ORH_wxman Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 7.9" was the final number at ORH bringing the seasonal total to 108.9". This passes 1960-1961 for the 5th snowiest season on record. Only 2004-2005 (114.3"), 2002-2003 (117.3"), 1992-1993 (120.1"), and 1995-1996 (132.9") were snowier. The 7.9" also brings the March total to 30.9" which ties 1984 for the 8th snowiest March on record. The February/March combined total of 75.3" ranks #1 ahead of the old record of 70.1" in 1967. As Don S also pointed out yesterday, it is the snowiest 2 month period out of any months as well surpassing the 74.8" that fell in January/February 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 "Normal" is the average of abnormalities. Normals are weird...we had only 3 years below 100" in the 2000-2010 period and our normal went down from 97" to 94". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Been snowing at least moderately for a good 15 minutes here in ST. J. big flakes, accumulating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 12.8" total for storm Stowe Village CoCoRAHS guy had 13.2"... and I had a settled storm total of like 12.5" with no clearing... so probably around 13" is right. Dense snow too! Here's BTV's storm total map... solid double digit snowfall in most of the interior areas outside the two valleys on either side. You can definitely see the SSE upglide over the terrain, with this entire east side of the Spine having no problem precipitating efficiently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 This event may not be done... snowing pretty good again all the sudden as the upslope response starts to kick in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Good upslope day here at SR. 18 in the woods of new. Legs are shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Yeah Ginx... what a freakin' day. It is absolutely dumping out right now too as the upslope machine gets turned on. Best storm up here since December 27th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 How much you end up with. Looks like I came in on the low end of the totals. About 1.5". The areas to my NNW cashed in on that initial band why were slotted like RI for a few hours in the night. NBD, it's long gone. Sharp gradient between exits 6 and 7 on Rte 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 That first pic had me confused due to lack of visual scale. I was wondering why PF would post a pic of an Arctic fox pelt lying on the snow, then I realized there was a skier hidden there, with only the one basket giving it away. (The ski tips were the fox's nose.) Guess my eyes aren't what they used to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 That first pic had me confused due to lack of visual scale. I was wondering why PF would post a pic of an Arctic fox pelt lying on the snow, then I realized there was a skier hidden there, with only the one basket giving it away. (The ski tips were the fox's nose.) Guess my eyes aren't what they used to be... Don't feel bad, I just saw this in the NNE thread and thought it was a polar bear rolling around on its back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 looks like GYX was a bit too bullish for maine....but this was a fairly sizeable 10-15 inch storm for maine,nh,vt, mass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Dumping. Over 2" on the car in the ski area parking lot since 2pm. Upslope portion is underway with 2-3" falling in 4 hours...storm total nearing 15" at 1,500ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 pfreak! nice brotha now a lil snippet from my friend pete bouchard who posts this monday on the whdh blog. "Now I know what you're thinking. Does 2-4 really mean 12-18? No, no, no. We have this storm in-hand. We've analyzed this frontwards, backwards, upside down, sideways and diagonally. I'll leave it at that" in this case it meant 8-10 for the city, but just saying.....pete would be better off saying there's a chance there is more in the form of snow........i mean i'm sure it was the east wind that was driving him nuts but anyway...he's callin for a storm monday based on a new theory of his that if a model shows a storm "nearby but not hitting us" it will and if a model shows it hitting us a week out "it won't" now he must be joking to some degree. but he does have snow all over the graphic for monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsw Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Don't feel bad, I just saw this in the NNE thread and thought it was a polar bear rolling around on its back. Speaking of NNE, I'm in Brattleboro which is right in between there and SNE. Just posting to report that we got about a foot here. Mount Snow and Stratton probably got a foot and a half, but I couldn't make it up today, too busy. I'm not even sure anyone is in this area, at least who posts. But that is my Observation for this part of New England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 These squalls have been around all day and night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subdude Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Yeah Ginx... what a freakin' day. It is absolutely dumping out right now too as the upslope machine gets turned on. Best storm up here since December 27th. IMG_4760_edited-1.jpg IMG_4756_edited-2.jpg IMG_4715_edited-2.jpg IMG_4669_edited-2.jpg Great pics, That first pic by PF is almost an optical illusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 High of 32.3 today and still mostly powder out here. Spent the afternoon in Boston and even as early as 1pm, there was barely any snow left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BostonWX Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 High of 32.3 today and still mostly powder out here. Spent the afternoon in Boston and even as early as 1pm, there was barely any snow left. There's a solid 4-5 inches here and I'm 2 miles from the city line south. Concrete effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bch2014 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 High of 32.3 today and still mostly powder out here. Spent the afternoon in Boston and even as early as 1pm, there was barely any snow left. That is 100% not true, when I left school today at 8pm in Dorchester right on the water, there was still a solid 4-5 inches and no bares spots.. Are you referring to snowbanks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 