LibertyBell

at some point humanity will need to attempt climate regulation. There is no way around it. In every other science (except for astronomy of course, since we cant reach the stars yet), we are more than just observers, we are experimenters. Climatology is no different.

what happened to the climate shifts thread?

Well it's their funeral. Whatever happens it's what humanity deserves. I feel bad for the younger generation, but until the older people die off, this wont be solved.

summer temps got less accurate after the asos was put in lol and wind too

Yes thats what put it 3rd on my list, I have Jan 2016, Feb 2003 and Jan 1996 in that order. The second day of the storm was a bit of a disappointment.

the winds must have been amazing! higher LE directly correlates to the difficulty in shoveling it lol

I always forget that March 1914 storm, wasn't that a triple phaser? And of course, Dec 1947 belongs on this list. Wow we had another big LE wintry storm almost exactly a year after Feb 1920.

Yes! I like to put the 3" LE all frozen storms in a category of their own. The only one I had like that which was all snow was Jan 2016. Looks like you had even more with Feb 2013. The highest snowfall totals I read about were around 40"! Feb 1961 and perhaps the snowicane in Feb 2010 belong in that list too. Two ancient storms that probably also belong on that list are the blizzard of Mar 1888 and Feb 1920.

Wow, some things dont change, remember when the LIE was closed for miles after the February blizzard in 2013? Would you say the impact of Feb 1978 was similar to that?

I think so! I remember seeing it in a scientific equipment catalog years ago.

where did you get accurate analog stuff? none of mine seemed to work right until I went all digital.

Feb 1983 was the prototype for Jan 1996, PD2 and Jan 2016. The odd storm out was Jan 1996, which happened in an la nina, the others were all el nino.

oh that reminds me, what about 1966-67?

the barometer with a pointer and dial, sort of like the things you measured blood pressure with before the digital stuff came out lol. It responded far too slowly to air pressure changes and I ended up breaking it because I put it outside when that wasn't even necessary lol. My digital barometer measures outside air pressure just fine from inside my bedroom!

I didn't even have an accurate thermometer until I got my first digital one from Radio Shack back in 1995. It was far more accurate than any of the liquid ones. All those "scientific" ones with the red liquid (alcohol!) were not accurate. I used to think they used mercury but they didn't. And they were extremely slow in responding to radiational cooling or any rapid temp drop. And those aneroid barometers dont work either- what a rip off! I didn't have any accurate weather equipment until I went all digital, which wasn't until 2005.

Just imagine it, back in those days we were begging for scraps because the weather only came on for a few minutes every day. I used to wait for AM Weather on PBS, 15 min every morning! And Joe Cioffi on WOR radio! Could you imagine if we didn't have the internet during this snowy era? It's good that it waited until now. Even 93-94 and 95-96 could have been a lot better if we had discussion boards like these back then! I got weather radio just in time for the 95-96 winter :-)

Jer, was all 7.1 of that from the last storm at Logan?

I think he meant that Dec 2010 (Boxing Day Blizzard) was the one that snuck up on us.

my first encounter with thundersnow that I remember was Feb 1994, it happened during the day and the snowfall rates were crazy and I actually saw the bolts of lightning and heard the thunder!

1993-94 though is the all time snowiest winter at Allentown.

Feb 1961 was one of the greatest storms of all time, 25" of snow even though rain and sleet mixed in. Central Park undermeasured back then, and JFK kept better numbers.

also please check 2002-03 and 2010-11 and 2014-15

for snow pack 10-11 eventually topped 93-94. If the winter had continued beyond the end of January it would have topped 95-96 too. I would have loved a combo of 10-11 and 14-15 what a winter that would have been! Combine the December and January of 2010 with the February and March of 2015 lol.

March 1993 was earth's equivalent of the Great Red Spot, except it was the Great White Spot :-P It would be fun if Earth ever got a perpetual storm that never dissipates like that!

being a snowfall purist I preferred 95-96 to 93-94.... sleet and freezing rain annoys me (unless it's an all ice storm, which looks pretty on the trees.)