ORH_wxman

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.

Dec 2002 was awesome...I was home for most of it. DEC-02 FOR WORCESTER, MA (1011') LAT=42.3N LON= 71.9W TEMPERATURE PRECIPITATION ACTUAL NORMAL HI LO AVG HI LO AVG DEPT AMNT SNOW SNCVR HDD 1 34 19 27 41 27 34 -7 T T 0 38 2 31 18 25 41 26 33 -8 0.03 1.0 1 40 3 26 9 18 40 26 33 -15 0.02 1.5 0 47 4 26 9 18 40 25 33 -15 0.00 0.0 0 47 5 24 18 21 39 25 32 -11 0.13 3.0 0 44 6 28 19 24 39 25 32 -8 0.03 1.5 0 41 7 32 12 22 39 24 32 -10 0.00 0.0 0 43 8 36 22 29 38 24 31 -2 T T 0 36 9 22 5 14 38 24 31 -17 0.00 0.0 0 51 10 33 16 25 38 23 31 -6 0.00 0.0 0 40 11 34 25 30 37 23 30 +0 0.29 5.5 0 35 12 37 31 34 37 23 30 +4 0.51 0.3 0 31 13 42 30 36 37 22 30 +6 0.16 0.0 0 29 14 40 33 37 36 22 29 +8 1.02 0.0 0 28 15 39 33 36 36 22 29 +7 T T 0 29 16 34 22 28 36 21 29 -1 0.16 3.5 0 37 17 25 15 20 36 21 28 -8 0.00 0.0 0 45 18 37 14 26 35 21 28 -2 0.00 0.0 0 39 19 41 24 33 35 20 28 +5 0.00 0.0 0 32 20 56 35 46 35 20 27 +19 1.26 0.0 0 19 21 39 31 35 35 20 27 +8 T T 0 30 22 43 30 37 34 20 27 +10 0.00 0.0 0 28 23 39 31 35 34 19 27 +8 T T 0 30 24 34 28 31 34 19 26 +5 T T 0 34 25 31 24 28 34 19 26 +2 0.49 10.5 0 37 26 31 21 26 33 19 26 +0 0.06 3.0 3 39 27 31 19 25 33 18 26 -1 0.00 0.0 0 40 28 30 20 25 33 18 26 -1 0.00 0.0 0 40 29 35 23 29 33 18 25 +4 0.00 0.0 0 36 30 29 20 25 33 18 25 +0 0.02 0.2 0 40 31 40 25 33 33 18 25 +8 0.06 0.5 0 32 TOTALS FOR ORH HIGHEST TEMPERATURE 56 TOTAL PRECIP 4.24 LOWEST TEMPERATURE 5 TOTAL SNOWFALL 30.5 AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 28.1 NORMAL PRECIP 3.80 DEPARTURE FROM NORM -0.8 HEATING DEGREE DAYS 1137 NORMAL DEGREE DAYS 1119

Two pretty big gradient winters between interior and coast close together in that time...'00-'01 had just been two years earlier. The coast did make up a lot of ground in '03 at the end, but still definitely finished behind the interior. ORH had 117.3" in '02-'03 and BOS had 71.3"...71" is damn good, but you woulda expected probably 85 or more in BOS with that ORH total. But that epic February into early March certainly went a long ways on the coast...esp the south shore. Not as bad '00-'01 though when it was 102.1" vs 45.9".

Yeah...snow totals through Feb 2nd in 2002-2003: BOS: 18.7" ORH: 69.3"

There was actually a little weasel rain changing to snow event on Feb 2nd that never gets remember but it dropped like half a foot of snow over most of the northeast half of MA.

Yeah from, Feb 6 to March 6 I think BOS had like 47" of snow...the south shore had more as they jackpotted in all 3 storms...Feb 7, PDII, and Mar 6.

That was a Kevin dumbfounded storm too. A lot of sleet down in CT. We actually have a poster here (I think the guy who lives in Sutton, MA) said he was driving on 146 from RI into southern ORH county in the middle of that storm when it went from ripping pellets to heavy snow. I was actually out in Ithaca for this storm doing a winter session class my senior year and I wasn't mad about it since Ithaca actually got clocked in that storm. We had like 16" of snow. It was a big storm...very large precip shield.

Not to be confused with Scott's toaster-in-the-tub storm about a month before

Scott and I were talking about the 2/6-7/03 storm yesterday. What an epic band that was....total forecast bust in the good direction

Yeah 2/10 is the storm you are thinking of. No forecast outlet got out of that one without egg on their face.

I think it shows that even mets can get caught up in the seasonal trend and that can sometimes influence our objectivity on looking at the individual storm at hand. Last year, every storm was putting down 1-2 feet leading up to that 2/2 event...so it was easy to get caught up in the models spitting out the qpf and assuming they were right or even conservative (like previous storms)....forgetting the golden rule that SW flow events are often overdone on model qpf and dryslot quickly. Same with 2/10 vs 2/24....every storm seemed to be whiffing us to the south, but on 2/24, missing south wasn't the issue. It was only whether temps would be cold enough. But I guess pessimistic was the overall theme that got into everyone's minds.

I can't imagine they were totally hugging it. I think most just got gun shy in a marginal setup. It was the GFS that had the biggest bust in the 2/10 storm so that would be even more ironic if they decided to hug the model that failed the worst in the 2/10 storm. I am still surprised at how conservative TV went in that 2/23-24 storm though. I mean, I can understand being afraid to forecast 8-14", but to be forecasting 1-3 or 2-4" seemed woefully conservative.

Oh ok, well we were never under a blizzard watch or warning for that one. That was rain once we got to 48 hours before. I remember posting that the 2/23-24 elevation snow bomb would be bitter sweet because I knew a rainstorm was coming right after it.

2/27/10 was impossible to forecast that little band of 8-10" in N ORH county. I did forecast advisory amounts in that which was better than some other forecasts, but that mesoscale band (almost looked convective) was impossible to forecast.

Which storm? 2/10/10?