LibertyBell

the following winter was much better. How did you do in the last storm in 09-10, when Central Park got 20 inches-- the snowicane? That was the start of three 20 inch snowstorms in 12 months!

That was the storm that made me think that Philly belongs in the MidAtlantic subforum not part of our subforum.

I think the greatest gradient I have ever seen was the 1.5 inches at JFK to 24 inches at Toms River. That's nearly two feet over 50 miles!

It makes me really miss October and the first half of November....

it smells and feels like sunshine outside.... BECAUSE IT'S MOSTLY SUNNY!

The East in your location always throws me off lol I always think Weston= Western CT Easton= Eastern CT lol

I see they're under a blizzard warning, I saw some forecasts for there up to 20 inches of snow? Wow!

But you're in SE CT right? You would be better off near New Haven, they were the jackpot in that storm.

I'm surprised that Mt Pocono has 30.5 inches while the southern part of the same county only has 6 inches lol

This is very similar to what happened in the late 80s, the last three years are a good match for that overall. Maybe the fast Pac hurt us back then too.

we had blizzard warnings in the city? I don't remember that. I remember 6-8 inches here which is a very good storm for March. Can't really expect more than that in March,

and it hasn't happened in my lifetime.

They are in a better position for the west to east track that typically exits near the Virginia capes. I remember seeing a map of typical tracks storms take that go west to east and they're well located for that track.

This goes towards what I said yesterday, that we need coastal storms, NYC is particularly sensitive to storm track. A place like DC can get to normal snowfall without them but we cannot. Without coastal storms, we will either have a miss to the south and get cold and dry weather, or a miss to the north and get rain. West to east storms don't normally cross near enough to us to give us a significant amount of snow.

Good, I'm headed there on the 18th. Snow is most beneficial for the ski areas.

a mixing storm would fit la nina climatology plus a hugger is what we would expect to see in a thread the needle scenario coming out of suppression. On the positive side, a lot of people would see significant snow out of a storm like that even if it's not the immediate coast. A few inches changing to rain is better than a miss. It's these kinds of storms that most commonly occur in this area.

They've done some major cost cutting. Actually so has ESPN, but ESPN was smart enough not to skimp on live coverage.

it seems like suppression is common in some of our lowest snowfall winters areas to our south also got more snow than us in 1972-73 and 2001-02

Oh yes they do. the southern storm track favors them it's happened time and again there are two primary storm tracks, one to the south and one to the north, NYC is between the two tracks. You need a coastal to get the higher totals around here because west-east storm tracks don't usually cut it for this region it's not some fluke, it's actually rather common but it used to be much more common in the past. It almost always happens in January when the risk of suppression is the greatest.

How did December 1989 bust so badly in a historically cold pattern? I remember rain and thunderstorms instead of our forecast heavy snow. Did DC and Boston both get a lot of snow from that? This came months after am equally bad bust in the opposite direction-- February 1989. Both were forecast for 6-8 inches we got virga in one and rain and thunderstorms in the other lol.

all day whiteout conditions I loved that storm!

I think people are tired of the block already lol

Do you agree it's good to see a coastal hugger right now because we're in a suppressed pattern? Not that such a storm can't happen in a suppressed pattern (see December 1989) which was the second blown 6-8 inch forecast in 1989 lol.

It dropped 20+ just inland from the coast and even a foot on Long Island so most would be happy if that kind of outcome happened again. Plus it was during a la nina and in the middle of a very cold pattern too.

No I mean, it took a similar path to that track. December 2000.