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I deliberately left out the JFK inaugural storm because it was the 2nd big event that winter and it kind of got overshadowed by 2/3-4 but it was fun for sure and of course we got a snow day out of it. The 12/11-12/60 storm gave is 2 snow days and the February 61 storm happened on a Friday/Friday night so school as normal Monday. The March 58 was a legendary event but my recollection is the temperature was marginal and the plow easily managed it. Also, I think mby got closer to a foot vs your 2 feet. It was a paste bomb indeed! It seemed during those years we got solid snow near the equinox annually.

Regarding February '78, my friend went to the Beanpot that night with some other guys-the blizzard was raging and they walked into a full Garden! I have no idea how he made it home to Belmont! His wife begged him not to go but a weenie is a weenie....

From the reports-ranked 1. The ones I listed aren't necessarily rank ordered. the March 56 has outsized significance because I was a young boy and the snow was so deep it was up to my waist.

My top storms...not necessarily in order of rank but chronological order from oldest to newest. 1. 3/19/56. Still one of my all timers made great by the fact that 1-2 inches were forecasted. It was a Sunday and 2 days earlier on Friday we got quick hitting 4-6 giving us sledding snow. A whole bunch of us 9-10 year old boomers were sledding and having so much fun that we didn't realize how hard it was snowing until everyone's mother came to get them. The next morning had drifts up beyond 10 feet in spots with the storm still raging. 2. 3/3/60 A sub par winter. In the final days of February a strong front cleared the coast producing rain during the day. The next couple of days were mid winter cold and I remember thinking-if only we can get a storm! On 3/3 snow began at 7AM and watching the white wisps blow across the street I sensed we were in for some fun. Of course school wasn't cancelled and we were let out at Noon at the height of the storm. 2. 12/11-12, 1960 A week after near 70 degree wx which made me quite downhearted, I awaken Sunday to a forecast of possible heavy snow. Giants/Washington game on in very heavy snow in DC. Meanwhile, light snow began around 3PM but only accumulated an inch by 9. Then things started ramping up and by 5am a foot had fallen in NYC (I was in NNJ) and it kept on going-ended up officially with 17 inches but it felt like a lot more where I was. 3. 2/3-4, 1961 After a couple of very cold weeks-I made a weather station for my 8th grade science project and it was easy to set gradations on my thermometer-it was near 0 the morning of the due date and I left it out all night. I set 70 degrees the previous afternoon after setting the indoor thermostat. The storm started on a Friday and by Friday night it was snowing so hard you could actually observe the accumulation rise. ACY ended up with 2 inches + of rain so this was 2 feet of heavy wet snow. The storm as the pattern changer-the cold pattern was over but we still had more snow but the winter had showed us its best already. 4. January 1966-can't remember the date but it was the blizzard of 66 and I was in college-Ithaca, NY. It snowed with LES a little bit every day until the big one dumped what seemed like feet. Those were some great years! 5. 2/9/69-the so called Lindsay Storm Forecasts were for 3-5 inches and a change to rain. I happened to be home for the weekend and shadowing this optometrist in his office for the day. I remember that Saturday as overcast with temperatures in the low 40s-not exactly what you're looking for leading up to a big snow. Late that night snow began with marginal temperatures and I went to bed. The next morning and throughout the day it was a raging blizzard-and totally unexpected. Modest snow to rain expected-18-24 resulted. That Sunday I realized my Dad was a weenie. He insisted we got out at the height of the storm to get something we didn't really need...lol. We both weenied out together-and I think both of us realized we missed my childhood doing it.... Heading back to college the next day and Ithaca got fringed-maybe 4 inches max. 6. 2/2/74 A foot of overrunning snow unexpected. A rare Saturday night you didn't have to wait in line at the old Hilltop Steak House. 7. 1/15/76 (unsure of exact date but it was January 76. A very cold period culminated in the biggest Boston dump in quite a while. I was living in Cambridgeport and decided to walk into Harvard Square at the height of the storm. I stood in the middle of Harvard Square-the only human in sight-and prayed for my work to be called the next day. I was working at a neighborhood health center and thankfully they closed. I started my move to California 11/15/76 and stayed for 15 years. I missed the 78 blizzard and everything leading up to it. I did return for a visit a month afterwards and experienced an 8 inch dump which Bostonians treated as snow flurries given the prior major events. All of my subsequent big events-winters we've talked of in the early through mid 90s and the stretches since 2000 have been covered by many others....

Yeah I don’t understand the want that many have. Basically many are housebound by it.

Thanks Steve. She’s resilient and reluctant to ask for help. Finally she realized she couldn’t crack an egg over the pan for breakfast so o happily did it. Thing is-I like cooking and have the time this week.

Thanks Scott!

Thanks! Yes it’s a fracture and not compound so probably won’t require surgery which I guess is a win.

Thanks Ray! Dominant hand so I’m doing the cooking and laundry etc for awhile…

A rare ice fest and my wife fell and broke her wrist. This winter continues to have zero redeeming value.

Looks to me like western trough continues. One can hope it lasts until October at this point. SSW (as Will implied) is becoming one of the frauds.

Technically and verbatim euro ends BOS futility.

1936-37 had 9 inches even. We just missed it in 2011-12 with 9.3. Gonna be touch to have less than 1.4 from here on out which is what we'd need to tie or break futility. We're headed to FL 2/23 for a couple of weeks. I'm ending this winter that day.

I think it's still on the table.

We should all line our cars up at Kevin’s house and watch the artist work....

Looking at the ensembles prompted me to wake Roy up and have him start warming up the cords....

40.

Welcome to our mayhem! I remember hanging out in your local thread when we were in Chicago for a long spell during January 2021-a good chicago snow month. BOS was over 1F high for a long time until they fixed it. I think Scott (coastalWx) and Will (ORH_WxMan) can speak with more authority on it. It was infuriating given the climate significance of bad data for the biggest population center of New England and it didn’t seem to be prioritized as high as it should have been.

I still check all the ensembles before bedtime but I typically go upstairs around 2:30-3 hence few posts from me before 11-noon most days

In 2016, the place I worked had something like 60 pipes burst. It was an utter disaster for months.

It’ll fee like summer

No issues here. House is circa 1947 so it’s not terribly old. And prior owners kept it in great shape although we did add to the insulation. We had a roaring fire from the fireplace for hours but it might as well have been in the 30s-everything worked fine.

Yeah it may be a flag that it’s time to replace the furnace….before it fails at a very inopportune time.

So I’m this day and age, how does a home’s pipes freeze without losing power? Or are those reports from homes that did lose it?

You have no idea on impact. The biggest population center of New England (with a large homeless census) had under forecasted cold which resulted in a huge human and economic impact. 0 in EMA happens a lot. -10 once a generation. If you read the cold thread you’d see the impact. Snow rarely causes the misery cold does because it occurs ironically in moderately cold conditions. When that is an exception the impact is enormous (see Buffalo). Snow is almost always forecasted with enough time for the population to react. It’s almost never much of a problem 36 hours after it stops snowing.