ORH_wxman

Thats a stretch as they had upwards of 3-4 times as much ice as we did in Dec 2008. But on the whole you are correct, it was an absolutely devastating ice storm. Inside the city limits here we had no power for 3 days and outside the city limits there were people who were without power for 2 weeks. Just a disaster. Going back and reading the threads on eastern is hilarious. Many people were canceling the event as bad because we hadn't cooled to below 30F by midday on the 11th. Even I didn't think it would be that terrible by late the 11th. But we got completely smoked with temps around 30-31F because we had exceptional cold air drain with marginal temps. The lower dewpoints offset the latent heat release. Very rare to see those types of winds in an ice storm. That's why that one pic I showed has the icicles at like a 30 degree angle on the tree. You hardly ever see that in an ice storm. It was a perfect storm of events to get big ice with that setup. The low tracked nearly over BOS. The obs thread had people in CT/RI/SE MA with temps in the mid to upper 60s at 8am on the 12th while we were 30F and icing with no power.

This is technically not a snowstorm memory....but its the most devastating and large impact winter storm I've been a part of on the boards going back 8 years.

Oh yeah, there were a ton of thunder snow obs in the 1/12 storm. That was crazy. 12/9/05 was amazing for its time though because there were far fewer posters back then. That storm still had the most impressive CCB intensification I've seen...but 1/12 came close. I remember commenting how that 1/12 inflow was the best since 12/9/05.

Back on eastern, my favorite part of that storm was everyone reporting thundersnow at the same time in the obs thread. The way that CCB intensified was something I haven't seen before or since. The funny part was that the obs thread for that storm was like 23 pages long. I think that would only get us through about 1-2 hours of another storm like that nowadays....how times have changed.

Lol, here's a pic I took on Feb 16th...before that big 2-3 day torch we had....the one where Kevin was saying he'd have less than 6" left and we called him a complete nut job, lol.

Yeah we still had like 22" on March 1st or something. But that torching rainstorm put a huge dent in it over that following week as seen in the pics. The snow did take forever to melt in the woods though. I remember posting the last patches of weenie snow pack in mid April.

Those marginal icing events helped preserve the snow pack longer in the higher hills...that and later in the season in general you have more melt days and 33F vs 37F can become a noticeable difference over the course of several days or more.

March 1, 2011: March 7, 2011......disaster in 6 days:

November 8th actually. I was kind of bummed because I just missed getting a couple inches. The best was in CT.

I found pics of the Oct 18, 2009 storm...while I was driving around early in the storm

We are potentially only 3 months away from our first flakes. We saw that T-2" snowfall on October 16, 2009...then another on October 18, 2009. This thread gets me pumped up for tracking winter events again.

That was a very nice little clipper/redeveloper. That gave a pretty nice area of 6-8" of snow, even some 9" lollis. I love those types of systems...you can sort of see them coming a couple days out and as it gets closer, the models keep increasing qpf as they try and blow it up as it exits stage right.

That was a cold and solid winter for here. December 1983 had a couple good SW flow events that gave some good snow followed by those brutal arctic outbreaks. February 1984 was a dud though...it was an absolute torch with little snow. December, January, and March were very wintry months that season though. The storm you are thinking of is the March 28-29, 1984 storm. It gave 17.6" of snow here. Extremely dynamic storm with a lot of thundersnow in the Boston suburbs and wind gusts over hurricane force. (Blue Hill had a gust over 100mph) Perfect way to end a winter.

That's a classic looking loop...where you see the highest cloud tops to the NW of the heaviest precip except in the inflow region where its nearly on top of it...actual convective precip.

Yeah. No guarantees it works like that this year though of course. '05-'06 had several SW flow events but it also had the Feb '06 coastal. We already know about '00-'01 and its several coastal storms. '83-'84 had several SW flow events (esp in Dec '83)...'74-75 and '70-'71 had a ton. '62-'63 not so many, but one or two.

'07-'08, '05-'06, '00-'01, '83-'84, '74-75, '70-'71, '62-'63, '56-'57.

-QBO and cold ENSO events tend to have more SW flow events than other winters according to my research looking back. Obviously it doesn't mean there can't be coastals though. '00-'01 was an example with a lot of coastals.

That's an awesome pic. We had some great looking storms last year. Very classic mid-level features on those three of 12/26, 1/12, and 1/27. I have a feeling we'll see a lot more SW flow events this coming winter.

1/27 was a really fun storm. It was the fastest of the 3, but it was exceptionally dynamic.

I'll be showing all 3 storms at some point in my presentation.

If you see a 0.0 total with a "z" next to it, it means they have no data for that month. The old Gardner coop was pretty good but they still have a few scattered in there.

They are missing February 1995 in that total which of course was the only month we got a big storm. I think the real total was probably something around 30-34 inches. Still horrendous though.

That's probably a great place to look up how YBY might have done in past winters. The coop was at 1,110 feet so not that much higher than you...and of course the next town over from you. Its too bad they no longer take records there. Ashburnham is decent for nowadays, but its definitely a good tick east of you...Gardner was right there.

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.