ORH_wxman

Scroll down to "monthly snowfall" on the left and it will give you the snowfall for each season by month http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ma3052 As always keep in mind that a few of the years have incomplete data, but overall their records are pretty good. You can get daily data from the Utah state climate site.

The question I answered was the last time that all 4 stations failed to get an 8" event. '99-'00 was a miserable season and seems to fly under the radar when we talk about putrid winters. Just god-awful that winter was.

Probably '99-'00. I think before that it was '88-'89. edit: actually I'm not sure what you are asking. If you are asking when was the last time that one SNE station failed to get 8", then it was probably '09-'10 at BDL.

Took this one on Feb 7th....we actually added 3-4" to this the next morning. That was the high point of the season the next morning when we had about 38" on the ground. In this pic, we had about 34" on level ground.

We lost snow in the open areas by mid March but the woods held onto snow pack until mid April. But if you were doing it by "official" guidelines, then we were down to nothing by mid-March. Those two huge torching rainstorms killed us. I still had over 20" on March 1st.

Yeah and he didn't get the good surprise either than Phil got on Jan 8th. The one where he had like a trace and Phil had 5"+. Than 10 miles NW everyone got 2-3".

Eventually we'll have another '04-05 where Phil's snow pack is twice that of Kevin's like it was that winter.

That was a great storm down there. A huge bust in the positive direction. I don't even think more than 3" was forecasted anywhere down there 6 hours before the storm. Even Plymouth county got whacked pretty hard with warning criteria.

That event sort of turned the worm for us last winter. We had blown a couple of golden chances...and we thought we were going to completely miss that one too but we ended up getting a surprise 2-5" snowfall over those 2-3 days...enough to give us a White Christmas when it was looking bleak. Once we had that positive bust, we managed to go on quite a roll right through early February.

Yeah they got like 25-30" out that way with more on the spine in 1/12. 1/12 was the best storm for our region as a whole. 1/27 though was really cool, it had some extremely intense snowfall rates for a few hours. 12/26 was a bit disappointing though I can't complain overall since I still got 12" in that storm...many others had single digits.

I think you had to go more out near the NY border to get the good stuff in W MA. That dryslot even got Mt. MRG. ...FRANKLIN COUNTY... HEATH 8.0 339 PM 12/27 TRAINED SPOTTER CHARLEMONT 7.0 1100 AM 12/27 TRAINED SPOTTER WHATELY 4.5 132 PM 12/27 TRAINED SPOTTER ...HAMPDEN COUNTY... BLANDFORD 9.5 812 AM 12/27 HAM RADIO WESTFIELD 6.8 200 PM 12/27 MEDIA SOUTHWICK 6.8 847 AM 12/28 EAST LONGMEADOW 6.5 830 PM 12/27 HAM RADIO CHICOPEE 5.3 811 PM 12/27 HAM RADIO WEST SPRINGFIELD 5.0 829 PM 12/27 HAM RADIO AMHERST 3.0 839 PM 12/26 HAM RADIO AGAWAM 2.8 756 PM 12/26 HAM RADIO SPRINGFIELD 2.8 737 PM 12/26 HAM RADIO ...HAMPSHIRE COUNTY... PLAINFIELD 12.5 235 PM 12/27 TRAINED SPOTTER CHESTERFIELD 7.5 727 AM 12/27 HAM RADIO WORTHINGTON 6.0 1045 PM 12/26 SPOTTER WESTHAMPTON 6.0 1100 AM 12/27 AMHERST 5.5 1210 PM 12/27 GENERAL PUBLIC GRANBY 5.0 1115 AM 12/27 EMERGENCY MANAGER WARE 4.1 828 PM 12/27 HAM RADIO

12/26 had a broader circulation than the other two which hurt us I think. Also having it be further west hurt...and developing a little bit too soon. BOS was hammered by the CF enhancement though in that one so ironically it was their best storm despite that one having us in the least favorable mid-level location.

You can see how compact the mid-level centers were....and we knew that based on their track that any dryslot would have a very hard time penetrating far past the south coast. You could clearly see it get swallowed up very quickly on this series of radar loops. I remember not being worried about it at all but some were freaking out, lol.

That 500mb pattern is awesome. The vortmax strength was the highest I had seen in a winter storm since 12/9/05.

Right they have to check the building construction too. That's what led to the controversy over the Worcester tornado in 1953 (I started a thread on it in the NE subforum). If the building codes are in question, then what looks like F5 damage might not necessarily be. Healthy trees being snapped off fairly relatively low on the trunk tends to be a good indicator too.

Agreed, but this is not a surprise. I think most people would see that. We are driven mostly by curiosity. Its great to try and save lives...and that is a big plus with severe storm research....but in the end, its kind of a fake line. Tornadoes are cool, quite interesting, and relatively little is known about them, so people study them. But potentially saving lives is a nice addition to that field. I will potentially save lives by forecasting a snowstorm more accurately and trying to advance the techniques of forecasting them, but I was interested in the field because I love the power of snowstorms and like heavy snow rates. I think people should go after what they are interested in. We aren't long on this earth, so go for it.

You are a lot more noble than I am to humanity. I went into meteorology (and stuck with it) because I love snowflakes piling up at a rapid pace. I will admit for the purpose of this thread that meteorology is not the majority of my income though.

You probably got similar to what I did in 2009. It was a drier snow and no elevation dependency.

Oh wow, I didn't even catch the year...I was thinking of 1/18/10...not 1/18/09....but yeah 1/18/09 did produce two separate storms too....they were pretty good. In the 2009 events, I totaled 11" I think....in the 2010 MLK 2 punch setup, I totaled a bit shy of 8". Amazing that the dates matched up exactly.

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/NARR/2010/us0118.php

That was the MLK event.,..but it was actually 2 events listed on 2 separate PNS reports....you probably had like 9" total or so (6" from event #1) . I had around 7-8" total.

It wasn't pure OES but there was definite ocean enchancement....the norlun trough of February 19, 1993....it hit Chatham with 20" of snow...and most of the Cape had over a foot.

We have a lot to relive in this thread since 1992....starting with that Dec '92 storm. We've certainly been in a good streak for great events. Though I would say maybe we are starting to get due for another one. We really haven't had an amazing winter event since 12/9/05. We had some fun events in '07-'08 and '08-'09...but nothing truly remarkable unless you lived where I was and the rest of the relatively small area that was absolutely demolished in the December 2008 ice storm.