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Never heard of that one. But I'd say we are still overdue for one. I know most people on here don't want ice but it would be neat visually.

Actually, south of the ORH Mass pike region I can only think of two major ice storms that have ever happened. November 1921 was the really big one, and then 1973 also had one I believe. Can't think of any others.

Major ice storms are even rarer in SE Mass and RI than in CT it seems. CT is good for severe weather and ice storms. Not often does SE Mass get those.

Maybe we finally get our hurricane sometime in the next five years? We are long overdue anyways. Plus I see a lot of really bullish forecasts for the upcoming hurricane season. A lot of 1933 comparisons being tossed around. We all know what happened five years after 1933. Obviously it wouldn't be of that same magnitude but still it makes you wonder.

It really is true. 1953 Worcester tornado, November 1950 storm, multiple hurricanes. I wish that same pattern would repeat in my lifetime but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm still hoping that one day we get another November 1950 screamer. King of all screamers. I cannot even fathom 80 mph sustained from a non-hurricane. Plus the worst of it happened during the evening hours rather than overnight like October 2017, so it was all visible. March 2, 2018 is still king for me personally.

Maybe in NNE, yeah, but I live in SNE near the coast so it's almost never a dry heat. I wish it was.

Oh yeah for sure. But New England is mostly close to the ocean so realistically it's going to be humid most of the time whenever it's hot. When is the last time we had Arizona type dry heat around here? I cannot even recall.

The problem is that in New England we get endless 80s and 90s with high dews in the summer, but nothing ever comes of it. Severe season sucks here and everything seems to fizzle even on hot days. Plus we haven't had a cane in over 30 years, so what's the point of having heat? I'm all set with swamp ass and bugs. 70s all summer sounds great to me.

Summers aren't that cold in Nova Scotia. Halifax average high in the summer is 74 which is nice. Personally I could go without 80s and 90s. Too hot for me, thank you!

Was just thinking about how Nova Scotia seems to get much more interesting weather than New England. They get way more hurricanes than New England, and they also get buried by more snowstorms in the winter. They get the best of both. The only thing they don't get there is severe weather, but we don't even get that here either. It must be a nice place to live.

Not often do you see a HWW for western areas but not eastern.

During hurricane season I follow the weather thread on Yale Climate Connections which used to be on Weather Underground. It seems like every single month they post the headline "X month was the Xth warmest on record". They've basically been saying that about every month for years now. I don't know how much of it is actual fact or if there is some sort of global warming agenda on that site. But in all the years that I've been following that forum, not ONCE have I ever seen a month or year pass that wasn't "record warm". I mean yeah the climate is obviously warming, but does that mean that we never have a single month pass that isn't record breaking globally? Just an average month?

One of those southerly screamers. Let's get a 03/06/59 redux.

I can still remember driving along the Connecticut shoreline in the Mystic area in Feb 2015 with nothing but frozen ocean as far as the eye can see. That was something, especially for typically mild coastal locations. Wouldn't it be nice if every winter was like that? It really makes you appreciate anomalies like that.

The Day After Tomorrow

Obviously it wont happen but It would be pretty cool to see that March hurricane off the east coast that the GFS has had for a couple of runs. Its much more impressive to get something to form in February/March than January or April, since those months have had a handful of storms but February and March have only had one each.

Largest ever snowstorm in PVD for the month of March was 14.7" on 03/19/56. That month was like the March version of Feb 2015 with a snowstorm every week. 31.6" in March 1956 and 31.8" in Feb 2015.

Yes, its not a question of "if" but rather "when". As much as I don't want to have a to wait another whole year or more for a big one, its looking increasingly likely. It wouldn't even be so bad if we at least had entertaining weather in the summer time, but we just don't. Can't even get decent severe weather or hurricanes up here anymore. The 80s and 90s had much more severe weather events. So at least 10 out of 12 months of the year feature boring weather. It's gotten to the point where I look forward to those southerly screamers in the fall, because thats about all that I have to look forward to in terms of weather now. CC sucks.

I wish we could get another 03/19/56 or April Fools Day 1997 late season big one to lift the spirits. Unfortunately nature is going to do what nature wants to do, and it doesn't matter how much we want it to happen.

It won't verify lol it never does

I just noticed that BOX records added some missing data from the 90s. Originally I though that 01/29/22 was the largest single-day snowfall at PVD with 18.8", but it turns out it was actually 01/08/96 with 19.0". Storm total for that event was 24.5", the second-largest on record for PVD after 1978. Also, April Fools Day 1997 dropped 18.0" at PVD, which wasn't in the records before.

I remember that extreme June 2021 heat wave in the Pacific NW that blew away long standing all-time records by like ten degrees. I wonder what an equally extreme event like that around here would be like? 115F in PVD, where it rarely even hits 100F?

I agree with this. Something I found interesting though is how the 1970s actually had very high dews in the summer, and yet still were able to set all-time records. Take for instance the 104F reading at PVD on 08/02/75 with a dewpoint of 77F. That sounds like a pretty moist airmass to me. The all-time dew point record for PVD is 81F set on both 07/16 and 07/21 of 1977.

So the 70s were just a fluke? Our temperature extremes nowadays definitely seem moderated compared to what we saw in the 70s which had lots of all-time heat and cold records.