dates of those are gonna be in flux, and morph. Some of you people just don’t get it. Go live and die by every Op run. I don’t give a flying shit. Just Take your f’n whining to the cry baby thread.

Vodka?

WTF are you talking about? We’ve had a bunch of very good seasons since 2011. I give up. Go on another rant and sound like a complete lunatic.

C’mon…that’s a little bit of stretch now. The 11th or so time frame has been showing up for a while. As Scott said earlier today, every chance isn’t gonna workout. They never do, nor should we expect them to.

Nah…just why be a negative Nellie all the time? It changes nothing. And doesn’t factor in to making a storm that’s a week out any more or less probable. Believe it or not, I was you(and others) after we got shut out in 2010. The next year I was so dam jaded, I just knew everything was gonna whiff, miss or basically fall apart. I was told by the mods on Accuweather forums that I needed to provide solid scientific evidence as to why the storms were going to miss….or they would delete my posts. And that was leading into January 2011. Well we know how that ended up. So all my concern and jaded ideas from the previous disaster that was 2010(and growing up in the 1980’s), didn’t mean crap. So after that, I changed the way I looked at things.

Nobody is asking you to believe…just sit back and watch what happens.

Yes, Something is gonna hit.

Now we’re talking.

A few hrs ago you said it gon get cold, but the snow part you weren’t sure of. Gee, you changed your mind quick.

He’s starting to come off the severe jaded horse…good to see.

Agreed, and To your point of things not being seen yet, Or disappearing as we go along, if we go back just two days ago, on Saturday afternoon, we had posters worried about having no shortwaves in the flow(and it being just cold and dry with nothing happening), and now we have a shit load of SW’s. My how that has changed in just two days time.