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What would you prefer to be repeated this year for you Jan 05 or Dec 05?

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.

I think you had a white christmas down there in 1995 too.

Was 2009 the first White Xmas down there of this decade?

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.

That was horrific....we got zippo from that one but only 10-15 miles SE they had like an inch. While it was only an inch, it was enough for a white Christmas. I hate it when we don't get a white Christmas.

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.

LOL, some of my changeovers are erased. They say we sometimes tend to "forget" about traumatic events. I know if I dug more I'd remember. I already went back and nailed some dates that I had. 10 years ago, I remembered every event from back in the day.

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.

Phil LOL, did you have the rainbow umbrella back then?, you guys think you forgot a lot of storms, I am shot! I do not know how Jerry does it, good thing I have my books and the Internet, although I remember all the big ones.

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've got a pretty good memory of most storms, but I definitely lost track of some of the ones I had in Elementary and a few in Junior High. There are some where I have memories, but just can't put my finger on the date. I'm sure if I dug around a little I'd remember.

That said, there are probably several that I remember every single detail. Jan '96, April Fool's '97, Jan '05 and Dec '05. I still remember how it just hit like a big bag of WTF within seconds.

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.

Phil, yea certainly a memory hog in my brain, the best was on here when ten people posted within seconds Pink thunder snow. I was on my deck getting sleet pelted when all heck broke loose, actually had to retreat inside due to the initial intensity. The pic out my front door was right at the flip and Tsnow. My family and friends in SRI had no clue what transpired up here until I sent the video from my phone to them. Unfortunately that phone took a bath with my dog LOL

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.

I remember the first time you told your story of that day, very dramatic . The way you painted the picture it was easy to visualize what transpired. I knew from that post you had the sickness.

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.

Was so happy to miss it

Was working in Albany that morning and driving to CT that afternoon to work at NBC in Hartford. Ughhhhh.

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.

Just curiously peaking through the SNE trip down memory lane thread here. Does anybody have a loop of that 12/9/2005 thundersnow epic comma band that annihilated you guys? I remember being amazed watching that unfold from down in NJ where we got a little thump of our own.

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.

I'm a bit bitter about that storm as I got screwed with "only" 14 inches, but you know its a pretty good storm if you are disappointed with that amount. For so early in the season too, it was especially impressive, particularly along the coast (outside of the Cape).

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.

The coastal front actually set up over SE MA in that one...it was a cold storm, usually those CFs set up closer to 128 or even 495 that early in the season. Because of where the CF set up, your area actually got some enhancement.

Then there was another area of ocean enhancement on the north shore where Peabody got like 3 feet.

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

Not that I recall. TAN recorded 2.07" at the ASOS for L/E. It was a 2 footer storm for me living in downtown Middleborough. Very impressive widespread system.

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

December 5-7 2003

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