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I brought up the Jan 05 storm as an analog, but there was a huge difference between storms. While the 05 Blizzard was much more dynamic energy wise, the 15 Jan blizzard dug much further southeast before closing off.

There are model runs showing similar characteristics from that Jan 26-27 2015 event as to now for the 16-17th of OCT. There is a lot of energy running around the base of the northeast US trough for this period and models are beginning to show signs of a more energetic disturbance associated with this trough and +PNA pattern. Just something to look after.

The January 26-27th 2015 Blizzard was just that for Harwich, MA. A storm that was originally thought to have brought taint and rain to The outer Cape Cod area, never saw a drop of rain. We got 30.4" of snow, maybe a bit more in certain areas of the region, but we stayed all snow and never went to rain. I read some of that thread a week ago. Man everyone was down on the event three days ahead of time.

Yeah Cape Cod, MA had wind gusts reach 120mph in Eastham, like a mini vortex with microburst potential wind damage.

Probably the benchmark storm ever for Harwich, MA was the Blizzard of 2005. The Blizzard of January 26-27th 2015 was a close second, but nothing will compare to that mega band that hit interior SE MA with 7-8" of snow in 75 minutes time. Snowfall rates were close to 10" in that band. We had several bands reach 5"/hour here on the Cape as well during that blizzard. By 12am midnight on the 23rd we had 12" of snow in an 8 hour period, after that time we had another 23" within another 15 hour period. Extremely amazing for sure.

my Favorite blizzard of the past was just this past winter, Harwich, MA got roughly 30" of wind blasted snow, the snow pack lasted so long that when my brother came home from college for February we made a giant snow man, about ten feet high. LOL, I'm going through the archives for that storm now.