Still raining here. Have a house I bought last year in NH and looking at my camera feed looks like a couple of inches there. Asking myself why I didn’t plan to be there this weekend.
For societal impacts ‘78 was like nothing else. I was 11 y.o. at the time. Had an afternoon paper route after school. Still remember delivering papers in a raging blizzard and loving it! Had an uncle that lived with my family that got stuck carpooling from Cranston in Providence that was rescued by National Guard and spent a week at Ri Hospital.
Still amazes me how well Gloria was forecast about 1 week out in ‘85. All forecasts had it hitting somewhere on the E coast 1 week+. And here we are in 2023 with such uncertainty about Lee.
Of course we had a huge snowstorm in early December that was all snow even here. I remember Burbank saying it would stay all snow even to the coast because the wind stayed northerly.
The 81-82 winter was much better for central and NNE. I remember being in central NH in mid Jan. and there was a ton of snow. We had a lot of mixing issues down here, but seemed to get much better just north of 128.
I know people bash Burbank for saying Eduoard couldn’t miss while he was acknowledging it was turning east. He was actually referring to its wind field expanding as it passed. My memory is that the outer Cape/Nantucket had gusts over 90 with pretty widespread power outages.