SeanInWayland

Very likely he's drawing these from the list by dates of notable events in Ludlum's American Weather Book. It really should be more properly titled New England Weather Book, as most of the discussion, anecdotes, and history is centered on Northeast US weather. It's a great read, and especially so for any budding weather enthusiast you might know.

Before I take my pants off, someone assure me that somewhere there exists a study presenting some evidence of the increased skill of the NBM methodology. OK, never mind, taking pants off

I recall reading in a book about the blizzard of '78 that there were two local maxima around Boston--Burlington with 50" and Foxboro-Sharon with close to the same. So yeah, other storms have a long way to go to match 78.

Jeez, that's still like 14" of snow for me, I'd take that in a heartbeat. Not every storm can be the Apocalypse...

Good luck. My wife is doing the opposite, flying back down to RSW to make sure she misses the storm. I told her someone has to stay here and take care of the cats, and I was volunteering. Don't think she believed that one for a minute.

Are you returning from RSW? EDIT: Only asking because I do the BOS<->RSW thing quite a bit

There's a method at work here. His map at 11 just upped the 6-10 to 8-12, and the 10-14 to 12-18. Baby steps...

Please tell me that's a 10:1 from the QPF and I'll be a happy man

Thank you for this, I was always wondering what the Kuchera algo was, and what it was good for given the many comments. Your synopsis begs the question, why is your preferred approach not available as an algorithmic output? .

Insane depths in the Southern Adirondacks. Or, to be completely honest, more like the depths I recall as a kid in the 70’s .

This has been hashed out endlessly in football forums far and wide. It apparently takes about 1 1/2 weeks until the acclimation process kicks in to the point you are better off. Short of that, you are best off getting there the day before.

Thanks! I just checked the closest station here in south Wayland about a mile north of the Pike and a similar thing happened here as well

Very nice illustration of your point. Thanks for showing. Where did you get the data, BTW?

I’m really happy to hear this. I got the snow bug when we moved from TX to Albany when I was 7, and the first winter my Dad made it part of our routine that I would help him shovel the snow, which I had never seen before. BTW, that was the winter of 69-70, and so I remember thinking this is just like Charlie Brown where I see people wading in snow up to their waists. .

That sounds about right. As a testimonial, I grew up in Albany, which averages in the low 60's, and traveled frequently with my Dad to Brattleboro. The aggregate snow amounts seemed similar.

That's exactly what I was wondering looking at your wave map. The southern tip of NS being ground zero.

From your computer screen to God's ears, I hope. Flying West early Saturday from Logan and am kinda nervous about getting out.

S+++++ Reminds of when my buddy, who worked at NCAR for a few years, sent me a screed some guy who worked there wrote about how S++ meant something very different to the upslope Colorado folks than to us mere mortals out East.

And to think my wife used to babysit his kids. He still lives in the same house, BTW. Harvey is the best.

It's an average, you dolts. He explained that in his original post. This is almost as bad as the idiots who opine about how we can't know that the yearly average temperature for some location was 0.3F higher, cuz our thermometers only read in increments of 1F. Sorry to pick you out, you were just one of several making this point. OK, now I feel better. If you want to make fun of him for significant digits, I'm with you.

In late January 1982 I was in Lyndonville, VT for a college XC ski race. We knew a storm was coming though it was hellaciously cold ahead of it, and when we woke up that morning it was -10F and snowing really hard outside. Did my race (which was a real pain given the conditions), and then we all piled into our coaches Subaru and headed back to Boston. Went through heavy snow and eventually ice, but somehow made it safely back to Boston. One of the reasons I remember this so clearly is that when I got back to my dorm I heard that a plane had just slid off the runway at Logan, killing two passengers.

And be careful where you park your car.

Oh, how quickly we forget that New Hampshire just blocked Northern Pass, which would have brought hydroelectric power down into New England from Hydro Quebec.

I think I really became aware of it in 1977-1978 (my last year in HS). We had a bunch of Noreasters that year and it seemed like every single time Albany got 10-12", and Hoosick Falls got like 3-5".

Speaking as someone who grew up there, and now lives in Boston, it's actually a pretty nice place. Unless you want to live in a really big city like NYC, it's got almost everything you would want in terms of culture and access. And as for the snow, I always found that the area that got the least snow was NE of Albany, say between Hoosick Falls and Greenwich. They often got shadowed something fierce.