tavwtby

btw, gusting over 40 here now in the last half hour frequent...

haven't seen much but some flakes here, brief burst of mod, but apparently the one coming warrants a warning... nice to see all the pics of ppl getting crushed by squalls!

we just had a random gust that knocked over a 100lb large desk top on my desk, otherwise flurries and breezy, hoping to catch that line around the NY border

so between 1&4 o'clock moving across SNE tomorrow? just curious...also just realized my anemometer crapped the bed, so I have to rely on the volunteer FD down the road for wind reports... bummer

can imagine with high winds and frequent gusts, a lot of trees come down in saturated ground

1 minute ago, tavwtby said:

were you able to open the pic? i just realized it didn't embed, anyway it was a pic of about 18 during the storm on my grill, I stayed up all night for that one, and delayed a job interview because of it.

5 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

That was a great storm. I had about 20” in that. That month was crazy. 

were you able to open the pic? i just realized it didn't embed, anyway it was a pic of about 18 during the storm on my grill, I stayed up all night for that one, and delayed a job interview because of it.

2 minutes ago, H2Otown_WX said:

I had no idea there was one 3 days before my favorite storm (2/5/01). Was that more up your way?

that was a good year, I was rewiring a bank mostly second shift, in Fairfield and at noon they told us to call it, but it came down so hard and fast the Merritt was stopped and we got to Rt8 an hour later, didn't get home until like 10 that night, unsure if it was the Feb storm, but some fun ones that season

Just now, H2Otown_WX said:

Yeah that was 1/28/10

yeah was nuts, I think there was a lawsuit or something that came out of that, because there were kids stuck on a bus on a hill until like night time, and I think another accident...they dismissed school early past tuesday because of wind...pfft! it's breezy out, send em home early!

I recall one I wanna say was after 07 cause it was after I bought the house in Waterbury, we had heavy accumulating squall event right when school let out and a lot of buses got stuck and a couple had accidents, with all them hills it was insane

22 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

EPS sig for 1/19-20 is def there. Needs a bit of work but not bad for d7. 
 

 

Good cluster, but not that amped...still time to work that. I figure what happens on the 16/17th will have an effect on this one, with the s/w's being so close together. 

Jan 2011 waterbury...Season of yore!

2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

1/28/10 was the one you're prob thinking of. That was an epic setup. We're not repeating that since winds are too much westerly component in this one, but there def could be some pretty good squalls.

was that the one that put down a quick 5-6" in spots of SNE?

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.