Collinsville Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Hi speed Yeah, you can see how the best fire hose of precip setup over E. Mass as snow. Earlier the best influx of moisture over here was wasted on rain and above freezing slop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 You SOB....just about to start a thread with the same, exact title. LOL glad you thought the same. Takes away from this disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 This is one I won't forget either. I was working that day, and remember the quick changeover from +RA to HUGE snowflakes, then it just wouldn't quit. The trees were bending and breaking all over the place. And Ginxy, you are right...that stuff was like paste. YUCK!!!! April 1, 1997, is the 2nd highest 24 hour (calendar day) snowfall here at KBOX at 15.0" (highest one day snow is 15.7" on 2/17/03...PD II). The April Fool's Day total of 23.3" is remains our 2 day heaviest snowfall...#2 is 22.3" from December 6-7, 2003. --Turtle What sticks out in my memory was that ~ 2 days prior the storm the high up at UML's weather lab was 63F, and college women were laying out on commons in bikinis sun-bathing. Yet, the 12z soon to be dead technology DIFAX charts churned off the printer with a 4 contoured bullet hole passing quintessentially under LI, with about 18 dm of thickness implosion centered on ORH, Mass. I remember walking from the now defunct Smith Hall, to Fox Tower, for mid-day brunch, having those two observations in tandem, before me. What was a fledgling inevitably failed Meteorologist to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 <p> What sticks out in my memory was that ~ 2 days prior the storm the high up at UML's weather lab was 63F, and college women were laying out on commons in bikinis sun-bathing. Yet, the 12z soon to be dead technology DIFAX charts churned off the printer with a 4 contoured bullet hole passing quintessentially under LI, with about 18 dm of thickness implosion centered on ORH, Mass. I remember walking from the now defunct Smith Hall, to Fox Tower, for mid-day brunch, having those two observations in tandem, before me. What was a fledgling inevitably failed Meteorologist to do? put on a thong and join the Girls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 <p>put on a thong and join the Girls? Of course ... I went in as lesbian. Go by the name of Joan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 <p>put on a thong and join the Girls? Of course ... I went in as lesbian. Go by the name of Joan. :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Right about now, I was watching a jeep trying to plow his way down the street, only to get stuck in the middle of the street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I was still in New Canaan at the time, and as always, coastal SW CT gets screwed. We had tons of heavy rain that ended as about 4-5" of paste where I was at 250' in elevation. I don't think they had anything more than a slushy coating down by the Sound. Meanwhile just up the road in Ridgefield, they had about 14-15" of paste. Short distance, but it happens all the time down there with those marginal events. I remember trying to convince my folks to move to the Ridgefield-Danbury area after this storm (and many others like it too). Didn't happen of course, but I tried. Glad to be in the Berks now... That's funny you only had 4-5" at 250' because in Guilford I had nearly a foot at the same elevation. I think we were able to get into some better banding. We had a foot when I woke up after going to bed to rain! I think NWS (and most TV mets) were excpecting virtually no accumulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Sunday running around Jamaica Pond in shorts and tee shirt. Monday dawns rainy in the 40s. I was working near the north end that day and flakes began mixing in beginning around Noon. Leaving work around 4 with heavy wet snow as flakes drilled my eardrums when I crossed New Chardon St. Getting home to Brookline and I have already 4-5 inches in the deck and it is slushy. Heading to my friends to watch the NCAA finals and it's snowing very hard. I see a wet spot of pavement. During the game constant tsnow and upon my return home 3 hours later that wet spot is covered with a foot. Probably 25-30 inches at my house when it tapers off by noon the next day. Somewhere I have a picture my wife took of me looking somewhat sad..,,,happy the great dump happened but sadly knowing I would not see snow falling agin for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Right about now, I was watching a jeep trying to plow his way down the street, only to get stuck in the middle of the street. I recall going out for a drive with my dad. Basically one lane road to downtown Foxboro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma blizzard Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 One of my fondest childhood memories at the age of 6 a true I remember the change-over taking place around 1130-12 just E of ORH. The next morning there was a 5'-6' drift against the garage when my dad opened. I have never seen snow drifts like that since (or ~30"-36" inches of snow like in a single snowstorm for that matter ... