New England snowstorm memories.

[ncforecaster89]

Hope everyone is, and has been, doing well.   Just finished a short write-up on this 11th anniversary of the 2015 Valentine’s Day Blizzard—last of the four major SNE snowstorms that buried the region.  
 

https://x.com/tbrite89/status/2022830263093395652

[The 4 Seasons]

19 hours ago, vortex95 said:

Awesome snow maps.  On your site, how many have you done, and how far back?

The main archive with each season goes back to 1994. Individual historic level storms back to 1888 and being filled in. 

Theres 295 storms on the main archive page. I list it near the top.

How many maps have i done? I was curious, so i just checked, 1,199. Thats how many are up on the site right now including seasonal snowfall maps. 

 

[The 4 Seasons]

PD II updated maps coming next. Oddly, i just check the list of all historic storms i have on the website right now and theres almost nothing from Feb 15th to the end of Feb other than PD2 and 1999/2010 for big ones. 

Tons in March though. 

[Ginx snewx]

12 hours ago, ncforecaster89 said:

Hope everyone is, and has been, doing well.   Just finished a short write-up on this 11th anniversary of the 2015 Valentine’s Day Blizzard—last of the four major SNE snowstorms that buried the region.  
 

https://x.com/tbrite89/status/2022830263093395652

Epic storm

Classic pictures

[dendrite]

That top pic is clearly AI lol

[The 4 Seasons]

27 minutes ago, dendrite said:

That top pic is clearly AI lol

lol the signs, dead giveaway..

 

[The 4 Seasons]

39 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Epic storm

Classic pictures

would you happen to have a number for PD2?

[Ginx snewx]

16 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

would you happen to have a number for PD2?

What was the date again? 

[Ginx snewx]

47 minutes ago, dendrite said:

That top pic is clearly AI lol

@ncforecaster89

[The 4 Seasons]

5 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

What was the date again? 

Feb 16-17, 2003

 

[dendrite]

10 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

@ncforecaster89

I think he knows. I read his twitter post comments later. It happens. 

[The 4 Seasons]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I think he knows. I read his twitter post comments later. It happens. 

brutal. im surprised how many people noticed it. i mean once you pointed it out it was very clear after zooming in, but just glancing at it i could have easily missed it

[ORH_wxman]

Just now, The 4 Seasons said:

brutal. im surprised how many people noticed it. i mean once you pointed it out it was very clear after zooming in, but just glancing at it i could have easily missed it

The funny part is the real pics in many cases are more impressive than AI for that stretch. A lot of the pics from 2015 in Boston look not credible. 

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

brutal. im surprised how many people noticed it. i mean once you pointed it out it was very clear after zooming in, but just glancing at it i could have easily missed it

The person on the bottom right was the first thing I noticed. A shovel with like a 5+ foot handle where it looks like the shovel portion should be below the surface. But yeah, people in similar positions and the signs. And who uses those flat shovels anymore and shovels into blue buckets that you won’t be able to move?

[The 4 Seasons]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The person on the bottom right was the first thing I noticed. A shovel with like a 5+ foot handle where it looks like the shovel portion should be below the surface. But yeah, people in similar positions and the signs. And who uses those flat shovels anymore and shovels into blue buckets that you won’t be able to move?

the guy just buried in like 8 feet of snow in all directions with half his body popping out, just chillin there 

[Ginx snewx]

23 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Feb 16-17, 2003

 

17.5 on 1.44

[vortex95]

2 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

The main archive with each season goes back to 1994. Individual historic level storms back to 1888 and being filled in. 

Theres 295 storms on the main archive page. I list it near the top.

How many maps have i done? I was curious, so i just checked, 1,199. Thats how many are up on the site right now including seasonal snowfall maps. 

 

Awesome.  Will share w/ other mets I know!

[vortex95]

3 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

The main archive with each season goes back to 1994. Individual historic level storms back to 1888 and being filled in. 

Theres 295 storms on the main archive page. I list it near the top.

How many maps have i done? I was curious, so i just checked, 1,199. Thats how many are up on the site right now including seasonal snowfall maps. 

