ORH_wxman

I have a ton of radar loops from the 1/26-27/15 storm....epic storm

Yeah, that is a great map....literally like 800+ miles of easterly fetch. That was a really bullish signal not to go too light in eastern New England.....all of that is like a long train hitting a brick wall when it reaches land.

This one wasn't 2 foot snow total like some of the other ones, but man, that was the most brutal cold I've ever experienced in a moderate to heavy snow event. IT is a lot different getting these temps in saturated air with wind than calm nights or even dry CAA windy cold temps. This stuff literally sliced through you like a sharp razor.

Yeah the forecast from most TV outlets over ORH county was in the 5-8" range with some lower in the 2-4" range. NWS was a little more bullish with like 8-12" and I was hammering it even harder, but I still busted pretty heavily. I went 10-15" I think. I had no idea why everyone was so skittish on that one. I wonder if they were all worried about a bust like DC had in that one (they had a WSW for like 6-10" and got basically zilch in DC with a few sloppy inches in the suburbs....you had to go well west into the foothills to get big totals there. But the temp profile was totally different here...we had these -4C to -5C 950mb temps funneling down the Maine coast right into the CCB/Firehose.

One of my favorites....prob still the biggest bust here inside of 24-36 hours in the past decade.

I'll throw you a bone now

Kevin was already on edge after seeing pics of me in the jacket with the might-mac zipper in like 8" of paste from round 1....but then when I posted those round 2 pics, he absolutely lost it. An all-timer.

Must have been frigid when you took those....I remember that storm and temps just absolutely plummeted behind it....the 19th I think struggled to reach 0F there. We had like a high of 3 or 4F.

Ok, I'm in 2009-2010....pretty frustrating winter, but at least it gave us this.....LOL: MLK storm pics, and then the snow pack a couple days after. How ridiculous is that gradient just S of the pike? Those two pics I posted are what caused the epic Kevin nuclear meltdown.

I have two photos from 12/23/08, a couple days after the back to back 12/19-21/08 events.....pretty solid pack....and a lot of mangled trees form the ice storm the week before.

12/21/08....another epic coastal front.

Yeah Dec doesn't really have a pig either...it's a -PNA/-NAO pattern which is actually pretty good for New England. Rest of the winter is canceled on that though, lol.

Have to post these in here....when I was going back to 2007-2008, I passed the 2008-2009 stuff and here's the ice storm. I love the mesonet map the next morning with all the temps missing in the interior where the ice was epic. Also, check out that temp gradient near/just north of Ginxy. That low slices right through SE CT/RI/SE MA and brought that gulf air with it. Monsonx_wx (I think that was his handle?) posted a comparison from the night before of the map that I saved.

I think I had maybe an hour of IP/ZR at most. It was like 8.5" of snow in 4 hours and then a quick bout of ZR/IP and them some FZDZ for several hours. High was like 23 or 24F until FROPA spiked it to 31F, lol.

Actually that first image shows it washing out amazingly SW of PVD....like over almost the entire state of RI. What a great loop that is....too bad we didn't have dual-pol back then.

Speaking of '07-'08....might as well pull up the old 12/16/07 images....first couple is the radar showing the sleet washing out SW of ORH continuously....of coure this was pre-dualpol, so we had to estimate where sleet was looking at the base reflectivity....then the next image is the amazing CF that system had....then ofcourse the sfc plot is my favorite where its ripping S/S+ in SE MA and pinging in Watertown, NY and the Tug Hill.

I took this pic of Morses pond in Wellesley while on the train on the way into work.....it's an unremarkable pic of a frozen pond, except the date is 4/7/15. Totally frozen ponds are not normal right near BOS in April. Something you'd expect to only see in the deeper interior.

Yeah if you were near Boston in 2015, you got about 90-100" in 3 weeks.

October 2011 in ORH

Yeah that’s Tip though I think technically Jerry is the last one to go on that. Just to the right of Tip a millisecond later you see Jerry flying by. LOL LOL, he leaves everyone speculating whether I actually jumped or not.

I do think the HC/FC gradient is being significantly enhanced at our latitudes by the +AO of the past 5-6 seasons or so after we had a pretty good run of strongly -AO seasons (sans '11-'12) in the previous 5 years. So my guess is some of the gradient issues relax during our next bout of -AO patterns. Of course, we also aren't entirely sure how much the HC expansion or climate change affects the AO itself. We have seen competing theories in the literature. Here's another version of the map from yesterday. Instead of comparing the last 5-6season to 2000-2014, I compared it to only 2009-2014...the AO region sticks out even more.

I agree it seems to have a larger effect on a multi-year scale rather than a shorter time frame. It's likely more one of those things where if we get it strongly positive or strongly negative leading into a month, it can help sustain or inhibit a pattern all else equal.....i.e., it isn't a dominant driver but can act as a compliment.

I love how Tip jumps near the end....he's like "ahh screw it, I hate 50F with warm car seats afterall"