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Pinkham Notch 77".

http://www.ohcroo.co...ter_of_1969.cfm

Dude one of the best memory accounts ever, just awesome . I would have loved to have seen that 166 depth, sweet

The big storm started after a reprieve of 4 days without snow. The morning of February 24th and through most of the day snow fell but mostly as light flurries with only a trace of new snow recorded. This flurry activity turned into serious snow as we went into the 25th. There was 8 feet of snow cover at that time and there was no place to put anymore. The lack of storage space made no difference to mother nature who, clearly, felt we needed more. The snow kept right on falling and when the day ended, we had recorded another 21 inches. This put our depth up to 113 inches on the ground. We plowed in shifts with our pick-up truck and front-end loader. The crew shoveled, had coffee, shoveled, had lunch, shoveled, had a beer, shoveled and shoveled and shoveled and the beer supply was getting dangerously low. It was hard to keep ahead and we weren’t making much headway if in fact we were making any headway at all. Then came the next day, the 26th, it again snowed all day and another 24.5 inches of snow piled up to give us a snow depth of 138 inches. We were working around the clock and were clearly losing ground. What was a small parking lot with just enough space for the guests was no parking lot at all. The state highway department worked three plows non-stop. Their crews were working 6 hours and napping two. They too were losing the battle. I finally threw in the towel at midnight to catch a few hours rest. I backed the plow truck up into the driveway of the manager’s residence facing downhill so as to get a running start when I again started plowing. The rear of that building was kept plowed out as it provided access to the fire hydrant. During those hours a lot more snow fell. On the 27th the snow increased to extra heavy in the morning and then continued as light snow with a total 27 inches recorded. That brought the depth on the ground to 164 inches. I got up at 4:00 am and started up the plow. It was back and forth a few times and then gave it all it had and it went for 30 feet. The truck was stuck and useless. I wallowed down through the waist deep snow to the path between the Administration Building and the old Trading Post. There was a wide wallow in the path that indicated that Melvin, the cook, was up and at least was headed in the right direction. I followed the wallow to the kitchen, had some coffee, chatted with the Melvin for a few minutes and set about getting the crew up to start the shovel brigade so the guests could get over for breakfast. It was no easy job as we could hardly throw the snow high enough to get it out of the way. Work they did and a path was cleared. It was apparent that breakfast was all the guests would be able to do. The main highway was closed in one direction and marginal in the other direction. It took 4 hours with the loader to make a slot to where the truck was stuck. The next day, the 28th, we were spared as very little snow fell. My wife, Mary, checked out the area around the camp on her cross-country skis. She was able to observe my oldest son taking his afternoon nap by peering in through the window of his second floor bedroom. The final fall of 4.5 inches was recorded on that day. Lodge guests were out trying to identify which hump in the snow represented their automobile. There is always a difference in time as the recorded record is taken at about 7:00 am each day. The record shows that the storm actually started on the 24th at about 6:00 am. And continued, non-stop, until the 27th at 2:00 pm. During that period, a record, 76 inches of snow fell.

That storm is nicknamed "The 100 Hour Storm"...it was a retrograde job as kind sort of be seen well by the snowfall distribution. Most of the snow fell in a 2 day period though from Feb 24 to Feb 25, 1969...though there was still some moderate snow on the 26th.

I believe that storm is still Blue Hill's biggest storm on record with 38.7"

People in Maine still talk about 69, that was their 78! 100 inch totals in notches in NH I think.

Alright, that's what I thought.

I went back through some old internal emails from that day, and saw a congrats GFS in one of them. It must have been for the 24/12z run.

It did nail the two separate QPF maxes well

There was a run or two where the Euro kind of lost it around 84-96 hours out....then when the ETA could "see" the storm at its long range 84 hours, it shows a big hit...the very next run the Euro joined it again and we knew it was game on.....you are right how it kept trending better and better with each run in the final 48h....the ETA/Euro at like 60-72 hours were showing a MECS type storm, like 10-15"...not a HECS...and the GFS was way southeast and the GGEM/Ukie were kind of scrapers.

Then the ETA started going gangbusters inside of that 48h frame and got more and more obscene with each run. Euro looked close, but it was hard to tell because back then we didnt have Euro qpf maps...only the crude weather.unisys maps or the even worse ecmwf.int freebie maps.

All this is here http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?/topic/15964-historic-east-coast-storm-sne-blizzard-of-2005/page__hl__%2Bwalt+%2Bdrag+%2B2005__fromsearch__1

The way I recall the model drama for Jan. 05 storm... models 5+ days out had a major snowstorm for the northeast (the euro stands out here). There was the beastly vort max expected to drop down from Canada, but I also believe the long range models had it phasing with a southern vort max which was referred to as the "Baja low" in the southern stream. The models then began to ditch the idea of these two systems phasing as the Baja low closed off and decided it would hang out over, well, the Baja...The storm threat completely fell apart as I recall from the day~2-5 range as the northern vort was no longer digging south enough and it basically trended to a crap clipper on the models...Then in the short range everything started to come back, and we had just another instance where each model run got better and better as we got closer, to the point where 24 hours out we were staring at a HECS.

