tavwtby

it appears now my trip to Florida is going to be pushed right again, so I may not be driving on the weekend of the 20th, not sure if it's a good thing or bad, I was originally supposed to leave tomorrow... now maybe get to see a couple of good events and cold before I head down

6 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

We had 20” in ORH in ‘93 storm but it was a local max. Very few spots in New England even got 2 feet. 
 

The largest area of 2 feet in New England is almost certainly Feb ‘69 and Feb ‘13 was pretty impressive too. I’d say 2013 even outdid 1978 in New England as a whole for aerial coverage of 24”+. 
 

If we want to include March 1888 then that is right up there with Feb ‘69. 

that was the most snow I've ever seen in a single event, although 78 was longer lasting and higher impact, we got 27" in 78 in wtby, and 32" in 13... I think Feb 83, or 82 I can't remember was also 2'+ in wtby anyway

Just now, WinterWolf said:

Yes sir.  We got about 12” here…but we struggled to that. And as you said we had poor growth, and just couldn’t break into the big banding. Very disappointing to say the least. Good riddens to that thing lol. 

it was so close to, I remember just waiting for the growth to get better but never really did, although pretty impressive to pull a foot in sand snow

10 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Not many had 2ft in that. 

I was in Waterbury for that one, and we pinged for hours after getting close to 2', which took totals down

25 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

That boned us here out west(and I’m not extremely west either)…nothing special here. East of the River more than doubled(even 2.5 times in some spots)our accumulation.  Not a fan of that storm here. 

yeah WOR didn't do that great in that one, it wasn't zilch, but imby it was like hours of sand and poor snow growth and exhaust, believe I still got double digits though, just wasn't 2'+

53 minutes ago, Patrick-02540 said:

Pray.

we had the same problem and have since put gutters on this old house, yeah we didn't have them, and pointed all the gaps between the stones, then applied multiple coats of water proofing paint, we used drylox, but there's a number of them you can use, I know it's tedious but it makes a huge difference, and the dam for short term issues I'd go with

3 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah I didn't include 1993 since I was only really listing since 2000....we were close to 30" depth that month too in ORH, but never topped it. Hard to do late season (unless it's March 2001, lol....that year was on another level).

what about April 97, although short lived and before 2000

snowing to beat the band here in Winsted to start sitting right around 30

16 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Chestnuts hulls were probably fun in cutters of yore too. 
 

just watched a documentary about the chestnut blight, incredible how many that wiped out and how much of a staple they were to Appalachia before it happened, and those are huge trees that you could cut a certain way, so they would grow back and not have to kill the tree, pretty fascinating stuff, can imagine getting clocked by them in a wind storm tho would do damage

planning on driving to Florida for work on the 19-21, I usually break it up in 3 segments, looks like it may be an interesting drive this go around

4 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Tell me about it, seems to happen almost every storm

Anyway heres an updated CT snowfall totals after the new cocorahs data came out this morning. 

 

I'm still skeptical about that 17 in Granby, I was up there this morning and looked about the same as my place and through barkhamsted, but could have been a little micro climate situation, idk, but it sticks out with most around here between 10-14", good job with this btw, it's nice to see a summary after to see the pattern of snowfall

other than the 15th, I don't see any measurable on guidance by the time I leave for soflo for a month... won't be back until mid Feb, hopefully back ender this year, sitting at 14 on the season, just broke 41 last year, and barely got 30 year before, avg here is like 78, first couple winters here were great, both 90+, then a couple decent mixed in with the rats.

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

CT snowfall totals and town by town maps. I will be updating this today as i get all the new cocorahs data. Pretty huge gradient across CT from 2" all the way up to 17" in Granby. A lot of those reports on that NWS map are old and end at 7am yesterday. Ill have the SNE map and tri-state maps as well for this event. Thanks to everyone who sent in reports. 

For here i had the area near that 2-5" line but we were in the 5-10", so with 3.3" id call this storm a bust and a pretty big disappointment. We're approaching two full years without a warning level event here. 

17 in Granby?? that's a crazy outlier, maybe caught more from rd 2, but overall a fairly consistent distribution in NWCT, over to ENY and up to SNH... actually that stripe went down to PA, was pretty well modeled I think.

little pixelated but you can see the stripe of 10-18" right down to PA up to NH ..

it appears we have a zone from Ulster/Duchess cty area up to the Lowell area plus and minus about 30 miles that got 10+, that sound about right?

limped our way to 12.5" here with this last burst coming right as we finished doing the snow, which was as hard as it was last night surprisingly because radar doesn't look good, but under 1/2mi vis for almost an hour put down the final half inch... nice storm here for us, feel for the south peeps, looks like it's rockin up in orh cty up into SNH

looks like it's rockin from about wilbraham up to Lowell, nice band consolidating there

looks like the last gasp incoming, if it sticks together, otherwise I'm going out to clean up, we have a newly paved driveway, so it's going to be a pleasure with the new blower as well... nothing worse than a bumpy driveway trying to snowblow or shoveling...total as of now 11.5, need a good push to top a foot

from what I just read in the AFD, it seems like a struggle between the SLPs as soon as promise shows, it dissipates fairly quickly

Just now, tavwtby said:

.Update...As of 9:30 AM EST...MSLP analysis now shows two
distinct areas of low pressure off the coast, one located east
of the 40/70 benchmark and another just south of Long Island
with an inverted trough extending back across the eastern
Catskills from this second surface low. At the same time, GOES
16 water vapor imagery shows the approaching upper shortwave
embedded in a longwave trough currently located over eastern PA.
As this upper shortwave tracks northeastwards through the next
couple hours, it will help to keep that second SLP minimum
tucked into the coast, and will allow the surface low to
strengthen with the arrival of better upper divergence.

so two distinct SLP, an inverted trough, and the ULL coming in the stall and strengthen the more tucked SLP, am I reading that correctly???

.Update...As of 9:30 AM EST...MSLP analysis now shows two
distinct areas of low pressure off the coast, one located east
of the 40/70 benchmark and another just south of Long Island
with an inverted trough extending back across the eastern
Catskills from this second surface low. At the same time, GOES
16 water vapor imagery shows the approaching upper shortwave
embedded in a longwave trough currently located over eastern PA.
As this upper shortwave tracks northeastwards through the next
couple hours, it will help to keep that second SLP minimum
tucked into the coast, and will allow the surface low to
strengthen with the arrival of better upper divergence.

radar seems to be consolidating now, hopefully everyone can cash in on round 2 today

1 minute ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Toe Brogan thinks everywhere sucks except Texas

Joe the toe wound be buried under my snow he's so short

if we can get one of these heavy bursts to sustain for a couple hours it'll be another few inches, they seem to last a half hour then peeter out and start back up, wind is picking up too now... don't think I got above 25 the entire time, it was 25 when it started and is now.

it's ripping SN right now, on and off bursts of SN+