ski MRG Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Whats year is your lowest snow total since you've been keeping snow totals? 36" in the horrible Winter of 88-89. I shudder to think. What you wish on Kev you wish on me, just sayin... I'm wishing for a very localized snow hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 This is pretty sick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 lol you wouldn't have done that well given the setup. An inverted trough that's crushing New Haven and Middletown wouldn't have you jackpotting I was under the impression the focus of the extreme rates was the nearly stationary thermoclinic CF where temps were single digits on one side and 30s on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 The official snowfall measuremenet for Hartford was a mere 19 inches, but that was taken at Trinity College, where the howling winds of the Blizzard of 1888 were hurling the snow down to Broad Street. Unofficial, and probably more accurate, measurements for this city were 36. Middletown got 50 inches, Marlborough 48, New Hartford 42. Where did they measure, under a tree? Unless it was out in the fields somewhere there are trees all over Trinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 I was under the impression the focus of the extreme rates was the nearly stationary thermoclinic CF where temps were single digits on one side and 30s on the other. Yeah it was a very strong inverted trough that just crushed the I-91 corridor with wild rates of snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Where did they measure, under a tree? Unless it was out in the fields somewhere there are trees all over Trinity. In 1888? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 There was anywhere from 35-43 inches around here accroding to maps/reports And then you flipped to sleet and it got pinged down to 22". 50* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 In 1888? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Main Street in Hartford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 In 1888? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 ? 80% of New England was farmland back then, probably very little trees on campus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Main Street in Hartford Wow--he's wearing the same hat I do when I'm out with my snow-blower. 49* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 80% of New England was farmland back then, probably very little trees on campus. Really? How old do you think most of those trees are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 80% of New England was farmland back then, probably very little trees on campus. Very few trees back then. They had to import firewood into Boston from Canada (New Foundland, I believe). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Really? How old do you think most of those trees are? Ginx is correct. Farmland wall to wall Few New England trees over 125 years old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Damn those suckers grow fast then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Really? How old do you think most of those trees are? 75-85 , wolf trees are 100 + Those are the humongous gnarly trees you see in the middle of a stand of trees, they were kept as windbreaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Ginx is correct. Farmland wall to wall Few New England trees over 125 years old Wow...didn't know that. Cool to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Wow...didn't know that. Cool to know. Wachusett Mountain had some old growth forest trees that are 300+ years old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 75-85 , wolf trees are 100 + Those are the humongous gnarly trees you see in the middle of a stand of trees, they were kept as windbreaks. Weren't the trees in the Wethersfield Green area that got hit by that tornado a few years ago some of the oldest in the state? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Damn those suckers grow fast then. Just had a presentation on this. The guy said 85% of NH trees were all cleared/burned back in the 1700s. At one time there was more than 500,000 sheep in NH at one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Wachusett Mountain had some old growth forest trees that are 300+ years old Had? So they aren't there anymore? What happened to them, cut down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Weren't the trees in the Wethersfield Green area that got hit by that tornado a few years ago some of the oldest in the state? IDK but likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Weren't the trees in the Wethersfield Green area that got hit by that tornado a few years ago some of the oldest in the state? Yeah and the amount of forest that has come back in sne is incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Ginx is correct. Farmland wall to wall Few New England trees over 125 years old That's why you see so many of the farmers walls in the middle o fhe woods. The maples lining my road were planted in 1808 (actually transplanted) as the owner back then kept a record of his time here. They're monsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Wachusett Mountain had some old growth forest trees that are 300+ years old Still some in the Berkshires also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Just had a presentation on this. The guy said 85% of NH trees were all cleared/burned back in the 1700s. At one time there was more than 500,000 sheep in NH at one time. Jesus. There were a good chunk destroyed too during the '38 hurricane. Actually as of as even like 5 years ago they were still pulling trees out of some of the lakes in VT/NH there were dumped there b/c they had no where else to put them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Imagine the Winds that could rip across NE without any trees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Yeah and the amount of forest that has come back in sne is incredible. That's certainly a good thing. Transpiration and more oxygen FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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