psuhoffman

Oh look a thread where we can talk about drought. Crazy. I think your taking something fairly mundane and blowing it way out of proportion. We're in a drought. We have had many like this in my lifetime and we will have many more. We also have floods. Weather goes through these cycles. It will rain/snow and balance out eventually. We're not to the point where things are dire yet. That's the take of this false prophet of populist belief.

Crap you just unraveled this whole thing

Where do you see severe?

I was talking to friends of mine from NYC about favorite storms and was saying how this past week was great but that it didn't make my top spot. Of course that storm having such a localized area of truly historic totals like that made it hard for them to understand but being here that one was epic and I am not sure anything will ever top that. On top of everything you said, it was a huge over performer, I think our forecast was only 10-16" going into that event. Plus it was only on the radar for a day or two before, there wasn't this long long LOOOONG build up and wait. Being nervous every model run that something will go wrong. The chase is fun but personally I kinda liked how that one just came out of nowhere and slammed us. For all those reasons, the CRAZY rates of heavy wet snow in the initial thump, the crazy deform bands in the wraparound, true blizzard conditions, total snow on the ground when it was over, and the surprise factor...It would take a lot to knock that off the top spot, even if another storm technically dropped a few more inches I am not sure it would top it.

how much did this area get during march 93? I assume there was a lot of sleet mixing even out here with that one.