CT Rain

Yeah there were some areas in CT that saw very little from Oct 2011. So 1978 was more widespread with heavy impact though western CT did not see as much of an impact and southern and eastern parts of the state. The wind was vicious though so you had very impressive drifting even where you had less than 20". The fact so many people were stranded turned the storm into a legendary one for many. Had the storm occurred on a weekend it probably would have had much less of an impact (if it happened 20 years later the number of 4WD/AWD cars would have alleviated some of the issues too). I would probably edge 1978 over 2011 in CT particularly because it was more widespread and impacted everyone. The two are in the same league, however, something that CT hasn't been able to say in over 30 years.

Yeah agreed. Looking at specific storms we all have memories of different ones for different reasons. 3/93, 1/96, 4/97, 3/01, 2/03 all have pretty special places in my weather memory. Oct 11 blows them all out of the water though.

Yeah agreed. Judging storms by impact I think is the most important means of ranking storms. The 2006 powder bomb was the least impactful 26" of my life. I cleared my car off in about 3 minutes. I would have to give the edge to 1978 and definitely 1888 over 2011. All three storms were quite different.

The 3 biggest for impact would have to be October 2011, February 1978, and March 1888. 1888 for amounts, 1978 for drifts/amounts/strandings/coastal flooding, and 2011 for damage. I'm not sure any others come into that category.

Trying to put October 2011 in some type of historical perspective in CT. I can't think of any snowstorm other than 1978 that had the same type of societal impact in post-1900. Can anyone think of any others?

Seems to me based on the service assessment that there may be a push to make "tornado emergency" a separate warning per recommendation 2. They clearly state they want to maintain the existing POD but want to "provide a non-routine warning mechanism that prompts people to take immediate life saving action in extreme events like strong to violent tornadoes" Also to modify the warning structure to be more impact based than phenomenon based. All of the above would be great I think.

I think he had 108" in 95-96... I'll look at work when I get in. Same elevation in East Granby.

I was in Guilford then on the shore... we were rocking that year. Even though a few of those years look "high" one of my coworkers in the wx department lives right next to the airport and had nearly identical totals in 95-96.

Some of those 94 storms were my favorite. 2 back-to-back foot storms within a week made for a nice February

Yeah I figured Nice year for you!

What would you prefer to be repeated this year for you Jan 05 or Dec 05?

Did they I don't remember? They got a nice hit in the Dec snowstorm.

Was so happy to miss it Was working in Albany that morning and driving to CT that afternoon to work at NBC in Hartford. Ughhhhh.

Wow, nice. I remember the wind and waves down at the water with like 24 hours of -RAPL. It was awful but a very exciting storm to watch.

What was your final total from that one?