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1 minute ago, dendrite said:

The only credit I remember the JMA ever getting was for Feb 06.

Jan 96

Don't post often,  but I don't mind where the euro is.

Except for sharp cutoff storms, we usually see the heavy bands expand further west and northwest than modeled ..but we shall see.

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1 minute ago, weatherpruf said:

They break, as do snowblowers. Things are made like junk today. I bought two snow shovels last year and they have already started falling apart; A new craftsman needed a new carbuerator when it was brand new. Used twice last year, it now needs another new carbuerator. Thankfully I have a better machine and an electric toro for backup. 

Yeah..all this made in China crap

2 minutes ago, mannylovessnow said:

The public starts going crazy when the local news puts out 12+ inch snow maps. They haven’t yet. 

Plus they know people will flood to home depot and Lowes...funny how so many people seem to lose last years snow shovel

Just now, MJO812 said:

Feb 2006

Jan 1996

1 minute ago, mikem81 said:

18z Navgem for the win!!! We are desperate 

JMA will pull the coup

Snowing pretty good right now in trumbull..everything covered..32

Just now, s2sailorlis said:

FWIW, bone dry in Fairfield, CT so far...

Some flakes are flying right now in Trumbull CT

Good news for snow lovers on the board..planning on moving my snowthrower to the back corner of the garage this week for the summer ..which means it'll probably snow again this winter..

9 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

This is just insane

Something has to give

Welcome to the 1980's Ant...

I'm in that heavy band near Bridgeport..everything snow covered and still cranking

Snowing pretty hard right now..everything covered..

27 and cloudy here in Sw ct..not sure what to expect today and tomorrow

31 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

Nothing exciting on the models at all. Looks like the good pattern that people thought that was coming is going to fail.

 

Hopefully things change but this winter has been awful with tons of busts.

 

Bring on baseball. First game is today =)

Yep..the last thing anyone wants is a cold and rainy April and may..bring on some nice weather if real snow is off the table

Snow mixing back in with the sleet here

Sleet here..

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

flipping to sleet here.  2 inches of snow  21/18

Still snow here..but probably switching in minutes

1 minute ago, etudiant said:

This is a 'learning winter', where we all learn humility.

Fact is no model set has performed either consistently or reliably this winter, at least for the NYC area.

Given that there is plenty of computer power available to throw at these problems, it suggests that there are real shortcomings in the models the forecasts are based on. Hope that the folks at NOAA and elsewhere recognize this and try to rework these fundamentals, because until that happens, things will not improve.

The 80's were " learning winters"...we learned how to survive with almost no snow...

12 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

It does.   My kids want to go sledding, told them maybe as it's falling....guessing schools closed Tue due the timing with the early AM start

Yep..probably will be closed...if it's anything like here in trumbull, they close the schools when there are dark clouds it seems...way different than years ago for sure

2 hours ago, weatherlogix said:

The JMA wasn't around in 1996, at least not in he mainstream

It was some Japanese model..thought it was JMA..it definitely was not mainstream..may have been called something else back then

1 hour ago, weatherlogix said:

No it wasn't. The ECMWF was locked and loaded on that storm 8-9 days out

Not saying you're wrong but i could swear the JMA was on it's own seeing that storm...maybe the euro had it ..lost it and got it back..not sure

3 minutes ago, TriPol said:

The blizzard of 2006 started off with the JMA showing a huge blizzard in the beginning of February with the title "FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY".  26.9 inches later, I was quite entertained!

It was the first to call the 96 blizzard as well...

Not sure how much winteris left, but the birds are chirping and the sun feels really warm...i want a big blizzard like everyone else but if that aint gonna happen..then bring on some nice weather..

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

Reminiscing to the music for weather on the 8's, I have saved some of those classics from the 80's.

Wasn't it the charlie brown theme for a while??

I think the squall line weakened before it got here...a alot of wind with mod snow for a few minutes and thats it..just a dusting..but damn it got a lot colder quick