Is we back? February discussion thread

[Go Kart Mozart]

57 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

18z EPS improved a bit

Show us them bad boyz!

[SouthCoastMA]

5 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

Show us them bad boyz!

Preparing to locate the 1 or 2 ensembles members that are still hits, out of 51. 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Got this from @growingwisdom on twitter. What I find most interesting besides being the coldest 75 day start to winter in Boston since 93-94 is it’s colder than every 80s winter besides 81 and on par with 82.  
I thought the 80s were much colder, I have no recollection as I was born in 85. 

[ORH_wxman]

9 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Got this from @growingwisdom on twitter. What I find most interesting besides being the coldest 75 day start to winter in Boston since 93-94 is it’s colder than every 80s winter besides 81 and on par with 82.  
I thought the 80s were much colder, I have no recollection as I was born in 85. 

The 1980s are pretty cold on that graph. The defining feature is really no huge torches of any kind outside of the super Nino ‘82-83 winter. So while they didn’t have utterly frigid winters post-82, they consistently were below normal on temps. 

[WinterWolf]

42 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Got this from @growingwisdom on twitter. What I find most interesting besides being the coldest 75 day start to winter in Boston since 93-94 is it’s colder than every 80s winter besides 81 and on par with 82.  
I thought the 80s were much colder, I have no recollection as I was born in 85. 

They were cold…I was a teenager during the 80’s…And while they were consistently cold, the snow sucked 85-90% of the time.
 

There were a few big ones scattered in there, but it was underwhelming most of the time.  Mixing was very common. It was like pulling teeth to get a pure snow event during that decade.  1-3” and 2-4” were very common. 3-6” was a good storm.  And the beloved 4-8” was a biggy.    of course there was the April Blizzard of 82 which was a monster, and Feb of 83 was big.  And 1984 was a decent snow winter.  Mid March of 84 had a good 8-10” storm. And then a couple weeks later in late March of 84 there was a pretty big late season snow storm around the 30-31st, which was pretty dam good for that decade. 
 

And as Will said…they were consistently BN.  So it just goes to show how this winter has been dam cold.  

[codfishsnowman]

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

FFS let it go. God.

Its kind of endearing I think 

[TheSnowman]

12 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

They were cold…I was a teenager during the 80’s…And while they were consistently cold, the snow sucked 85-90% of the time.
 

There were a few big ones scattered in there, but it was underwhelming most of the time.  Mixing was very common. It was like pulling teeth to get a pure snow event during that decade.  1-3” and 2-4” were very common. 3-6” was a good storm.  And the beloved 4-8” was a biggy.    of course there was the April Blizzard of 82 which was a monster, and Feb of 83 was big.  And 1984 was a decent snow winter.  Mid March of 84 had a good 8-10” storm. And then a couple weeks later in late March of 84 there was a pretty big late season snow storm around the 30-31st, which was pretty dam good for that decade. 
 

And as Will said…they were consistently BN.  So it just goes to show how this winter has been dam cold.  

Fantastic Event Memory; Dang!!  

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

2 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

soon!

Fire up a thread.

[metagraphica]

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

They were cold…I was a teenager during the 80’s…And while they were consistently cold, the snow sucked 85-90% of the time.
 

There were a few big ones scattered in there, but it was underwhelming most of the time.  Mixing was very common. It was like pulling teeth to get a pure snow event during that decade.  1-3” and 2-4” were very common. 3-6” was a good storm.  And the beloved 4-8” was a biggy.    of course there was the April Blizzard of 82 which was a monster, and Feb of 83 was big.  And 1984 was a decent snow winter.  Mid March of 84 had a good 8-10” storm. And then a couple weeks later in late March of 84 there was a pretty big late season snow storm around the 30-31st, which was pretty dam good for that decade. 
 

And as Will said…they were consistently BN.  So it just goes to show how this winter has been dam cold.  

I recall that mid-march '84 storm, freshman year of high school, was the last time we got out of class due to snow.  Couldn't buy a day off for the rest of my high school career. Zip, nada, nothing.

[The 4 Seasons]

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

They were cold…I was a teenager during the 80’s…And while they were consistently cold, the snow sucked 85-90% of the time.
 

