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MET Winter Grading 2013-2014 (Dec 1 - Feb 28)

free_man

By free_man,
in New England

Grade Winter 2013-2014  

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  1. 1. What's your grade?


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TauntonBlizzard2013

TauntonBlizzard2013

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I remember an event, man I was young, probably at least 10 years ago. We received a big snowfall, and then a surprise follow up wave dropped another ~6" just hours after. Caught everyone off gaurd.

I also remember 2 distinct events where forecasts were for 6+ and schools had already closed in advance, and the snow basically didn't accumulate and we fell wayyyyy short if forecasts

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CoastalWx

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I remember an event, man I was young, probably at least 10 years ago. We received a big snowfall, and then a surprise follow up wave dropped another ~6" just hours after. Caught everyone off gaurd.

I also remember 2 distinct events where forecasts were for 6+ and schools had already closed in advance, and the snow basically didn't accumulate and we fell wayyyyy short if forecasts

 

Are you sure it was at least  10 yrs ago? In Jan 2009 we had a modest 5-8" event in the middle of the month with another 4-6" like 8 hrs later during the evening and overnight.

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TauntonBlizzard2013

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Are you sure it was at least 10 yrs ago? In Jan 2009 we had a modest 5-8" event in the middle of the month with another 4-6" like 8 hrs later during the evening and overnight.

Now that you mention it, I actually do remember that event.

However, I'm still thinkin of one way back. I remember Harvey on tv explaining what had happened and how rare it was, and why he didn't think it would happen.

The most recent event of the dud variety I referenced was in 2010. I beleive it was February if my memory serves me right. School had closed for a forecast of 8-12" and we received little to nothing during the day.

However that night, we were able to squeeze out some modest accumulations, but nowhere near forecast amounts.

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free_man

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My kind of March...BDL 2012

 

Who says March is a winter month?  lol

 

 

TEMPERATURE IN F: :PCPN: SNOW: WIND :SUNSHINE: SKY :PK WND
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1 2 3 4 5 6A 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
12Z AVG MX 2MIN
DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD WTR SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX SPD DR
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1 34 27 31 -2 34 0 0.51 1.1 M 11.1 18 360 M M 10 14 23 360
2 34 26 30 -3 35 0 0.09 0.3 M 5.0 13 360 M M 10 14 16 360
3 48 32 40 6 25 0 0.32 0.0 M 5.8 22 250 M M 7 12 26 260
4 42 27 35 1 30 0 0.00 0.0 M 4.2 17 310 M M 6 21 320
5 37 21 29 -5 36 0 0.00 0.0 M 10.2 20 290 M M 4 25 320
6 41 15 28 -6 37 0 0.00 0.0 M 5.3 13 260 M M 1 20 250
7 60 32 46 11 19 0 0.00 0.0 M 12.4 22 200 M M 5 29 190
8 68 43 56 21 9 0 0.00 0.0 M 15.7 29 200 M M 5 41 200
9 59 32 46 11 19 0 0.01 0.0 M 12.7 29 330 M M 7 1 36 290
10 43 27 35 -1 30 0 T T M 8.2 24 290 M M 5 32 280
11 60 27 44 8 21 0 0.00 0.0 M 9.8 17 210 M M 2 23 240
12 74 30 52 16 13 0 0.00 0.0 M 5.8 18 180 M M 6 24 180
13 72 49 61 24 4 0 0.02 0.0 M 8.6 18 180 M M 7 23 180
14 67 42 55 18 10 0 0.00 0.0 M 7.6 20 310 M M 3 1 28 300
15 55 39 47 10 18 0 0.00 0.0 M 5.5 16 190 M M 8 21 90
16 49 41 45 7 20 0 0.04 0.0 M 6.5 13 160 M M 10 1 15 160
17 57 43 50 12 15 0 0.00 0.0 M 4.1 12 190 M M 7 14 20
18 72 39 56 18 9 0 0.00 0.0 M 8.0 16 170 M M 4 18 20 180
19 79 39 59 20 6 0 0.00 0.0 M 3.4 16 190 M M 4 18 18 200
20 79 46 63 24 2 0 0.00 0.0 M 6.2 17 170 M M 1 22 210
21 75 52 64 25 1 0 T 0.0 M 6.5 15 210 M M 5 12 20 190
22 83 54 69 29 0 4 0.00 0.0 M 6.6 14 260 M M 3 18 17 250
23 75 53 64 24 1 0 0.00 0.0 M 5.2 16 10 M M 6 21 10
24 64 49 57 17 8 0 T 0.0 M 6.9 17 190 M M 9 20 190
25 51 42 47 6 18 0 0.01 0.0 M 3.8 9 360 M M 7 12 20
26 53 31 42 1 23 0 T 0.0 M 14.8 30 350 M M 4 44 330
27 50 25 38 -4 27 0 0.00 0.0 M 10.2 24 310 M M 2 30 330
28 56 38 47 5 18 0 0.18 0.0 M 7.5 18 200 M M 8 1 23 210
29 53 41 47 5 18 0 0.00 0.0 M 12.2 21 330 M M 9 28 350
30 53 35 44 1 21 0 0.00 0.0 M 8.9 22 310 M M 6 29 310
31 46 33 40 -3 25 0 0.34 0.3 M 4.9 15 210 M M 9 1 18 210

