Baroclinic Zone Posted 19 hours ago Author Share Posted 19 hours ago 30 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said: i wanted to ask you about the 80s. Is Feb 11-12th, 1983 the only big region wide historic snowstorm that decade? That's the only one i could find on the NESIS site and its the only one i mapped out on our site for the 1980s. Anything else that was widespread 12"+ snowfall in the 80s? That was the first real snowstorm I can recall growing up. 9 yrs old when that occurred. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metagraphica Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago @The 4 Seasons 0.6" here. 14.2" now for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 1 hour ago, Chrisrotary12 said: Oh the irony… we spent years wondering where the clippers had gone and wishing for the back. And now they’re all we can get. Better than the perfect track rainers we were getting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 11 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Tuesday looks tucky. Might set the stage for Wed morning…been watching the potential for some nasty black ice and light freezing rain for that time due to some mesolow type stuff going on that starts on Tuesday and may go into Wednesday. . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted 19 hours ago Author Share Posted 19 hours ago 11 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Tuesday looks tucky. Yeah, you can see that. Storm is pretty weak overall and system wants to jump to the coast. System won’t impact snowpack much in C/NNE. May see net gain in some areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sey-Mour Snow Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago GFS and EURO playing around with the idea of keeping CT below 50 through both warm-ups . 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago EURO AI looks like a nasty commute Weds morning around here into NH 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Btw we had about 3 or 4 tenths here this morning. Just a minor refresher. Looks nice. Would be nice to get a bigger system. Tuesday might try to give a couple inches. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Based on my own personal observations .. .the comparison between the recent decade and the 1980s has less real analytic value. The snow results are largely coincidental. Getting there via different means and not very good analogs. Beyond that ... yeah, in the spirit of commiseration I suppose both periods were unfriendly to snow enthusiasts than okay, it's a 100% analog. haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sey-Mour Snow Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 3 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Btw we had about 3 or 4 tenths here this morning. Just a minor refresher. Looks nice. Would be nice to get a bigger system. Tuesday might try to give a couple inches. No interest in Monday for you guys? Edit you probably mean Monday PM looks like 1-4" for MASS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWolf Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Yup thanksgiving of 89 was a good one. Feb 83 and April of 82, and yes the late March 84 was good here too. …those are the biggies for CT in the 80’s. Those others that Will mentioned were for eastern areas…missed here in CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: Based on my own personal observations .. .the comparison between the recent decade and the 1980s has less real analytic value. The snow results are largely coincidental. Getting there via different means and not very good analogs. Beyond that ... yeah, in the spirit of commiseration I suppose both periods were unfriendly to snow enthusiasts than okay, it's a 100% analog. haha. Sure. I don’t think anyone would disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWolf Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Looks like close to another inch here this morning…13.5” on the season. Chipping away lol. Can’t really complain here as the others have said. Although a meatier system would be nice too for the whole area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalpoleJoe Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 3 minutes ago, WinterWolf said: Yup thanksgiving of 89 was a good one. Feb 83 and April of 82, and yes the late March 84 was good here too. …those are the biggies for CT in the 80’s. Those others that Will mentioned were for eastern areas…missed here in CT. Grew up in Cranston and December 81 was a massive bust on the positive side, I remember it well. I think the meat of it was Saturday, just kept snowing beyond what was forecast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Kart Mozart Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 8 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: Based on my own personal observations .. .the comparison between the recent decade and the 1980s has less real analytic value. The snow results are largely coincidental. Getting there via different means and not very good analogs. Beyond that ... yeah, in the spirit of commiseration I suppose both periods were unfriendly to snow enthusiasts than okay, it's a 100% analog. haha. No need for commiseration down here in the banana belt. We are at 14" on January 4rth...that's a strong start for us! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted 19 hours ago Author Share Posted 19 hours ago 13 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Btw we had about 3 or 4 tenths here this morning. Just a minor refresher. Looks nice. Would be nice to get a bigger system. Tuesday might try to give a couple inches. Agreed. Another clipper but a little more potent than this AMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Kart Mozart Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago I like this AI ensemble look that has been showing up. Lot's of disturbances coming out of the SW, with a strong thermal gradient just to our south? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted 19 hours ago Author Share Posted 19 hours ago 1/4” here and the sun is now out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWolf Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 1 hour ago, Chrisrotary12 said: Oh the irony… we spent years wondering where the clippers had gone and wishing for the back. And now they’re all we can get. Said this exact thing last week. Be careful what you wish for as the old saying goes, you just might get it. And We got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 18 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Btw we had about 3 or 4 tenths here this morning. Just a minor refresher. Looks nice. Would be nice to get a bigger system. Tuesday might try to give a couple inches. Tomorrow is 1-3 for most 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sey-Mour Snow Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: Tomorrow is 1-3 for most Could be an interesting call for school 1-3" starting 9-11am lasting through dismissal with cold surface temps.. Doubt they'd cancel first day back 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 14 minutes ago, dendrite said: Sure. I don’t think anyone would disagree. I think last year and this year are more closely 1980s. On the colder side but less snow. The 2020-2023 period was just us cosplaying Virginia winters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krs4Lfe Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 20 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: Based on my own personal observations .. .the comparison between the recent decade and the 1980s has less real analytic value. The snow results are largely coincidental. Getting there via different means and not very good analogs. Beyond that ... yeah, in the spirit of commiseration I suppose both periods were unfriendly to snow enthusiasts than okay, it's a 100% analog. haha. Lack of snow in the 1980s was not due to lack of cold. It was just an imperfect track pattern and persistent drought/dryness. Aside from last year where suppression was an issue, most of our issues since 2020 have been that it's too warm for snow. Look at all those benchmark tracks in 2020, 2023, and 2024 that brought rain to most of us because there wasn't enough cold supply. That's where the climate change argument kicks in, but we'll hold off on that for now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 22 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: Based on my own personal observations .. .the comparison between the recent decade and the 1980s has less real analytic value. The snow results are largely coincidental. Getting there via different means and not very good analogs. Beyond that ... yeah, in the spirit of commiseration I suppose both periods were unfriendly to snow enthusiasts than okay, it's a 100% analog. haha. As I day in golf all the time, there are no pictures on the scorecard. All we remember are the results. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 19 minutes ago, dendrite said: Sure. I don’t think anyone would disagree. well ... there's a bit of an elephant in the room where 'it's happened before' ...etc, but this is a different beast - maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 33 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Might set the stage for Wed morning…been watching the potential for some nasty black ice and light freezing rain for that time due to some mesolow type stuff going on that starts on Tuesday and may go into Wednesday. . NAM and RGEM definitely slide that feature along south coast and across the canal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 10 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said: Could be an interesting call for school 1-3" starting 9-11am lasting through dismissal with cold surface temps.. Doubt they'd cancel first day back I was thinking it was more mid afternoon into evening in this area 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago bout .5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago 5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: well ... there's a bit of an elephant in the room where 'it's happened before' ...etc, but this is a different beast - maybe... I’m just spoofing the sensible weather more than pattern. It’s not like we’re dumping -30C 850s into the Plains. We’ve been in a consistent nook of cold with systems that don’t have a lot of chance to amplify in time for us. So yeah…sensibly kinda like the 80s so far without any true brutal airmasses yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago And there goes the town plow for our massive 0.6” of fluff 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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