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    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    I actually haven't saved some of the damage stuff yet but I'll try to do that tonight actually. By Monday and Tuesday we have some pretty good damage video. I actually have 5 front pages of the Hartford Courant framed for the week following the storm for my weather lair.

    Oh nice. I used to save some news paper article from storms when I was a kid. I actually had something from 12/26/10 last year. I'll have to find the other stuff at home. When you get a chance, post the damage video. That was awesome footage.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    Thanks will. It does pain me sometimes to forecast snow for tolland. I get a sick satisfaction with disappointing him on air :)

    LOL, he must jump around on his bed like a little school girl when you mention "the hills."

    That coverage was great. You did a nice job with the storm. I sort of get disappointed from time to time missing out on that, but I was able to live vicariously threw you guys during the storm.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    12" in Keene, which was a little "disappointing", but significant nonetheless

    And the model watching was the most excitement I've ever had with a storm I have to say. 20-30" in eastern NY, western MA, and S VT where a few days earlier partly cloudy skies were a justifiable forecast. Absolutely incredible.

    Yeah agreed. I went through Christmas Day constantly sneaking a peak at the models and this board. My wife hated it, but I knew it had the potential to be a beast so to me, it was justified..lol.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    Good storm, but not overwhelming here...the most exciting part by far was the model chase with Boxing Day last year.

    I know snow wise wasn't that memorable out your way, but the storm itself was such a beast. To have inland spots like ORH and ORE gust higher than BOS is pretty noteworthy.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    Remember when the GFS and UKMET were giving us a Feb '69 redux about 4 days out before the New Years 2010 retrograde storm?

    I got really excited for a brief time during that model run until the Euro was the buzzkill.

    Oh that's right...since Dec '09...lol. That was the storm where Andy said it would be in BID right? UKMET fetish.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    I lived in Brockton at the time, and we had great winds. Branches were flying everywhere.

    The problems was that I was expected to get 18" of paste whipped around by 70mph winds. I was so pumped. Even my parents were telling me how this may be the biggest snow storm that I have seen yet. I was a pumped up 13yr old weenie. Blizzard warnings were issued.

    I woke up I think near 4am and it was snowing and snowing heavy. The snow caked onto everything and the wind seemed like it would flatten every tree. It was around 9am or so, where the precip lightened and it turned into this weird sleet like snow, that wasn't accumulating. My temp went up just a bit too. I think I got dryslotted somehow and the marine layer made a second push west across se mass. 18" turned into about 6" with not much precip falling the rest of the day. When I saw areas like Walpole just to my nw get buried with snow...and ORH getting 3'....I wanted to cry...I swear. I thought that was the chance of me finally getting the big snow like my parents always talked about. I was already c*ck teased by the cape blizzards in the 80s.

    That storm though was a beast and I enjoyed the insane aspects that went along with it. However, that storm will be remembered for one thing....it broke the back of our crappy winters.

    I've made up for it since then in terms of seeing big snow events, but that one will forever sting..especially seeing that I was so close to the big amounts.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    You had some great winds though. Didn't they gust to or over cane force? At least it wasn't a total shutout.

    That is still one of my top 3 favorte SNE snowstorms.

    I lived in Brockton at the time, and we had great winds. Branches were flying everywhere.

    The problems was that I was expected to get 18" of paste whipped around by 70mph winds. I was so pumped. Even my parents were telling me how this may be the biggest snow storm that I have seen yet. I was a pumped up 13yr old weenie. Blizzard warnings were issued.

    I woke up I think near 4am and it was snowing and snowing heavy. The snow caked onto everything and the wind seemed like it would flatten every tree. It was around 9am or so, where the precip lightened and it turned into this weird sleet like snow, that wasn't accumulating. My temp went up just a bit too. I think I got dryslotted somehow and the marine layer made a second push west across se mass. 18" turned into about 6" with not much precip falling the rest of the day. When I saw areas like Walpole just to my nw get buried with snow...and ORH getting 3'....I wanted to cry...I swear. I thought that was the chance of me finally getting the big snow like my parents always talked about. I was already c*ck teased by the cape blizzards in the 80s.

    That storm though was a beast and I enjoyed the insane aspects that went along with it. However, that storm will be remembered for one thing....it broke the back of our crappy winters.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    Dec 1992 is the storm of infamy . ORH got crushed with 36 inches. 16-22 in NE Ct.power out for days with tree damage to naked trees. with heavy rains and high wind for the coast of SNE.

    We need another one of those. The thing was crawling

    That storm is one of my worst memories ever. I swear I almost cried in that one.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    i wish i could use that as my excuse...but i've been a huge weenie since i was 4...my brain is just weird about the details it stores and the details it doesn't...i do remember the winter of 95-96...that pattern brought in a storm every other day...i think 2005 was the year the Cape got demolished...my sister lives in plymouth...she kept getting hammered while, i kept getting 6inchers...

    i wish i could remember everything about everything...

    Well it sounds like you remember more than most when it comes to weather. It's easy to say to someone "wow you don't remember that?" However, sometimes I have to realize that not everyone is a weather weenie sicko...lol.

    I do regret that I feel like I lost a few childhood memories of snow, but I still remember the bigger storms of the 80s.

    New England snowstorm memories.

    in New England

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    this thread totally just made me geek out on you tube looking at past storm images and video...i wish i had a brain like Will's...some of the recent storms from 2005, and 2007 i don't remember :(

    and the April Fool's Storm...i don't remember anything about the snowfalling or intensity...i just remember measuring various places on my driveway and in my back yard ang getting 36inches...

    my brain sucks!!!

    You defintely weren't a big enough weenie back then. I wish I had a camera on me back then, because I must have either had my jaw on the ground the whole time, or smiling ear to ear like the joker. I was in total shock and awe the whole time. Complete awe. January 2005 was close given the combo of snow rates and wind, but I just remember thinking to myself that this can't be happening, during the 3/31-4/1 snow event.

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