 

Ok, looked it over.  I realize getting data for events long ago is not as easy, but here's a list of the "biggies" in the 80s (not that there were many!) that you could add when you have time.

Dec 5-6. 1981 -  big bust as the storm was fcst OTS

April 6-7, 1982 - powder blizzard in April!

Mar 29, 1984 - nasty wet paste bliz, among the worst power outages for SNE on record for a snowstorm, G108 mph MQE and tons of TS+

Jan 2, 1987 - the "syzygy storm" w/ big storm tides that breached the barrier island in Chatham

Jan 22, 1987 - worst traffic gridlock in SNE since 1978

Jan 26, 1987 - Cape Cod bliz only #1

Feb 9-10, 1987 - Cape Cod bliz only #2

Apr 28-29, 1987 - poorly fcst late season crushing

Nov 23, 1989 - big surprise Thanksgiving snowstorm

Others:

Feb 24-28, 1969 - "100 hr snowstorm"

Jan 20, 1978 - bliz #1 w/ 24 hr snowfall record for BOS to date

Dec 11-12, 1992 - the blockbuster that started the epic snow period 1992-93 to 2015-16

May 18, 2002 - latest accumulating snow on record for many locations in SNE

Oct 30, 2020 - BOS biggest Oct snowstorm and also many other areas far E/SE MA

 

[The 4 Seasons]

3 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

Ok, looked it over.  I realize getting data for events long ago is not as easy, but here's a list of the "biggies" in the 80s (not that there were many!) that you could add when you have time.

Dec 5-6. 1981 -  big bust as the storm was fcst OTS

April 6-7, 1982 - powder blizzard in April!

Mar 29, 1984 - nasty wet paste bliz, among the worst power outages for SNE on record for a snowstorm, G108 mph MQE and tons of TS+

Jan 2, 1987 - the "syzygy storm" w/ big storm tides that breached the barrier island in Chatham

Jan 22, 1987 - worst traffic gridlock in SNE since 1978

Jan 26, 1987 - Cape Cod bliz only #1

Feb 9-10, 1987 - Cape Cod bliz only #2

Apr 28-29, 1987 - poorly fcst late season crushing

Nov 23, 1989 - big surprise Thanksgiving snowstorm

Others:

Feb 24-28, 1969 - "100 hr snowstorm"

Jan 20, 1978 - bliz #1 w/ 24 hr snowfall record for BOS to date

Dec 11-12, 1992 - the blockbuster that started the epic snow period 1992-93 to 2015-16

May 18, 2002 - latest accumulating snow on record for many locations in SNE

Oct 30, 2020 - BOS biggest Oct snowstorm and also many other areas far E/SE MA

 

Thanks, that helps a lot, i will certainly look into doing those 80s storms if they meet the benchmark/criteria i set which is at least 12"+ over a portion of the region (at least a county or so wide)

May 18th, 2002 is there, just not in the main archive since it wasn't a 3"+ storm for CT/SNE/Tri-State (just a part of the berkshires) but it's in the SNE snowfall maps for that season

(kinda wild how the worst season ever had the latest snowfall ever haha. Kinda like 19-20 here with that May 9th storm.)

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/sne-01-02

Oct 30th, 2020 is definitely there and in the main archive

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/oct-30-2020

There are many snowfall maps for each season in the SNE section that didn't make the main archive

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/snowfall-maps/sne-snowfall-maps

 

[vortex95]

17 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Thanks, that helps a lot, i will certainly look into doing those 80s storms if they meet the benchmark/criteria i set which is at least 12"+ over a portion of the region (at least a county or so wide)

May 18th, 2002 is there, just not in the main archive since it wasn't a 3"+ storm for CT/SNE/Tri-State (just a part of the berkshires) but it's in the SNE snowfall maps for that season

(kinda wild how the worst season ever had the latest snowfall ever haha. Kinda like 19-20 here with that May 9th storm.)

