ORH_wxman

What about TauntonBlizzard?

Thats true, BDR got like 18 inches choking on exhaust while HVN got 45" and Westchester got 3-4 feet.

12 inches is a large storm...esp if it has to come from synoptic precip. That's probably a much better benchmark to use for blockbusters. ORH has never had more than 4 storms of 12"+ in one season. They've done exactly 4 a few times.....in 2010-2011, 1995-1996, 1957-1958 with 2014-2015 and 1965-1966 narrowly missing 4 events. BOS made 4 events in 2014-2015.

Yeah that would be an epic E MA meltdown if 1888 happened again....ORH had 36 inches...pretty tight gradient over E MA.

That was obviously a ridiculous month....that storm actually still did pretty well in E MA...it changed to snow after some slop and gave them 12-16 inches. Though SW CT got 20"...they def jackpotted. But Scooter is right that 1888 is the one you really want....he would jump off the top of the Boston Gas tank into the frozen water.

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2 feet is an extremely high bar....ORH has never done it twice in one season unless you count the double barrel December 1996 storms as "one storm" tag-teaming with the April 1997 33.0" storm later that season. Other storms have been classified as one like Feb 8-11, 1994 that were actually two distinct storms....but December 6-8, 1996 has always been classified as two separate events. The closest ORH came was 2013 when they had 28.7" in the February 2013 storm and then 22.8" in the March 2013 firehose storm. Other close calls were 32.1" in December 1992 and then 20.1" in March 1993 superstorm. In 2015, they had 34.5" in the January blizzard and 17.4" in the Feb 2-3 event. Not as close as the other examples.

Actually using threadex, I have to include the following years as well: 1931 1896 Both were awful in case anyone was wondering.

The top warmest Novembers at ORH is not a pretty list of years: 2011 2006 1975 2015 2009 2001 1999 1948 1979 There isn't a single blockbuster winter in those. '75-'76 and '09-'10 were okay...48-'49 not horrific....the rest were absolutely horrendous.

Every season there are SNE meltdowns in November because people didn't get snow when their climo is like 1-2" of snow for the whole month outside of the Berks....maybe as high as 3" in ORH county. It's equivalent to melting down in April because it didn't snow.... We've been a little unlucky to not have gotten probably at least one measurable event, but it's not that uncommon at all to miss out on snow during early December either with average temps.

Yeah...I mean, we do get a reshuffle a bit in the N PAC with a transient Bering vortex later this week, but it looks like we quickly rebuild the cross polar flow N of AK after that and then maybe a full EPO reload in the beginning stages at the very end of the run.

I'm not sure what you are talking about...we've been in a really good pattern for weeks...why do we need to hope the LR changes things? We don't want much change....an EPO reload is a good thing.

There could be some IVT snow on Wednesday morning for eastern areas.

Tday week got warmer with cold dropping a bit further west but the really ugly pig that was showing up on the 00z run a couple nights ago is not there. In fact, it looks like the beginning of an EPO reload at the very end of the run. There's some NAO blocking too...so can't totally punt Tday yet...esp for NNE.

1921 is the year you're looking for. And yeah, it was actually quite windy in that ice storm. It was almost like the dec 2008 ice storm except 4-7F colder across the board so the coastline got big ice as well...not the cape but BOS did and down to the south facing shoreline where a N and NE wind is off land. The 1921 storm did start as snow too, so there was a few inches of snow underneath the ice which prob made it a bigger pain for cleaning the old walkways and roads.

Yeah. Winter is done before it begins I think. Congrats...you were hoping for a torch/snowless winter. Savior the model runs today that show the AK pig.

Yes. That's why I want to see 12z today. If it's similar to 00z, then I'll be issuing a winter cancel post shortly after.

Yeah I'm 80% of the way to canceling winter. Just want to see the 12z suite.

Ugly AK vortex. Yeah we def hope that is wrong.

1.8 inches.

Yeah it's too far for eastern MA relative to places in NH or even VT...you can drive an extra half hour and be at a much superior mountain to the western MA places. But those western MA mountains are nice in that they are rarely crowded and a lot of them keep the old school New England trail vibe too with the narrower trails. I love that about them.

Yeah most decent snow events fell in the final week of the month at a place like BDL. But even in frigid Novembers, big snows are rare. November 1976 was frigid (colder than last year) and BDL had 0.4" of snow. 1951 was coldest November on record and had 2.0 inches.

Cold start to December on EPS.

Without accurate data our climate records become utterly useless. We have to be able to trust the data and BOS is unusable right now....which sucks.