ORH_wxman

There was another storm on 3/12/05 but it was nowhere near a blizzard. Maybe he was thinking of that one. It was actually a storm trying to escape east and dumped a large area of 8-12” over the interior with a bit of an IVT enhancement.

Nice 3/8/05 redux on the 06z GFS. Euro was a snooze fest though.

We had a high of like 25F in full sun with zero pack in April during that cold outbreak. It’s really hard to beat that. It was brutally windy too. The only max temps on record colder than that in ORH were on snowy days or days with fresh snow cover.

Yea I remember that. It missed us south. 4/8/95 I think. It was after that ridiculous cold outbreak we got on 4/5 and 4/6

Jesus. I can see some grass blades already poking up. That’s pretty terrible.

EPO kind of retrogrades back northwest a bit whereas on guidance earlier this week it was folding the block over eastward into a PNA burst….so I agree the pristine look has degraded. There’s still a western ridge spike but it’s not shooting up into NW territories now….it’s more constrained to the CONUS and maybe southern BC. That’s still enough for a potential system but it requires more shortwave cooperation than those rare synoptic beasts that are almost predestined to happen when you get long waves syncing up.

His front yard gets torched.

I highly doubt it’s the last snow. I can think of only one year where our last snowfall of more than an inch was in February. 1994-1995. Even 2011-12 had a front ender in March that dropped several inches. Might have screwed your area though…can’t quite remember.

Coastal. (Assuming you’re referring to the mid-month Euro system)

A lot of people who like cruisers don’t ski trees. I love trees usually but there are days I don’t want to deal with them or if my legs are shot after a bunch of tough runs, I’ll want to relax on some cruisers.

Euro cooking up a nice system mid-month. That’s the window for another system. GGEM and Ukie try for something before that but I’m tossing those.

We had some really good Marches since the big 2013 March….2017, 2018, and 2019 were all big (2014 in NNE was huge…we got boned down here except for the Cape peeps in the 3/26/14 blizzard and 2015 was big on the south coast) I guess we were due for a couple March clunkers in a row. Hopefully this one can start producing.

We’ll see. Right now there’s no threats for NNE and the 3/12 system looks cutter-ish. Can still change though. A couple high-QPF snowers for NNE mid-month would really help.

Sucks up there in March…that’s supposed be prime skiing time in NNE. Maybe 60 is ok on reggaefest weekend at the end of March if it’s sunny/dry with the slopes covered in feet of snow. NNE has been pretty unlucky the past couple Marches and this one isn’t starting good either. I would’ve figured they’d do well with the look the past week and upcoming week but it hasn’t really happened. Phin’s area is probably due for one of those 50-60 inch months in March.

The Mar 2, 2019 storm was kind of disappointing in that for a couple runs it was absolutely crushing E MA/RI. We’re talking like a foot of snow…it ended up weaker and south so it was just an advisory type event in the end….but that would have been something to get back to back 12”+ storms 2 days apart.

I’d look at two periods…first one is maybe 3/11 where a front running wave tries to get us. Not super excited about that one but it’s been on and off guidance for a few cycles now. The better window is prob like 3/14-3/17. There’s a western ridge that spikes a bit around then (see below EPS)….no guarantees for anything but that is synoptically the best window if we have one more good one in us

3/11-12 never looked that good. Mid-month has more going for it. But some of the guidance has a front-running wave on 3/10 that is kind of interesting.

I had the grayskull castle.

Nice pattern on the 12 Euro:

It might have been better to be in LA for that one than here...I think BOS had 2 inches of sand in that while the Cape was getting their 2-3 foot blizzard. Cutoff was really sharp around the canal....even East Wareham had "only" a foot or so.

The Cape got a few good ones in the 1980s....my PTSD storm in Feb 1989 smoked them too. They had over a foot in the Dec '82 storm too (the famous snow plow game at Foxborough)

3 and a half inches of QPF with 28 inches of snow.....man pack.

That was another big interior season....coast struggled (except the Cape got a private blizzard)

2000-2001 incoming

First time for everything....ORH hadn't seen even 3 consecutive winters without a 10"+ storm on record from 1892-1988....then with perfect precision after I move back to ORH from Texas as a little kid, we get not only 3 in a row, but FOUR in a row without a 10"+ storm. Maybe you get that in Methuen after moving there like I did with ORH.