40/70 Benchmark Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 April '97 is one for me. #2 Feb '15 #3 Feb '13 #4 Dec '92 #5 Blizz of '93 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Goes to show how total winter stats can be deceiving 96/97 was a dead ratter until the spring storm of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I wish I had a dam radar of that event. The rates that night were incredible. Blinding snow all night with thunder. look at the you tube vids, radars galore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Rare footage of Scooter in the snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 April '97 is one for me. #2 Feb '15 #3 Feb '13 #4 Dec '92 #5 Blizz of '93 Do you mean January 2015 for #2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 look at the you tube vids, radars galore I mean during the overnight..not in the aftn. I've seen those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/aprilsnow/aprilsnow.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 wonder how this will look wed? April 2nd 1997 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Largely a bust down this way. Forecasts were for 6-10 or even 8-12, but we had heavy rain much longer than forecast, didn't flip until the evening, and then we were stuck in a mini dry slot. Got around 3-4 inches of slop that was vaporized the next day. For whatever reason, forecasters still went with the big totals/blizzard conditions blah blah blah that evening despite most of the QPF already falling as rain. Oh well. Hell of a storm for Eastern MA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/aprilsnow/aprilsnow.html I always loved that map because it had 30" right over ORH...lol. But that map is definitely wrong since a good chunk of eastern MA had over 25"...and there were some pockets of 30" too outside of ORH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Elevation didn't help Tolland as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 April '97 is one for me. #2 Feb '15 #3 Feb '13 #4 Dec '92 #5 Blizz of '93 Where were you for January 2005? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Elevation didn't help Tolland as much. Why would it when the best banding wasn't over CT? I think they had 17-18 here..though i was in Vernon then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Elevation didn't help Tolland as much. Downsloping wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Largely a bust down this way. Forecasts were for 6-10 or even 8-12, but we had heavy rain much longer than forecast, didn't flip until the evening, and then we were stuck in a mini dry slot. Got around 3-4 inches of slop that was vaporized the next day. For whatever reason, forecasters still went with the big totals/blizzard conditions blah blah blah that evening despite most of the QPF already falling as rain. Oh well. Hell of a storm for Eastern MA Hmmm, really? I was in Guilford at the time and I remember most stations and NWS downplaying the storm quite a bit along the shoreline. We wound up with nearly a foot of cement with a bunch of tree damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I was working in Harvard Sq and remember watching heavy rain flipping to cat paws and back again for about an hour and when I finally flipped for good telling my boss it was time to get out of dodge. Caught the last bus out of Harvard that actually made it up the hill to Arlington around 2pm. I was staying with my folks up on the hill that spring and remember walking in knee deep snow to Rt 2 and watching two of the big state blows get stuck in about 15 minutes. Then seeing the flashes of transformers blowing. Wild night and surreal next morning. That being said it might still rank behind Feb. 1978 (7 years old in Cambridge) and January 2005 (Cambridge again) for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I always loved that map because it had 30" right over ORH...lol. But that map is definitely wrong since a good chunk of eastern MA had over 25"...and there were some pockets of 30" too outside of ORH. did you see the snow totals at the bottom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Hmmm, really? I was in Guilford at the time and I remember most stations and NWS downplaying the storm quite a bit along the shoreline. We wound up with nearly a foot of cement with a bunch of tree damage. you must have been far enough away to miss the semi dry slot. I don't remember what TV stations said, but we had local radio on at work that Monday and they were hyping the hell out of it. The map Will posted showed 3-4 inches on the shoreline except for an area east of New Haven and down by the Stamford/Greenwich area (which had more) which I would say was accurate for around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 you must have been far enough away to miss the semi dry slot. I don't remember what TV stations said, but we had local radio on at work that Monday and they were hyping the hell out of it. The map Will posted showed 3-4 inches on the shoreline except for an area east of New Haven and down by the Stamford/Greenwich area (which had more) which I would say was accurate for around here. Stratford 3 Greenwich 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Stratford 3 Greenwich 2 map's overdone there then. That's about what I had here. Maybe 3 after a couple of inches of rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 map's overdone there then. That's about what I had here. Maybe 3 after a couple of inches of rain check out the link to ncdc I posted the raw numbers are in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 check out the link to ncdc I posted the raw numbers are in there Yeah I see New Haven is listed at 6" and we had over 10" at 250 ft ASL. The gradient between where I grew up and the center of town near sea level was pretty wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I'll have to post the Kocin map that used to be online when I get home...I have it on my personal computer. It is more detailed than the NCDC map and certainly the NESIS map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Yeah I see New Haven is listed at 6" and we had over 10" at 250 ft ASL. The gradient between where I grew up and the center of town near sea level was pretty wild. I lived at the bottom of a hill in Ashaway RI that went up to 275 feet. I had about 8-10 the top had 18-20, down RT 3 towards Westerly was a sloppy 2 inches. Biggest gradient I have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I lived at the bottom of a hill in Ashaway RI that went up to 275 feet. I had about 8-10 the top had 18-20, down RT 3 towards Westerly was a sloppy 2 inches. Biggest gradient I have ever seen. Yup. I had never seen snow that heavy again until October 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Yup. I had never seen snow that heavy again until October 2011. I remember how heavy each flake was it was like getting hit with a pie. The w/e were crazy MA--Fairhaven (3.53), Hull (5.32); RI--Providence (3.06), Tiverton (3.08), N. Foster (3.58). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Ray is right though, those crazy w/e snowstorms are very rare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I remember how heavy each flake was it was like getting hit with a pie. The w/e were crazy MA--Fairhaven (3.53), Hull (5.32); RI--Providence (3.06), Tiverton (3.08), N. Foster (3.58). Upton, NY at OKX had like 5.50" of water from the 2013 blizzard. That is so insane. Talk about bass > treble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Upton, NY at OKX had like 5.50" of water from the 2013 blizzard. That is so insane. Talk about bass > treble. So true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 For me in Boston, April 1997 vies with Jan 2005 for all-time greatest I have similar memories of being glued to a window in school to watch parachutes start to mix in late afternoon. We went sledding down my school's football stadium the next afternoon. I didn't yet have model savvy to appreciate the anticipation building up to the storm. Does anyone have any model guidance images leading up to the storm? From these posts, it sounds like it wasn't very well forecasted at all. Any radar images from that night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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