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I'll save CoastalWx the trouble -- WCWGTH??

4/18/1996 27 inches of snow over the last three days from an upper level low pressure system raised the snow cover on top of Mount Mansfield, Vermont to an impressive late season 135 inches.

Try that week in third week of May 2006, "endless Nor'easter" capped off by the bow echo and tornado at Hampton Falls NH later.

Peterborough NH Thu evening. Photo by Thomas Bensenhaver.

Or winter equivalent "DIAMOND DUST AT 30,000 FT!"

Scott needs another 6/1/11 wicked CG supercell show like he had when living in Dorchester. Right, biggest svr wx day in years and he still has a Bruins playoff party at his house, and of course he loses power! I know, another "PC jolt" he got from the +CG strike some years ago!

Reports from ME/NH/VT absolutely spectacular LTG show for April this evening, and still going strong Downeast ME as I type this! Find me an event in April w/ more CGs in several hours in New England! I checked the mid-level lapse rates plots on the NAM, nothing special, but that is 700-500. If you look at 750-600 on the soundings, they were as high as 7.0 C/km. so there you go. MUCAPE ahead of the SQLN were as high 1500, most of it elevated. 0-6 km shear 50-60 kt. Even CoastalWx *has* to be impressed! He recalls the crazy LTG shows that overnight in Feb 2016 RI/SE MA? Basically a ring of fire in April this week. Strong ridge SEUS and direct feed flow straight from Plains to put an EML into NEUS. BDF?, no problem!

Had nice white VIL core on Radarscope for two scans. Usually, that is enough for a SVR.

Scott PT?

It is. Best week for tstms in April I can recall in SNE w/ more on the way.

Conversely, from mid June to mid August 2008 (I think that was the year), we could not get clean CFROPA at all in the NEUS, and the tstm action was pretty sweet!

"My lawn is thirsty"

Some kind of mesolow. No wonder it sustained itself so well overnight. Any rotation, miso/meso/synoptic, is a *good* thing for convection! Did Scott "WE THUNDER" in Weymouth? He told me in PM that he is all excited for tstms this summer b/c of impending super El Nino. I told him, "well, 1997 and 1998 svr wx seasons in NEUS were quite good, spinners and more!"

Not bad for April w/ the storms in western MA/CT currently. HRRR 18 and 00z insisting isolated long-tracked supercell NY into NH later Thu. Then a :sun destroyed itself" day Fri w/ RW/TRW peppered all over the place by noon. Best tstm week in April for New England I can recall offhand. But somehow Scott will find a way to say MEH! LOL. SPC 2% tor western section Thu. Only 3 confirmed spinners in April in New England on record. Path Path Time(EST) Width Length --------- ------ ------ MA APR 15, 1925 1700 0k 0inj unk unk F1 HAMPDEN - Brief tornado in Chicopee. One house and five garages destroyed. Damage $50,000. CT APR 26, 1961 1115 0k 0inj unk unk F1 TOLLAND - Two silo roofs destroyed in Ellington. CT APR 21, 2021 1349 0k 0inj 30y 1.0m EF0 LITCHFIELD - Sporadic tree damage in Kent. Also in 2021, we have our first confirmed tor in Mar in New England. VT MAR 26, 2021 1240 0k 2inj 75y 0.7m EF1 ADDISON - Tornado associated with bow echo segment moved through Middlebury. Many trees downed and some structural and vehicle damage.