codfishsnowman

.3 Sunday and .1 today brings us to 11.2 for the season so far.....lots of cold days and lots of days with a couple inches Otg Pretty wintry period. I guess its fitting this system would wind down as a period of snow today.

I thought the sun was supposed to be out by now

Same here now

Chunks of icy snow and little beads of sleet in East Longmeadow at work. Wiz has snow just north of here.... Didn't see any mention of that in the point and click. Nice glaze on sidewalks and driveways this morning. Kind of a wintry system even here just no real significant accums but enough to be slick.

I wish it wasn't happening. I'd give anything to see winter flounder return to the numbers we had in the late 70s and 80s. As someone who has salt water fished the past 40 plus years so much points to warming waters. If we had consistently colder winters the codfish would have a better chance of producing conditions which would aid in maximizing spawning recruitment which at least might combat some of the overfishing problems and maybe it wouldn't have had to be closed.

That's awesome Steve. Its interesting, all the extra fluffy snow you guys got didn't change peak depths much anyways.

Well then both of you

You're scaring the Karen's!

Ten inches above average. I guess that could be well above average at 120 percent just seems kind of meh but all that baking powder and consistent cold did put down a two foot depth on the level pretty late into the season which is nothing to sneeze at. There just wasn't any Thunder snow or prolonged 2-3+/hr rates or much currier and ives upper level stuff and only one of those events produced a solid foot here in Springfield but that winter and 10-11 of course are the only times I have ever seen two feet or more on the level from successive storms in my 21 years in Springfield.

I'm way more jealous of the storm the winter before last that was supposed to be an easy peasy locked in low double digit event that did a Messenger shuffle just before game time and central and southern ct again crushed it making diamonds out of some wild forcing just twenty miles south of us. All the stories from Bristol and West Hartford Meriden etc of 2-4/hr snows and the most beautiful flakes and snow growth that man ever did see. We picked up a quick three or four inches with the amounts rapidly tapering off just to the north and west. The sun came out and half of that was gone by noon while snowmen were taking over Hartford county.

Both of those were Swiss cheese storms on the maps...both haves and have nots...There was a storm before the big Feb 83 event in January that year that I think was pretty solid 195 N and W

My goodness, what is up with all the sick people?? My two housemates were bedbound for days last week and still have coughs that would scare away Freddy Krueger. Hope you feel better soon man! Solid coating here....threatening .2

Can't wait to find out who got the 1 inch jackpot

That cutter is going to give us a nice pouring 32-35 degree rain and probably a crusty six plus for the northern hinterlands

Kevin? We got a few flurries but where's my coating,??

I think you and Will are rock star caliber. I have over 15 years on this board and I think you two are about the best in this forum. Wiz is following right in your footsteps and for two someones who technically aren't mets Steve and Ray know SNE weather like the back of their hands and are rarely wrong. It really is a privilege to belong to this forum. I have been fascinated by weather since I was a kid but I just didn't have the accumen for the math and science.

1.3 new...11.1 season great start....a little penny and nickley.....looking for some dimes and quaters

So much for that short last week about East Coast storminess and blocking and snowstorms up and down the eastern seaboard that I saw a few days ago on YouTube

I was just on the edge of the very good stuff and it was really impressive where I was at the time in Longmeadow. I figure that got them pretty close to an inch/ three quarters.....I expect some localized three inch squall totals to come out of Connecticut. It looked incredible on radar around 630. I will read the entire thread after work later. Driving all over the Springfield area Chicopee Falls looked to have the most snow with over an inch post synoptic and squall

Dude that's awesome!

Very icy start here but no just water everywhere.....what a nightmare the refreeze will be for many folks...old man winter may be in rehab drying out but man he has a cold first week planned for us....brrrrr

Looks about a little over 4 inches here on the very southern edge of Springfield. Just was hoping for some of the big rates and a clap of thunder but its all good. December was quite the wintry month 9.8 inches on the month and lots of cold wintry days with at least a little snow cover.

Caught off guard, this has been on the radar for days... people are just too much

But they were much better 25 and especially 30 plus years ago in a comparative sense to what else was out there at that time . This is also back when they nailed some great forecasts with storms in the early to mid 80s for example. The difference was that when the forecast were off at game time it often was because the computers were off hundreds of miles on a low pressure track whereas now its usually under 100. The NWS forecasts coupled with TWC was kind of unbeatable. There was not the amount of fluff forecasters as later in the 90s and turn of the Century. The period of 1981-1997 on TWC had some of the all time great OCMs. Mark Mancuso, Bill Kenelley, the late Jenetta Jones, Bruce Edwards and Jim Cantore BEFORE he jumped the shark, just to name a few. Those were some great years for weather.

Boxing day along the Gold Coast