Loved that storm down here in coastal Jersey where we had 16 inches. Most of the damage (10 inches) came with the warm air advection punch on that Saturday, It got briefly dicey that evening as the back edge of that precip neared with the 850 low, the temp spiked to 32 and a change over was 5 miles from my house. Then in the nick of time temps began to crash again and we caught the beginning stages of the CCB late that night and Sunday morning. Dropped a windswept, cold fluffy 6 inches to top things off.

the NGM's finest hour

Been following this bering sea storm for several days now. I follow alaska weather almost as much as i do here (sometimes more when it's slow) so I read their afds almost every day and I've never seen such strong wording from Fairbanks as I have with this storm (which isn't a surprise given how strong it is).

I know this area is notorious for it's big storms and hurricane force gusts are not unusual but Fairbanks mentions in their discussion of winds gusting to 100mph. It amazes me a non tropical low can get to as low as 940 to 945mb with winds that high at the surface. The lowest pressure for an extratropical low btw is 927mb that was recorded at dutch harbor, Ak in 1977.

I saw a 86mph wind gust was reported at nome on the news this morning.

Also saw a story on the aspects of the storm surge and how the lack of sea ice is expected to allow the storm surge to be higher...as sea ice can diminish the potential storm surge somewhat. Amazing storm, wish I could experience something like that.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/story/2011-11-09/alaska-storm/51134540/1

surge in Nome

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Man I wished I lived here for that

I think we should certainly expect to have less...especially CT up through BOS...but I'm hoping I can get at least 50" in my backyard.

Just hope we have one blockbuster 48 hour type, those are special.

I didn't call that total in, but I found a pic from that storm and I wrote 14" on it. I measured when I got home and stuck a yard stick in and actually had 14"..but it could have been an inch or more after settling.

To this day, that was some of the best snowgrowth yet that I have ever seen. I have a few pics from that storm and PD II that I should scan.

Great band, I have been thinking a lot. What will I think this year after last years incredible run? I have a feeling that even 1 inch will get me excited but am hoping for a Dec 03 blanket.

Oh yeah, there were a ton of thunder snow obs in the 1/12 storm. That was crazy. 12/9/05 was amazing for its time though because there were far fewer posters back then. That storm still had the most impressive CCB intensification I've seen...but 1/12 came close. I remember commenting how that 1/12 inflow was the best since 12/9/05.

The way that ML consolidated was sick, vortex like, as it spun up there were insane snow amounts, when the dude in East Greenwich RI reported 7 per hour I scoffed then he posted pics, my draw dropped then it was my turn in the MCS. Looking at all the loops there almost seems to be a merry go around effect with spokes of energy rotating around with insane rates. The final totals are pretty uniform but I remember the very large hourly reports seemed scattered around a center. Cool stuff for winter.

Back on eastern, my favorite part of that storm was everyone reporting thundersnow at the same time in the obs thread. The way that CCB intensified was something I haven't seen before or since.

The funny part was that the obs thread for that storm was like 23 pages long. I think that would only get us through about 1-2 hours of another storm like that nowadays....how times have changed.

The 12 th came close hundreds of posts between 1 am and 4, lots of simultaneous. Tsnow obs.

The severe storm on 2 feet of snow was a lifetime achievement for me, crazy Epic six week stretch, let's do this again!

My slightest sliver of a White Christmas

That changed

38 inch depth too high to keep the dogs fenced in

So

My slightest sliver of a White Christmas

Scooter I absolutely love the caked on look on that garage, triple decker, Jan 05 on the Cape was some of my favorite shots of all time, classic.

November 8th actually. I was kind of bummed because I just missed getting a couple inches. The best was in CT.

Yep, but you and Scooter nailed that call, shot across the bow for CT's early blitzes. Wonder if it's like a TS going into Texas in July, a precursor?

Ya'll know who got the JUJU going last year with the first two inch snow of the season Nov 6th

I honestly really enjoy that 6 inch or so event here in metrowest at the end of February...I had just returned home from Utah and hadn't been paying attention to the weather and Sunday morning I woke up to four inches on the ground with snow falling. Sometimes its nice not to over-analyze like we do here.

Its what we do

I'll be showing all 3 storms at some point in my presentation.

Fantastic really look forward to it.

I hope someone at the conference presents a study on Jan 12th, perhaps the best storm variant wise of my life. The ML collapse and consolidation shows almost tornado physical properties