codfishsnowman

didnt it give us less than a foot on the last run?

in nyc forum they said it nailed the late feb retro storm in 2010 down there.....it has these random victories but its just has so many wild swings

western central mass and northern ct is a HUGE part of sne and i have not heard any good news recently.....i will melt like butter in a hot skillet if ll these hours of model watching is for six to ten inches.....i thought the 20 to 30 plus inch amounts were high back here but the 10 to 18 i was going with may now be headed towards jeopardy....i cant handle a jan 05 repeat or a boxing day repeat

one more...for spfd in my time here feb 06 with 16-17 inches where I am but just a few miles west/north while still in city limits only half that much.....glad I was just on the edge for that as I did see 3 inch/hr rates briefly and brief thundersnow...I will never forget when I went to work down town later that night and they had eight or nine inches at best just 2.5 miles away. The next morning I went to East Longmeadow and measured nearly 18 inches otg so they probably had close to 20 just a little over a mile from where I was in south forest park

for my time in the springfield mass area, flurries this morning have me daydreaming again........... def the winter of 10-11 that thirty or so day span with over 50 inches of snow...really every bit as good as 95-96 and with better retention had everything: consecutive snowfalls with just enough sleet and refreezing to slow down sublimation/compaction and consistent cold weather at least one snowfall of 18 inches or better a couple inches of snow with arctic overriding and temps in the single digits 15 inches or greater depth for nearly thirty days greatest depth I have ever witnessed 30 inches morning of feb 2nd snowtober...the death band around or just after midnight with rates that had to be at least briefly 3 inches/hr and a peak depth of at least a foot! the tree loss and no power for over a week does tend to cast a shadow over it however feb13............it took FOREVER since the first flakes started flying just after 9am but the period of 9pm to 2am with nearly 18 inches falling and at times near zero in mostly falling snow, rates probably at times approaching or exceeding at least briefly 4 inches/hr...total storm accumulation just under or at two feet, 21 inch avg depth...epic for this area anyways...and truth be told that big amount in the five hrs was as the death band was starting to decay...

The last video in this post is the kind of "end of the world type stuff" I am talking about. Looks similar to Joplin Mo....just sick!

Birmingham/Tuscaloosa...havent they had like multiple f4s and f5s over the years?? Dixie seems just as dangerous as Tornado Alley in the middle of the country imo. In fact I think in one of those major cities there was a small overlap from major tornadoes last year and the year before where for a couple blocks an area that was just starting to get back on its feet from a 2010 storm got wiped out again last year. That is just insane!! I hope the insurance companies work well with folks out there. And another thing that really is upsetting: Homes not being able to have basements like in Joplin bc of high water table and Joplin is in a sweet spot for tornadoes, seems like going forward there has to be a way around this, engineers must be able to come up with something. Will insurance companies going forward pay for houses to have storm shelters built on the properties??

So some good signs were on the HRRR but not the whole package I assume. The other thing I have noticed is that sig. tornadoes have affected some portion of the Joplin metro area not only in 2011 but also in 2003 and in 1971. Three times in forty years sure seems like an awful lot. I would imagine there have been numerous other funnel clouds and a few F0s in the mix as well over the years.

No matter how many times I watch this video I get chills up and down my spine! This is about as frightening as anything I have ever watched on recorded media, whatever anyone wants to say about whether he had the right terminology or anything else ( some of the posts on here seem unbelievably petty!) This guy took an AMAZING video and he deserves serious credit for watching the weather closely and knowing almost four hours earlier that this was going to be the hot zone. Furthermore he went right down to the area where the big tornado was imminent and he knew that as well, he really deserves major accolades. In my neck of the woods most of the experts love to beat up on the HRRR model but the fact that this model had the extreme helicity over sw Mo. is also noteworthy and something Tornado experts should be studying in detail.