"Don’t do it" 2026 Blizzard obs, updates and pictures.

[Spanks45]

13 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

I do not but im sure @RUNNAWAYICEBERGand @Spanks45can give you a STD  for their town Southbury

For the others you can use cocorahs Newtown and Woodbury both have a cocorahs and COOP but may have some missing data, you'd have to check

I am at 64.8", NW side of Southbury

[dendrite]

41 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

It'll probably be Cat 3 or 4 if i had to take a good guestimate at it. It won't touch 1993 or 1996 due to it only affecting heavily NJ-BOS. The population area is just too small. 1978 was a Cat 3. 2016 even beat that (Cat 4) because of the DC-NY mega totals. 

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/rsi/nesis

Hey @dendritedo you know what "error code -200" is? I was trying to attach a full radar loop of the storm and it's below the max size (which for me has always said 48.83mb). This file is only 45mb but it still wont let me do it, i have plenty of space it just doesn't like the big file size. 

There’s a 50mb limit per upload…which obviously shouldn’t affect 45mb but I have seen that error before when it’s close to the limit. Let’s test this…I’ll double that to 100mb. See if it works after that.

[tamarack]

10 hours ago, vortex95 said:

Thanks for the info/input.
 

The 2/2/1976 storm, yes 957 mb at CAR is their lowest pressured on record.  BOS had 965 mb for its second lowest on record (has this been matched or exceeded since?).  Bliz of 93 was about 963 mb when it passed over central MA (up from 960 mb peak over the Mid-Atlantic).

What is the "OV Blizzard?"  The Feb 1976 one?  The Jan 2018 blizzard offshore SE of ACK was 950 mb.  I seem to recall in the New England Wx Book (Ludlum) stated a storm SE of ACK in the mid 20th century was 947 mb.

The "CLE Superbomb" Jan 1978 lowest was 956 mb in Mt Clemens MI.

The New England non-tropical pressure record is 955 mb at BID set on 3/7/1932.  And Canton NY had 955 mb in a Jan 1913 storm.  These are the lowest non-tropical pressures for the CONUS, although very close is 955.2 mb at Bigfork MN set on 10/26/2010.  The

Thanks.  "OV (Ohio Valley) Blizzard = CLE Superbomb.  Sorry for the confusion.

The 2/2/76 event caused a mega-tidal surge up the Penobscot estuary, and the water at BGR rose 15 feet in 15 minutes, drowning about 200 cars in the Kenduskeag Plaza parking lots.

[dendrite]

10 hours ago, vortex95 said:

So did the high winds knock the ratios down as expected?  Never had realized that until it was brought up leading up to this past storm.

Looks like the first 12” or so down there was on the more moist/dense side before winds backed to 020? Beyond that, I’m not going to pretend to know what it’s like to experience 4”/hr with a 40-50kt wind. I would think in theory the dendritic structure takes a mechanical beating, but when it’s snowing that hard I can imagine it almost accumulating too fast for the wind to entirely mess with.

But I’m up in CAD land where the snow prefers to fall and land gently. I had barely any wind in my 34” in 12hrs in Dec 2020. I think you could’ve sneezed on the pack and knocked it down 5”.

[Ginx snewx]

57 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

It'll probably be Cat 3 or 4 if i had to take a good guestimate at it. It won't touch 1993 or 1996 due to it only affecting heavily NJ-BOS. The population area is just too small. 1978 was a Cat 3. 2016 even beat that (Cat 4) because of the DC-NY mega totals. 

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/rsi/nesis

Hey @dendritedo you know what "error code -200" is? I was trying to attach a full radar loop of the storm and it's below the max size (which for me has always said 48.83mb). This file is only 45mb but it still wont let me do it, i have plenty of space it just doesn't like the big file size. 

Jesus I can only upload 4.8 mb and am constantly deleting images to stay below the 195mb total. 

So 2 cat 3/4 in 1 year. Never seen it here before 

[Ginx snewx]

18 minutes ago, dendrite said:

There’s a 50mb limit per upload…which obviously shouldn’t affect 45mb but I have seen that error before when it’s close to the limit. Let’s test this…I’ll double that to 100mb. See if it works after that.

Um why am I at 4.8

[dendrite]

3 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Um why am I at 4.8

Because most members don’t understand their attachment space and how to reduce file sizes. So when they upload one giant sized image and blow their allotment in a single swipe it becomes a PITA.

I can increase it though…I had forgotten it was that low.

I upped it from 2mb to 5mb.

[The 4 Seasons]

3 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Jesus I can only upload 4.8 mb and am constantly deleting images to stay below the 195mb total. 

So 2 cat 3/4 in 1 year. Never seen it here before 

2010/2011 was the closest with two Cat 3s Boxing Day and Jan 11-12th

2020/2021 had a Cat 2 and 3

2016/2017 had a Cat 2 and 3

2014/2015 had a Cat 2 and 3

2013/2014 had a Cat 2, 2 and 3

I'm curious what Jan 25-26th will end up being. I'm guessing a 4 so might end up being two 4s or a 4 and a 3. That storm was major for most of the United States east of NM/Texas.

