ChangeofSeasonsWX

If only it was true

What were the factors that made March 1956 so prolific? Was the setup similar to Feb 2015? Its hard to believe that it produced the same amount of snow in PVD as Feb 2015 did. I can't imagine us being able to get that much of a cold stretch so late in the season and for it to produce as much snow as it did. I'm sure that most of us on here would give our left nut for a repeat of either.

At least I'm old enough to remember Feb 2015. Probably will never see a month like that again in my life.

I just want something interesting for a change. Heavy rain and river flooding is mildly interesting to me but if we can't have snow then big ice or big wind will do it for me. I just need to have something new for a change. Summer is supposed to be the boring months not winter.

November 1921 inbound? Would be neat to see something like that just once.

Oh 100% this for me as well. If CC increases my odds of seeing big dogs like 1978, 1996 and 2005 then sign me up. It's just the waiting period in between that blows. Also, events like Dec 1992 and March 2001 would be crushing for me because we were so close to something historic but it was just too far north. Its much harder nowadays to get a good blocking cold pattern but Feb 2015 showed us that it can still happen, its just very rare.

I remeber back in the 2010s when we were having amazing snow seasons there were people saying how lucky we'd been and sending out warnings that at some point the tables would turn, and boy did they ever. We are definitely paying the price now.

I've always wondered if we will ever break the all time records from 1934 in any of our lifetimes.

Wind, severe, and ice storms are the three weather phenomena that never fail to underperform in this region of the country.

Hey even if both January and February fail, March still has some potential. March has been more potent than December in recent times, especially in El Nino years. It would be nice to get another March 1956 to brighten everyones moods.

Expected snowfall on the BOX map of 1.4" but the high end 1/10 is 7". Quite the range lol

Zr never lasts long here for some reason. Not sure why but it always seems to switch to rain quickly. I guess zr is relatively rare in these parts. I wish we could get a little more zr it looks nice on the trees.

Yeah definitely overperformed here in Seekonk. Gotta be at least 4" but it's changed to zr.

Wow 9" at ACK

I like extreme cold too. Something about how fresh the air feels when you breathe. I've experienced -10F twice in my life, once on 02/14/16 and again on 02/04/23.

Are there any other threats in the long range after the 20th?

I know that there are some people on here who only appreciate snow, but I have a fetish for all record-breaking weather, whether it be snow, wind, rain, heat, cold, I love it all. I even keep track of unusual records that most people don't, like humidity. Last year, we had five days that maintained 100% rh for the whole day, which is a first. Before last year, we hadn't had a single day with 100% rh since 05/13/02 which is also crazy. 02/04/23 had extreme cold and wind chills, even more extreme than Valentines Day 2016. As long as we keep breaking records for different aspects of the weather, that still provides a decent dopamine rush for me.

People tend to jump from one extreme to another, this is true. There are always going to be good and bad stretches that's just how it goes. We have been in a tough stretch recently but the 80s were the same or even worse. We will have a good stretch again at some point. Also, I'm not sure that less snowy winters are necessarily correlated to CC though because the 80s were frigid and yet not a lot of snow. The snow definitely doesnt stick around for as long as it used to back then, but that doesn't mean it's less snowy than it used to be. It basically comes down to getting a pattern where cold air is timed in sync with precipitation.

I don't think that one 6-8 event imby is asking for too much but some seasons it is. 3-6 just doesn't cut it for me, especially since we usually end up on the lower end of that range. Plus with CC now its like even 3-6 is gone in a couple days. Can't even really enjoy it.

Not sure where you live but I got about 3.5 inches imby and much of it was a slushy mess.

Something has to break right eventually. Its frustrating because we havent had a decent event in two years around here. It doesn't even have to be anything major, I would be happy with a nice 6-8 event. But we weren't even able to manage that at all last season.

Yeah, but like thats what I'm saying. Maybe it's our turn to pay the piper here and your luck will change soon. Everything evens out eventually with climate.

Eh, all four of those were footers though. Still big for sure, just not like 1996, 2005, 2013 level. Footers are definitely much more common. It seems like we avreage at least one every few years or so.

I guess it just seems like I've seen a lot more big ones here in SEMA than people in CT see. Not sure if its always been like that? Jan 2022 was PVD's 4th biggest on record, after 1978, 1996, and 2005. I mean, I can definitely see us still getting a decent number of 12" storms here but 18"+ inch storms seem like they've been a lot more common here than it should be. Don't get me wrong, I hope that we keep getting big ones here, it just seems like we've been living high on the hog for a while now.

Oh absolutely CC is definitely a factor. Patterns are not what they used to be, although sooner or later we may get another bad snow stretch like the 80s. A foot of snow was huge for people back in that time. Nowadays, people my age act like 2013 type storms happen a lot more than they really do. Their bias is warped.