pfreak! nice brotha now a lil snippet from my friend pete bouchard who posts this monday on the whdh blog. "Now I know what you're thinking. Does 2-4 really mean 12-18? No, no, no. We have this storm in-hand. We've analyzed this frontwards, backwards, upside down, sideways and diagonally. I'll leave it at that" in this case it meant 8-10 for the city, but just saying.....pete would be better off saying there's a chance there is more in the form of snow........i mean i'm sure it was the east wind that was driving him nuts but anyway...he's callin for a storm monday based on a new theory of his that if a model shows a storm "nearby but not hitting us" it will and if a model shows it hitting us a week out "it won't" now he must be joking to some degree. but he does have snow all over the graphic for monday. i used to think he was a good met. he can be good, but he has had a rough winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professional Lurker Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Speaking of NNE, I'm in Brattleboro which is right in between there and SNE. Just posting to report that we got about a foot here. Mount Snow and Stratton probably got a foot and a half, but I couldn't make it up today, too busy. I'm not even sure anyone is in this area, at least who posts. But that is my Observation for this part of New England. I'm in Bernardston, Ma..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Light to mod snow, temp 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsw Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I'm in Bernardston, Ma..... OK, that's close. I figure I have similar climatology to Northwestern Mass., whereas up in Central and Northern VT, it's different. That's why I post OBS in the SNE-oriented forums. Plus, I was born in Concord, Mass., but when I was like 2 years old, grew up in Boston and Boston Area (Newton) pretty much until college. Also have lived in Providence (and NYC), for quite a few years and still get down there. I know there are a few others around you and a bit West. BTW, you may have seen, I've been lurking since 2005 (Eastern, of course), and have learned a lot, but mostly just absorb info from the experts here. A couple months ago, I started adding OBS from my area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmanmitch Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 OK, that's close. I figure I have similar climatology to Northwestern Mass., whereas up in Central and Northern VT, it's different. That's why I post OBS in the SNE-oriented forums. Plus, I was born in Concord, Mass., but when I was like 2 years old, grew up in Boston and Boston Area (Newton) pretty much until college. Also have lived in Providence (and NYC), for quite a few years and still get down there. I know there are a few others around you and a bit West. BTW, you may have seen, I've been lurking since 2005 (Eastern, of course), and have learned a lot, but mostly just absorb info from the experts here. A couple months ago, I started adding OBS from my area. Brattleboro's climate is definitely more like NW MA than much of VT, but being east of the Green Mountains I think you have a bit of an advantage in terms of snowfall compared to areas like Bennington and Pownal since they will get shadowed horrendously during your typical synoptic snowstorm due to easterly winds downsloping off the mountains. As a snow nut, I think I'd rather live in SE MA than Bennington. That's how bad that spot is. You will downslope off of the Monadnocks east of you, but generally it isn't as bad as downsloping off of the Greens since they're a much larger topographic barrier than the Monadnocks. In addition, your area will hold the cold better during warm advection scenarios than areas west of the mountains, leading to somewhat better snowpack retention. I was up in your neck of the woods last week traveling west to east on VT 9 and there was nothing in Bennington whereas Brattleboro still looked snowcovered in the woods. Of course, the area between West Marlboro and Woodford had tons of snow with near two feet in the Chimney Hill section of Wilmington near Haystack. Mind you this was last week before the recent snowfall and after the rainstorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsw Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Brattleboro's climate is definitely more like NW MA than much of VT, but being east of the Green Mountains I think you have a bit of an advantage in terms of snowfall compared to areas like Bennington and Pownal since they will get shadowed horrendously during your typical synoptic snowstorm due to easterly winds downsloping off the mountains. As a snow nut, I think I'd rather live in SE MA than Bennington. That's how bad that spot is. You will downslope off of the Monadnocks east of you, but generally it isn't as bad as downsloping off of the Greens since they're a much larger topographic barrier than the Monadnocks. In addition, your area will hold the cold better during warm advection scenarios than areas west of the mountains, leading to somewhat better snowpack retention. I was up in your neck of the woods last week traveling west to east on VT 9 and there was nothing in Bennington whereas Brattleboro still looked snowcovered in the woods. Of course, the area between West Marlboro and Woodford had tons of snow with near two feet in the Chimney Hill section of Wilmington near Haystack. Mind you this was last week before the recent snowfall and after the rainstorm. Thanks for the info, that adds a lot to my limited knowledge of snowfall variables in Southern VT. I lived in San Francisco as well (bounced around a bit after college), and one reason I moved back was for the seasons and snow. We could drive up to Tahoe, but I like it outside my front door, and really like cold weather. It's what I grew up with. Plus, I'm a New Englander through and through - my family goes back here literally hundreds of years. And, I have to say, you're one of the few people who know there's a "West" Marlboro! It's where my father lives now. So, yeah, I'll keep posting OBS, and keep reading what you guys post. I'm glad I got a little more involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&P Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 ended up with 4", this might last more than 24 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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