CT Rain Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Nice piece. Saw it live. For me it was the Oct. snowstorm. A one in 500 year event. Little did we know it would be the only snowstorm of the year. The snow of last winter is something I will cherish forever. Best winter of our lives..to the worst in 12 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherMA Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Nice piece. Saw it live. For me it was the Oct. snowstorm. A one in 500 year event. Little did we know it would be the only snowstorm of the year. The snow of last winter is something I will cherish forever. Best winter of our lives..to the worst in 12 months This is why you are the WOTY. I guarantee that you will get at least 30" more this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Highest impact was from Irene up in Plymouth (yeah, not SNE), but I have to say the October snowstorm wins. Completely agree with Kevin. That storm was something that still has me speechless. Nice job Ryan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 This is why you are the WOTY. I guarantee that you will get at least 30" more this year. bet? BDL averages about 32" after January 1st. Nothing in the foreseeable future, and then climo goes starts going downhill after a while too. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 This was the year in review I made, my pics, national and some from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Being in Springfield and watching the tornadogenesis and eventually the actual touchdown was the most memorable event of my young life. More recently, I realized just how much SNE sucks. I drove from Harwinton to Littleton, NH to pick up a new car. Temp dropped all the way up until it reached 23* at 11 am after leaving home at 38 degrees at 630 am. Ice covered rivers, lakes etc up there. Snow OTG, with a great view of the frosted Presidential and Franconia ranges. Kid that I bought the car from recorded a low of 4* that night, it got down to *35 at my house. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 bet? BDL averages about 32" after January 1st. Nothing in the foreseeable future, and then climo goes starts going downhill after a while too. We'll see. His location and elevation must average at least 10" more over that same period than BDL, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2Otown_WX Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 bet? BDL averages about 32" after January 1st. Nothing in the foreseeable future, and then climo goes starts going downhill after a while too. We'll see. Yeah I feel at this rate BDL will probably see something like 15 or 20" for the rest of the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELCwx Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Nice recap. Brings back memories, not all of them completely good. The weather changed lives and the way people do business, at least in my case. I had two suppliers with roof cave-ins in January that squeezed my ability to get parts for my business. I thought I was doing the right thing by having multiple suppliers, but the weather this year made me realize that I needed them in different geographic locations to protect against some of the large scale regional weather impacts like we had this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 The tornado June 1st and the Oct snowstorm are the most memorable. From seeing the mammatus clouds from a different supercell an hour before the I watched the tornado cross the ct river live on tv with Brian Lapas and then quickly gathering up my two little dogs and running to the basement while it was pitch black outside and just missing the tornado by two tenths of a mile will forever be etched in my mind. Also when the next tornadic supercell came across spfd an hour and a half later but a bit farther north, watching the greenish yellow sky to my northeast and listening to the relentless roar of thunder still brings chills. The Oct snowstorm was just wrong. Over a foot of snow at the valley floor. It would of been nice to have gone out to measure when it was going on but it was too dangerous to walk any distance outside. That final band had to produce three inch hr rates though as I remember after midnight hardly being able to see across the street. At three pm Sunday afternoon I finally measured in an open area and there was still a foot on the grassy surfaces and over 9 inches in the unplowed road. I never envisioned my once in a life time snow event to be quite like this. The epic stretch for several weeks last winter deserves an honerable mention. Snow depths on the level did reach a solid thirty inches after the last storm but missing the heaviest of the snow just a bit to the south was a bit depressing. And after all we only ended up about twenty inches above normal for the season which is really nbd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Never in a million years did I ever think I'd see a tornado here in Massachusetts like what I saw on June 1. It was like an out of body experience working the storm that afternoon and evening. Being out there for the storm survey the next day was surreal. I felt so badly for those that lost their homes or sustained major damage. And the trees...all I have to say is WOW! This one is etched in my brain for the remainder of my career and thereafter. Great job on the story, Ryan! --Turtle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Very well done, Ryan. One thing I was unaware of was the flash flooding you showed 10 days after Irene. A footnote to Irene, I just read that the last part of highway in VT that was destroyed by Irene finally opened up What an incredible year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 june 1st was an experience i will never forget i drove to northampton to see if i could see anything there strong wind gust and very large hail then on my way back i saw this and only knew about it about 2 minutes before it happened i drive by in the red saturn just after one minute in the video!! Then just after it went by flew to the 291 on ramp and watched it rip threw downtown it was amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Nice piece. Saw it live. For me it was the Oct. snowstorm. A one in 500 year event. Little did we know it would be the only snowstorm of the year. The snow of last winter is something I will cherish forever. Best winter of our lives..to the worst in 12 months What about the two-footer on January 12th? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 2011 certainly had many memorable wx events...the historic storm last January, the historic month of January, the June 1st tornado, impacts from Irene, the epic flooding soon after, and of course the historic October snowstorm. Of all these I would have to say for myself the June 1st tornado outbreak was most memorable for me. Being 8 and then 9 years old for 7/3/97 and 5/31/98 respectively I really always dreamed of a set-up like we saw. Once I became aware of computer models and reading about those two events and certain setups you want to see I've always wanted to see something like it. What was really incredible about June 1st was how well modeled this event was. Up to 5-6 days out the models showed this potential as they were forecasting the advection of an EML into the region...what was kind of crazy though about this was the direction the EML came from...typically you think from the west or northwest, however, this EML come in more from the south or southwest. We all know what I did that day but the day before looking at the models I just couldn't believe what I was seeing, then that night and the morning of the 1st...the models actually continued to improve the setup. Who knows when we will ever see something like that again but that was certainly was one for the ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 2012 will be your year... 2011 certainly had many memorable wx events...the historic storm last January, the historic month of January, the June 1st tornado, impacts from Irene, the epic flooding soon after, and of course the historic October snowstorm. Of all these I would have to say for myself the June 1st tornado outbreak was most memorable for me. Being 8 and then 9 years old for 7/3/97 and 5/31/98 respectively I really always dreamed of a set-up like we saw. Once I became aware of computer models and reading about those two events and certain setups you want to see I've always wanted to see something like it. What was really incredible about June 1st was how well modeled this event was. Up to 5-6 days out the models showed this potential as they were forecasting the advection of an EML into the region...what was kind of crazy though about this was the direction the EML came from...typically you think from the west or northwest, however, this EML come in more from the south or southwest. We all know what I did that day but the day before looking at the models I just couldn't believe what I was seeing, then that night and the morning of the 1st...the models actually continued to improve the setup. Who knows when we will ever see something like that again but that was certainly was one for the ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Nice piece Ryan. Certainly an active year wx wise around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Nice piece Ryan. Certainly an active year wx wise around here. 'cept for the final sixth of the year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 The numbers are amazing http://www.erh.noaa....earInReview.txt lol at record snowiest for January and October, and record snowless for December Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 The numbers are amazing http://www.erh.noaa....earInReview.txt lol at record snowiest for January and October, and record snowless for December They still have it listed at the record least snowy December here...but 1999 is. But since 1999 isn't in the database, I guess they can't see it. '99 had a trace while '11 had 0.3" officially. Even Ashburnham coop only had a trace in Dec '99. DEC-99 FOR WORCESTER, MA (1011') LAT=42.3N LON= 71.9W TEMPERATURE PRECIPITATION ACTUAL NORMAL HI LO AVG HI LO AVG DEPT AMNT SNOW SNCVR HDD 1 31 17 24 41 27 34 -10 0.00 0.0 0 41 2 43 22 33 41 26 33 +0 0.00 0.0 0 32 3 48 36 42 40 26 33 +9 T 0.0 0 23 4 50 42 46 40 25 33 +13 0.07 0.0 0 19 5 58 43 51 39 25 32 +19 0.00 0.0 0 14 6 53 49 51 39 25 32 +19 0.28 0.0 0 14 7 50 33 42 39 24 32 +10 0.70 0.0 0 23 8 46 30 38 38 24 31 +7 0.00 0.0 0 27 9 46 32 39 38 24 31 +8 0.00 0.0 0 26 10 51 31 41 38 23 31 +10 0.22 0.0 0 24 11 40 29 35 37 23 30 +5 T T 0 30 12 42 28 35 37 23 30 +5 0.00 0.0 0 30 13 45 28 37 37 22 30 +7 0.10 0.0 0 28 14 39 32 36 36 22 29 +7 0.22 0.0 0 29 15 39 33 36 36 22 29 +7 0.24 T 0 29 16 44 32 38 36 21 29 +9 0.02 0.0 0 27 17 39 26 33 36 21 28 +5 0.00 0.0 0 32 18 33 23 28 35 21 28 +0 0.00 0.0 0 37 19 32 20 26 35 20 28 -2 0.00 0.0 0 39 20 51 22 37 35 20 27 +10 0.67 0.0 0 28 21 54 30 42 35 20 27 +15 0.03 0.0 0 23 22 32 21 27 34 20 27 +0 0.00 0.0 0 38 23 32 20 26 34 19 27 -1 0.00 0.0 0 39 24 24 12 18 34 19 26 -8 0.00 0.0 0 47 25 21 6 14 34 19 26 -12 0.00 0.0 0 51 26 34 16 25 33 19 26 -1 0.00 0.0 0 40 27 27 16 22 33 18 26 -4 T T 0 43 28 22 9 16 33 18 26 -10 0.00 0.0 0 49 29 29 18 24 33 18 25 -1 0.00 0.0 0 41 30 44 28 36 33 18 25 +11 0.00 0.0 0 29 31 32 24 28 33 18 25 +3 0.00 0.0 0 37 TOTALS FOR ORH HIGHEST TEMPERATURE 58 TOTAL PRECIP 2.55 LOWEST TEMPERATURE 6 TOTAL SNOWFALL T (0.0 BOX) AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 32.9 NORMAL PRECIP 3.80 DEPARTURE FROM NORM +4.0 HEATING DEGREE DAYS 989 NORMAL DEGREE DAYS 1119 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Why does it say record snowiest winter for Hartford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Why does it say record snowiest winter for Hartford? It means meteorological winter...only snow in DJF is counted when they mean that. The seasonal snowfall wasn't a record though. Same with BOS...they had their 2nd snowiest met winter...but they were not 2nd for seasonal snowfall, I think they were like 7th with 81.0". Most of the top seasons had good Marches...and a bad March probably cost us a shot at a top 3 seasonal total in many spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 It means meteorological winter...only snow in DJF is counted when they mean that. The seasonal snowfall wasn't a record though. Same with BOS...they had their 2nd snowiest met winter...but they were not 2nd for seasonal snowfall, I think they were like 7th with 81.0". Most of the top seasons had good Marches...and a bad March probably cost us a shot at a top 3 seasonal total in many spots. That clarifies that...I was really confused there. Didn't think of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 Since for most of us winter ended on 10/30... here's a look back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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