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 First day at my new apartment at the time in West Roxbury (Boston) after moving back up here from D.C. It seemed like close to 30" but maybe Scott or Will can tell me what the total really was. The day before I was down in Somerset, Ma. and it seemed somewhat warm. ... Being able to live in 2 separate cities from one year to the next to witness 2 epic snowstorms was aweseome: D.C. - Jan, 1996 - Boston - April, 1997 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 First day at my new apartment at the time in West Roxbury (Boston) after moving back up here from D.C. It seemed like close to 30" but maybe Scott or Will can tell me what the total really was. The day before I was down in Somerset, Ma. and it seemed somewhat warm. ... Being able to live in 2 separate cities from one year to the next to witness 2 epic snowstorms was aweseome: D.C. - Jan, 1996 - Boston - April, 1997 Yeah, you can vouch for those totals in West Roxbury. I was a couple of miles away in Hyde Park. Just epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 I was just checking out that old Eastern link and I saw snow totals of 3" or more in southern New Jersey on that New Jersey map. I did not know that the snow went that far south. Pure Late season awesomeness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 I was just checking out that old Eastern link and I saw snow totals of 3" or more in southern New Jersey on that New Jersey map. I did not know that the snow went that far south. Pure Late season awesomeness. We had a couple inches of paste on the back end on LI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Worst experience ever. @ school PSC and had 1/4" of snow, meanwhile CON had around 12", and of course much more further south. Me and some college buddies were going to go see John Valby in Portsmouth NH that night...needless to say we turned around near CON on 93 around 9-10pm. It was snowing very hard at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 We were too far north for that storm (lived in Gardiner, Maine then), though we had 7.5" from a much lesser system about 12 hr ahead of when the bomb went off. Those pics by CoastalWx remain my favorites among all I've seen either on Eastern or Amwx, with the backyard scene and Scooter-with-strapping at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 I loved 5 days before that storm, Harvey's discussion during his 'cast was, "Should this feature manage to pass under Long Island...", swinging his outstretched fingers in a subtly parabolic gesture. haha... eh, yeah - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 I loved 5 days before that storm, Harvey's discussion during his 'cast was, "Should this feature manage to pass under Long Island...", swinging his outstretched fingers in a subtly parabolic gesture. haha... eh, yeah - Him and Barry Burbank were definitely beating the drum for that storm. When I looked out the window and saw it snowing already, I felt like this..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Great thread. I wish I had more BOX AFDs / model runs archived leading up to that storm. And all my non-digital photos are buried somewhere. I was a college student. I remember students coming back from Spring break, tanned and well into Spring mode. I remember March 31 the heavy heavy rain and watching big fat flakes begin to mix in late afternoon... it was like watching a miracle unfold. Then hours of frequent thundersnow that night. Next to Jan 22-23 2005 and one hour Dec 13 2007, some of the most spectacularly intense snowfall I've ever witnessed. The next afternoon: sledding down the Harvard college stadium on dining room trays... we literally were launched some 20 feet out into the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 2, 2012 Author Share Posted April 2, 2012 Those radar mosaic images don't do it justice either. It couldn't pick up the mega snow bands rotating in off the Atlantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex95 Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I was at school and little did I know that I was on store for the greatest snowstorm ever in my life up to this point. Discuss. :weenie: :weenie: :weenie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 :weenie: :weenie: :weenie: You should see his eyes glaze over when he talks about his piece of strapping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 You should see his eyes glaze over when he talks about his piece of strapping He's just mad because I had more snow in Boston then he had in woburn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 2nd favorite storm of all time. Predicted to get 6-12" and got 33" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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