WxWatcher007

Welcome to New England!

1000% Whole different world for non wx weenies

I heard someone say today that it feels like spring is arriving early. Little do they know…

I’m with you 100% here. I’m absolutely exhausted with the shredder wiping out good shortwaves the last few years.

Well that’s one way to fail lol

DCA in summer ORH in winter?

If we can’t produce here we should just merge with the SE forum

Benchmark please but I’m not picky.

If you’re on the wrong side of those bands you risk getting some serious (subsidence) exhaust. Enough to put a weenie to sleep.

Nothing like the vibe in this place when there’s legit hope.

I was just going to say…you want something super low this far north you need it to be tropical or something becoming hybrid/post-tropical like Fiona. That 2018 blizzard was a thermonuclear winter bomb though with a 53mb drop in under 24 hours. I chased it in Ocean City, MD and it was epic.

Happy hour gonna happy hour. Just looking at the general setup on the ensembles, I’m cautiously optimistic. We can’t possibly fail here, right?

Waiting for the first person to come through with a complaint.

Yeah we are nitpicking @dendrite and I think the March aspect for ‘93 adds to its greatness as a storm, but I think the extent and intensity of the cold combined with the snows in the east make 1899 stand out as a broader scale event.

Great Blizzard/Cold Snap of 1899. I think it’s the greatest winter wx event in CONUS history. https://www.weather.gov/media/bro/research/pdf/Great_Arctic_Outbreak_1899.pdf

Kind of an aside but I was walking along the CT river today and I think I see the makings of an ice jam? The bridge was literally the dividing line between flowing water and ice. Doubt this all melts before the cold returns. I don’t recall many ice jams this far south, especially in recent years.

-5.6° at BDL (interestingly no below zero temps)…but only 6.9” of snow.

I think a Biblical storm would need to: 1) Be unequivocally a storm of record. Call it a Mt. Rushmore storm or whatever based on your climo. 2) Have a generational to unprecedented to level of impact. You have to adjust for societal & technological changes to a degree, but biblical impacts are still possible in storms. The Buffalo Christmas event while not an EC storm is a good example of something “biblical”. Unprecedented snowfall and wind combination in the historical record combined with catastrophic societal impacts. People literally freezing to death across the metropolitan area. Insane in any time period. It’s part of the reason why I’d call October 2011 a BECS level event in CT too. Unprecedented snowfall (for time of year) combined with catastrophic societal impacts through power grid failure.

22.9 here. Could be icy here in the valley tomorrow. We do that well. Probably the only thing in winter.

‘23 was unbelievably horrific lol That’s awesome, thanks. Where can you calculate/pull this data from again? Can it also calculate average return times for things like 6”/12”/18” snow events?

I believe I measured 22” in DC proper in that one. It was an exceptional storm but interestingly I don’t think I recorded a single 1” per hour rate. I’m cautiously optimistic. That said, I don’t think we can afford to produce relative futility by mid January and expect to have a near normal snowfall season. I don’t think this February will be as favorable as December has been and January is likely to be.

12 days with teens or lower for lows here. December of yore at least in the temps department. December ‘23 had 2 and Dec ‘22 had 7.

Now that’s a porking in NW CT.

Wow didn’t realize BDR hit 30. That’s absolutely incredible. GB ‘13 is certainly one of the all-timers. I do wonder where it fits in with the rest of the official record. I don’t remember many 20+ hits at official stations growing up.

I don’t think BDL or BDR has a single 30”+ event aside from yore events like 1888? Obviously places in CT can do very very well but I think we’re in rarefied air for anything over 20” at either of those official sites.