 

[The 4 Seasons]

Just now, dendrite said:

Because most members don’t understand their attachment space and how to reduce file sizes. So when they upload one giant sized image and blow their allotment in a single swipe it becomes a PITA.

I can increase it though…I had forgotten it was that low.

I upped it from 2mb to 5mb.

didn't work, i tried two different files one was 45mb and the other was 47mb. Increasing to 100 didnt change anything, same error code. 

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, The 4 Seasons said:

didn't work, i tried two different files one was 45mb and the other was 47mb. Increasing to 100 didnt change anything, same error code. 

What type of file is it? Just a gif?

[The 4 Seasons]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

What type of file is it? Just a gif?

yea just a .gif radar loop 

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

yea just a .gif radar loop 

Yeah not sure…I think that error is server side.

I’m going to briefly make it unlimited…try it again. 

[The 4 Seasons]

Still doesn't work, i tried a bunch different sizes from 47 to 45 to 37 to 25mb none of them worked. I tried one from the Jan 25-26th storm that was 18mb and that went through fine. So theres some threshold maybe around 20mb that it doesn't like for some reason.

It's all good, thanks for trying. Ill be putting it up on the site anyways, just wanted to post it here

Here's the one that went through, 18.2mb 

[dendrite]

Yeah that’s a server side setting then that John controls. 

[MegaMike]

Was finally able to edit my time lapse out of Norton, MA.

It's not my place (brother's), but man... I wish I was there. His kids finally returned to school today (all <4th grade). 

 

[tamarack]

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

2010/2011 was the closest with two Cat 3s Boxing Day and Jan 11-12th

2020/2021 had a Cat 2 and 3

2016/2017 had a Cat 2 and 3

2014/2015 had a Cat 2 and 3

2013/2014 had a Cat 2, 2 and 3

I'm curious what Jan 25-26th will end up being. I'm guessing a 4 so might end up being two 4s or a 4 and a 3. That storm was major for most of the United States east of NM/Texas.

 

Maybe, but the NESIS rating is Northeast-centered so I don't know the extent in which areas get included.  Jan 25-27 was better BOS and points north, Feb 23-24 better for PVD and points south.

[ScituateMA]

20 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Did a bit of a weenie drive further down the South Shore, there is a lot of effing snow here. Makes it feel like just an Alberta clipper hit Weymouth.

Backroads from scituate down through norwell and pembroke were absolutely destroyed. I did a drive through the night after the storm and it was amazing. Almost 2015 level banks.

[CoastalWx]

2 minutes ago, ScituateMA said:

Backroads from scituate down through norwell and pembroke were absolutely destroyed. I did a drive through the night after the storm and it was amazing. Almost 2015 level banks.

Yeah it was getting close to that there. Up here where 2015 sort of targeted, that remains on a whole other level of insanity. But man there is a lot of snow there.

[MJO812]

[Baroclinic Zone]

What a shitty representation of snowfall.

[MJO812]

23 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

What a shitty representation of snowfall.

They missed alot of spots that received more. Awful.

[dendrite]

Lol I got 0.5”. Why is the 4” line so far north. 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

What was Jan? 

[Ginx snewx]

[WxWatcher007]

47 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

What was Jan? 

I don't even see it on the list! 

[dendrite]

35 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

They have to measure differently up there because of the elevation and wind. MWN has to as well….they obviously get a ton of snow but it all blows into the ravine.

[CoastalWx]

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

They have to measure differently up there because of the elevation and wind. MWN has to as well….they obviously get a ton of snow but it all blows into the ravine.

Yeah, I’ve commented on their measurements before. I’m not gonna dog them because obviously they are a well respected observatory… But many times with less moisture they’ll come in with more than I have.

[bristolri_wx]

7 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Still doesn't work, i tried a bunch different sizes from 47 to 45 to 37 to 25mb none of them worked. I tried one from the Jan 25-26th storm that was 18mb and that went through fine. So theres some threshold maybe around 20mb that it doesn't like for some reason.

It's all good, thanks for trying. Ill be putting it up on the site anyways, just wanted to post it here

Here's the one that went through, 18.2mb 

I've been converting the radar loops from GIF to MP4 files using Handbrake.  It's free.  You set the GIF file as the "Source" and then I use the preset "Social 25 MB 5 Minutes 360p60".  Seems to take the largest GIF's and get them below my rather low attachment limit size.  You can play around with the presets to see which one works best for what you want to post.

GIF's are very inefficient for showing motion graphics, they just happen to be an open standard that's been around forever, so if you don't have a file size to worry about they work, especially since it's easy to take one still image and make it a frame in a GIF.