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Winter 2022/23 Short/Medium Range Discussion


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On 3/21/2023 at 5:19 PM, BuffaloWeather said:

I guess it’s how you judge a severe winter. This winter had 2 severe storms which imo have a bigger impact then Snow cover.  Not to mention loss of life. 6” on the ground all winter with temps in the 20s isn’t “severe” by any stretch. Imo this is a rather dumb rating system. The Buffalo Christmas blizzard will likely go down as worst winter weather. Conditions east of the Rockies ever…39 straight hours of blizzard conditions with single digit temps. Wind gusts of 79 mph and 50”+ of snow. Drifts were 20’+. The only place you see that type of weather is in the mountains. 

I agree that the rating system is kind of silly. But it gives you a feel for how the Winter as a whole was, and its cool to see how the line graph rating the winter changed categories either way as the winter progressed. It rates the entire Cold season. Detroit easily rates as mild and we had 4 winter storms that caused damage. Meanwhile 2017-18 was rated as extreme and we had nothing damaging that year, just a good cold snowy winter. 

 

You can check out buffalo's individual seasons here. 

https://mrcc.purdue.edu/AWSSI/chart.html?stn=BUFthr

 

For detroit the most "mild" winter was 2011-12, just beating out 1952-53 & 1997-98. The most "extreme" winter was 2013-14. That was in it's own time zone, nothing else came remotely close. A far distant second was 1977-78.

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On 3/24/2023 at 7:55 PM, michsnowfreak said:

I agree that the rating system is kind of silly. But it gives you a feel for how the Winter as a whole was, and its cool to see how the line graph rating the winter changed categories either way as the winter progressed. It rates the entire Cold season. Detroit easily rates as mild and we had 4 winter storms that caused damage. Meanwhile 2017-18 was rated as extreme and we had nothing damaging that year, just a good cold snowy winter. 

 

You can check out buffalo's individual seasons here. 

https://mrcc.purdue.edu/AWSSI/chart.html?stn=BUFthr

 

For detroit the most "mild" winter was 2011-12, just beating out 1952-53 & 1997-98. The most "extreme" winter was 2013-14. That was in it's own time zone, nothing else came remotely close. A far distant second was 1977-78.

The two extremes here and just 2 years apart. Like Christmas '82 vs '83. Just weird how nature likes doing that around this corner of the globe. 

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