CoastalWx

I would have cleaned up in that event.

snowNH has been asking about that storm since Feb 2010.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don't think that 40" was real.

Yeah I got something signed by him when i was a kid. Man, the hype from that storm was unreal...although srn NH had spots that got almost 3'.

LOL 40-80mph winds and seas 20-40FT.

Yeah I thought the models overall did well with that. The meso models had it too. In fact, I went through those old emails and in it, I joked about how people west of the Boston band were going to get screwed.

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.

Unrelated, but it was the GFS that first showed the 12/26 storm of last year, correct?

So long as it isn't too strong..probably would be ok.

Yeah those models were the winners big time. I remember comparing each ETA run to the previous run and watching the s/w get more amped up with each run, bringing the low closer and closer. The GFS was a real weenie deflater until last minute when it shoved it nw. It's funny, because I felt that same feeling during PDII.

Lets all hope for a weak Nino next year. West based would be nice.

Yeah that storm was really bad for se ct. Man if I lived there and everyone to the nw-n-ne-ese got a HECS while I got 8"...I probably would have lost it. Poor Steve. The 22.5 in that storm for Logan was low. BOS got crushed during the night and then again late morning. The "slowing" of snow rates still was at least moderate there too.

I think the BVY area was getting those snows. We were cold aloft, but the lower 1000ft was mild. It was sticking a bit just inland, but didn't near the shoreline.

Do you remember how quick that DS came up from the sw? I remember when it got near GON...I got a little nervous, but the whole thing just started tilting to the north and then nw right when it reached near GON. The snow rates for about 3 hrs lightened up for a time which precluded the 30"+amounts where I was.

Yeah Jan '05. Sorry, I know we are talking about both storms.

It was also a mix most of the day in the south shore. It pretty much was snow, but it did mix when it was very light and the snow came in waves, which as you know...usually happens when it's borderline ra/sn. Nothing really stuck until 7ish.

When I saw that 35-40dbz band down there around 1am or so...I was jealous too. So close to that, but we still had a great storm.

I think that storm had the harshest conditions that I've ever been in. I attempted to go out around 10am when that final S+ band came through and it was pretty much unbearable and that is no joke. I couldn't even open my eyes when facing the wind because it was about 12F with winds 50-60mph. Of course I was in heaven, but I had to face south with that wind howling from the north. It was impossible to be out there without one of those face masks.

I think I remember that pic...was it near the shoreline? I wish I could find it. Anyways yeah, lots of drifts to second story windows. I even saw some weird drifts to the second story of homes on the beach in Marshfield.

We were working on a house down in Osterville, and I had to tunnel my way through, just to make it into the front entrance of a framed out home. I then actually dug a back hoe out because it was stuck. How often is a backhoe stuck in the snow.