ORH_wxman

There was a run or two where the Euro kind of lost it around 84-96 hours out....then when the ETA could "see" the storm at its long range 84 hours, it shows a big hit...the very next run the Euro joined it again and we knew it was game on.....you are right how it kept trending better and better with each run in the final 48h....the ETA/Euro at like 60-72 hours were showing a MECS type storm, like 10-15"...not a HECS...and the GFS was way southeast and the GGEM/Ukie were kind of scrapers. Then the ETA started going gangbusters inside of that 48h frame and got more and more obscene with each run. Euro looked close, but it was hard to tell because back then we didnt have Euro qpf maps...only the crude weather.unisys maps or the even worse ecmwf.int freebie maps.

The ETA and Euro had it nailed.

The GFS was absolutely horrendous in the Jan '05 storm I remember. It didn't bring warning criteria snow to BOS until like 24-36 hours out.

Yeah it actually got north of GON...most of SE CT was screwed. But then it got eaten alive as it went E...just collapse almost ESE and the Cape never got any of it. We lightened up for a bit too even though it didn't reach us. That was when I was starting to think I might not crack 20"...but then that final band formed to the NW and came through with really heavy rates to get us around 2 feet. One funny thing about that storm is I always thought Logan airport got the PDII and Jan '05 totals reversed. They came in with that really high 27.5" total in PDII but in Jan '05 they came in with like 22.5" when everyone around them had like 25-27". They should switch those totals, lol.

The final death band in Jan '05 was awesome too. For a little bit, it looked like I might finish with 17-18" and then that final deformation death band strengthened and collapse SE...we got like 6" in 2 hours when it moved through. It put that storm up another tier from those big 16-18" storms.

Jan 2005 I assume not Dec '04? That was such a cold blizzard. You knew the airmass was cold when the night before MVY was like -10F, lol. At one point I think ACK got to around 0C at 850 while it was -16C over PYM county.

I remember seeing the radar really early that morning (maybe like 4am or something) and there was like a black band rotting over the Cape and I was so jealous, lol. You could see the stars by that point here.

It used to be on google images when you searched January 2005 blizzard Cape Cod or something...I wish I had saved it because it was gone a couple years ago and I haven't been able to find it since. Parts of the upper Cape also basically kept their snow pack for 2 months from mid Jan to mid March, lol. Maybe a brief few days in Feb where it got sparse. That's hard to do there.

I remember seeing entire houses swallowed up by the snow drifts...there was a pic of a house from the backyard where you couldn't see any of the house except the chimney. The snow had drifted right up to the roof and covered everything. Also the frozen sea spray right along the coast was ridiculous...it had frozen to everything.

That was just an epic winter down there. It was pretty epic for us too, but down there it was like once in a 100 years or something. Getting two 20"+ storms on the Cape with both of them having that type of wind.

