psuhoffman

You win. Your right. The earth is scorched. The apocalypse is upon us. It will never rain again. Fleas and ticks will rule the earth. Flee scurry run for our lives. The great dryness is upon us.

I am being flippant because I think he is going too far with this. Yes we are in a low level drought. And I don't mean to be rude towards farming interests and other areas where it is having an effect. But right now what we're experiencing is part of typical cyclical weather. And it's an effect not a cause when we discuss snow. The Nina pattern among other things is causing both the lack of snow and precipitation. Droughts are an effect more than a cause. If droughts caused drought then we would never get out of them. Droughts tend to persist as long as the pattern causing them persists and then it ends and so does the drought. So sorry if I came off dismissive but I'm tired of the agendas. Between the global warming and the drought and the government conspiracy and NWP arguments we can't keep anything on topic anymore.

Oh look a thread where we can talk about drought. Crazy. I think your taking something fairly mundane and blowing it way out of proportion. We're in a drought. We have had many like this in my lifetime and we will have many more. We also have floods. Weather goes through these cycles. It will rain/snow and balance out eventually. We're not to the point where things are dire yet. That's the take of this false prophet of populist belief.

Crap you just unraveled this whole thing

Where do you see severe?

I was talking to friends of mine from NYC about favorite storms and was saying how this past week was great but that it didn't make my top spot. Of course that storm having such a localized area of truly historic totals like that made it hard for them to understand but being here that one was epic and I am not sure anything will ever top that. On top of everything you said, it was a huge over performer, I think our forecast was only 10-16" going into that event. Plus it was only on the radar for a day or two before, there wasn't this long long LOOOONG build up and wait. Being nervous every model run that something will go wrong. The chase is fun but personally I kinda liked how that one just came out of nowhere and slammed us. For all those reasons, the CRAZY rates of heavy wet snow in the initial thump, the crazy deform bands in the wraparound, true blizzard conditions, total snow on the ground when it was over, and the surprise factor...It would take a lot to knock that off the top spot, even if another storm technically dropped a few more inches I am not sure it would top it.

how much did this area get during march 93? I assume there was a lot of sleet mixing even out here with that one.