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2 hours ago, H2Otown_WX said:

Well happy early birthday fellow (former) Waterburyian

thx!

45 minutes ago, H2Otown_WX said:

Wasn't 1/3/06 paste? Maybe not in your area...

I think 1/3/06 was graupel and sleet, with some paste, only reason I remember is cause it's my birthday, always take something on my birthday... not sure what it did further north tho, I was still in Waterbury at the time.

3 hours ago, NotSureWeather said:

Imagine being so angry that you need to take it out on strangers in a weather forum. Should be grateful we get to even track something.

I'm saying that to myself, honestly a good dumping I thought would lighten the mood, or at least some sigs to track would, but honestly some people just need to bitch and complain about stuff and it won't stop, if we got a 3' KU region wide, ppl be bitching about a 384 hr warm up, it's incredible. it's NYE, things are active and some potential is there, we still have two honest winter months and another that can produce, let's take it down a notch with the cortisol...

5 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

This would be ok if it works out

 

that'll work, hope I get to see something otg before I drive south until mid February.

26 minutes ago, kazimirkai said:

Jesus where are all the fun colors? So unappealing lol

black and white clown maps just didn't have the dopamine, however the skill involved in these awe me, miss those old weather prognosticators and their maps and explanation

finishing Dec off with a bang huh, nearly 9" of rain, avg mean temp 35.5...and it's still raining, I'll have to check the archives on how this ranks in terms of Dec rain, that's even a lot of precip let alone RN only..

1 hour ago, 512high said:

 

Tip, I'm really confused with all the model runs the last few days I think it was you and others a few days ago or so, "sniff" something to watch around 1/5, then, and I could be wrong, I thought I read somewhere pages back, that the 1/5 was gone, and now a possible 1/8 or 1/9, another words did 1/5 disappear this am, and is now popping up ? What is going on with models, or is shit just moving too fast, seems a lot of clutter...

 

1/4-1/10 was always showing up as a shot at something, sigs popping up and disappearing, but unfortunately we don't have cold source until maybe the second of them and that looked suppressed to me, still time though for either of these, and how those waves will effect each other a nice phase with a good HP in S Quebec would be great to lighten moods and bring some from the cliff about now, maybe even stop the cancellation of winter on 12/29...

3 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Retention matters little to me here in the valley. For me, total snowfall, frequency of events, impact of events, and novelty of events (for example the big cold in February) hold significant weight in a seasonal grade. 

I agree with the retention, doesn't matter to me, it gets stale if not refreshed by new snows...I personally prefer frequent snows at least one good cold stretch and total snowfall.

so for those who put a grade on winter, other than retention, what are the other categories that factor in? frequency, cold, snow depth, total snowfall? just curious.

40 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Kevin was in heaven 10/11 14/15 12/13 all second half winters, he ain't fooling anyone.

I'll take 10/11 or 12/13 walking through the door, 14/15 was ok, but was better in eastern areas than here, by the Feb 2 storm of2011 I had about 35-40" on my roof! that was the most snow I think I saw otg, and had to dig out a path for the oil delivery and by the time I got to the road it was as tall as me and like looking at fossils, seeing the layers of different storms, that was cool. historically speaking, the majority of our best storms happen from mid January to mid February, with some outliers but that's always the most active period in my experience.

26 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

1995-1996.

I think that's the only one in my lifetime that went wire to wire snowstorms, and iirc, we had a pretty good thaw in mid January after the blizzard, maybe 2002-2003 was another? one of those winters was pretty good start to finish in early oughts

33 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

It did produce…but only for HUBB Dave and Ineedsnow. Lol.  

yeah, lot of us in WSNE got skunked last winter while a lot were able to at least get near avg. I wound up with 41.25" 3rd worst of the last 5 years if you can believe that.

5 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Just did the same.   Felt like spring.

it's felt like spring since well... spring, give or take a few hot summer days where I actually got above 90, and a few cold ones in the last couple months... granted I was in soflo and PHX for the middle of the summer, but the hottest it got was the week before labor day, then we went to Mizzou and it was scorching, then back to Florida for the most humid month I ever saw, but that is Florida... it'll change eventually here..

well I'm scheduled to go to WPB for an engine test mid jan into Feb, so it'll probably snow then...

was just looking at the snow summary I did, and late 20s to early 40s of 1900s, with a couple anomaly years were mostly below average, then the curve goes up from 50s to early 70s, and began trending down, and began going up again around the turn of the century, on a long enough time line, you can definitely see the cycle almost sine wave of the moving average, we're due for an up trend though

oof!

looking forward to my birthday storm this coming Jan 3, many years it's been close to a good storm on my birthday but not great, would love a nice KU for my birthday...end of the week looks interesting, especially east of the river

it's a foggy foggy Christmas... Merry Christmas everyone, on this balmy morning...

5 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

Just landed at PBI. 78F!!! Don’t be jelly anyone 

I'll be there in a couple weeks for a month long test, enjoy.

12 minutes ago, kazimirkai said:

Me being born in 2003 lol. 2013-2014 was the best winter I can recall. Pi day 2017 got me 22 inches and that was the best single storm total I've ever seen. I just wish I had been interested enough about weather back then to fully track it in the days leading up.

3/17 was a good one, capped off the last big winter here, been avg or below since...the one storm that got me hooked on weather, winter to be specific, was obviously 78, I know you weren't around and 13 we got more snow and better rates, and there's a few that come close but 78 is now folklore for us here old enough to remember... I'm sure Oct 11 2/13 and the stretch in Jan 2011 will be there as storied someday, but let's see if we can squeeze out a big one in an el nino year, happened before, it'll happen again! I know we've all got that itch...

4 minutes ago, WeatherX said:

Epic stretch from really Jan 94 through April 96 for the snow lovers. Not much went wrong. Good times


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indeed... especially late November 95-April 96, seemed like 3-6/4-8" every other day with a couple biggins in there, that was a fun winter. 13/14 & 14/15 the first two winters after moving up here from Waterbury were pretty epic too, over 85" both years, legendary piles too for igloo making with my son

12.3 this morning was the coldest of the season so far, got up to 35 tho

2.63" since yesterday, currently 58, max gust was 44, sustained was 23, so far no pwr flickering and appears the end of heavies is near, poor chickens are soaked, molting so half feathers

59F winds are 22sustained and just had a 44 gust, roaring out there

will this be one of those winters where we get one monster and the rest is warm cutters and dry windy cold? has been the theme lately, and yeah I'd trade the rest of winter for a monster KU, was never really a pack or otg for start to finish guy, so yeah gimme a KU and I'll be happy if the rest is a rat