There were a few big ones scattered in there, but it was underwhelming most of the time.  Mixing was very common. It was like pulling teeth to get a pure snow event during that decade.  1-3” and 2-4” were very common. 3-6” was a good storm.  And the beloved 4-8” was a biggy.    of course there was the April Blizzard of 82 which was a monster, and Feb of 83 was big.  And 1984 was a decent snow winter.  Mid March of 84 had a good 8-10” storm. And then a couple weeks later in late March of 84 there was a pretty big late season snow storm around the 30-31st, which was pretty dam good for that decade. 
 

And as Will said…they were consistently BN.  So it just goes to show how this winter has been dam cold.  

Thank God I didn't have to live through the shitty 80s, being 0-4 i have zero memory of anything from then. Pretty much just 2000 and beyond 

[WinterWolf]

20 minutes ago, metagraphica said:

I recall that mid-march '84 storm, freshman year of high school, was the last time we got out of class due to snow.  Couldn't buy a day off for the rest of my high school career. Zip, nada, nothing.

Yup…I was a sophomore..so we are only a year apart.  Good times though…just very stingy snow lol.  When you live through a decade like that….it allows you to appreciate the good times, and not take them for granted. It puts things into a good perspective. 

[Ginx snewx]

GFS absolutely slays

[WinterWolf]

10 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

GFS absolutely slays

Can you elaborate a bit Steve? 

[Snowcrazed71]

13 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

GFS absolutely slays

I'm guessing you are being sarcastic

[WinterWolf]

Just now, Snowcrazed71 said:

I'm guessing you are being sarcastic

I don’t think he was. Im thinking he means in the longer range, not Monday. 

[Snowcrazed71]

1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

I don’t think he was. Im thinking he means in the longer range, not Monday. 

Ahhh... Makes more sense. But he still meant us hanging?! 

[Scott Koziara]

The 80s weren't as bad as everyone thinks. 1985-1986 and 1988-1989 were awful but the rest of the decade particularly the first half of the decade was damn good particularly along the south coast. We had several big ones, including some like December 1981 that no one remembers or talks about. Slant sticking is more common today than back then and I believe the statistical snowfall averages are somewhat skewed. I remember catching the school bus and it seemed a lot colder back then compared to the last 20+ years.

[WinterWolf]

15 minutes ago, Scott Koziara said:

The 80s weren't as bad as everyone thinks. 1985-1986 and 1988-1989 were awful but the rest of the decade particularly the first half of the decade was damn good particularly along the south coast. We had several big ones, including some like December 1981 that no one remembers or talks about. Slant sticking is more common today than back then and I believe the statistical snowfall averages are somewhat skewed. I remember catching the school bus and it seemed a lot colder back then compared to the last 20+ years.

I’m talking CT here…not south coast/or eastern mass.   The decade as I said had a few big events scattered around. But overall it was a very low snow decade to be sure. 

[FRWEATHA]

12 minutes ago, Scott Koziara said:

The 80s weren't as bad as everyone thinks. 1985-1986 and 1988-1989 were awful but the rest of the decade particularly the first half of the decade was damn good particularly along the south coast. We had several big ones, including some like December 1981 that no one remembers or talks about. Slant sticking is more common today than back then and I believe the statistical snowfall averages are somewhat skewed. I remember catching the school bus and it seemed a lot colder back then compared to the last 20+ years.

I’ve said on here many times before that the December 81 storm was one of my favorites. The flow remained NNW during the storm. Had it been NNE that time of year it would have mostly rained like in December, 1992.

[FRWEATHA]

The 81-82 winter turned out very good for the interior, especially CNE. I was in central NH for a weekend in late January, 1982 and the pack was like 3 feet.

[WinterWolf]

3 minutes ago, FRWEATHA said:

The 81-82 winter turned out very good for the interior, especially CNE. I was in central NH for a weekend in late January, 1982 and the pack was like 3 feet.

NNE was a different story in the 80’s. SNE was the tough spot most times. Tons of mixed events…it was very hard(but obviously not impossible) to get a pure snow storm then in SNE.  Was just the pattern/cycle back then.