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  1. weatherpruf
    I have noted that about the bullseye too...which I happen to be inside for a change ( though this is all still subject to change and likely will ) so looks like it could be a decent storm...not an historical one, but so what?
  2. weatherpruf
    There's a clip there of Two Winters to Remember, about the 77 and 78 winters in Evansville IN, my late mom's hometown. Averaging about 13 inches for an average winter, they were pummeled with blizzards and the national guard had to be brought in to dig people out and get them food. This would be unimaginable today.
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    And yet that big storm, the biggest I had ever seen, was modest compared to what we saw from 1996 onward...it was about 17 inches; I was in 9th grade, Catholic school, still had a few pairs of plaid pants, with a flare....1977. By 1980 no one would be caught dead wearing plaid, platforms or flares.....or leisure suits....
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    There hasn't been a winter as brutal as 94 in my lifetime; the last hurrah that winter was a wicked sleet fest of 4-6 inches in March that had such winds I thought the sleet would break the windows.
  5. weatherpruf
    What about Jan 87? Was that just a NJ thing? Not a huge depth, but one wicked storm.....
  6. weatherpruf
    When this one is on board I usually buy some gas for the snow blower ( s ).
  7. weatherpruf
    Frankly, I just need something to keep my mind off current events. A decent 4-8 inches will do. But it could be more than that. Or less. We'll see....
  8. weatherpruf
    Just like old times....
  9. weatherpruf
    Same here. Don't need 2 feet. I too have a couple of new snow blowers ( sears was blowing out there inventory, got a yard machine 28 inch for 299, got a 24 inch Craftsman for 159, both dual stage; the Craftsman had to serviced before it even ran! though the mechanic tells me they are all made by MTD....
  10. weatherpruf
    This is days away. I've learned not to assume anything til almost the day of, and even then it doesn't always unfold the way it is expected to.
  11. weatherpruf
    Gotta admit, I was in the parking lot at Target and had CBS news on, and they seemed to be kinda sorta thinking this might be a big deal, something about long duration....time to start paying attention.
  12. weatherpruf
    FWIW I don't think the history matters much anymore. We've just lost almost all Jan with nada. hard to see pulling out 20 inches the rest of this winter. Saw many just like it in the 80's. However, i wouldn't place bets on mother nature. If I knew the future, I'd be rich....always appreciate your informative posts.
  13. weatherpruf
    A whole lotta nothing for most of us....
  14. weatherpruf
    Well we don't want suppression....
  15. weatherpruf
    Kinda the same thing every winter lately...guess we have to depend on these kinds of events to sometimes deliver, because the 'favorable" patterns just seem out of reach every year....
  16. weatherpruf
    On NY weather archives the guy mentions it, and two more storms that winter that I can say confidently did not effect me in this area. Weather service archive for Mt Holly ( my area ) mentions nothing about this date. It must have been some very tight gradient because I don't remember any snowfall at all of significance that whole winter, indeed the Star Ledger ran a cover story on what ever happened to winter that year....
  17. weatherpruf
    That was a very mild winter, my first year teaching in Elizabeth; are you sure we aren't talking about a different year; there was a storm near Thanksgiving in 88 or 89; can't believe I wouldn't remember something in 1990.
  18. weatherpruf
    It actually was true 30 years ago. we had a long stretch of next to nothing.
  19. weatherpruf
    I surely would have remembered that so it must have been well east of us;; there was no significant snow in these parts until march 92.
  20. weatherpruf
    it's really been about the same give or take a few inches, for a long time; the 70's and 80's were not that snowy, but the decades before were. I've always thought the median was a better measure, or even the mode. Averages don't give a clear picture, because some years are off the charts in either direction.
  21. weatherpruf
    Snow has always been a source of uplift for peoples' moods during winter. The most depressing thing in winter are short, overcast rainy days that come back to back. That is in fact how winters are in many places where snow isn't common; England, Ireland a lot of the US....snow lifts people's moods because it brightens things up. Using the snow blower and having the dog leap into the air chasing the snow was the most fun I've had in a long time. It's back to overcast and damp today ( though it did snow a bit earlier ).
  22. weatherpruf
    I haven't been 140 pounds since 1979.....
  23. weatherpruf
    I actually read something to that effect about Toronto as well, that they were behind Chicago or something in that regard. So again, it's not really a snow mecca. A little more on average than NYC ( 17 inches more ) due more to its being colder with smaller events that are typically rain or mix messes here. Montreal is in its own class for a big city.
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    I was watching a tv show recently filmed in Toronto, Orphan Black, and seeing the scenes of snow piles in the suburbs i decided to look up their average. It isn't as snowy as some might think; they average around 47 inches ( wrong side of the lake for lake effect ) and then looked up Detroit ( 33 inches ) and Chicago ( 35 inches ) and Boston ( 48 ). So really NYC at 28-30 is fairly snowy. But once you go south it starts dropping a lot. Boston is about on par with Toronto. Montreal however, averages around 83 inches, Quebec City 150...at that point its too cold a place for me; was there in July and stayed in a ski resort that functioned as a hotel in the summer; there was no AC. They told me don't worry open a window at night you'll be fine. They were correct.
  25. weatherpruf
    In 2006 IIRC Rahway reported 26 while 5 minutes away I had about 18. It does happen, but could be an area of drift was measured.
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