dryslot Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Storms of yore, My favorite winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 38 minutes ago, kdxken said: A couple from my street in Sherborn 1978. That's awsome! That's what I'm talking about. Look at those pictures especially the last one. That is what I called depth! That is what I call the legacy of '78. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 78 was meh up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 8 minutes ago, dryslot said: 78 was meh up here. One of my colleagues at work was at school-Bates College. He couldn’t understand the hoopla until he drove home about a week later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Just now, weathafella said: One of my colleagues at work was at school-Bates College. He couldn’t understand the hoopla until he drove home about a week later. As i'm sipping on a crown, Yup, 12" was nothing to go apesh it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 10 minutes ago, dryslot said: As i'm sipping on a crown, Yup, 12" was nothing to go apesh it over. Yeah, you guys generally got a good 10-15" with a little bit more in the higher elevation. But, the orientation of the storm took the swath of snow from a genral west/southwest to east/northeast orientation. Had it just been in a direct northeast orientation I'm pretty sure you would have tacked on at least several more inches to maybe approaching a foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 minute ago, Greg said: Yeah, you guys generally got a good 10-15" with a little bit more in the higher elevation. But, the orientation of the storm took the swath of snow from a genral west/southwest to east/northeast orientation. Had it just been in a direct northeast orientation I'm pretty sure you would have tacked on at least several more inches to maybe approaching a foot. It was captured and stalled robbing areas not in the goods. Boston Area was perfectly placed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 hour ago, weathafella said: It was captured and stalled robbing areas not in the goods. Boston Area was perfectly placed. Here is what the Blizzard of '78 looked like at it's closest pass to us just inside the benchmark. Other picture is the southbound lane of Route 128. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 6 minutes ago, Greg said: Here is what '78 it looked like at it's closest pass to us. Epic dryslot over the Cape there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Just now, ORH_wxman said: Epic dryslot over the Cape there. Some people mistaken that massive dryslot for the "eye" and said the center of the circulation went over them when in reality the center "eye" actually stayed off shore of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 hour ago, kdxken said: A couple from my street in Sherborn 1978. That's nuts. That looks like real dense, wind-packed snow. Now that's some impact snow in terms of removal issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan76 Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 38 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Epic dryslot over the Cape there. Good thing james wasn't around then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 2 hours ago, kdxken said: A couple from my street in Sherborn 1978. Those are awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said: Epic dryslot over the Cape there. Pretty sure it was occluded by then after it made its loop in that pic, pre occlusion when the damage just started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 36 minutes ago, powderfreak said: That's nuts. That looks like real dense, wind-packed snow. Now that's some impact snow in terms of removal issues. The Coop near me had 4.95 w/e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 8 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Pretty sure it was occluded by then after it made its loop in that pic, pre occlusion when the damage just started Never claimed it was there the whole storm....obviously it wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 13 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Never claimed it was there the whole storm....obviously it wasn't. That was Feb 7th 1030 am pic by then it was over other than rotting bands . The one I posted was 6th 1030 AM . Wasnt a dry slot per se just unraveling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: That was Feb 7th 1030 am pic by then it was over other than rotting bands . The one I posted was 6th 1030 AM . Wasnt a dry slot per se just unraveling It is definitely a dryslot...they become more pronounced the more mature a storm is. It is one of the reasons we fear a storm that has maxed out. We also fear the banded/shredded CCB zone too as you mention previously...but the dryslot punches deeper NW as a storm matures. I'm sure if you have a pic from 12z 2/6 it would probably have a firehose still over the Cape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 13 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: That was Feb 7th 1030 am pic by then it was over other than rotting bands . The one I posted was 6th 1030 AM . Wasnt a dry slot per se just unraveling Actually, it wasn't quite over here in our neck of the woods of the greater Boston area. The snow lasted til about 10:00 PM Tuesday night with scattered flurries there after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 1 hour ago, Dan76 said: Good thing james wasn't around then That was my very first thought when I read that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78Blizzard Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Some hope for Thurs-Fri on latest GFS. It is late to the party as the GGEM has been showing this for a few runs now. Euro will probably say "what hope?". Marginal temps, though. Edit- wrong thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 19 hours ago, Isotherm said: Yes, that was my point - that December was not a canonical-Nino pattern. It was more Nina-esque. CONUS temperature departures were running cooler than normal until the MJO began to amplify, "out of control" in the warm phases, due in part to stratospheric elicited feedback / convective growth, in my view. Yep, I think we were on the way to having a nice pattern for some snow and cold until the stratospheric feedback so rudely interrupted Ironically though, the nina-in-nino SOI of this December is following one of your primary analogs- 1968-69. And in all 3 cases this happened, there was a major reversal for January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Looks like we get a dusting this morning 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 EPS says keep looking at those 78 pics. Awesome pics btw. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 53 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: EPS says keep looking at those 78 pics. Awesome pics btw. Stop hugging that model and do some meteorology 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 9 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: It is definitely a dryslot...they become more pronounced the more mature a storm is. It is one of the reasons we fear a storm that has maxed out. We also fear the banded/shredded CCB zone too as you mention previously...but the dryslot punches deeper NW as a storm matures. I'm sure if you have a pic from 12z 2/6 it would probably have a firehose still over the Cape. Storm was occluded and basically over, all storms eventually do this. Greg mentioned it was still snowing in Boston as they sat under a rotting band. Semantically its a dry slot but typically when we think of a dry slot in a maturing storm that is not the Satellite presentation but I get your point. SWE totals for those places under the roughly 50 mile rotting band were almost an inch higher than those whose snow had basically ended North South East and West of the band in the occluded storm. For the James fans the Cape turned to rain anyways by then, what many do not know is this storm was a Subtropical storm while off South Carolina, part of the reason there was such an intense band of severe long lasting thunder snow in coastal SNE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 16 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Storm was occluded and basically over, all storms eventually do this. Greg mentioned it was still snowing in Boston as they sat under a rotting band. Semantically its a dry slot but typically when we think of a dry slot in a maturing storm that is not the Satellite presentation but I get your point. SWE totals for those places under the roughly 50 mile rotting band were almost an inch higher than those whose snow had basically ended North South East and West of the band in the occluded storm. For the James fans the Cape turned to rain anyways by then, what many do not know is this storm was a Subtropical storm while off South Carolina, part of the reason there was such an intense band of severe long lasting thunder snow in coastal SNE. I wish we had radar. I was in Brockton and pretty sure we got into the rotting band for awhile, but worst may have been just west. I know my hood now got clocked too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 My first memory of thundersnow. Also the most thundersnow I can recall. The winds were amazing as well. Jet roar for hours and hours. I do wish I had been a bit older (although as a kid to miss three weeks of school made for great memories). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 13 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: I wish we had radar. I was in Brockton and pretty sure we got into the rotting band for awhile, but worst may have been just west. I know my hood now got clocked too. I still feel my neighborhood got 40-48”, but who really knows...winds made legit measurements pretty much impossible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Memories of yore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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