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CoastalWx

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I think Scott and Steve, usually two pretty even keeled guys, need to chillax a bit.

 

Everyone knows that we should launch a poll at the end of March, but I don't see the crime in the guy wanting to know what folks thought about met winter.

 

It stemmed from earlier convos. It's all good. I stated if the intention was met winter then more power to him.

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40/70 Benchmark

40/70 Benchmark

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I would be happy with deep winter through 3/15 and then heavy, heavy Morch beginning on 3/16.

Yea, 3/15 usually is about the cut-off for the sne cp with regard to sustantial snow events.....obviously they still happen, but there are much more highly valued commodity post 3/15.

Climo shifts to interior elevations of snw, and points n.

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tamarack

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I could spend the rest of my career at GYX and never see that stretch again.

 

It would be amazing to see another such event any time soon.  Prior to 2012, the COOP in Farmington had recorded just two March days milder than 74, hitting 79 on 3/20/1903 and 77 on 3/29/1945.  In 2012 their highs for 3/18-22 were: 78, 71, 80, 82, 83.  Despite that heat, 3/12 was nearly 1F less mild than 3/10, as the earlier month had almost no cold wx while 2012 started and ended with below avg temps.  2010 is their 3rd mildest March since 1893, while 2012 is #6.

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H2Otown_WX

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I'll give it a B so far. Relative to normal the Hartford area (and N VT) has missed out a bit. 

I gave it a B as well. I think I could've rated it worse but we had such a nice stretch for a couple weeks this month with 30" falling in that span and a 2 foot snowpack. However, the first two months were very disappointing with < 20" falling so had this month been something closer to average I would've probably given it a C.

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joey2002

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We've been really spoiled here the last few years, between January 2011 and Feb/March 2013.  I'd give this winter a solid B+ so far... no 12" storms, but quite a few 6-10" events with plenty of arctic cold to hold onto the snowpack.  The nor'easter in January where it was snowing at 3 degrees was pretty incredible, that was something I've never seen before.  Hopefully we'll have a good March snowstorm or two to finish strong.   :snowman:

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wxmanmitch

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I'm at 61.5" for the winter, which should put us on pace for an average (~74") or slightly above average winter depending on how March goes.

 

Like last year, I've not done too well relative to much of SNE as we've either missed out on or been scraped by coastals, particularly some of those arctic fluff jobs earlier in the season. I base my grade mostly on the anomaly and how my total compares with others in the region. If my 61.5" was ahead of the rest of the region, my grade would've been higher, but since I'm behind others, including those in areas with a lower snow climatology than IMBY, the grade is a C+.

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