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/sne-01-02

Oct 30th, 2020 is definitely there and in the main archive

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/oct-30-2020

There are many snowfall maps for each season in the SNE section that didn't make the main archive

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/snowfall-maps/sne-snowfall-maps

 

Thanks!  I just noticed the other sections for the May 2002 and Oct 2020 events.

I have snowfall map booklets from a private wx company I worked for in the late 80s/early 90s that lists all snow events from the 1970s to the mid-1990s.  Let met dig those out of storage at home and I'll give you a list of the more significant ones.  Here's one from Mar 22, 1977 I can recall offhand.
       
        A blockbuster coastal storm lashed New York and New England.
        Norfolk, Connecticut was buried under 33 inches of snow.  24
        inches was reported at Pittsfield, Massachusetts and 18 inches
        piled up at Gardner, Massachusetts.  Snow amounts exceeded 30
        inches in the Catskills in southeastern New York.  3 to 5
        inches of rain deluged south coastal New England and wind
        gusts reached 60 to 90 mph.  A 450 foot radio tower in
        Framingham, Massachusetts was toppled by the high winds.

Oh and this one!  Oct 3-4, 1987

       A rapidly deepening coastal storm dumped record early snows
        in eastern New York, western Connecticut, western
        Massachusetts, and southern Vermont.  Grafton, New York
        was buried under 22 inches and Pownal, Vermont recorded 18
        inches.  This was primarily an elevation storm but even
        Albany, New York received 6 inches of very wet snow.  Damage
        to trees was extensive since many of them were still in full
        leaf.  Road crews had to scramble to get their plows on as
        the snow caught everybody off guard.

Not sure if you include very localized events, but this is one of the most impressive NORLUNs in SNE in the past 35 years.

        Feb 19, 1993

        Intense ocean effect snow squalls buried Chatham, Massachusetts
        under 20 inches of snow.  Snow fell at a rate of 4 inches per
        hour for 3 consecutive hours.  A "NORLUN" instability trough
        was responsible for this event.

 

[ORH_wxman]

The site also looks like it’s missing Nov 10-12, 1987 for the early season notable storms. 
 

Oct 10, 1979 is another good one. 

[The 4 Seasons]

42 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

The site also looks like it’s missing Nov 10-12, 1987 for the early season notable storms. 
 

Oct 10, 1979 is another good one. 

Yeah, it's intentional. The main archive and the snowfall maps pages (and all extension pages e.g. early/late) are "only" 94/95-present. The Historic Snowstorms page is the one where im going to go back and fill in the major snowstorms prior to 1994. It's a work in progress..

I really haven't done much yet prior to 1994. I think there is only 7 storms so far from 1888-1994. Data really sucks once you go prior to the mid/late 90s. It's really just CO-OP and that's it. 

 

[The 4 Seasons]

I also wanted to shout out two archival sites that i use to gather additional records and reports for NJ/NY/MA. One is the big one everyone knows about Ray's Winter Storm Archive which is NJ NWS PHI focused.

The other is also fantastic and it is NY Capital District/Catskills/Berkshires NWS ALY focused and that's Steve LaPointe's Weathernet6 Archive. He's got all major storms from 1993 to present and is very helpful with filling in reports from Berkshire, Dutchess, Ulster and Litchfield counties. 

[ORH_wxman]

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Yeah, it's intentional. The main archive and the snowfall maps pages (and all extension pages e.g. early/late) are "only" 94/95-present. The Historic Snowstorms page is the one where im going to go back and fill in the major snowstorms prior to 1994. It's a work in progress..

I really haven't done much yet prior to 1994. I think there is only 7 storms so far from 1888-1994. Data really sucks once you go prior to the mid/late 90s. It's really just CO-OP and that's it. 

 

I did maps for April ‘87 and May ‘77 almost 20 years ago. They are of course, primitive MS paint jobs but they still give a decent idea. Only annoying thing is for some reason I did not use to nearest tenth in the April ‘87 map. 
 

 

[ORH_wxman]

Given it was also my very early days of making maps, I put north foster coop too far north. It can extend a bit further south with the 12”+ on both maps.