CoastalWx

Here is the demon

Ever run into him?

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.

It did nail the two separate QPF maxes well

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.

Well the Euro had it l like 5 days out, but then lost it by 60-72 and we all thought it was gone...remember we said congrats Phil on getting a 3-5" scraper when the Euro finally went east.

Then the GFS at 12z on Dec 24 was the first model to bring it back.

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?

Nino and +QBO ... Definitely a crappy winter next year.

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 it actually got north of GON...most of SE CT was screwed. But then it got eaten alive as it went E...just collapse almost ESE and the Cape never got any of it. We lightened up for a bit too even though it didn't reach us. That was when I was starting to think I might not crack 20"...but then that final band formed to the NW and came through with really heavy rates to get us around 2 feet.

One funny thing about that storm is I always thought Logan airport got the PDII and Jan '05 totals reversed. They came in with that really high 27.5" total in PDII but in Jan '05 they came in with like 22.5" when everyone around them had like 25-27". They should switch those totals, lol.

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.

yeah the day of the 26th was one of those funky meteorology days along the coast. there was a nasty coastal front. i remember it was in the upper 30s with sprinkles/flurries down here most of the day while places inland were shivering and getting some OES to boot with onshore flow.

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.

The final death band in Jan '05 was awesome too. For a little bit, it looked like I might finish with 17-18" and then that final deformation death band strengthened and collapse SE...we got like 6" in 2 hours when it moved through. It put that storm up another tier from those big 16-18" storms.

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.

Jan 2005 I assume not Dec '04?

That was such a cold blizzard. You knew the airmass was cold when the night before MVY was like -10F, lol. At one point I think ACK got to around 0C at 850 while it was -16C over PYM county.

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

yeah i lived in harwich at the time...which proved good in the end...but was frustrating for the first half of that storm. just a few miles west, hya was over to S/S+ much earlier, but the heaviest stuff ended up right over the inside elbow overnight.

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.

I remember seeing the radar really early that morning (maybe like 4am or something) and there was like a black band rotting over the Cape and I was so jealous, lol. You could see the stars by that point here.

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 remember seeing entire houses swallowed up by the snow drifts...there was a pic of a house from the backyard where you couldn't see any of the house except the chimney. The snow had drifted right up to the roof and covered everything. Also the frozen sea spray right along the coast was ridiculous...it had frozen to everything.

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.

I just remember them moving cars out of snowbanks..lol. Big front end loaders with these forks, picking up cars from snow banks and moving them.

That was just an epic winter down there. It was pretty epic for us too, but down there it was like once in a 100 years or something. Getting two 20"+ storms on the Cape with both of them having that type of wind.

I'm telling you..and Phil can back me up...the sh*t I saw after the big January bliz was jaw dropping down there. Not many times I'm jealous of the Cape, but I was after that storm.

I happened to find this site the other day. Anyways, it has cool pics from the Cape snow bomb of 12/26/-12/27 2004. It looks like some family pics...but oh well.

http://www.user.firs...ter%202004-2005

That was fun seeing live.

The best part of that pic is Ray's face. I can just picture that face whenever Will says elevation event.

12/08 totally slipped my mind. I just looked back over my numbers.

12/19 8.5"

12/20 4.1"

12/21 11.6"

Unfortunately the following week torched 2/3 of it.

Yeah that was great. I woke up during the morning of the 21st before the main event started with another 2" on my car from this one band assoc with the cstl front passing through. After the band went by, my wind turned east.