Scott Koziara

Driving through the early January 2003 event just south of Worcester on 146 around midnight was some of the most difficult driving of my life. March 6, 2001 around New Haven around midnight on 95 was epic as well. December 23, 1997 around noontime 10 miles N of Dedham was also epic.

Just lost power on Ruggles!

The Skiing Weatherman Herb Stevens??

No one's worse than that pathetic Mike Nobleskill on Twitter.

It boggles my mind how all these guys live and die with the models on a daily basis yet when there's a huge event in the middle of the night they sleep like babies! Closing in on 5 inches here in Newport but the intensity so far has been disappointing.

When I'm pushing 80 I hope to have your love of life!

Thanks! Newport had about 8 inches in the January event and maybe 5 in the February event. The February event was a huge bust for anyone west and north of New Bedford with busted forecasts of a foot plus across the entire region. A bust but not as bad as the February 1989 bust.

Does anyone have any stats on the January 1987/February 1987 blizzards?

Oh please. I enjoy Anthony's posts.

The 80s weren't as bad as everyone thinks. 1985-1986 and 1988-1989 were awful but the rest of the decade particularly the first half of the decade was damn good particularly along the south coast. We had several big ones, including some like December 1981 that no one remembers or talks about. Slant sticking is more common today than back then and I believe the statistical snowfall averages are somewhat skewed. I remember catching the school bus and it seemed a lot colder back then compared to the last 20+ years.

Great point. Outside of a single, great event this season has had a lot of low impact fluff-jobs as Dick Albert used to say. Saturday was the ultimate stat-padder.

Unofficial report but the southern end of Newport had upwards of 12 inches. I'm in Boston right now and although Boston had 5 more inches the amount of snow looks the same probably because sleet makes snow banks more impressive.

Yes, I was wrong no two ways about it! Snowfall totals were significantly higher on the cape, the islands and Newport than I expected. I've been burned so many times down here with underperformers I don't always pay attention to the model consensus but in this instance the modeling did a good job.

The party ended at 4:45 in Newport. No sleet but the visibility improved and the accumulation basically stopped despite impressive radar returns. The pellets didn't begin in earnest till a couple minutes ago. Haven't measured but about 10 down here.