NOUS41 KBOX 232035 PNSBOX CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-240810- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...FINAL SPOTTER REPORTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 335 PM EST FRI FEB 23 2007 THE FOLLOWING ARE UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN DURING THE SNOW EVENT FROM THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING THAT AFFECTED OUR REGION. APPRECIATION IS EXTENDED TO HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS... COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS...SKYWARN SPOTTERS AND MEDIA FOR THESE REPORTS. THIS SUMMARY IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR HOME PAGE AT WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON ********************STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL******************** LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE COMMENTS SNOWFALL OF (INCHES) MEASUREMENT MASSACHUSETTS ...BARNSTABLE COUNTY... EAST FALMOUTH 0.8 715 AM 2/23 SPOTTER ...BRISTOL COUNTY... TAUNTON 1.1 700 AM 2/23 NWS KBOX ...ESSEX COUNTY... NEWBURYPORT 1.0 700 AM 2/23 COOP ...FRANKLIN COUNTY... SHELBURNE 5.3 925 AM 2/23 SPOTTER CHARLEMONT 4.5 745 AM 2/23 SPOTTER GREENFIELD 3.5 935 AM 2/23 COOP WE=0.37 WHATELY 2.5 932 AM 2/23 SPOTTER SUNDERLAND 1.6 700 AM 2/23 COOP ...HAMPDEN COUNTY... LONGMEADOW 1.6 832 AM 2/23 SPOTTER ...HAMPSHIRE COUNTY... AMHERST 4.1 1015 AM 2/23 SPOTTER WORTHINGTON 3.8 700 AM 2/23 COOP WE=0.34 WESTHAMPTON 3.5 735 AM 2/23 SPOTTER ...MIDDLESEX COUNTY... PEPPERELL 4.0 722 AM 2/23 SPOTTER TOWNSEND 3.4 1242 PM 2/23 SPOTTER SHIRLEY 3.0 804 AM 2/23 SPOTTER AYER 2.4 952 AM 2/23 SPOTTER LOWELL 2.2 907 AM 2/23 SPOTTER MAYNARD 2.0 700 AM 2/23 COOP WAKEFIELD 1.6 825 AM 2/23 SPOTTER ...NORFOLK COUNTY... BLUE HILLS 1.5 956 AM 2/23 COOP ...SUFFOLK COUNTY... EAST BOSTON 0.5 700 AM 2/23 LOGAN AIRPORT ...WORCESTER COUNTY... PRINCETON 6.3 1134 AM 2/23 SKYWARN-EL 750FT EAST BRIMFIELD DAM 5.8 957 AM 2/23 COOP WE=0.40 NORTH WORCESTER 5.1 700 AM 2/23 SPOTTER WEST BROOKFIELD 5.0 820 AM 2/23 SPOTTER ASHBURNHAM 4.5 700 AM 2/23 COOP WE=0.20 BARRE FALLS DAM 4.0 700 AM 2/23 COOP WE=0.27 FITCHBURG 3.9 743 AM 2/23 SPOTTER WORCESTER 3.9 700 AM 2/23 ORH AIRPORT BOYLSTON 3.5 744 AM 2/23 SPOTTER-EL 660FT WEST WARREN 3.5 710 AM 2/23 SPOTTER BIRCH HILL DAM 3.0 700 AM 2/23 COOP WE=0.19 WESTBOROUGH 2.0 800 AM 2/23 NWS EMPLOYEE

All of New England isn't nearly far enough away from the ocean to have it be an issue. New England sticks out to the east as well so there is ocean south of us.

Yeah Rindge gets their fair share of 20" events. They really aren't any further from the coast than ORH is and ORH has had plenty of 20"+ events. The only thing that might hurt them is they will get some minor downslope on a ENE/NE wind sometimes...they are in a general upslope region, but when the wind is the right velocity, it can create some issues from the Wapack Range.

I was in Holden, MA for that storm....it was incredible. We lost power for about 24 hours. I measured 35" in Holden at about 1,000 feet 2 miles shy of the Paxton border.

They do have a map for that, but its java unlike the other maps from previous winters, so you need to screen capture it to post it as a pic file. That storm had a massive elevation gradient. Down near lake Quinsig there was like 4-5" of slop while I had nearly a foot just 2-3 miles W and up above 900 feet on winter hill.

Dec 1992 had huge gusts on the coast. I think the Cape and Islands had hurricane force (even BOS got close IIRC...maybe 72mph there?) Inland it was more in the 60s...

