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oh jan '05 without question. dec. 05 was an amazing experience. but 30" of snow and 70 mph winds is hard to vote against. dec. 05 i only got about 1.5" of snow....and the wind....as ridiculous as it was...was in and out in a matter of minutes. almost what i imagine it would be like to have a tornado i guess.

good question. i'm not sure. depends on what qualifies too. i'm pretty sure we had some light OES early in the decade that didn't stick but was festive enough.

unless you are talking about cape cod demographics, a white xmas is such a rarity down here. i remember being satisfied with patches of snow left on the ground or dirty piles of plowed snow. 98 was definitely one of my favorites.

i wish i had done what steve did...he wrote everything down. there's also storms that stick with you just because of when they were. the 12/24/98 snow down here was nothing too special (6-8") but it was pretty cool to have that kind of fresh snow at xmas. actually...you were in marshfield i would think, no? so you probably did OK in that one too.

i've definitely been a weenie from the beginning. embarrassing weather moments from childhood - i can still remember in first grade...we were taking a "test" of some kind (the tie your shoes test? i don't know what kind of tests you take in first grade)...so anyway the classroom was basically silent. it had been raining through the morning and it happened to flip to these hvy monster half-dollar sized flakes during the middle of whatever it was were doing and i stood up and yelled out to my friend Dan "Dan! Look how hard it's snowing!!" and the entire class just laughed.

i have some good memories of 87 (it never snowed back then it seemed so when it did, you savored it...LOL), definitely 96, 99, and so on. like you said, there are ones that i remember but just can't get the date...tons of those actually...to the point where it frustrates me sometimes. of course, i also mentally blocked out so many storms where Will was running around naked with his yard stick jumping into 4' drifts while i was outside with my umbrella intentionally clogging storm drains to see how big a puddle i could make.

it might be the only event in the past 15 years, for me personally, where i actually felt like winter weather can still have a serious impact on society (so often - outside of major traffic jams, winter storms are so well forecast that the impacts are relatively "minor" ((and of course ice storms)). everything was f-ed up down here that afternoon. public safety radios failed, kids were stuck at schools, kids were stuck on buses stranded on highways, trees down all over the place, communication towers blown down...just insane.

one of those events i will always remember. i don't log them in my memory bank the way Will does...but obviously certain ones always remain with you. 12/9/05...i feel like i can remember the entire day from 5AM to midnight.

i've never had such an up and down emotional weather day. it pained me staring at the RADAR and reading the ridiculous reports coming in from BOS and metro west that afternoon. the sun was literally shining in a cloudless sky here with a T of 53F and calm winds while folks just a 45 min drive from me where having thunderstorms, heavy snow, wind, asteroids, you name it. then a couple of hours later having the air sucked out of my lungs by 80mph winds and a complete whiteout.

12/9/05 is almost sacred weather ground up here. almost like in the movie Twister when the lady asks what an F5 would be like and the whole table goes silent.

that was a tough one to watch because the initial wall of snow was very impressive - there was even >6" on the outer cape before it flipped - but all along i knew it was just a matter of time before i'd be 40F. so goes it sometimes.

yeah i was just going back over the PNS. that was a ridiculous storm.

i had about 6" and then 3" of wind-driven rain and sheet drizzle...with a crusty coating afterward. LOL.

bob....did you flip to rain in that?