<br />It comes down to what many people say here alot, especially Steve D...you have to be looking at the satellite/radar images with an unbiased eye 12-24 hours from the event, very often you will see things that tell you something is going differently...its less an issue now with the great models we have but 20+ years ago it was way more useful...The Dec 89 storm was a disaster because it was obvious by 2-3pm that afternoon if you looked at the satellite imagery that the low was going to develop way west....its remarkable to this day how badly that event was handled by the models and the forecasts....the warnings for 5-8 inches were not dropped til midnight.<br />
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There were predictions that afternoon for a 12+ inch storm with near blizzard conditions.When the snow started around 530PM it came down hard for 3 minutes then changed to heavy rain with lightning and thunder and ended with the temp in the upper 30s.That was the greatest bust I have ever seen IN MY EYES!! March 2001 was bad,but we did get a borderline moderate snowfall though.
March 4-6, 2001
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There were predictions that afternoon for a 12+ inch storm with near blizzard conditions.When the snow started around 530PM it came down hard for 3 minutes then changed to heavy rain with lightning and thunder and ended with the temp in the upper 30s.That was the greatest bust I have ever seen IN MY EYES!! March 2001 was bad,but we did get a borderline moderate snowfall though.