OKpowdah Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Not gonna lie, that was the best Valentine's Day of my life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 i got 12-14" of sugar in Oswego during that storm. Best was just to the south...Syracuse to Binghamton to Rochester all got around 20". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Best storm of my life... one that will go down in Vermont history. I still remember watching the news the night before and seeing the WCAX forecaster go 20-40" over the entire state of VT. Had 27" in Burlington... at the time the second largest storm since 1880 and the largest 24 hour total on record. The mountains had a legit 4 feet from that one. I still remember talking to the Mansfield Co-Op observer about that day and they use a 24" tall, 8-inch rain gauge to measure snowfall, and the thing sits like a few feet off the ground to begin with. He went to check it and couldn't even find it. The snow that fell in that 24 hour period was like 36"+ and drifts had completely buried the rain gauge. He reported 24" as that's the max amount he could've possibly measured (the height of the measuring can) but he'll admit it was much more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 BTV had 12 straight hours of +SN obs in that storm, getting as low as 1/16sm... ALB reported 0sm, too. It was also the coldest temperatures I've ever seen significant snowfall at... the first 6" fell with temps of 0F to 5F. And temps never got out of the low teens I believe. Massive drifts, University of Vermont was closed for 2 days for the first time since 1993 I think. Barns collapsed, livestock killed, that was something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Some widespread big totals.... and you know when the communities up and down the Spine are showing 27-36" totals, that the actual Spine in the 1,500-4,000ft range got absolutely crushed. Ski areas reported 3-5 feet in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I got up to MRG before the storm moved in. Skied through the storm and for a few days after. Pretty awesome. Good video from Ember Photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Windcredible! Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Most sleet I've seen in my life...about 3" in central CT. CAD in the CT River valley was impressive. Forecast was to get to freezing or just above with a transition to plain rain. I don't think we made it above 20 degrees the entire day. I also remembering trying to dig my car out of 3" of sleet...might of well have been 2 feet of snow. Stuff was truly bullet proof. Of course...where I am now, here in Albany...they got nailed with about 2'...with 3-4' just to the west across some of the higher terrain. Was really hoping for a miracle storm like that to salvage this year...but I've given up hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Woke up at 3 AM to 6-7" of snow grains in Amherst and hit 91 for one hell of a drive up to Killington. Was greeted with below zero temps and wind, but a solid 3'+ warmed my heart. Wasn't exactly fluff, but as long as you stuck to the fall lines... One for the memory banks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Meh here, but I had a daughter who was not even a month old at the time. My memory of that is fuzzy. NWS saysI got 7.5" of frozen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma blizzard Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 ~4" of nearly pure sleet with temps holding in the mid 10s, a unique event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 8" of snow\sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 7" of sleet....what a nightmare that storm was....until this winter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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