WxWatcher007

Unfortunately, winter 22-23 is that guest that is pulling up during the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl blowout. It’s 63-6 and you’ve already put the food and drinks away, but they’re settling on the couch and asking “What did I miss”? The pattern change looks real and likely to have an impact down here, and while I am almost certain it’ll have no impact on the subjective grade of this all time horrific season, we’re going to have wintry chances, maybe even a “big” one through at least the first 2/3 of March. Spring will get here in April—or we’ll just flip to summer. Until then we’ll continue to watch the 4th quarter to see if any offense can be generated to make the score halfway respectable.

Wasn’t paying any attention but now I’m casually watching. Certainly thread worthy. Could be an impactful mixed precipitation event here in northern CT.

More acid rain and carcinogen accumulation than snow this winter.

I was driving through the rain last night and I’ve never seen anything like it on my car. I had to use wiper fluid 6-7 times to clean my windshield…in the rain…

I’m going to stay quiet after this but just my two cents: I’ve been pretty consistent in thinking late Feb/early March would be conducive for winter to show up (along with others), so the ensemble stuff isn’t surprising. That said, this winter is so far from ever being redeemable that I’m actually enjoying seeing sun and decent temperatures now. I’m not sure I even want snow. It’s just incredible that it’s the same thing over and over. Great look D7-10+, gradual backtracking, crap (here in CT), rinse & repeat. We’ll see if this latest look actually produces.

I was in DC, and that mega front that went through was one of the greatest winter events I’ve experienced.

Incredible

Still the best show on television

Great game with a pretty bad call at the end—and I’m pro offense.

Somebody is devastated after that first TD got overturned

With all the unidentified objects shot down recently I’m guessing there’s a prop bet out there on whether the aliens reveal themselves during the game? lol

“National defense operations” or weather?

My solar definitely felt it. December was at a three year high (my record period) and January was about a third lower than normal and lower than 2/3 December’s (the lowest solar month usually).

100%

Where does that snow total rank all time for ORH?

Was just talking about this the other day. It’s up there too with some of the CT greats but kinda gets lost in the shuffle with the other big dogs.

No disrespect, but I’ve been disappointed in the quality of the panic rooms here and in NE. I had no idea how much I was actually needed.

My town was the jackpot for a storm???? And had 19”????? Unbelievable

I'd buy that book lol. I'm fascinated with 1888. Followed by the Arctic Outbreak of 1899. It's mind blowing reading through the Kocin paper on it. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/3/4/1520-0434_1988_003_0305_tgaoae_2_0_co_2.xml?tab_body=pdf

FAR more enjoyable. We've all been fortunate to see some real big dogs in the last 20 years.

Looking at my personal experiences, I think I'd go: 1) Feb 2013. It speaks for itself. 2) Oct 2011. I was working in gov and I saw firsthand just how destructive that one was. 3) Jan 2016 (DC). High impact event in DC, one of their all time greats. 4) Christmas 2002. Personal memories. Honestly, nothing else is really memorable for me, but I spent significant time in SC and DC and was too young to remember the early/mid 90s. But looking historically at CT, any list without 1888, 1978, and 2013 is fatally flawed IMO. It kind of tells me everything that there'd be near unanimous agreement on those as all time CT storms.

The all time, all time list? What’s your top 4?

I didn’t know Feb ‘83 even existed until you said it. 2011 is up there, but it’s kind of a back door entry—if the same event happened 8 weeks later it doesn’t even register.

Yeah I agree—13 was massive throughout the (populated) region. Looking specifically at CT, my Mount Rushmore of snow events are 1888, 1978, 2011, and 2013. Nothing else comes close.