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Then I must be thinking of another one. Even Harvey had egg on his face....a huge bust......maybe it was 2/10.

Has to be that. That event was an all out bust.

I know a lot of people don't really value wind as much as snow for a storm metric, but that storm was just ridiculous in terms of wind damage from Essex county up through NH and ME. It broke the record for storm surge at BOS harbor set from the blizzard of '78 iirc, but luckily this occurred at low tide.

Dave you killed me in '09-'10. I had no chance in those late Feb storms...I even missed out in the big winds from 2/25-2/26 storm. Just 25 miles to my north had 70-80mph winds.

I can't imagine they were totally hugging it. I think most just got gun shy in a marginal setup. It was the GFS that had the biggest bust in the 2/10 storm so that would be even more ironic if they decided to hug the model that failed the worst in the 2/10 storm.

I am still surprised at how conservative TV went in that 2/23-24 storm though. I mean, I can understand being afraid to forecast 8-14", but to be forecasting 1-3 or 2-4" seemed woefully conservative.

I know Harvey looks at the euro in more detail then perhaps some of them and he was the more bullish iirc, but still a little low. I mean February in the ORH hills....it's not an uncommon occurrence. But similar people were also going 12-24" back on 2/2 of this year as well. That was almost the complete opposite of 2/23-2/24. We talked about how there was no way people would get near 2'.

I wonder if the TV mets were mostly hugging the GFS in that February storm. I remember I posted the 950 temps on the euro for Will, and it seemed a lock for big wet snowbomb in the interior.

Any of you geologists have a link to what fault it was? There are stress faults all over the place, but clearly this little guy helped relieve a lot of tension.

5.8 is probably pushing some of the limits for building integrity. The newer ones are ok, but I would think anything larger than a 6.0 would be a real problem.

Just out of curiosity, can someone explain how it felt? Was it more of a roll, and then more violent shaking? Just wondering.

Must be climate change.

Yeah that one was pretty funny. It was right after he said it would trend into a huge hit there on that sick 18z NAM run a couple days before.

You can count on one thing though....anytime Ray has a meltdown, somehow he pulls double digits out of his arse.

So we have Dec '09, Dec '10, and Jan '11. All three times at least one of us..if not both of us told him to strap on his ass-less snowpants because he's be ok in the snowfall dept.

A rare MRG meltdown in the Dec 09 storm thread...lol. Messenger getting 20" and Pete, cirrus.

LOL, Kevin and Ray meltdowns are the best.

I like that last pic. Gives a good perspective on depth.

Will, at least the snowpack had some staying power through March up by your way, but it was just a disaster how it melted through March.

lol....Yeah thats a text book picture on how it should be done......also great job by you and the residents of that street.

Eventually, those piles had to be thrown onto the front yards, when January ended.

Love the pictures you just posted. Seems like the city of Boston does a great job of snow removal, also the towns outside of the city. That last pictures is great, all the snow shoveled to the left or right of the driveways, and not just thrown back into the street. Plus you went the extra mile and clean out the fire hydrant......

They do an awesome job cleaning out, almost too good. Boston uses salt after every time they come down the street, so the piles aren't as big as they could be. It annoys me a little, but at least you can navigate the narrow streets.

Hey Steve...that November 8th storm was pretty cool. That actually brought the warmer air in and DS to ne mass. WST was actually more conducive to snow then LWM. I remember we were saying this might actually be a Tolland to ne CT and nw RI deal.

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.

Believe it or not, I think that only occurred briefly for about 45 minutes when the CF just moved to my west. It got to 32.5 here with S+, so everything got caked. I do think that because I was so close to the CF for a while...and it did become almost marginal aloft..like around 950mb..the snow may have been a little wetter then it normally would have been with a temp of around 27-28F. Luckily I stayed just on the good side of the CF.

I was really quite lucky the first half of the season with those deform bands. Every model hit the mid level lift and RH hard over my area and it resulted in impressive totals for Boxing Day and 1/12. F QPF.

Yeah you always seemed to be in that sweet spot, despite QPF. Mid levels rule.

Couple of pics from 12/26

Nice drift.

That was an awesome storm. LOL, Foxboro had a virtual condo collapser.

Another view of the intense lift down there.

Strong low level frontogenesis too.

Again, I know it wasn't the greatest for all...but a few nice images I had from 12/26.

Nice DS poking into ern mass, but look at the intense lift in se mass.

We are potentially only 3 months away from our first flakes. We saw that T-2" snowfall on October 16, 2009...then another on October 18, 2009. This thread gets me pumped up for tracking winter events again.

Yeah I thought about digging this thread out again,and getting the weenies fired up. You know it's bad when you post a water vapor animation at 2am, after being asleep for 3 hours.

It had a nice negative tilt to it showing up in the OV... I like to look for that for NJ model lows.

Will is right though. Those are the types of systems that drop a quick 6-8" of snow, then followed by wind whipped cold. I love those too.