NOUS41 KBOX 251215 PNSBOX CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-260010- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED SPOTTER REPORTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 710 AM EST THU FEB 25 2010 THE FOLLOWING ARE UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN DURING THE PAST 36 HOURS FOR THE STORM THAT HAS BEEN AFFECTING OUR REGION. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT FOR THE STORM THAT ENDED WEDNESDAY EVENING. APPRECIATION IS EXTENDED TO HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS...COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS...SKYWARN SPOTTERS AND MEDIA FOR THESE REPORTS. THIS SUMMARY IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR HOME PAGE AT WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS ...FRANKLIN COUNTY... ROWE 25.0 310 PM 2/24 SPOTTER ASHFIELD 23.6 644 PM 2/24 SPOTTER HEATH 22.0 400 PM 2/24 SPOTTER SHELBURNE 22.0 721 PM 2/24 PUBLIC CONWAY 18.0 228 PM 2/24 SPOTTER GREENFIELD 14.0 1050 AM 2/24 SPOTTER EL. 1000FT SHELBURNE 13.8 502 AM 2/24 PUBLIC MONTAGUE 10.0 1103 AM 2/24 PUBLIC EAST CHARLEMONT 8.5 912 AM 2/24 SPOTTER WHATELY 6.5 213 PM 2/24 SPOTTER ...HAMPDEN COUNTY... CHESTER 19.5 1223 PM 2/24 HAM RADIO BLANDFORD 19.0 730 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO SOUTHWICK 12.0 1043 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO WESTFIELD 7.0 730 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO HOLYOKE 6.0 730 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO SUFFIELD CORNER 5.0 730 PM 2/24 SPOTTER CHICOPEE 3.8 1000 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO AGAWAM 3.0 730 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO LONGMEADOW 3.0 114 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO SPRINGFIELD 3.0 730 PM 2/24 SPOTTER HAMPDEN 2.0 730 PM 2/24 SPOTTER MONSON 2.0 114 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO ...HAMPSHIRE COUNTY... CHESTERFIELD 24.0 730 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO PLAINFIELD 21.5 300 PM 2/24 SPOTTER GOSHEN 18.0 827 AM 2/24 SKYWARN SPOTTER MIDDLEFIELD 18.0 1209 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO WEST CHESTERFIELD 16.0 659 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO WORTHINGTON 13.3 704 AM 2/24 NWS COOP WESTHAMPTON 13.0 710 AM 2/24 SPOTTER EL. 800FT SOUTH HADLEY 6.0 953 AM 2/24 SKYWARN SPOTTER BELCHERTOWN 2.2 740 AM 2/24 PUBLIC AMHERST 2.0 700 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO WARE 2.0 730 PM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO GRANBY 0.8 430 AM 2/24 EMERGENCY MANAGER ...MIDDLESEX COUNTY... TOWNSEND 13.5 1005 AM 2/24 SKYWARN SPOTTER PEPPERELL 7.0 900 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO GROTON 4.5 930 AM 2/24 SPOTTER SHIRLEY 4.5 549 AM 2/24 SPOTTER HUDSON 4.1 1030 AM 2/24 SPOTTER GROTON 3.5 642 AM 2/24 SPOTTER AYER 3.2 913 AM 2/24 SKYWARN SPOTTER MAYNARD 2.7 623 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO ...WORCESTER COUNTY... ASHBURNHAM 16.8 230 PM 2/24 NWS COOP GARDNER 16.0 231 PM 2/24 SPOTTER EL 1000 FT FITCHBURG 15.0 852 AM 2/24 SPOTTER EL 90 FT PRINCETON 14.5 949 AM 2/24 SKYWARN SPOTTER TEMPLETON 13.0 835 AM 2/24 HAM RADIO EL. 970FT HUBBARDSTON 12.0 1024 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO STERLING 12.0 937 AM 2/24 HAM RADIO EL. 670 FT WESTMINSTER 12.0 929 AM 2/24 HAM RADIO EL. 1080FT WINCHENDON 12.0 955 AM 2/24 AMATEUR RADIO PHILLIPSTON 11.0 718 AM 2/24 SPOTTER WORCESTER 10.7 100 PM 2/24 ORH AIRPORT BOYLSTON 9.4 912 AM 2/24 SKYWARN SPOTTER

lol

Yeah you probably woulda had 18-20" at 550 feet there while down the road a few hundred feet lower had a quarter of that, lol.

The funny thing is I never realized how sharp the northern cutoff was on that storm until years later when I made my first map of that storm (much crappier than the one I posted)....I always assumed your area and most of the mountains got crushed.

The dendrites on the 20th were about as perfect as 2/7/03. Just less intense of course. But I think I had about 3" of fluff from probably under 0.10" of W.E. It had to be at least 30 to 1 ratios that next day. It makes sense though since 850s were like -12C to -14C and the snow growth was in the low levels there...perfect temp for dendrites.

The first half of that double barrel event ended up being a sneaky >12" event for both BOS and ORH. That inverted trough stuff the next day put us over the top. Not really your classic 12" snowstorm setup.